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Microsoft is proud to be a Bronze sponsor of KDD in London, United Kingdom August 19-23. The annual KDD conference is the premier interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining,…
Microsoft Research Open Data is a data repository that makes available datasets that researchers at Microsoft have created and published in conjunction with their research. Our goal is to provide a simple platform to Microsoft’s…
Recent advances in machine learning have showed great promise in predicting consumer behavior. Yet, many firms need to make decisions about changes to the environment, such as changes in prices, promotions, and introducing new products.…
Data-driven techniques help boost agricultural productivity by increasing yields, reducing losses and cutting down input costs. However, these techniques have seen sparse adoption owing to high costs of manual data collection and limited connectivity solutions.…
FaRM is an in-memory transactional object store for random-access latency-sensitive workloads, such as graphs and key-value stores. It provides high throughput and low microsecond latency by using remote direct memory access (RDMA) and novel transactional…
Microsoft has established itself as a pioneer in trustworthy computing. Features such as Always Encrypted in SQL Server show how we continue to keep trust while making world-class products. We imagine a world where user…
The New York City subway is the largest rapid transit system in the world, serving approximately 5.5 million riders each day. Recently there has been a growing concern over the state of the subway system…
Developing and testing real-world AI is an expensive and time-consuming process. We need to collect a large amount of annotated training data in a variety of conditions and environments, and such data-driven systems can result…
Increasing availability of the data, coupled with breakthroughs in Machine Learning and AI, have raised the ambitions of the enterprises to exploit insights from data to transform their businesses. This has challenged the data platform…
