Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
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Communication, Computing, and Technology
Madhu Sudan, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, discusses the differences between theoretical computation versus communication. “Communication,” in this context, refers to mobile phones, email, and other messages, while “computation” refers to things one…
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Lintao Zhang showcases Tiger, Bing’s next-generation index serving platform
Microsoft Research Asia senior researcher Lintao Zhang explains “Tiger,” the next-generation index serving platform for Bing, and shows a video describing the collaboration between Microsoft Research Asia and Bing’s engineering teams in China and the…
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Hsiao-Wuen Hon introduces Microsoft Research Asia’s symposium marking 20 years of Microsoft Research
Hsiao-Wuen Hon, managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, welcomed the organization’s long-term collaborators as part of commemorating two decades of Microsoft Research. He highlighted the latest research developed in areas including systems and software, data…
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Machine Learning and Crowdsourcing
Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research New England—in association with Serge Belongie of the University of California, San Diego; Ce Liu of Microsoft Research New England; George Pierrakos of University of California, Berkeley; Ohad Shamir of…
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Stratus: Energy-efficient mobile communication using cloud support
Stratus enables efficient connectivity to mobile devices by reducing bytes transferred as well as saving energy during cellular data communication. Stratus leverages resources in the cloud to achieve energy savings by modulating incoming and outgoing…
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Designing Auction-Based Marketplaces: Research and Practice at MSR
Platform markets have two groups of users, and these have both direct and indirect network effects throughout the market as a whole. Platform markets include media markets, credit cards, dating, and video games. There are…
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Privacy: Issues and Perspectives
Moderator Ethan Zuckerman hosts a panel in Cambridge, Mass., discussing issues of human rights, as well as individual and public privacy. Difficult questions on privacy include personal privacy and marketing data, and technology and tagging…
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Advancing the State of the Art: 20th Anniversary and Beyond
At Microsoft Research, we are celebrating over 20 years of turning ideas into products that continuously improve the way people interact with technology. We advance the state of the art in computer science through exploration…
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Drawbridge
Drawbridge is a research prototype of a new form of virtualization for application sandboxing. Drawbridge combines two core technologies: First, a picoprocess, which is a process-based isolation container with a minimal kernel API surface. Second,…