Glass: A New Media for a New Era?
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Exascale
Our ability to produce data continues to grow exponentially, and so does the computational power available in the world. By 2021, it is expected that zettabytes will be stored in the cloud, and the DoE…
Announcing Microsoft Research Open Data – Datasets by Microsoft Research now available in the cloud
The Microsoft Research Outreach team has worked extensively with the external research community to enable adoption of cloud-based research infrastructure over the past few years. Through this process, we experienced the ubiquity of Jim Gray’s…
Bits and Joules: Empowering energy consumers through IoT & AI
The Energy vertical is going through a paradigm shift from centralised conventional generation and distributed consumption to non-conventional distributed generation (with renewables and battery technologies) and distributed consumption. This change is posing challenges and driving…
City Data Exchange and Edge Analytics: A case for an Open Stack
The Indian government is attempting an ambitious aspirational move to “smarten” India’s cities. We do a deep dive analysis of a recent RFP for the same, which has been put out by the city of…