Optimizing imperative functions in relational databases with Froid
| Karthik Ramachandra
For decades, databases have supported declarative SQL as well as imperative functions and procedures as ways for users to express data processing tasks. While the evaluation of declarative SQL has received a lot of attention resulting in highly sophisticated techniques,…
Cryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia
Episode 38, August 22, 2018 You know those people who work behind the scenes to make sure nothing bad happens to you, and if they’re really good, you never know who they are because nothing bad happens to you? Well,…
Awards | ACM SIGKDD
KDD 2018 Dissertation Award
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Credibility Analysis in Evolving Online Communities (opens in new tab) Subhabrata Mukherjee and Gerhard Weikum (opens in new tab) at Max Planck Institute, Germany Abstract: One of the major hurdles preventing the full exploitation of information from online communities is…
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Microsoft searches for new ideas in its summer hackathon
Microsoft researcher Asta Roseway and Project Smart Tatoo are featured in this CNET video report.
DoWhy – A library for causal inference
| Amit Sharma and Emre Kiciman
For decades, causal inference methods have found wide applicability in the social and biomedical sciences. As computing systems start intervening in our work and daily lives, questions of cause-and-effect are gaining importance in computer science as well. To enable widespread…