This year, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2014) is discussing, among other topics, cloud computing, which is a fantastic technology that provides new services and applications for users and helps accelerate research in different domains.…
Posted by Rob Knies One day, a woman named Lisa is walking her dog, Lucky, when she meets an elderly neighbor. Suddenly, the neighbor falls unconscious and stops breathing.What would you do in this scenario? These days, many people’s initial…
There has been lots of discussion over the past couple of years about the future of higher education. First, many universities embraced the idea of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to broaden their teaching to a global scale.Then, after observing…
Where would you look to find new approaches to solving today’s economic, scientific, and social problems? If you answered Viña del Mar, Chile, from today through May 9, you’re right—as that’s where and when more than 250 thought leaders are…
Posted by Rob Knies It’s been two years since Microsoft Research New York City was founded—and nine months since the lab established a permanent, bespoke home in the Flatiron District, smack dab in the middle of Silicon Alley. So how…
Posted by Rob Knies What does the “creative process” really mean? Where do creative ideas come from? What is the relationship between creativity and technology?Answering these questions, and a host of similar ones, will provide the focus for the second…
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Juan Miguel Lavista is currently the Principal Data Scientist for Microsoft Data Science team (DnA), where he works with a team of data scientists searching for insights in petabytes of data. Juan joined Microsoft in 2009 to work for the…
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”—Sir Isaac Newton Standing on the shoulders of giants is a metaphor we often use to describe how research advances. More than an aphorism, it is a…
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Last week, Nate Silver posted a blog examining how much major US cities differ in terms of when they arrive at work. Using survey data collected by the American Community Survey, Silver showcased the average time people say they arrive…