A new Microsoft Research project aims to use autonomous drones, cutting-edge molecular biology, and advanced cloud-based data analytics to detect early signs that potentially harmful diseases are ...

Online apps that matter are geo-distributed, because they serve millions of users around the world. Geo-distribution is important for latency, availability, and increasingly also for efficiency. Due ...

Recently there have been renewed interests in single-hidden-layer neural networks (SHLNNs). This is due to its powerful modeling ability as well as the existence of some efficient learning algorithms.

Current AI software relies increasingly on neural networks (NNs). The universal data structure of NNs is the numerical vector of activity levels of model neurons, typically with activity distributed ...

FT-IR spectroscopy has shown potential as an imaging modality for cancer detection. This method measures the local absorbance of infrared light by a specimen, providing rich, quantitative, molecular ...

Asynchrony is fundamental to a broad class of software systems such as device drivers, cloud infrastructure, interacting web services, and client-server web applications. These software systems ...

What makes a platform suitable to both research and development? It is not simply the artifacts that are generated, but the tools that the platform brings to bear on evaluating the usefulness and ...

The immense scale of the Web has rendered itself as a huge repository storing information about various types of entities (e.g., persons, companies). Much of information retrieval operations on the ...

Many people are working on near-field user-interface devices that detect hover, gesture, and pose. But there is nothing in the space in front of a device to show the user what to do. This project ...

The best generic tool currently known for attacking lattice-based cryptographic primitives is lattice reduction. Lattice reduction is a representation paradigm: it consists in finding a representation ...

Analysis of Boolean functions is a meeting point of combinatorics, probability theory, harmonic analysis, and the theory of computing. The lecture will describe some advances and challenges in this ...

This paper explores some of the cultural effects of turning students into End Users through their engagement with mooks. The construction of the “student” in the MOOC ecology through a discursive ...