Research
Building programming languages, tools, and software engineering techniques that make software more reliable, secure, and productive.
In this webinar led by Partner Researcher Dr. Ben Zorn, follow the path of the revolution that empowers more people to easily leverage computational resources for problem solving. You will examine the incredible opportunities and technical…
Computer scientists think often of “Ender’s Game” these days. In this award-winning 1985 science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender is being trained at Battle School, an institution designed to make young children into military…
Quickr explores cost-effective data analytics at scale, breaking new ground in research on offering approximate answers for complex ad-hoc queries.
Project Everest aims to build and deploy a verified HTTPS stack, constructing a high-performance, standards-compliant, and verified implementation of the full HTTPS ecosystem.
AI and machine learning present a litany of unmitigated security threats. Research is pivoting from contrived vulns to weaponized exploitation. As a security engineer, how do I protect and defend my services against these threats?…
How can users of a cloud service verify that the service truly performs as promised? This question is vital today because clouds are complicated black boxes, running in different administrative domains from users. Their correctness…
Gaussian Process for Any Neural Architecture: Reference Implementations This repo is a companion to the paper linked below, which shows that the Gaussian process behavior arises in wide, randomly initialized, neural networks regardless of architecture.…
Dr. Donald Kossmann is a Distinguished Scientist who thinks big, and as the Director of Microsoft Research’s flagship lab in Redmond, it’s his job to inspire others to think big, too. But don’t be fooled.…
