Microsoft Research Lab – India

April 17, 2019

AI for Earth is a multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative to deploy the full scale of Microsoft’s products, policies and partnerships across four key areas of agriculture, water, biodiversity and climate, and transform the way society monitors, models, and ultimately manages…

April 12, 2019

The concept of microtasks is not new and is most commonly associated with crowdwork. In crowdwork, tasks are short and independent in nature, and workers don’t have to worry about how the tasks are created or how they contribute to…

April 1, 2019

The highest honor that can be bestowed on a researcher in the INFOCOM community: For work on indoor localization and on exploiting properties of radio frequency signals for goals beyond communications, which still serves as a model for much of…

April 1, 2019

For significant and lasting service to the broad community of mobile computing and wireless networking, and for building strong linkages between academia,industry, and government agencies.

March 31, 2019

Prashanth Mohan, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee, received the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award for their paper Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones, published in ACM Sensys 2008. Nericell pioneered the use of smartphones as a vehicular…

March 23, 2019

First published on MSDN on Nov 07, 2018 | Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt optimization strategies to your application workload’s runtime conditions. These improvements included: batch mode adaptive joins ,…