Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
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Building decentralized systems using DHTs – Part 1
Decentralized systems based on distributed hash tables (DHTs) have received a lot of attention during the past decade, and systems based on this technology are now in production use. In this series of lectures, we…
Microsoft Research Blog
Data in the Fast Lane
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center A new approach to managing data over a network has enabled a Microsoft Research team to set a speed record for sifting through, or “sorting,” a huge…
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Recurring Job Optimization in Scope
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Graph Storage and Analysis
An explosion of user-generated data from online social networks motivates analysis to extract deep insights from this data’s graph at scale, even of social, temporal, spatial, and topical connections. We are building systems to enable…
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What Computers Do: Model, Connect, Engage
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A Reliable Effective Terascale Linear Learning System
We present a system and a set of techniques for learning linear predictors with convex losses on terascale datasets, with trillions of features (the number of features here refers to the number of non-zero entries…
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