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Nov 23, 2013
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We consider what constitutes identities in cryptography. Typical examples include your name and your social-security number, or your fingerprint/iris-scan, or your address, or your (non-revoked) public-key coming from some trusted public-key infrastructure. In many situations, however, where you are defines your identity. For example, we know the role of a bank-teller behind a bullet-proof bank window not because she shows us her credentials but by merely knowing her location. In this paper, we...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Seny Kamara, Nishanth Chandran
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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Workflow is an important enabling technology for eScience. Research into workflow systems for eScience has yielded several specialized workflow engines. We have been investigating the nature of scientific workflow and experimenting with the BizTalk business integration server to support scientific workflows. In particular we have built a simple web portal for bioinformatics which uses Biztalk as the underlying workflow engine. The portal has a novel web based interface making it accessible to a...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Dan Fay, Paul Roe
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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Decreased enrollment in Computer Science has led many universities, businesses and government institutions to take a closer look at the field and how it is perceived. As computers become increasingly essential for education and commerce, how can we shape their image within the popular culture? Is it possible to re-invent CS, and to attract new students with diverse backgrounds, goals and talents? In this talk I will present a post-mortem of my (non-standard, but incredibly fulfilling) education...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, John Nordlinger, Robin Hunicke
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Computer Go is one of the ultimate challenges for games research. Despite of a lot of efforts for building state of the art programs, Go is still resistant to current AI techniques, even for solving subproblems such as Life and Death, or tsume-Go. This talk presents the techniques behind TsumeGo Explorer, a high-performance tsume-Go solver. TsumeGo Explorer uses df-pn(r), a new search algorithm that improves the depth-first proof-number search algorithm. The program also contains...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Andy Slowey, Akihiro Kishimoto
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Nov 23, 2013
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We present a novel tree representation for the hard-core lattice gas model (weighted independent sets) on a general graph. We use this representation to show that for any graph of maximum degree D, the Gibbs measure is unique (the influence of any boundary condition decays with distance) provided that the activity parameter λ < λ c , where λ c is the critical activity for the regular tree of degree D. This resolves an open conjecture in statistical physics. Also, since λ c is known, this...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Elchanan Mossel, Dror Weitz
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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I will give an overview of my research and present a 5-year research program focusing on activity awareness and knowledge sharing in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). I will first present two studies on activity awareness with pairs performing a collaborative editing project and then two studies with teams performing an emergency management planning task on maps. Many failures in CSCW systems are attributed to inadequate support for the collaborators’ awareness. In the studies of...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Kori Quinn (Inkpen), Gregorio Convertino
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Nov 23, 2013
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Please join us for lunch at Microsoft this Giving Campaign! Hear about how our award-winning zoo saves wildlife and their habitats in the Northwest and around the world; while educating and inspiring our visitors to take conservation action. We'll also provide program/exhibit updates including the latest on the 188,000 acres our conservation partner the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program recently protected in Papua New Guinea! And provide a little preview of our upcoming Meerkat Exhibit in...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Kevin Schofield, Paul Balle, Lisa Dabek,...
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Users often face challenges with collaborative technologies because they are not designed based on a rich understanding of their context of use. One way to overcome this challenge is to study the social practices and routines of people and then design around this understanding. In this talk, I illustrate this message by describing two case studies in detail and then briefly highlighting several additional projects. First, I look at the privacy concerns of telecommuters as they attempt to...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Marc Smith, Carman Neustaedter
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Mark Lewin, Daniel Spoonhower, Robert...
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Most models of the Web consist of a graph of linked pages, in which each page is a simple unstructured text document. But in fact, Web pages often contain structured data embedded in natural language text, HTML tables, and other forms. (For example, a Web page about cars might contain a small list of car makes, models, and years.) This structured data exists in plain sight for Web users, but is ignored by traditional search engines and other database systems. Thus, even though the Web is one of...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Matt Richardson, Michael Cafarella
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Microsoft is well known for Windows, Office, .NET, Xbox, Zune and a long list of other products and technologies. Less discussed however, is a group at Microsoft that isn't necessarily focused on ship dates, packaging, or competing products. Instead they think about how computers and technology can make life easier, with an eye towards developing new technologies that can improve all our lives and often in cooperation with product team, but also working with people in academia, governments and...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Darin Velin, Eric Horvitz
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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It's no secret that new ideas fuel profitability. Even when companies hire top talent and teach best skills, few are able to affect the bottom line unless their employees can generate and execute new concepts. It sounds like a simple principle, but finding new ideas can become a company's greatest challenge. What if we were to tell you that a little comedy theater in Minneapolis has created an incredibly effective ideation process to help businesses generate more and better ideas? In fact, the...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Tamara Pesik, John Sweeney
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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A complete system for distant speech recognition (DSR) typically consists of several distinct components. Among these are: An array of microphone for far-field sound capture; An algorithm for tracking the positions of the active speaker or speakers; A beamforming algorithm for focusing on the desired speaker and suppressing noise, reverberation, and competing speech from other speakers; A recognition engine to extract the most likely hypothesis from the output of the beamformer; A speaker...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Mike Seltzer, John McDonough
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Jim Gemmell, Jane Greenberg
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Tim Hunt and Aaron Davis of Lingotek will lecture on the use of Language Search Engines as a platform for improving both human translation and machine translation. They will demonstrate a language search engine developed by Lingotek that runs in a web browser and is provided free over the Internet. ©2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Steve Richardson, Tim Hunt, Aaron Davis
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Shelly Farnham, Richard Hodkinson,...
