Part 1: Introduction and Basic Theory > Part 2: Accounting for Bug Fixes > Part 4: Step By Step Guide This is just a summary of the previous chapters as a flow chart (click here for the derivation of the method): Here variable meanings are: External…
Part 1: Introduction and Basic Theory > Part 3: Harsh Reality That simple logic is nice, but practice makes it questionable for at least two reasons: Bugs found by either of the parties are fixed. After that, another party gets no chances to find them…
Part 1: Introduction Probably every piece of software has some defects in it. Known defects (also called bugs) are found by manufacturers and users and fixed. Unknown ones remain there, waiting to be discovered some day. The question is: how big is that unknown set?…
Posted by Rob Knies This year’s Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2014) is themed “data science for social good.” That focus for the 20th KDD meeting moved Eric Horvitz (@erichorvitz) to accept an invitation to deliver a keynote address during the event,…
We hear a lot these days about “data science,” but what is it, exactly? Data collection, data management, data wrangling, big data, broad data—these are all pieces of the data-science puzzle. One view is that data science is all about telling stories—with data. However, the…
In keeping with our mission to collaborate with top academic and scientific researchers to foster innovations in scientific inquiry, Microsoft Research Connections was proud to sponsor the 2013 KDD Cup, arguably the world’s best-known competition in data mining. The winning teams were announced at KDD…
The 28th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) opened on August 20, 2012, at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, with WorldWide Telescope (WWT) prominently featured at the Microsoft Research exhibition. Astronomy is one of the oldest and most inspirational areas of…
