Hints for Computer System Design [pdf]

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Show HN: 'Flat UI Colors' UWP App

Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Flat UI Colors. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Machine Learning for fair decisions

Over the past decade, machine learning systems have begun to play a key role in many high-stakes decisions: Who is interviewed for a job? Who is approved for a bank loan? Who receives parole? Who is admitted to a school? Human decision makers are susceptible to many forms of prej … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

All Your GPS Are Belong to Us [pdf]

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TextWorld: A learning environment for training reinforcement learning agents

Today, fresh out of the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, comes an open-source project called TextWorld. TextWorld is an extensible Python framework for generating text-based games. Reinforcement learning researchers can use TextWorld to train and test AI agents in skills such as … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

New perspectives on contextual bandit

What is the common denominator between the following situations: a doctor choosing among different drugs for a sequence of patients; a website selecting ads for its visitors based on the information it has about them; and a travel agency making recommendations to its customers fo … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft Teams, now available in a free version

To address the growing collaboration needs of our customers, we’re announcing a free version of Microsoft Teams and introducing new AI-infused capabilities in Microsoft 365 to help people connect across their organization and improve their collaboration habits. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

The democratization of data science with Dr. Chris White

Episode 27, June 6, 2018 - Dr. White talks about his “problem-first” approach to research, explains the vital importance of making data understandable for everyone, and shares the story of how a one-week detour from academia turned into an extended tour in Afghanistan, a stint at … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Adversarial and reinforcement learning-based approaches to information retrieval

Traditionally, machine learning based approaches to information retrieval have taken the form of supervised learning-to-rank models. Recent advances in other machine learning approaches—such as adversarial learning and reinforcement learning—should find interesting new applicatio … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft surface go

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@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Surface Go

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@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft Open Data – Datasets by Microsoft Research Now Available in the Cloud

The Microsoft Research Outreach team has worked extensively with the external research community to enable adoption of cloud-based research infrastructure over the past few years. Through this process, we experienced the ubiquity of Jim Gray’s fourth paradigm of discovery based o … | Continue reading


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Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates [pdf]

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@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Functional Programming Languages with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones

Episode 7 - Dr. Peyton Jones shares his passion for functional programming research and explains why purity is embarrassing, laziness is cool. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Announcing Microsoft Research Open Data, datasets now available in the cloud

The Microsoft Research Outreach team has worked extensively with the external research community to enable adoption of cloud-based research infrastructure over the past few years. Through this process, we experienced the ubiquity of Jim Gray’s fourth paradigm of discovery based o … | Continue reading


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Sequent Calculus as a Compiler Intermediate Language (2016) [pdf]

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The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices [pdf]

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Richard Feynman's Messenger Lecture Series

Project Tuva was a Microsoft Research collaboration with Bill Gates that experimented with interactive video using Richard Feynman's Messenger Lectures. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

FASTER – a key-value store for large state management

At SIGMOD 2018, a team from Microsoft Research will be presenting a new embedded key-value store called FASTER, described in their paper “FASTER: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates”. As its name suggests, FASTER makes a major leap forward in terms of supporting fa … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft Unveils FASTER – a key-value store for large state management

At SIGMOD 2018, a team from Microsoft Research will be presenting a new embedded key-value store called FASTER, described in their paper “FASTER: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates”. As its name suggests, FASTER makes a major leap forward in terms of supporting fa … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices

Industry largely underestimates the critical societal need to embody the highest levels of security in every network-connected device—every child’s toy, every household’s appliances, and every industry’s equipment. High development and maintenance costs have limited strong securi … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Simplifying IT with the Latest Updates from Windows Autopilot

Windows Autopilot simplifies deployment of new Windows 10 devices by eliminating the cost and complexity associated with creating, maintaining, and loading custom images. Windows Autopilot will revolutionize how new devices get deployed in your organization. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Direct GPU/FPGA communication via PCI express [pdf]

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@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Improving the world's most popular functional language: Excel (2003)

We describe extensions to the Excel spreadsheet that integrate user-defined functions into the spreadsheet grid, rather than treating them as a “bolt-on”. Our case study is unusual in that it highlights the way that programming language insights can be applied to a product not no … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

SoK: Science, Security, and the Elusive Goal of Security as a Scientific Pursuit [pdf]

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@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning

We developed an NLP deep learning model using a one-dimensional convolutional neural network to predict future stock market performance of companies using Azure ML Workbench and Keras with open source for you to replicate. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Quantum Development Kit

Use the Quantum Development Kit to develop, simulate, and debug your quantum computing solutions. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

EnclaveDB – A Secure Database Using SGX

We propose EnclaveDB, a database engine that guarantees confidentiality, integrity, and freshness for data and queries. EnclaveDB guarantees these properties even when the database administrator is malicious, when an attacker has compromised the operating system or the hypervisor … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Fusing effectful comprehensions [pdf]

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@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2

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@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists [video]

This talk discards hand-wavy pop-science metaphors and answers a simple question: from a computer science perspective, how can a quantum computer outperform a classical computer? Attendees will learn the following: Representing computation with basic linear algebra (matrices and … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

Introducing Surface Hub 2

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A Knowledge-Grounded Neural Conversation Model [pdf]

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First Class Modules for Haskell [pdf]

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@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

Bursty Tracing: A Framework for Low-Overhead Temporal Profiling

With processor speed increasing much more rapidly than memory access speed, memory system optimizations have the potential to significantly improve program performance. Unfortunately, cache-level optimizations often require detailed temporal information about a program’s referenc … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

Windows Commands Reference

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@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

Ambit: In-Memory Accelerator for Bulk Bitwise Operations Using DRAM Technology [pdf]

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@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

Learning from Source Code (Microsoft Research)

Over the last five years, deep learning-based methods have revolutionised a wide range of applications, for example those requiring understanding of pictures, speech and natural language. For computer scientists, a naturally arising question is whether computers learn to understa … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

Packaging an Electron app for managed distribution across devices

We developed an Electron-based app using Microsoft Intune cloud service for management and distribution across a broad range of devices. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

Manipulating Space and Time in Mixed Reality

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality each has distinct advantages when it comes to bringing digital capabilities into our everyday lives. Everything users see, including the environment and every object can be controlled and changed. This also means that what users see doesn’t n … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

OAuth 2.0 for Mixed Reality applications

We worked with Aveva to build 3DToolkit, a toolkit for creating cloud-based 3D experiences that securely stream to low-powered devices using WebRTC. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 6 years ago

HEARING IS BELIEVING innovation provides a richer browsing experience for blind

Imagine for a moment that you are blind and are navigating the web using a screen reader to hear websites rather than see them. Imagine that the article you have navigated to includes images. To understand the content and significance, you are relying on your screen reader to nar … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 6 years ago