In this talk I will discuss the power of simple, randomized methods such as hashing, importance sampling, and stochastic iteration in data science and machine learning. In particular, I will overview my efforts to apply…
Since its inception in 2012, the Microsoft Research Artist in Residence Program has hosted a number of artists in residence, including James George, Jason Salavon, Cristina Sirbu, Erin Smith, Aduen Darriba Frederiks, Helene Steiner, and…
Microsoft is a silver sponsor of LISA17, the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The program will address the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, curated…
We are excited to be a gold sponsor of Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2017, the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer…
We are excited to be participating in SPLASH 2017, the ACM SIGPLAN conference that embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and…
