MSR GPS Privacy Dataset 2009
Each file contains data from one of 21 volunteers who carried a GPS logger with them in the region of Seattle, Washington USA for approximately eight weeks in the fall of 2009. This set of…
Overcoming Fundamental Inefficiencies in the Representation of Data in Conventional Architectures
Society has become so dependent on computing power that any inefficiencies in the way that we process information can considerably impede productivity and quality of life. Three emerging trends pose challenges to the design of…
Fast and Robust Transaction Processing on Emerging Hardware
Database engines must utilize and adapt to the underlying hardware. New hardware such as non-volatile memory (NVM) and massively parallel processors, is changing fundamentally how database engines should be designed for better scalability, performance, and…
New Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant provides support to under-represented groups in computing
By Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research I am pleased to announce that Microsoft Research is funding a new academic program, the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant. This grant program offers selected doctoral students…
Fat Caches for Scale-Out Servers
Dunking the data center
CGO 2017 and Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is excited to be part of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Code Generation Optimization (CGO) Austin, TX, on February 4-8, 2017. This event is also co-located with PPoPP, HPCA17, and CC.