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Due to the size of the World Wide Web, it is necessary to develop tools for automatic or semi-automatic analyses of web data, such as finding patterns and implicit information in the web, a task usually known as Web Mining. In particular, web content mining consists of automatically mining data from textual web documents that can be represented with machine-readable semantic formalisms. While more traditional approaches to Information Extraction from text, such as those applied to the Message...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Alex Acero, Enrique Alfonseca
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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We use embeddings in continuous time Branching processes to derive asymptotics for various statistics associated with different models of preferential attachment. This powerful method allows us to deduce, with very little effort, under a common framework, not only local characteristics for a wide class of scale free trees, but also global characteristics such as the height of the tree, maximal degree, and the size and structure of the percolation component attached to the root. We exhibit our...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Jennifer Chayes, Shankar Bhamidi
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Topics: Radio Program, Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies, Hiking, Boxing...
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Topics: Radio Program, PGA Tour golfers, Golf, Legal terms, Wimbledon champions, Research, Physical...
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Today’s frenetic process in technology, communications and lifestyles is evolving the way brains develop, function and process information—creating new neural pathways and altering brain activity at a biochemical level. To compete and thrive in this age of brain evolution all of us must adapt, and find the strategies and tools to enhance our technological, social and empathic abilities including: Key strategies for bridging the brain gap Empathy upgrades for digital natives A technology...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Kirsten Wiley, Gary Small
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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The talk will focus on two parts. The first part will be on how to design a test-bed of real ad hoc nodes moving around in an office environment. The main challenge is how to create experimental repeatability when nodes are carried around by humans under varying radio conditions. The second part of the talk will be on the value of combining simulation, emulation and real world test-beds for the same testing scenario. Results will be presented that are not visible in simulations. Protocol...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Victor Bahl, Per Gunningberg
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Shelly Farnham, Rael Dornfest
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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This talk consists of two parts focussed on two distinct but related themes. In the first part we look at the problem of searching on devices with small displays and explore relevance feedback approaches to improve effectiveness of search. We consider a minimal user interaction: for a screenful of search results the user is encouraged to indicate a single most relevant document. To study the problem we exploit the fact that for small display sizes and limited user actions we can construct a...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Vishwa Vinay
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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The template facility of C++, through some serendipity, provides powerful support for metaprogramming and compile-time reflection. However, C++ also has many shortcomings, making C++ template metaprograms inefficient and difficult to maintain. Garcia introduces a calculus for reflective metaprogramming in his thesis that provides all of the power and flexibility of C++ templates and solves many of its problems. However, one of the problems that remains is that the residual program is not type...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Wolfram Schulte, Jeremy Siek
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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For the first time in human history, 'more' is no longer synonymous with 'better' - indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. We need to move beyond growth as the paramount economic ideal and pursue prosperity in a more local direction, with cities, suburbs, and regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. In this world, we will begin to think in a new way about the things we buy,...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Kirsten Wiley and Kim Ricketts, Bill...
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Shannon's information theory was a towering achievement of 20th century science and laid a theoretical foundation for understanding how to design communication systems, and to judge their optimality. However, the bedrock assumptions in the Shannon framework of unbounded delay and reliability are not appropriate for mobile ad hoc networks, which has rapidly changing topologies and end-to-end performance constraints. The lack of a descriptive theory for ad hoc networks has greatly impeded their...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Victor Bahl, Jeffrey G. Andrews
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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In this study, a new discriminative learning framework, called soft margin estimation (SME), is proposed for estimating the parameters of continuous density hidden Markov models (HMMs). The proposed method makes direct use of the successful ideas of margin in support vector machines to improve generalization capability and decision feedback learning in discriminative training to enhance model separation in classifier design. SME directly maximizes the separation of competing models to enhance...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Li Deng, Jinyu Li
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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This talk consists of two short talks. Localization of 3D Audio-Visual Objects Using Unsupervised Clustering We address the problem of localizing objects that can be both seen and heard. We exploit the benefits of a human-like configuration of sensors (binaural and binocular) for gathering auditory and visual observations. It is shown that the localization problem can be recast as the task of clustering the audio-visual observations into coherent groups. We propose a probabilistic generative...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Zhengyou Zhang, Radu Horaud
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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This talk will describe our development of the Stanford Stream Data Manager (STREAM), a system for executing complex continuous queries over multiple continuous data streams. The STREAM system supports a declarative query language, it copes with high data rates and query workloads by providing approximate answers when resources are limited, and it adapts its execution strategies automatically as conditions change. We will provide an overview of the system and our research results, and show a...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Surajit Chaudhuri, Jennifer Widom
