Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research mission statement:

Microsoft Research Microsoft Research mission statement: Expand the state of the art in each of the areas in which we do research Rapidly transfer innovative technologies into Microsoft products Ensure that Microsoft products have a future

Outreach. Collaboration. Innovation. http://research.microsoft.com/collaboration/

Computer Science Innovative research on technologies that drive today s computers. Our key areas of focus include software engineering, semantic computing, parallelism and concurrency, programming languages, and mobile computing. Natural User Interface Technology is becoming more natural and intuitive. Our Natural User Interface (NUI) collaboration projects focus on facilitating the use of future computer paradigms by keeping the human user in mind. Health & Wellbeing Developing innovative computing technologies and advance research in human health issues. Our projects apply advanced computing technologies such as data analysis, imaging, sensor networks, and visualization to provide insight into disease and human healthcare. Education & Scholarly Communication Data collection and analysis, information authoring, publishing, and preservation are essential to researchers' daily work. Our collaboration projects simplify the scholarly communication lifecycle with technologies that facilitate coordinated and seamless flow of data and information. Earth, Energy and Environment Our Earth, Energy, and Environment collaboration projects focus on the development and adoption of technologies for scientific visualization and data management especially technologies that accelerate insight in the environmental and earth sciences 5

Computer Science Theme: Research Areas Through our interaction with Software Engineers in MSR, we fund SE research at major universities and have a Summer School in Russia for 2011. We work with Machine Learning and AI researchers at MSR, in collaboration with Bing and SQL Azure, to promote Language Models and Semantic Services. See Speller Challenge. We promote Azure and WP7 through student projects on phones at 20 universities. New research projects with MSR Networks. Software Engineering Semantic Computing Mobile Computing We partner with MSR and Product Groups on courses and books to promote new ways of teaching and learning parallelism using MSR tools. We developed a new system so that F# can be used on all platforms. Additional tutorials from key professors are commissioned. We partner with the ACM to sponsor the Student Research Contest, and we support conferences, and prizes. We are involved in societies and write papers Parallelism and Concurrency Programming Languages Community interaction

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The Scholarly Communication Lifecycle Zentity Planets Project Discoverability ScholarLynk MSR Academic Search orechem Project Project Trident Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) Storage, Archiving & Preservation Data Collection, Research & Analysis Publication & Disseminatio n Word Add-Ins: Ontology Article Authoring Authoring Collaboration Research Information Centre (RIC) Office Add-Ins: Creative Commons Chem4Word Gene Pattern Trident

Zentity Semantically-enabled repository software Built on top of SQL Server & Entity Framework Default web UI with CSS support and custom ASP.Net controls Awesome A semantic computing platform to store and expose relationships between digital assets Flexible data model enables many scenarios and can be easily extended over time Binary & Source Code (Version 2.0): http://research.microsoft.com/zentity/

Project "Chem4Word" Chemical Drawing in Word Semantic chemistry for students and publishers Intent: Recognizes chemical dictionary and ontology terms Data: Semantics stored in Chemistry Markup Language (CML) Author/edit 1D and 2D chemistry. Change chemical layout styles. Relationships: Navigate and link referenced chemistry <?xml version="1.0"?> <cml version="3" convention="org-synth-report" xmlns="http://www.xml-cml.org/schema"> <molecule id="m1"> <atomarray> <atom id="a1" elementtype="c" x2="- 2.9149999618530273" y2="0.7699999809265137" /> <atom id="a2" elementtype="c" x2="- 1.5813208400249916" y2="1.5399999809265137" /> <atom id="a3" elementtype="o" x2="- 0.24764171819695613" y2="0.7699999809265134" /> <atom id="a4" elementtype="o" x2="- 1.5813208400249912" y2="3.0799999809265137" /> <atom id="a5" elementtype="h" x2="-4.248679083681063" y2="1.5399999809265137" /> <atom id="a6" elementtype="h" x2="-2.914999961853028" y2="-0.7700000190734864" /> <atom id="a7" elementtype="h" x2="-4.248679083681063" y2="-1.907348645691087e-8" /> <atom id="a8" elementtype="h" x2="1.0860374036310796" y2="1.5399999809265132" /> </atomarray> <bondarray> <bond atomrefs2="a1 a2" order="1" /> <bond atomrefs2="a2 a3" order="1" /> <bond atomrefs2="a2 a4" order="2" /> <bond atomrefs2="a1 a5" order="1" /> <bond atomrefs2="a1 a6" order="1" /> <bond atomrefs2="a1 a7" order="1" /> <bond atomrefs2="a3 a8" order="1" /> </bondarray> </molecule> </cml> Intelligence: Verifies validity of authored chemistry http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/tec hnology/personaltech/08askk.html?_r=1 http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/quic kwire-microsoft-word-goes-chemical/29423 V1.0 now available (binary and open source) http://research.microsoft.com/chem4word/

