Keynote: Data-Driven Computing
Chair: Jaime Puente, Microsoft Research Speaker: Tony Hey, Vice President, Microsoft Research The term ubiquitous computing, and the rich research it engenders, has been with us for many years. Today we are seeing the results…
Multi-input Functional Encryption
Latin American Faculty Summit 2014
Microsoft Research hosted the ninth annual Latin American Faculty Summit in Viña del Mar, Chile, May 7 to 9, 2014. The theme of the 2014 summit was Advancing Science and Technology Through Computing Research.
Methods for Sensing Urban Noises
The Holy Grail of Transactions: Scalability & Instruction Locality
Traditional online transaction processing (OLTP) systems face two major challenges while trying to utilize modern hardware: (1) exploiting the abundant thread-level parallelism given by multicores and (2) taking advantage of the aggressive micro-architectural features. On…
Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
Understanding how users form and update their opinions through interactions with their friends and neighbors in social networks is a fundamental problem with applications to online advertising, recommendations, and marketing. In our research, we carried…