Microsoft fellowship program supports women in computing
By Susan Dumais, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Women are woefully under-represented in computing-related fields. Despite earning more than half of all baccalaureate degrees throughout North America, women make up fewer than 20 percent of graduates…
System Design for Cloud Services – Afternoon Session
1:00pm Rethinking Systems Management with Game Theory Benjamin Lee, Duke University Data Markets in the Cloud: Pricing, Privacy, and Versioning Adam Wierman, California Institute of Technology How to Think about Hyperscale Architecture Doug Burger, Microsoft…
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit opens
By Harold Javid, General Chair, Faculty Summit Microsoft Research’s annual Faculty Summit opened Wednesday with a series of talks about how technological innovation can benefit both business and society. In a fireside chat with Jeannette M. Wing,…
Nearly-optimal Robust Matrix Completion
Safe Autonomous Flight Everywhere
The goal of this project is to build a generalized vehicle-agnostic system that can provide safety guarantees in the face of an uncertain world. We are defining what “safe” means, and building a theoretical framework…
Indistinguishability Obfuscation for Turing Machines with Unbounded Memory
We show how to build indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) for Turing Machines where the overhead is polynomial in the security parameter lambda, machine description |M| and input size |x| (with only a negligible correctness error). In…