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Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine produces a good immune response, reveals new study. Teams at JennerVaccineTrials and Oxford Vaccine Group have found there were no safety concerns, and the vaccine stimulated strong immune responses: bit.ly/PhaseIResults

Inspiring work by my colleagues at Microsoft Research to bring AI and Natural Language Progressing to help youth from the Gondi Adivasi community. Interactive Neural Machine Translation brings the power of AI and communities together. livemint.com/mint-lounge/fe…

Coping with Rejection in Academia: A Three-Pronged Approach. loom.com/share/89bfb106…

The inefficient evaluation of imperative programs has limited their use in certain database system scenarios. Learn how two techniques—Froid & Aggify—can help optimize their performance in this webinar/live Q&A w/ Karthik Ramachandra Oct 8 at 8 AM PT. Sign up now: aka.ms/AA9q08t

Declarative programs have been the focus of the database community, but in practice, we often see a preference for the imperative style, which lacks efficient evaluation methods. Explore this challenge in a webinar/live Q&A Oct 8 at 8 AM PT. Register now: aka.ms/AA9r0r8

How do we validate findings of research that focuses on societal impact? Join my colleagues Tanuja Ganu and Sridhar Vedantham on the podcast on SCAI, a team that deploys and validates research findings in real-world scenarios. aka.ms/AAa0i3t

Congratulations to my colleague Ranjita Bhagwan at MSR India for winning the ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman (OCCW) 2020 Award. acm.org/articles/acm-i…

The Microsoft Research RF program is a great pre-doctoral research training program. Fellows work in an interdisciplinary environment, publish fabulous technical & critical research during their tenure, go on to study further at top-tier institutions, work in policy, or engineering.

Microsoft Research India is hiring! Please spread the word. microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Systems papers now: here is what I spent the last year doing, 2 decades worth of justification, performance tests for every scenario, and a self-critique. In the 80's: lmao had a cool idea last night, here's what could happen if I tested it, which I didn't

Anti-vaccine activists during a global pandemic

Types of Distributed Systems Papers. Joke modeled after Randall Munroe 's xkcd.com/2456/ #distributedsystems #distributedsystemsjokes

Thank you Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social)! It was absolutely fun working on this project. Truly grateful to Karthik Ramachandra for the opportunity!

📚 #ReadingGroup: Procedural Extensions of SQL: Understanding their usage in the wild - vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p1… Before this paper only major cloud DB vendors had a complete view of what procedural code in SQL workloads looked like. ✏️ Surabhi Gupta & Karthik Ramachandra #PaperReading

Most of my debugging endeavors.

Announcement : Scalar UDF Inlining now available on Azure SQL Database & Managed Instance! Check out the blog post here :techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql/s… Karthik Ramachandra @SQLPedro @JoeSackMSFT Kevin Farlee

📚 #ReadingGroup: Procedural Extensions of SQL: Understanding their usage in the wild - vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p1… Before this paper only major cloud DB vendors had a complete view of what procedural code in SQL workloads looked like. ✏️ Surabhi Gupta & Karthik Ramachandra #PaperReading