Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research ( MSR) is a division of Microsoft, which was founded in 1991 to study computer science topics. Microsoft Research employs researchers, including CAR Hoare, Butler Lampson, Charles P. Thacker, Leslie Lamport, and ( until its disappearance at sea) Jim Gray and Michael Freedman.
Among the developments that have brought to market include the C # programming language and the computer system Pixel Sense, but also the functions used in Windows ClearType and sidebar. Further, or even the operating system Singularity, the Cω programming languages , F #, Sing # and Spec # and the underlying peer-to- peer technology for the Livestation platform are developed here. Another research project is MyLifeBits.
Research priorities
MSR research in the following areas:
- Algorithms and Theory
- Hardware Development
- User interface
- Machine learning, adaptation, and intelligence
- Multimedia and Graphics
- Search, information retrieval, and knowledge management
- Security and Cryptography
- Social Computing
- Software Development
- Systems, architectures, mobility, and networking
- Computational and Systems Biology
One of the goals of Microsoft Research is to explore long-term computer science topics independently of products and their life cycles. MSR supports the Microsoft Research Fellowship for students with financial statements and the New Faculty Fellowship for new faculty members.
Among the employed by Microsoft Research experts from the fields of computer science, physics and mathematics 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
My research centers
In the following areas of Microsoft maintains its own research centers:
- 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 maintains a close relationship with the University of Cambridge.
- Microsoft Research Asia ( MSRA ) was established in November 1998 in Beijing. The Advanced Technology Center was originally a division of the MSRA, before it became an independent research group 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 established in January 2005 in Bangalore.
- Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center was established in 2006 in Cairo.
- Microsoft Research New England is founded in 2008 in Cambridge (Massachusetts ).
Cooperation
A close collaboration and joint funding is to research centers at Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Trento. In China and Hong Kong, there are nine jointly operated research centers.