Microsoft Research

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Microsoft Research (MSR) is a division of Microsoft that was founded in 1991 to research computer science topics. Microsoft Research employs researchers including CAR Hoare , Butler Lampson , Charles P. Thacker , Leslie Lamport, and (until his disappearance at sea) Jim Gray and Michael Freedman .

The developments that have brought it to market readiness include the C # programming language and the PixelSense computer system , but also the ClearType and Sidebar functions used in Windows . In addition, the Singularity operating system , the programming languages Cω , F # , Sing # and Spec # and the underlying peer-to-peer technology for the Livestation platform were or are being developed here . Another research project is MyLifeBits . Finally, Microsoft Research is also making its panorama creation program Image Composite Editor available free of charge for Windows.

Research priorities

MSR researches in the following areas:

One of the goals of Microsoft Research is to research long-term IT topics independently of products and their life cycles. MSR supports the Microsoft Research Fellowship for graduate students and the New Faculty Fellowship for new faculty members.

The computer science, physics and mathematics experts employed by Microsoft Research include Jim Blinn ( MacArthur Fellowship ), Simon Peyton Jones , James Kajiya , László Lovász ( Knuth and Wolf Prize ), Mark S. Manasse , Peter Montgomery , Oded Schramm ( Clay Research Award ), Charles Simonyi and Madhu Sudan , Michael Freedman ( Fields Medal ), Alexei Kitaev .

Research centers

Own research centers

Microsoft has its own research centers in the following areas:

  • Microsoft Research Redmond was founded in 1991 by Nathan Myhrvold on the Microsoft campus in Redmond . Buildings 112 and 113 are available there.
  • Microsoft Research Cambridge (England) was founded in 1997 by Roger Needham and now has over 100 employees. It has a close relationship with Cambridge University .
  • Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) was founded in Beijing in November 1998 . The Advanced Technology Center was originally a division of the MSRA before becoming an independent research group from Microsoft.
  • Microsoft Research Silicon Valley was founded in August 2001 in Mountain View . In January 2006 it was merged with Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC) in San Francisco.
  • Microsoft Research India was founded in January 2005 in Bengaluru .
  • Microsoft Cairo Innovation Center was founded in 2006 in Cairo .
  • Microsoft Research New England is founded in 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts .

collaboration

There is close cooperation and joint funding with research centers at Brown University , Carnegie Mellon University , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Trento . There are nine jointly operated research centers in China and Hong Kong.

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  1. ↑ Microsoft Research Research Areas
  2. ^ A Center of Excellence in Scientific Research is founded in Trento . Center for Computation and Systems Biology. Archived from the original on July 4, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 24, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cosbi.eu
  3. ↑ Microsoft Research Overview
  4. ↑ Microsoft to create research center at CMU , Pittsburgh BusinessTimes, March 26, 2007
  5. ↑ Microsoft, CMU team up ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pittsburghlive.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pittsburgh Tribune Review, March 27, 2007
  6. ↑ Microsoft's East Coast alliance , boston.com, March 22, 2004
  7. ^ Microsoft Research Asia

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