Microsoft Research (MSR) is a division of Microsoft created in 1991 for researching various computer science topics and issues. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare and 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.

Contents 1 Research areas 2 Laboratories 2.1 Collaborations 3 Published work at SIGGRAPH 4 Research projects 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Research areas

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.

[edit] Laboratories

There are laboratories around the world in Bangalore; Beijing; Cambridge; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Mountain View; Redmond; and San Francisco.

• Microsoft Research Redmond was founded on the Microsoft Redmond campus in 1991 working in buildings 112 and 113 and has now moved to their own facility in building 99. It currently has about 350 researchers and is headed by Rico Malvar.
• 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 and headed by Dr. P.Anandan.
• Microsoft Research New England was established in 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[edit] Collaborations

Microsoft Research also collaborates with and jointly operate research centers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center^[4], Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, INRIA^[5], Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Trento.^[6][7][8] There are also nine jointly-operated labs in China and Hong Kong.^[9]

Microsoft Research also supports research centers at many other universities.

[edit] Published work at SIGGRAPH

Historically, Microsoft has performed well in having research papers accepted at the prestigious ACM SIGGRAPH conference, having contributed since 2002 on average 14% of the papers published.

Microsoft Acceptance rates at ACM SIGGRAPH since 2002

Year	Total papers	MSR Papers
2008	90[10]	13 (14%)[11]
2007	108[12]	14 (13%)[13][14]
2005	86	16 (17%)
2004	83	10 (16%)
2003	83	11 (10%)
2002	67	7 (11%)
Total	517	71 (14%)
Mean	86	12 (14%)

[edit] 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 WorldWide Telescope SenseCam Group Shot Songsmith

TouchLight HoneyMonkey ClearType ConferenceXP SenseWeb Project Strider GhostBuster rootkit detection system Strider URL Tracer / Typo-Patrol anti typosquatting system Penny Black Project Sideshow[15][16] SLAM project ZenZui Kodu Color Barcodes, to enhance capacity of barcodes GLEE graph layout engine SecPAL grid authorization language Web Assistant,[17] 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 Virtual India HD View, a viewer that can aid in the display and interaction with very large (Gigapixel) images Image Composite Editor ESL Assistant, a proofing tool for ESL English learners

[edit] See also

• Microsoft Award

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website

v • d • e Microsoft Research (MSR) Languages and compilers Polyphonic C# · Cω · Spec# · Sing# · Bartok · Phoenix Distributed / grid computing Bigtop · Gridline · BitVault Internet and networking Avalanche · Wallop · Conference XP · HoneyMonkey · AjaxView · Gazelle Other projects MyLifeBits · LiveStation · Terminator · WorldWide Telescope Operating systems Singularity · Barrelfish APIs Joins · Accelerator · Dryad  · SXM Launched as products C# · Comic Chat · F# · Sideshow · Surface (TouchLight) · SenseCam · ClearType · Group Shot · Allegiance · Songsmith