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In the news | ACM
ACM Distinguished Service Award 2019
For significant and lasting service to the broad community of mobile computing and wireless networking, and for building strong linkages between academia,industry, and government agencies.
Awards | SIGMOBILE
Microsoft researchers receive ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award
Prashanth Mohan, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee, received the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for their paper Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones, published in ACM Sensys 2008. Nericell pioneered the use of…
In the news | Microsoft Tech Community
Introducing Scalar UDF Inlining
First published on MSDN on Nov 07, 2018 | Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt optimization strategies to your application workload’s runtime conditions. These improvements included: batch mode adaptive joins ,…
Microsoft Research Podcast: Competing in the X Games of machine learning with Dr. Manik Varma
Episode 63 | February 13, 2019 If every question in life could be answered by choosing from just a few options, machine learning would be pretty simple, and life for machine learning researchers would be pretty sweet. Unfortunately, in…
Everything you always wanted to know about extreme classification (but were afraid to ask)
Varma’s team published a paper that exploded the number of choices that could be considered from a search engine from five thousand to ten million. This changed the nature of the game and led to the establishment of a new…
In the news | The 21st – Podcast
Microsoft’s Victor Bahl On The Past And Future Of The Internet
20 years feels like an eternity in the life of the internet. Back then, a Microsoft researcher named Victor Bahl was working on something that most of us take for granted now: the first Wi-Fi hotspot in a public place.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Creating better AI partners: A case for backward compatibility
Traditional metrics on performance of the AI component are not sufficient when the AI technology is used by people to accomplish tasks.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Peeking into the future of mobile systems
Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, highlights research projects incolving cloud computing and deep neural networks.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
UIST a showcase for innovation and an opportunity for professional growth
One of the top-tier conferences in human-computer interaction, UIST has a reputation for embracing invention, creativity, and some of the most novel emerging technologies, making it no surprise that Microsoft has been a big contributor over the years.