Machine Learning Gets Big Boost from Ultra-Efficient Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator
Posted by Doug Burger Editor’s note: Doug Burger, a processor architect by training, is a Microsoft researcher focused on disrupting the very fabric of datacenter processing power in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. I’m excited to…
Overview of the TREC 2014 Web Track
Project Catapult
Project Catapult is the code name for a Microsoft Research (MSR) enterprise-level initiative that is transforming cloud computing by augmenting CPUs with an interconnected and configurable compute layer composed of programmable silicon.
DSSM
The goal of this project is to develop a class of deep representation learning models. DSSM stands for Deep Structured Semantic Model, or more general, Deep Semantic Similarity Model. DSSM, developed by the MSR Deep Learning…
Trill Moves Big Data Faster, by Orders of Magnitude
Posted by George Thomas Jr. In today’s high-productivity computing environments that process dizzying amounts of data each millisecond, a research project named for “a trillion events per day” may seem relatively ordinary. But when you…