MICROSOFT RESEARCH

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

Contents
Overview
Laboratories
Notable achievements
Research projects
See also
References
External links

Overview


Microsoft Research is one of the top research centers worldwide, currently employing Turing Award winners, C.A.R. Hoare, Jim Gray, Butler Lampson, Fields Medal winner Michael Freedman, Wolf Prize winner Laszlo Lovasz, MacArthur Fellow Jim Blinn, Dijkstra Prize winner Leslie Lamport and many other highly recognized experts in Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics.
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, 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


Microsoft Acceptance rates at ACM SIGGRAPH since 2002
Year Total papers MSR Papers %
2007 108 14 13
2005 86 16 17
2004 83 10 16
2003 83 11 10
2002 67 7 11
'Total' 427 58 -
'Mean' 85 12 14

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 . Historically, Microsoft has performed well in getting papers accepted in SIGGRAPH, typically presenting an average of 14% of the papers [7].

Research projects




C#

Polyphonic C# / Cω

Spec# / Sing#

Bartok compiler

Singularity OS

Bigtop / Gridline

F# programming language

Wallop

BitVault

Allegiance (computer game)

SXM, a STM library

Avalanche, p2p protocol based on BitTorrent

MyLifeBits

MultiMouse, for shared usage of PC

Audio Watermarking

Virtual Ring Routing driver

MSBNx, Bayesian network tookit

Data visualization library

Gyro, which matured as .NET 2.0 generics

IceCube shared data synchronization engine

Search Result Clustering toolbar

Vault, a safe version of C programming language

WWMX, geotagging digital images

Digital Green, a farmer-generated, video-based social network service for agricultural extension in rural India


Microsoft SenseCam

Group Shot

TouchLight

HoneyMonkey

ClearType

ConferenceXP

SenseWeb Project

Strider GhostBuster rootkit detection system

Strider URL Tracer / Typo-Patrol anti typosquatting system

Penny Black Project

Sideshow[8][9]

SLAM project

ZenZui

Color Barcodes, to enhance capacity of barcodes

GLEE graph layout engine

SecPAL grid authorization language

★ Web Assistant,[10] a contexual search system

Community Bar, context sensitive content plugin

JCluster clustering engine

Virtual WiFi, a WiFi adapter virtualizer

Scalable Fabric, a Windows task management system

TulaFale, language for verifiable description of Web Services

Zing model checker

Hotmap, a mashup that shows where people have looked at using Virtual Earth

HD View, a viewer that can aid in the display and interaction with very large (Gigapixel) images

See also



Microsoft European Science Award

References


1. Research Areas
2. A Centre of Excellence in Scientific Research is founded in Trento
3. Microsoft Research Overview
4. New papers launched at Siggraph
5. SIGGRAPH 2007: Microsoft Research Leads the Way
6. SIGGRAPH 2007, Papers
7. Microsoft Research Contributions to SIGGRAPH
8. Internal code-name, not directly related to the official, Windows SideShow auxiliary display feature in Windows Vista.
9. A Brief History of Windows Sidebar
10. The first new feature of Internet Explorer 8?

External links



Official website

MSR Fellowships

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