Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
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Structured light: seeing less to see more in optical microscopy
Optical microscopy techniques can be greatly enhanced from simply imaging what you see in the focus of a microscope objective by structuring the light that you use to illuminate the object. The classic example of…
Microsoft Research Blog
Researchers seek to simplify the complex in cloud computing
From February 26–28, researchers gathered in Boston for the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), one of the top conferences in the networking and systems field. Microsoft, a silver sponsor of…
Project
Machine Learning for Systems and Tiered AIOps
Resource Central is a general ML and prediction-serving system deployed in Azure Compute. It trains ML models offline and uses them to produce predictions online.
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Security for All: Modeling Structural Inequities to Design More Secure Systems
Users often fall for phishing emails, reuse simple passwords, and fail to effectively utilize “provably” secure systems. These behaviors expose users to significant harm and frustrate industry practitioners and security researchers alike. As consequences of…
Microsoft Research Blog
High performance container networking
Researchers and engineers from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure have contributed nine scientific papers to the technical program of the 16th Annual USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation – NSDI ‘19 – to…
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Microsoft Research @ NSDI ’19
Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. NSDI ’19 focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems.
