In the news | Channel 9
Better Understanding and Addressing Your Players’ Negative Online Gaming Experiences
Melissa Boone, Tracey Fuller, Jerome Hagen of Xbox Research share their learnings about the psychological, situational, and structural reasons behind why bad experiences are underreported.
Microsoft Unveils FASTER – a key-value store for large state management
At SIGMOD 2018, a team from Microsoft Research will be presenting a new embedded key-value store called FASTER, described in their paper “FASTER: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates”. As its name suggests, FASTER makes a major leap forward…
In the news | Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock MP on InnerEye in the NHS
All around us, a new generation of technology is changing all of our lives. From the mundane but useful, like the ubiquity of satnavs that stop family arguments and warn us of traffic jams, to the profound and extraordinary, like…
In the news | CNBC
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…
In the news | DailyMail.UK
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