Call it the invasion of the computer literati: on the last day of June, 78 PhD students converged on Cambridge, England, to begin five days of networking and knowledge exchanges during the Microsoft Research Cambridge 2014 PhD Summer School, our…
Posted by Rob Knies People need food, regularly and often. That’s such an obvious truth that’s it’s easy to lose sight of it—easy, that is, until calamity strikes and the food supply is endangered, as it could be in the…
It’s no easy question to answer, but prudence demands that we try. Thus, Microsoft and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have teamed up to tackle “food resilience,” one of several themes that make up the White House’s Climate…
The fifteenth annual Microsoft Faculty Summit is over, but you can still experience much of it on demand. I was really inspired and energized by the keynotes, session topics, and discussions—especially meeting, talking to, and hearing from researchers in other…
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Introduction (Part I) > Heuristics Zoo, Part 1/2 > Note: standard Disclaimer expressed in Part I applies here as well. Heuristic 5: "Area Expertise" and "Penetration Testing" These two seemingly different techniques share a lot in how they approach managing…
Posted by Jennifer Warnick Station Q, headquarters of potentially world-changing quantum-computing research, is located just past where the Pacific Ocean meets the sand, up through a grove of palm trees and across a bike path. (Do mind the shirtless college…
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A profile of Station Q, where Microsoft researchers work to harness the power of quantum computing.
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Initially meant to fit into one chapter, this text grew quickly and I had to split it into two. So there will be four parts of the article in total. See Introduction (or Part 1) > <Disclaimer>By no means this list…
Posted by Rob Knies Perhaps you’ve heard about Project Adam over the last few days. That work, which shows that large-scale, commodity distributed systems are able to train extra-large deep neural networks efficiently, has received its share of attention in…