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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Programs often make assumptions about the states of the data structures that they manipulate. Errors that cause these data structures to become inconsistent can therefore be especially damaging, since inconsistent data structures may cause software systems to behave unacceptably or even fail catastrophically. In this talk, I will present my specification-based approach to data structure repair. In this approach, the developer simply writes a declarative specification of the key consistency...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Trishul Chilimbi, Brian Demsky
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Evelyne Viegas, Eytan Adar
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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Is productivity growth a tailwind or a headwind? What are the dominant forces likely to affect economic prospects in the short run? How dangerous are the twin deficits—the budget and trade deficits—in the long run? A variety of factors, from technology-induced productivity growth to stock market booms and busts, corporate governance scandals, wars, oil price hikes, massive monetary and fiscal stimulus and record trade deficits, have been pushing and pulling the U.S. economy. This discussion...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Tamara Pesik, Michael G. Hadjimichalakis
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Reusing source code in a manner for which it has not been designed (which I term a pragmatic-reuse task) is traditionally regarded as poor practice. The ad hoc nature of these tasks increases the likelihood of a developer pursuing a task that is infeasible or choosing not to pursue a feasible one. Although pragmatic reuse activities have been negatively likened to code cloning activities, there are many valid industrial reasons for reusing code in this fashion including risk aversion, feature...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Rob DeLine, Reid Holmes
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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Publicly-accessible adaptive systems such as recommender systems present a security problem. Attackers, who cannot be readily distinguished from ordinary users, may introduce biased data in an attempt to force the system to “adapt' in a manner advantageous to them. The ability to understand, identify, and defeat such “bias injection' attacks will have significant implications for a variety of adaptive information systems that rely on users' input for learning user or group profiles. Many...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Chris Meek, Bamshad Mobasher
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Topics: Radio Program, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities members, Political...
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Topics: Radio Program, East Asian countries, Divided regions, Crimes, Republics, G20 nations, Continents,...
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06:00:00AM-09:00:00AM GMT — Ashlea Tracey 14/01/2020 Join Ashlea for Jersey's latest news, sport, weather and travel to start your day.
Topics: Radio Program, Electric vehicles, Sustainable transport, MCA Records singles, Types of buses, RPM...
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Topics: Radio Program, Mass media, Jersey culture, Opera houses, Buildings and structures in Jersey, Parts...
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Nov 24, 2013
11/13
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Consider the following fundamental problem, called r-linear-degeneracy-testing (rLDT): Given an input of n real numbers, do any r of them sum up to 0? This problem is fundamental in computational geometry as it captures a broad notion of degeneracy, that is, input that satisfies a measure-zero property (not being in “general position”). The case r=3 (a.k.a. 3-SUM) is well known and many important computational geometric problems reduce to it. Its exact complexity is not known and considered...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Ryan O'Donnell, Nir Ailon
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Topics: Radio Program, Divided regions, East Asian countries, Crimes, G20 nations, Republics, Continents,...
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Topics: Radio Program, Distribution, retailing, and wholesaling, Business, Marketing, Finance, Research...
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06:00:00PM-08:00:00PM GMT — Connections 05/01/2020 Aisha Iqbal with news and analysis of issues impacting on West Yorkshire communities.
Topics: Radio Program, Nutrition, Ethology, Thought, Communication, Philosophical terminology, Sociology of...
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Topics: Research, Social policy, Social Planning, Recherche, Politique sociale, Forschung, Gesellschaft,...
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Get a lean, fit body, feel reenergized and stress-free, and stay in great shape without having to hire a personal trainer, race off to an exercise class, or turn your life upside down. Derek Noble will be giving a lecture on how to create a healthy lifestyle using time sensitive training practices [check out his 'couch potato workout'] that can be used at home and on the road [or while cleaning or stuck in traffic]. His approach is holistic and aims to provide users with a range of choices and...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Tamara Pesik, Derek Noble
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Lifelogging is a term used to describe recording different aspects of your daily life, in digital form, for your own exclusive personal use. It is a form of reverse surveillance, sometimes termed sousveillance, referring to us - the subjects - doing the watching, of ourselves. In today's healthcare world where we react to conditions that have already developed, lifelogging technologies may offer a glimpse into a future world of proactive healthcare where symptoms of conditions are detected at...
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Mike Sinclair, Aiden Doherty
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Operator View Points - discussion of enterprise/campus networks from the people that run them. ©2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Victor Bahl, Terry Gray, Jim Pepin, Mark...
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Liz Lawley, Rich Ling
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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Topics: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Audio MP3 Archive, Tamara Pesik, Markos Zúniga, Jerome...
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Nov 23, 2013
11/13
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A grand challenge of computer vision is to understand and parse natural images into boundaries, surfaces and objects. To solve this problem we would inevitably need to work with visual entities and cues of heterogeneous nature, such as brightness and texture at low-level, contour and region grouping at mid-level, and shape recognition at high-level. Learning to represent and incorporate these entities and cues, along with the complexity of the visual world itself, calls for probabilistic models...
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