Research
Advancing data systems and analytics that enable scalable insights, intelligent applications, and scientific discovery.
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…
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…
Societies and governments around the world want to know how the biosphere is likely to change and what we can do to avoid or mitigate against it. Current models used to provide that information, though,…
Tempe is an interactive system for exploring large data sets. It accelerates faster machine learning by facilitating quick, iterative feature engineering and data understanding. Tempe is a combination of three technologies: Trill: a high-speed, temporal,…
Cortana, the world’s first truly personal digital assistant, is available soon on Windows Phone 8.1. Powered by Bing, Cortana is driven by state-of-the-art algorithms using natural language, machine learning, and contextual signals that benefit from…
