Deep Dive Into Variance Reduction
Variance Reduction (VR) is a popular topic that is frequently discussed in the context of A/B testing. However, it requires a deeper understanding to maximize its value in an A/B test. In this blog post, we will answer questions including:…
Awards | Design and Evaluation of a Versatile and Efficient Receiver-Initiated Link Layer for Low-Power Wireless
Mike Liang receives Test of Time paper award at ACM SenSys 2022
Mike Chieh-Jan Liang, along with fellow authors Prabal Dutta, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Yin Chen, Andreas Terzis received the Test of Time award for their 2010 paper Design and Evaluation of a Versatile and Efficient Receiver-Initiated Link Layer for Low-Power Wireless. Motivation:…
In the news | Microsoft Project AirSim accelerates autonomous flight with Unreal Engine
Microsoft Project AirSim accelerates autonomous flight with Unreal Engine
The safety and effectiveness of autonomous vehicles relies on rigorous training through simulation. To ensure such training reflects realistic terrain, weather conditions, and scenarios, many companies turn to real-time technology like Unreal Engine. Case in point: Microsoft Project AirSim uses…
SPINE：高拓展性、用户友好的自动化日志解析新神器
作者：DKI 编者按：在计算机系统与软件的实践和研究中，可靠性是至关重要且经久不衰的课题。如何自动化地分析日志所记录的系统状态并让数据“说话” ，受到了广泛研究。日志解析是自动化日志分析中的关键起步。如何将日志解析应用于大规模复杂的云环境往往面临诸多现实挑战，如数据不均衡，数据漂移等。 为了解决这些挑战，微软亚洲研究院的研究员们提出了支持用户反馈且具有高可扩展性的日志解析方法 SPINE。该方法被...
Cloud Intelligence/AIOps – Infusing AI into Cloud Computing Systems
| Dongmei Zhang, Venkat Padmanabhan, Ricardo Bianchini, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Ranjita Bhagwan, and Dan Crankshaw
When legendary computer scientist Jim Gray accepted the Turing Award in 1999, he laid out a dozen long-range information technology research goals. One of those goals called for the creation of trouble-free server systems or, in Gray’s words, to “build…
In the news | Microsoft News Center
Microsoft and Tomorrow.io announce climate adaptation and early warning technology solution in Africa
Microsoft, in partnership with Tomorrow.io, the world leader in Weather and Climate Security, today announced a partnership to support governments, businesses, and farmers in Africa to adapt to the growing impact of climate change. The collaboration will bring together the Microsoft…
NeurIPS 2022 | 一窥人工智能大一统与理论研究的最新进展
编者按：作为目前全球最负盛名的人工智能盛会之一，NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) 在每年年末都是计算机科学领域瞩目的焦点。被 NeurIPS 接收的论文，代表着当今神经科学和人工智能研究的最高水平。今年的 NeurIPS 大会将于11月28日至12月9日举行，本届大会共收到10411篇有效投稿，其中2672篇...
Awards | ACM SOCC'22 Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award, ACM SoCC 2022
Supriyo Ghosh, Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, and Suman Nath won the Best Paper award at ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2022 for their paper How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-Scale Cloud Service
Research Focus: Week of November 7, 2022
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Barun Patra, Saksham Singhal, Shaohan Huang, Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Furu Wei,…