Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
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Intelligent Edge
Edge computing is a natural evolution of cloud computing, where server resources, ranging from a credit-card size computers to micro data centers, are placed closer to data and information generation sources. Application and system developers…
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Tech Showcase: Prometheus: Co-Designing Distributed Systems and Datacenter Hardware
The modern datacenter fabric increasingly includes programmable devices capable of increasingly sophisticated processing – ranging from programmable switches that support in-network computation to network-attached FPGAs and smart storage devices. This project asks how we can…
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Tech Showcase: Resource Central: Toward Intelligent Clouds
This project is exploring ways to create intelligent and efficient cloud platforms by leveraging machine learning (ML) techniques. Our first foray in this direction has produced Resource Central (RC), an ML and prediction-serving system that…
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Current Trends in Blockchain Technology
Blockchains are an emerging technology that promises to transform contracts and transactions between mutually untrusted entities. The goal of this session is to explore current trends in blockchain systems with a set of presentations focusing…
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Tech Showcase: Project Fiddle
The goal of Project Fiddle is to build systems infrastructure to systematically speed-up distributed deep neural network (DNN) training while eking out the most from the resources used. Specifically, we are aiming for 100x more…
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Tech Showcase: Confidential AI: Secure Multi-Party Artificial Intelligence
This project proposes a combination of new secure hardware for acceleration of machine learning (including custom silicon and GPUs), and cryptographic techniques to limit or eliminate information leakage in multi-party AI scenarios. This project is…
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Tech Showcase: High-Fidelity Network Validation for Cloud Scale Networks
We propose a platform to validate networks with high-fidelity emulations. On a computing cluster such as Azure, we run the full stack (including real operating system, software, and chip emulators) of each network device in…
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Tech Showcase: High-Fidelity Simulations: The Critical Path to Real-World AI
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…
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Keynote: Systems Research – Fueling Future Disruptions
The Research Faculty Summit 2018 will bring together leaders and researchers from the broad systems research area in computer science. The summit will present the latest information and results from Microsoft product and research groups.…
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Video Analytics for Smart Cities
Microsoft Research has an on-going pilot in Bellevue, Washington for active traffic monitoring of traffic intersections live 24X7. This project is focused on is video streams from cameras at traffic intersections. Traffic-related accidents are among…
