Microsoft Research is applying high-powered computation to help advance the effort to find a vaccine for HIV... more »

We address the memory problem of maximum entropy language models(MELM) with very large feature sets. Randomized techniques are employed to remove all large, exact data structures in MELM implementations. To avoid the dictionary structure that maps each feature to its corresponding weight, the feature hashing trick can be used. We also replace the .. more »

Noiseless Database Privacy.. more »

Widespread adoption of Phase Change Memory (PCM) requires solutions to several problems recently addressed in the literature, including limited endurance, increased write latencies, and systemlevel changes required to exploit non-volatility. One important difference between PCM and DRAM that has received less attention is the increased need for .. more »

The Microsoft Research-FAPESP Institute has launched a Portuguese translation of "The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery.".. more »

With financial support from Microsoft Research, a research group at the Rochester Institute of Technology has developed a game that helps students earn a digital reward for collegiate success... more »

In spite of growing frequency and sophistication of attacks two factor authentication schemes have seen very limited adoption in the US, and passwords remain the single factor of authentication for most bank and brokerage accounts. Clearly the cost benefit analysis is not as strongly in favor of two factor as we might imagine. Upgrading from .. more »

Bill Buxton, a principal researcher for Microsoft Research, will be making a presentation during SIGGRAPH Asia. He recently got a chance to discuss his work... more »

We address the problem of using a thesaurus to derive a subspace representation of words. Each entry in the thesaurus - a word along with its synonyms and antonyms - is treated as a “document,” and the resulting document collection is subjected to latent semantic analysis (LSA). The key contribution of this work is to show how to assign pola.. more »

Electricity Metering of Miscellaneous and Electronic Devices in Buildings.. more »

On Nov. 22, Georges Gonthier of Microsoft Research Cambridge collected the 2011 EADS Foundation Grand Prize in Computer Science, presented by the French Acadmie des sciences... more »

Peter Norvig, Google's head of research, and Eric Horvitz, a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, are optimistic about the future of machine intelligence... more »

In Paris on Nov. 22, Georges Gonthier of Microsoft Research Cambridge was awarded the 2011 EADS Foundation Grand Prize in Computer Science... more »

A set of .NET components for time series analysis, recently made available for public download from Microsoft Research, will be of interest to NET developers who are building business-analytics, business-intelligence and data-mining applications... more »

We consider learning query and document similarities from a click-through bipartite graph with metadata on the nodes. The metadata consists of multiple types of features of queries and documents. We aim to leverage both the click-through bipartite and the features to learn similarity functions that can effectively measure query-document, .. more »

Surveys, Feedback, Content Downloads, etc... more »

Beehive, a powerful, cost-effective multicore computer designed by Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, is helping students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learn about computer architecture and systems design for parallel processing... more »

In this demonstration, we present the architecture, implementation, and applications of LiveSynergy—a system that provides reliable proximity sensing and open interactive abstractions for physical spaces and objects, to enable rich interactions between humans and their environment... more »

Rob Fatland of Microsoft Research Connections discusses his recent trip to the California Academy of Sciences to demonstrate the WorldWide Telescope... more »

Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout (MSAGL), formerly known as GLEE, is a .NET tool for laying out and visualizing directed graphs. You can use MSAGL to represent complex directed graphs, such as those found in business management, manufacturing, and network analysis, as well as phylogenetic trees, which are used in bioinformatics research. MSAGL is .. more »