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Cloud computing, storage, routing
IEEE honors Sengupta for significant contributions that have improved our everyday computing tasks
A principal researcher in Microsoft's research lab in Redmond, Washington, Sudipta Sengupta's collaborations have resulted in such groundbreaking work in networking and data storage and management that he recently was named an IEEE Fellow.
Computer vision
Microsoft researchers win ImageNet computer vision challenge
Microsoft researchers on Thursday announced a major advance in technology designed to identify the objects in a photograph or video, showcasing a system whose accuracy meets and sometimes exceeds human-level performance.
Advancing computing
ACM names five Microsoft researchers as Fellows, Distinguished Scientists
Cynthia Dwork, Mary Czerwinski and Sriram Rajamani have been honored for their significant contributions to the development and application of computing across multiple disciplines. And Ratul Mahajan and Nachiappan Nagappan were named Distinguished Scientists for their significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.
Deep neural networks
Microsoft computational toolkit offers most efficient distributed deep learning computational performance
The Computational Network Toolkit has led to significant improvements in machine learning efficiency and its combination with Azure GPU Lab allows users to build and train deep neural nets for Cortana speech recognition up to 10 times faster than before.
Research blogs and computer science news
- IEEE Fellow Sengupta transformed cloud computing, data storage, network routing
011 December 2015 - ACM names five Microsoft researchers as Fellows, Distinguished Scientists08 December 2015
- Microsoft Computational Network Toolkit offers most efficient distributed deep learning computational performance07 December 2015
- Finding a community: Women in Machine Learning workshop celebrates 10th year07 December 2015
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