Systems & networking
Researching next-generation systems and networks that power reliable, scalable, and efficient computing.
Publication
Arming Cloud Services with Task Aspects
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ThirdEye: Tracking User’s Physical Browsing in Indoor Spaces
We have built a system that would enable the tracking of physical browsing by users in indoor spaces such as retail stores. In a retail store, tracking the physical aspects of a shopper’s behaviour like…
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Centralizing national flood data in the cloud can help reduce loss of life and property
Researchers from the University of Texas partnered with other researchers, federal agencies, and first responders to create the National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE). They used Microsoft Azure to build a new national flood data-modeling and…
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The Pipeline from Computing Research to Surprising Inventions
One of the most exciting aspects of computer science is that the results of basic research so often end up being applied in completely unexpected ways. At Microsoft Research, we actively seek out these surprising…
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Microsoft Research Storage Toolkit
The Microsoft Research Storage Toolkit enables effective and accessible research in Software Defined Storage by adding I/O classification functions to the Windows 8.1 storage stack and exposing selected flows of I/O requests to a user-supplied…