Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
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Research talk: Approximate nearest neighbor search systems at scale
Building deep learning-based search and recommendation systems at internet scale requires a complete redesign of the search index. Key to this redesign is a fast, accurate, and cost-efficient indexing system for approximate nearest neighbor search.…
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Keynote: Scaling challenges in cloud networking
The promise of cloud computing is unlimited resources that customers can put towards solving the largest problems they face. Yet realizing that vision requires solving myriad problems in physical systems, distributed systems, and data analytics.…
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Closing remarks: Cloud Intelligence/AIOps
Cloud computing platforms have become part of the basic infrastructure of the world, bringing unprecedented opportunities of digital transformation to business, society, and human life. The AIOps & Cloud Intelligence track brings together researchers from…
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Research talk: System frontiers for dense retrieval
The Microsoft Bing search engine combines classic information retrieval and dense retrieval in multiple stages of the search funnel. Handling hundreds of billions of documents with constant updates creates massive system challenges to inference, search,…
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Keynote: Cloud Intelligence: Infusing AI into cloud computing systems
Cloud computing platforms have become part of the basic infrastructure of the world, bringing unprecedented opportunities of digital transformation to business, society, and human life. Therefore, the quality of cloud computing platforms, including availability, reliability,…
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Panel: Next ten years for hyperscaler’s backbones
The past decade has witnessed exponential growth in cloud computing market, and the size and complexity of cloud service provider’s backbones has increased accordingly. In this fireside chat, Erica Lan, leader of Microsoft Azure networking…
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Research talk: Automating and Optimizing IT Operations Management with AI
The vision of self-aware, self-healing, and self-managing Information Technology (IT) systems has remained elusive till recently. Recent advancements in Cloud computing, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general, are…
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Fireside chat: Smart network pipes unleashing new opportunities
Network device programmability and capability are growing rapidly, driven by innovations like programmable data planes and powerful control planes with cost effective ARM cores. This has enabled more extensive packet processing in the networks. Such…
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Closing remarks: Future of Cloud Networking
Microsoft Research has been at the forefront of network innovation for the cloud for over a decade. Our work, in partnership with Azure, spans all aspects of the network stack, along with network management and…
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Panel: Cloud Intelligence/AIOps across academia and industry
Cloud service plays an increasingly important role in our daily life, and the quality of cloud platforms, including reliability, availability, performance, capacity efficiency, security, sustainability, etc., has become immensely important. “Cloud Intelligence/AIOps” is designed to…
