Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research (MSR) is a division of Microsoft created in 1991 for researching various computer science topics and issues.

Overview

Microsoft Research (MSR) is one of the top research centers worldwide^{[citation needed]}, currently employing Turing Award winners, C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, 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 at sea.

MSR research is categorized into the following broad areas:^[1]

1. Algorithms and theory
2. Hardware development
3. Human–computer interaction
4. Machine learning, adaptation, and intelligence
5. Multimedia and graphics
6. Search, retrieval, and knowledge management
7. Security and cryptography
8. Social computing
9. Software development
10. Systems, architectures, mobility, and networking
11. 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, Mountain View, Redmond, and San Francisco.

• Microsoft Research Redmond was founded on the Microsoft Redmond campus in 1991 working in buildings 112 and 113.
• 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.
• Microsoft Cairo Innovation Center was established in 2006 in Egypt.

Notable achievements

At the prestigious ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 conference Microsoft Research presented fourteen papers, which was more than any other organisation ^[4][5]. The total number of conference papers presented at SIGGRAPH was 108 ^[6], meaning Microsoft Research' contribution constituted 13% of the conference papers ^[4][5]. Historically, Microsoft has performed well in getting papers accepted in SIGGRAPH, typically presenting an average of 14% of the papers ^[7].

Research projects

See also

• Microsoft European Science Award

References

External links

• Official website
• MSR Fellowships

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