Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of August 12, 2024
In this issue: Research Forum Ep. 4 explores multimodal AI. Registration is now open; Surveying developers’ AI needs; SuperBench improves cloud AI infrastructure reliability; Virtual Voices: Exploring factors influencing participation in virtual meetings.
Project
AOC
As industries increasingly rely on AI models and complex optimization, computing demands are soaring—just as digital hardware reaches its limits. To meet this challenge, Microsoft Research has developed the Analog Optical Computer (AOC): the world’s first unconventional…
Podcast
What’s Your Story: Emre Kiciman
Emre Kiciman shares how some keen observations and a desire to have front-end impact led him to make the jump from systems and networking to computational social science and now causal analysis and large-scale AI—and…
