The Microsoft Research website is always worth a look when you’re bored – there’s some interesting stuff going on there, and occasionally one of the projects there turns into a real product. I saw on Mary Jo Foley’s site a mention of something called CamGraph:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-camgraph-a-machine-learning-appliance-for-big-data-sets/9279
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/antr/camgraph/default.html
I suspect she’s got the wrong end of the stick when she says it’s a natural user interface project, but that’s beside the point. According to the website it is:
a distributed, scalable infrastructure that supports inference in large-scale probabilistic graphical models.
Basically a data mining app that can scale out across multiple servers; with a bit of imagination you could see how this could turn into data mining in the cloud, but we’re clearly a long way away from that happening.
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