Research
Improving how people discover, understand, and use information through advances in search and retrieval.
DryadLINQ is a simple, powerful, and elegant programming environment for writing large-scale data parallel applications running on large PC clusters. Overview The goal of DryadLINQ is to make distributed computing on large compute cluster simple…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research The breathtaking ascendance of Internet search over the past decade has tended to obscure the limitations of the underlying technology. So quickly has search been embraced by hundreds…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Who knows you better than anybody? Your friends and family, of course. Who is best-positioned to understand your wants and needs? Your closest acquaintances, naturally. Doesn’t it make…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Battling search spam. Streamlining Web-page monitoring. Helping protect online privacy. Enabling the illiterate to use computers. These are just a few of the ways Microsoft Research is demonstrating…
A collection of short programs to compute standard information-retrieval performance measures—Recall, Precision, F-measure, Mean Average Precision, Mean Reciprocal Rank, Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain—in the presence of tied scores.