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Microsoft Research Podcast: Froid and the relational database query quandary with Dr. Karthik Ramachandra
Episode 73 | April 24, 2019 In the world of relational databases, structured query language, or SQL, has long been King of the Queries, primarily because of its ubiquity and unparalleled performance. But many users prefer a mix of…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
AI for Earth is a multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative to deploy the full scale of Microsoftâs products, policies and partnerships across four key areas of agriculture, water, biodiversity and climate, and transform the way society monitors, models, and ultimately manages…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Making “micromoments” work for you
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…
In the news | IEEE Infocom
IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award
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…
In the news | ACM
ACM Distinguished Service Award 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.
Awards | SIGMOBILE
Microsoft researchers receive ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award
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…
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Introducing Scalar UDF Inlining
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 ,…
Microsoft Research Podcast: Competing in the X Games of machine learning with Dr. Manik Varma
Episode 63 | February 13, 2019 If every question in life could be answered by choosing from just a few options, machine learning would be pretty simple, and life for machine learning researchers would be pretty sweet. Unfortunately, in…
Everything you always wanted to know about extreme classification (but were afraid to ask)
Varma’s team published a paper that exploded the number of choices that could be considered from a search engine from five thousand to ten million. This changed the nature of the game and led to the establishment of a new…