Briefs

"Faster results. Better decisions. Turning insight into action." Those are the capabilities Microsoft hopes to deliver Nov. 7 with the launch of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006, and key innovations in those products stem from contributions by Microsoft Research.

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Data Mining and Visualisation

Heckerman and his team, the Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Group within Microsoft Research, have been working on using graphical models for data analysis and visualisation. They also are learning about how data can be better analysed, as is obvious from the list of technologies he and his team have contributed to the forthcoming SQL Server 2005: Decision Trees, Clustering, Sequential Clustering, and Time Series.

"Our collaboration with Microsoft Research has brought data mining to every SQL Server user," says MacLennan of the SQL Server 2005 team.

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