Research Focus: Week of April 10, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity…
In the news | Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
People of the ACM
Awards | Association for Computing Machinery
Four Microsoft employees named 2022 ACM Fellow for their outstanding contributions that propel technology today
Ranveer Chandra, Marc Pollefeys, Gary Sullivan and Jaime Teevan, were named as one of the 57 ACM Fellows for 2022. Ranveer for contributions to software-defined wireless networking and applications to agriculture and rural broadband; Marc for contributions to geometric computer…
Awards | IETF News
Siva Karkala awarded 2023 IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
Siva Kakarla has been awarded one of six IETF Applied Networking Research Prizes for 2023, for his work on “SCALE: Automatically Finding RFC Compliance Bugs in DNS Nameservers”. Kakarla and his colleagues, Ryan Beckett, George Varghese and Todd Millstein, introduce…
In the news | Wall Street Journal
Forget 5G. Let’s Talk About 6G.
Computer scientists and engineers say the next generation will make cloud computing and the mobile internet globally ubiquitous. As wireless carriers jostle to see who can win the race to deliver 5G services to customers, planning is already well under…
Awards | Newsweek
Ranveer Chandra included in Newsweek’s inaugural list of America’s Greatest Disruptors
Ranveer Chandra is among the 50 luminaries and leaders who are included in Newsweek's inaugural list of America’s Greatest Disruptors. The list features visionaries, innovators, pioneers and change makers who are using technology to transform business, health, culture and society…
Awards | ACM SIGCOMM
ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Test of Time Award
"Data-Center TCP (DCTCP)", by Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David Maltz, Jitendra Padhye, Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta, and Murari Sridharan, in ACM SIGCOMM 2010.
Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud with Dr. Stefan Saroiu
Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to Rowhammer, an adversarial attack that can cause data loss and security exploits in everything from smart…
Auto ML and the future of self-managing networks with Dr. Behnaz Arzani
Dr. Behnaz Arzani is a senior researcher in the Mobility and Networking group at MSR, and she feels your pain. At least, that is, if you’re a network operator trying to troubleshoot an incident in a datacenter. Her research is…