- Not to be confused with Microsoft AI, Microsoft's artificial intelligence research laboratory.
Microsoft Research (MSR) is a division of Microsoft created in 1991 for researching various computer science topics and issues. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P. Thacker, Fields Medal winner Michael Freedman, MacArthur Fellow Jim Blinn, Dijkstra Prize winner Leslie Lamport and many other highly recognized experts in computer science, physics, and mathematics, including Jim Gray up until his highly publicized disappearance while sailing.
Research areas
MSR research is categorized into the following broad areas:[1]
- Algorithms and theory
- Hardware development
- Human–computer interaction
- Machine learning, adaptation, and intelligence
- Multimedia and graphics
- Search, retrieval, and knowledge management
- Security and cryptography
- Social computing
- Software development
- Systems, architectures, mobility, and networking
- Computational and Systems Biology[2]
One of the stated goals of Microsoft Research is to "support long-term computer science research that is not bound by product cycles."[3] MSR sponsors the Microsoft Research Fellowship for graduate students and the New Faculty Fellowship for new faculty members.
Laboratories
There are laboratories around the world in Bangalore, Beijing, Cambridge (United Kingdom), Cambridge (Massachusetts), Mountain View, Redmond, and San Francisco.
- Microsoft Research Redmond was founded on the Microsoft Redmond campus in 1991 working in buildings 112 and 113 and has now moved to their own facility in building 99. It currently has about 350 researchers and is headed by Rico Malvar.
- Microsoft Research Cambridge was founded in 1997 by Roger Needham and now numbers over 100 employees. It maintains close ties to the University of Cambridge.
- Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) was founded in Beijing in November 1998. Advanced Technology Center was initially a group of MSRA until it became an independent R&D group of Microsoft.
- Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, located in Mountain View, California, was founded in August 2001. In January 2006, the Silicon Valley lab merged with Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC) in San Francisco.
- Microsoft Research India was established in January 2005 in Bangalore and headed by Dr. P. Anandan.
- Microsoft Research New England was established in 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Collaborations
Microsoft Research also collaborates with and jointly operate research centers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center[4], Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, INRIA[5], Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Trento.[6][7][8] There are also nine jointly-operated labs in China and Hong Kong.[9]
Microsoft Research also supports research centers at many other universities.
Published work at SIGGRAPH
Historically, Microsoft has performed well in having research papers accepted at the prestigious ACM SIGGRAPH conference, having contributed since 2002 on average 14% of the papers published.
| Year | Total papers | MSR Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 90[10] | 13 (14%)[11] |
| 2007 | 108[12] | 14 (13%)[13][14] |
| 2005 | 86 | 16 (17%) |
| 2004 | 83 | 10 (16%) |
| 2003 | 83 | 11 (10%) |
| 2002 | 67 | 7 (11%) |
| Total | 517 | 71 (14%) |
| Mean | 86 | 12 (14%) |
Research projects
- For the list of applied research groups from Microsoft Research, see Microsoft Research Labs.
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- Microsoft Live Labs
- Microsoft Virtual Labs (for Window Server family research)
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See also
- Microsoft Award
- Microsoft Research Maps
References
- ↑ Research Areas
- ↑ "A Centre of Excellence in Scientific Research is founded in Trento". Centre for Computation and Systems Biology. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ↑ Microsoft Research Overview
- ↑ BSC-Microsoft Research Centre
- ↑ Microsoft Research INIRIA Joint Centre
- ↑ Microsoft to create research center at CMU - Pittsburgh Business Times
- ↑ Microsoft, CMU team up - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- ↑ Microsoft's East Coast alliance - The Boston Globe
- ↑ Research
- ↑ SIGGRAPH 2008 Advanced Program
- ↑ Microsoft Research Presenting 13 Technical Papers At SIGGRAPH
- ↑ SIGGRAPH 2007, Papers
- ↑ New papers launched at Siggraph
- ↑ SIGGRAPH 2007: Microsoft Research Leads the Way
- ↑ "The first new feature of Internet Explorer 8?". Retrieved 2007-06-08.
External links
- Official website
- Outline of Research Areas
- Microsoft Developing Project (news archive from Softpedia)