Data platforms and analytics
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From Data Science to Data Intelligence
Today, we live in a data-driven world and new directions in data-driven research have already revolutionized big data applications such as gaming, Internet vision, machine translation, and spell checking by bringing machine learning to the…
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Research Bits: Robert Amor
“Research Bits” provide a glimpse into the research being conducted around the world through brief interviews with researchers. In this interview, Robert Amor, University of Auckland, New Zealand talks about his research in construction informatics.…
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Research Bits: Bill Howe and Michael Schapira
“Research Bits” provide a glimpse into the research being conducted around the world through brief interviews with researchers. First, Bill Howe of the University of Washington talks about his work to make it easier for…
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Research Bits: Emerson Murphy-Hill and Dean Mohamedally
“Research Bits” provide a glimpse into the research being conducted around the world through brief interviews with researchers. First, Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, talks about his research on how human computer interaction intersects…
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Making Data Useful: User-centric Approaches to Data
We are swimming in data. Every minute, YouTube sees two days’ worth of video uploaded, Tumblr sees about 25,000 blog posts, and there are 2,000 check-ins to Foursquare. Yet most uses of data—big or small,…
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Data in Disasters—the Potential and the Limits
There has been a rapid expansion in the ability to gather and analyze communication data during acute events. As we saw most recently during Hurricane Sandy, people use social media services like Twitter and Facebook…
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Research in Focus: Designing a Better Tomorrow
We live in a world that is increasingly alive with sensors and data. The Design Expo at the Faculty Summit challenges teams of students to use this data to improve life, local community, and the…
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Database Systems Exploiting New Hardware Platforms
Main memory databases have become increasingly important as a way to provide high-performance OLTP (on-line transaction processing) capability. By restricting data to by main memory resident, rather than storing disk resident data entirely in the…
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Hosting Blazing Fast Services: From 1 Core to 1M Cores
Microsoft builds and operates best-in-class data centers that contain 2,500 to more than 100,000 servers (per data center), which are connected by using cutting-edge networks within and across data centers. To meet the performance, cost,…
