Tutorial: Outlier Detection for Temporal Data
Hekaton Breaks Through
By Janie Chang In an online, on-demand world, the ability to respond quickly to requests for data has become a significant challenge. Take bwin, for example. In order to attract and retain customers, bwin, the world’s…
Cloud Computing Unlocks Drug Discovery
Antibiotics, antivirals, NSAIDs—the list of modern “wonder drugs” goes on and on. And yet many diseases remain resistant to drug therapy, and in other instances, the side effects of drug treatment are as bad as…
Fighting Wildfires with Data
When wildfires strike, all eyes turn to the clouds, hoping for a downpour that will quench the flames. Now, wildfire prevention teams on the Greek island of Lesvos are looking to a different kind of…
Crowd IQ
Human computation and crowdsourcing are new paradigms for leveraging the intelligence of groups of people to solve problems. Techniques based on these paradigms are used by Microsoft in services including Bing search, advertising, and Xbox…