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Microsoft sunk a massive data center in the ocean to boost internet speeds
Microsoft sunk the 40-foot long vessel off the coast of Scotland. The data center contains 12 racks of computers with a total of 864 servers. Microsoft said it can hold data and process information for up to five years without…
Going beyond the research experience – Exceptional mother in 1970s Romania inspired Stefan Saroiu to know his destiny at a very early age.
“Growing up, my mom was a programmer with a computer science degree at a time when there was no computer science department in Romania,” remembers Microsoft senior researcher Stefan Saroiu with a smile that is palpable over the telephone. As…
The democratization of data science with Dr. Chris White
Episode 27, June 6, 2018 - Dr. White talks about his “problem-first” approach to research, explains the vital importance of making data understandable for everyone, and shares the story of how a one-week detour from academia turned into an extended…
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Microsoft’s underwater cloud: First subsea datacenter is launched off the coast of Scotland, and could one day improve your internet speeds
Microsoft is testing a shipping-container-sized datacenter that will provide cloud services from the bottom of the ocean. The years-long ‘Project Natick’ effort recently moved into its second phase of development, with a prototype deployed to the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney…
The advance of deep neural networks has brought huge advances in image captioning. However, current work is deficient in several ways. It simply generates “vanilla” sentences, which describe the shallow appearance of things (e.g., color, types) in the photo and…
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Una ingeniera española en Microsoft Research
Una ingeniera española en Microsoft Research: Mar González nos cuenta su trabajo con las HoloLens térmicas y la realidad virtual
Optimizing Barnes-Hut t-SNE
| Tavian Barnes
Ten years ago, while writing a physics engine, I learned about the Barnes-Hut algorithm for the gravitational n-body problem. Normally, computing the Newtonian gravitational forces between n bodies requires evaluations of Newton's law of universal gravitation, as every body exerts…
Making intelligence intelligible with Dr. Rich Caruana
Episode 26, May 30, 2018 - Dr. Rich Caruana talks about how the rise of deep neural networks has made understanding machine predictions more difficult for humans, and discusses an interesting class of smaller, more interpretable models that may help…
Advancing accessibility with Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
Episode 25, May 23, 2018 - Dr. Morris gives us some fascinating insights into the world of “ability,” talks about how technology is augmenting not only sensory and motor abilities, but cognitive and social abilities as well, and shares how…