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Microsoft Research is happy to continue hosting this series of Image Recognition (Retrieval) Grand Challenges. Do you have what it takes to build the best image recognition system? Enter these MSR ...

Molecular devices made of nucleic acids show great potential for applications ranging from bio-sensing to intelligent nanomedicine. They allow computation to be performed at the molecular scale, while ...

The best generic tool currently known for attacking lattice-based cryptographic primitives is lattice reduction. Lattice reduction is a representation paradigm: it consists in finding a representation ...

Linearizability: The behavior of concurrent objects is best described through their safety and liveness properties, often referred to as correctness and progress. In this lecture, we examine various ...

Normalisation by Evaluation is a technique to efficiently compute the normal form of, possibly open, lambda terms with respect to beta reduction and rewrite rules. It works by compiling terms into ...

VirtualWiFi (previously known as MultiNet) is a virtualization architecture for wireless LAN (WLAN) cards.

The Internet Graphics Group’s research activities focus mainly on graphics systems, graphics platforms, and game technologies. The group leverages its extensive research expertise to create cutting ...

"Microsoft Research India focuses on research that impacts science, Microsoft and society at large. Our work is inter-disciplinary, and we blend theory with practice, and computer science with social ...