Program for TPC-H Data Generation with Skew
The schema and queries of the TPC-H (formerly TPC-D) benchmark are widely used by people in the database community. One of the requirements of the benchmark is that data for columns in the database are…
Securing safe water through Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud
By Kenji Takeda, Solution Architect and Technical Manager, Microsoft Research Jacob Katuva used to get up at dawn to cycle 12 miles from his village to collect water with his uncles and cousins when he…
Theoretical and practical wonders of the web: the 25th International WWW Conference
By Kuansan Wang, Director, Internet Services Research Center, Microsoft Research Anyone reading the program for the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) would find it obvious that web innovation, powered by passionate scientists, users, and…
Wanted: the next generation of data scientists
By Jake Hofman and Justin Rao, Senior Researchers, Microsoft Research New York City You never know when the smallest seed of an idea will lead to groundbreaking work, work with the potential to have a…