Deep Learning at Mote Scale
The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to revolutionize our world. Billions of microcontrollers and sensors have already been deployed for predictive maintenance, connected cars, precision agriculture, personalized fitness and wearables, smart housing, cities, healthcare,…
Cost/Performance in Modern Data Stores – How Data Cashing Systems Succeed
Data in traditional “caching” data systems resides on secondary storage, and is read into main memory only when operated on. This limits system performance. Main memory data stores with data always in main memory are…
Glass: A New Media for a New Era?
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Exascale
Our ability to produce data continues to grow exponentially, and so does the computational power available in the world. By 2021, it is expected that zettabytes will be stored in the cloud, and the DoE…
Announcing Microsoft Research Open Data – Datasets by Microsoft Research now available in the cloud
The Microsoft Research Outreach team has worked extensively with the external research community to enable adoption of cloud-based research infrastructure over the past few years. Through this process, we experienced the ubiquity of Jim Gray’s…
Bits and Joules: Empowering energy consumers through IoT & AI
The Energy vertical is going through a paradigm shift from centralised conventional generation and distributed consumption to non-conventional distributed generation (with renewables and battery technologies) and distributed consumption. This change is posing challenges and driving…