The Third International Women’s Hackathon is now in full swing, having launched on October 11, 2014. A unique crowdsourcing event designed to empower young women leaders in computer science, the hackathon provides a fun and safe environment in which participants…
In the news | GenomeWeb
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers from academia and industry have launched the second iteration of a community challenge that aims to evaluate the performance of methods of computing securely on genomic data in remote environments...
It seems that everybody today wants to employ machine learning in their research. And why not? Machine learning promises to transform our ability to understand, model, and predict the world around us. It is pushing boundaries in areas as diverse…
In the news | RISCS
As a basic principle, science is self-correcting. Therefore, itâs essential to be able to find and identify mistakes and itâs equally important not to let errors accumulate.
In the news | Engineering and Technology
Today Turing's idea has become an important starting point for thinking about systems that build themselves from a basic set of parts.
A year ago, the Microsoft Azure for Research project began as a small effort to help external researchers and scientists (and even Microsoft) understand how the cloud generally—and Microsoft Azure specifically—could accelerate research insights. Microsoft Azure for Research facilitates scholarly…
In the news | The Guardian
Microsoft's GPS-enabled navigation headset provides directions and live transport information, and 'paints a picture of the world through sound.'
In the news | The Telegraph
Microsoft's 3D audio technology means that the sound is directional, so if the attraction in question is several metres ahead to the right, the sound will appear to come from that direction.
Posted by Rob Knies In theory, the logic behind cloud computing seems undeniable: lots of data-center servers providing lots of computing power and storage to lots of customers. It’s the beauty of scale: Everybody wins—right?In practice, as you might guess,…