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Innovation Inquiries: The Birth of a Research Lab
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Since Microsoft Research New England was announced on Feb. 4, Jennifer Chayes, managing director of the lab, based in Cambridge, Mass., has been hard at work along with…
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Can “Something You Know” be Saved?
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Incentivizing Outsourced Computation
We describe different strategies a central authority, the boss, can use to distribute computation to untrusted contractors. Our problem is inspired by volunteer distributed computing projects such as SETI@home, which outsource computation to large numbers…
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Incentivizing Outsourced Computation
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Two-dimensional mod p Galois representations attached to modular forms
Classical newforms are cusp forms on congruence subgroups of SL(2,Z) that are eigenvectors for the Hecke operators. These modular forms give rise to two-dimensional representations of the absolute Galois group of the rational field. Conversely,…
