Microsoft and UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage
Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA — a key step in moving the technology out of the research…
Calling all aspiring women in Data Science
What started as a one-day conference organized by Stanford University in 2015, Women in Data Science (WiDS) has blossomed into a movement bringing together women data scientists and aspiring data scientists via a series of…
Get Your Data Together! Algorithms for Managing Data Lakes
Data lakes (e.g., enterprise data catalogs and Open Data portals) are data dumps if users cannot find and utilize the data in them. In this talk, I present two problems in massive, dynamic data lakes:…
Cloud computing aids researchers in solving the unsolvable in medical data labeling
It’s not uncommon for physicians to disagree about a diagnosis. That’s why people often seek a second or third opinion when faced with a serious or complex health concern. What if instead of a second…
Microsoft boosts NSF’s Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs with $3M in cloud computing credits
Microsoft Research is proud to support the US-wide National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) program by awarding $3M in Microsoft Azure cloud computing credits. “Today’s science and engineering enterprise is…
CRA: A Common Runtime for Applications
Northwest Database Society Annual Meeting – Session 4
Northwest Database Society Annual Meeting Session 4: A Visual Data Management System and Overlaying Distributed Database Applications over Blockchains Agenda: 3:00 – 3:15 Luis Remis (Intel Labs): A Visual Data Management System 3:15 – 3:30…
Northwest Database Society Annual Meeting – Session 3
Northwest Database Society Annual Meeting Session 3: Open-Source Technologies for Streaming and State Management, Improving Optimistic Concurrency Control Through Transaction Batching and Operation Reordering, Towards a Learning Optimizer for Shared Clouds, and more. Agenda: 1:15…