Microsoft Research

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Microsoft Research is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was formed in 1991, with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technological innovation in collaboration with academic, government, and industry researchers. The Microsoft Research team employs more than 1,000 computer scientists, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians, including Turing Award winners, Fields Medal winners, MacArthur Fellows, and Dijkstra Prize winners.

Between 2010 and 2018, 154,000 AI patents were filed worldwide, with Microsoft having by far the largest percentage of those patents, at 20%.[1]

Key people[edit]

Microsoft Research includes the core Microsoft Research labs and Microsoft Research AI, directed by Technical Fellow Eric Horvitz, and Microsoft Research NeXT (for New Experiences and Technologies), directed by corporate vice president Peter Lee.

Research areas[edit]

Microsoft research is categorized into the following broad areas:[2]

Microsoft Research sponsors the Microsoft Research Fellowship for graduate students.

Research laboratories[edit]

Microsoft has research labs around the world:[3]

  • Microsoft Research Redmond was founded on the Microsoft Redmond campus in 1991. It has about 350 researchers and is headed by Donald Kossmann. The bulk of research on the Redmond, Washington campus focuses on research areas such as theory, artificial intelligence, machine learning, systems and networking, security, privacy, HCI, and wearable technologies.
  • Microsoft Research Cambridge was founded in the United Kingdom in 1997 by Roger Needham and is headed by Christopher Bishop. Antony Rowstron and Abigail Sellen are Deputy Directors and the Director of Innovation is Haiyan Zhang. The Cambridge lab conducts basic computer science research on a wide variety of topics, including machine learning, security and information retrieval, and maintains close ties to the University of Cambridge and the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
  • Microsoft Research Asia was founded in Beijing in November 1998. Microsoft Research Asia has expanded rapidly and grown into a world-class research laboratory with more than 230 researchers and developers and more than 300 visiting scientists and students, whose focus includes natural user interfaces, next-generation multimedia, data-intensive computing, search and online advertising, and computer science fundamentals.
  • Microsoft Research India, located first in Hyderabad in 1998 which became the biggest R&D campus outside the US and later in Bangalore, was founded in January 2005. The lab conducts long-term basic and applied research in different areas: cryptography, security, and algorithms; digital geography; mobility, networks, and systems; multilingual systems; rigorous software engineering; and technology for emerging markets. Microsoft Research India also collaborates extensively with research institutions and universities in India and abroad to support scientific progress and innovation.
  • Microsoft Research Station Q, located on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, was founded in 2005. Station Q's collaborators explore theoretical and experimental approaches to creating the quantum analog of the traditional bit—the qubit. The group is led by Dr. Michael Freedman, a renowned mathematician who has won the prestigious Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics.
  • Microsoft Research New England was established in 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Jennifer Chayes adjacent to the MIT campus. The New England lab builds on Microsoft's commitment to collaborate with the broader research community and pursues new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to understand, model, and enable the computing and online experiences of the future.
  • Microsoft Research New York City was established on May 3, 2012. Jennifer Chayes serves as Managing Director of this location as well as the New England lab, with researchers from both labs working in concert. The New York City lab collaborates with academia and other Microsoft Research labs to advance the state of the art in computational and behavioral social sciences, computational economics and prediction markets, machine learning, and information retrieval.

Former research laboratories[edit]

Collaborations[edit]

Microsoft Research invests in multi-year collaborative joint research with academic institutions at Barcelona Supercomputing Center,[5] INRIA,[6] Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the Microsoft Research Centre for Social NUI and others.[7][8]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Louis Colombus, January 6, 2019 Microsoft Leads The AI Patent Race Going Into 2019, Forbes
  2. ^ "Microsoft Research – Emerging Technology, Computer, and Software Research". Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  3. ^ "About Research at Microsoft – Microsoft Research". Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Class of 18th September 2014". MSR Silicon Valley. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  5. ^ "BSC-Microsoft Research Centre - BSC-Microsoft Research Centre". Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Microsoft Research Inria Joint Centre". Archived from the original on 29 June 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Academic Programs - Microsoft Research". Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  8. ^ https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/msidc/

External links[edit]

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