XCG (Extreme Computing Group) is a Microsoft Research lab, based in Redmond, Washington, that combines expertise in research and product development to work on innovative projects in four areas of computer science: cloud systems, data platforms and analytics, hardware-software co-design, and security and cryptography. XCG builds innovative software systems and hardware prototypes with high-quality engineering, working closely with business groups to achieve deep impact on Microsoft’s products and services, and influencing the industry at large, striving to deliver first tangible results within three years.
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Our focus
- Cloud Systems
- Data Platforms and Analytics
- Hardware-Software Co-Design
- Security and Cryptography
Careers at Microsoft Research
We are always looking for exceptional researchers, post-docs, and interns. For more information about a career with the eXtreme Computing Group, see:
Phil Bernstein and Sudipto Das, Rethinking Eventual Consistency, in SIGMOD 2013, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2013
Meihui Zhang and Kaushik Chakrabarti, Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables, ACM SIGMOD, June 2013
Vivek Narasayya, Sudipto Das, Manoj Syamala, Surajit Chaudhuri, Feng Li, and Hyunjung Park, A Demonstration of SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service, in SIGMOD 2013, ACM International Conference on Management of Data, June 2013
Bilyana Taneva, Tao Cheng, Kaushik Chakrabarti, and Yeye He, Mining Acronym Expansions and Their Meanings Using Query Click Log, WWW Conference 2013, May 2013
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