Project 'Big Time' @ Cal-Berkeley A zoomable timescale platform See the demo live at www.chronozoomtimescale.org Watch the video at http://bit.ly/alvarez97

Microsoft Translator Your website/content in 30 languages http://worldwidescience.org Query-time translation Embeddable widget Bilingual side-by-side viewer http://www.microsofttranslator.com/addin.aspx http://www.microsofttranslator.com/dev/ajax/

Research Information Centre (RIC) Project Virtual Research Environment (VRE) Toolkit for SharePoint Collaborative environment for research groups Personal site for each researcher and project site for each project Project Overview: http://research.microsoft.com/ric/ http://research.microsoft.com/vre/ Document management, federated search, social networking, real-time communication, blogs, wikis Version 1.1 (Open Source under Ms-PL): http://ric.codeplex.com/

Microsoft Research Academic Search Beta http://academic.research.microsoft.com

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ WorldWide Telescope is an application that runs in Windows that utilizes images and data stored on remote servers enabling you to explore some of the highest resolution imagery of the universe available in multiple wavelengths.

WorldWide Telescope Add-in for Excel simplifying location-based visualization and interaction Key Features Visualization of locationbased point data and geometry data in WKT (Well Known Text) format. Dynamic binding of data in Excel to the visualization in World Wide Telescope - changes to the data reflect immediately in WorldWide Telescope. Support for both sky-based and earth-based visualizations.

Live ANDES: Advanced Network for Distributions of Endangered Species Web Portal for uploading, visualize, and download wildlife species records & analyze them for conservation actions Aimed at improving wildlife knowledge and conservation Promoting data sharing among citizens, scientists and government agencies & contribute to meet IUCN global classification species criteria

Flagship Project Rainforest 2 Sensor Nets in Tropical Forest MSR-FAPESP Environmental Research program: Domain projects + a computing project that integrates them Examples of domain projects: phenology, carbon balance micrometeorology, hydrology. Findings from one project can inform other projects. Unifying project: sensors + networks + database + visualization components will integrate the domain projects. Goals: Enable multidisciplinary research that will accelerate the understanding of critical environmental issues. Impact: Microsoft technologies underpinning unique research infrastructure and more precise climate/ecological models. Made possible by sensor project/partners + regional strategic partnerships

Each year since 2005, Microsoft Research has recognized innovative, promising new faculty members from a number of research institutions to join the ranks of Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows. This program now encompasses more than 40 academic researchers whose exceptional talent for research and innovation identifies them as emerging leaders in their fields. The selected professors are exploring breakthrough, highimpact research that has the potential to help solve some of today s most challenging societal problems. The 2011 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows were introduced at the Redmond Faculty Summit http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/awards/msrff.aspx

Important Highlights: Internships http://research.microsoft.com/enus/collaboration/global/latam/latam-awards.aspx

Important Highlights: Fellowships

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L A C C I R Founded in May 2007 Goal: collaborative Argentina Uruguay Colombia FAPESP NSF Created and supported by Microsoft Research with a Seed Grant of USD $ 3,000,000 over seven years. Implemented with PUC Chile, U. Chile and universities throughout LAC. Sponsorship by IADB & OAS (IADB grant of USD $ 550,000) Partnerships with: NSF, FAPESP, CLEI, CONICYT, COLCIENCIAS, CONACyT,. MS R Ecuador Costa Rica OAS Chile Caribbean Mexico IADB. CONA CyT COLCI ENCIAS

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