Nouvelles et reportages
Cloud Intelligence/AIOps – Infusing AI into Cloud Computing Systems
| Dongmei Zhang, Venkat Padmanabhan, Ricardo Bianchini, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Ranjita Bhagwan, et Dan Crankshaw
When legendary computer scientist Jim Gray accepted the Turing Award in 1999, he laid out a dozen long-range information technology research goals. One of those goals called for the creation of trouble-free server systems or, in Gray’s words, to “build…
Innovation by (and beyond) the numbers: A history of research collaborations in Excel
Microsoft Excel is one of the world’s most important software tools, relied upon by users worldwide to create, understand, model, predict, and collaborate. As the Excel team works to leverage new areas of computer science – advancements in programming languages, NLP,…
Program that repairs programs: how to achieve 78.3 percent precision in automated program repair
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager of Microsoft Research Asia In February 2017, Microsoft and Cambridge University announced a DeepCoder algorithm that produces programs from problem inputs/outputs. DeepCoder, which operates on a novel yet greatly simplified programming language, cannot handle…
Realizing Practical Benefits from Research
In the age of big data, the challenge is no longer how to collect or store vast quantities of data—it’s how to make sense of it and use it for practical benefit. Scientific researchers, governmental agencies, nonprofits, and businesses of…