In the news | ComputerWorld
While users are certainly relying more heavily on their devices, some observers hold that until battery capacity and efficiency evolve, mobile devices will fall short of being the command center of users' lives.
The following is the first of three blogs on the contributions of the Microsoft Research Asia Joint Lab Program (JLP), which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. The JLP brings together the resources of Microsoft Research and major Chinese universities, facilitating…
| Eugene Bobukh
See Part 1> Can you predict how many bugs will be found at infinity? No. There seems to be a fundamental limit on fuzzing curve extrapolation. To see that, consider bug distribution function of the following form: where p0 >>…
In the news | ACM SIGKDD
ACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining.
In the news | ACM SIGPLAN
For the 2006 paper, 'Simple unification-based type inference for GADTs.
Awards | International Committee for Information Technology Standards
Gary J. Sullivan received the Merit Award of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) in 2015. This is an award presented to no more than four participants per year who have demonstrated continuous support for the work of…
Big data—that buzzword seems to dominate information technology discussions these days. But big data is so much more than a clever catchphrase: it’s a reality that holds enormous potential. We now have the largest and most diversified volume of data…
In the news | ACM
For contributions to algorithms and interfaces for interactive information retrieval.
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Addressing one of the core problems in statistics and machine learning, Microsoft researchers have developed a new, more efficient algorithm that enables exact sampling. Daniel Tarlow and Tom Minka Researchers Daniel Tarlow, Tom Minka, and…