Keynote presentation describing current efforts in Microsoft Research including scaling applications to the cloud, programming devices (.NET Gadgeteer) and how Microsoft is innovating through research.
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1. Microsoft Research: origins & mission Advance the field
in the areas we choose to do research Transfer the best research
results into Microsofts products Ensure the future of Microsoft and
the computing field MSR was born from a 1990 memo from CTO Nathan
Myhrvold Since 1991 led by Rick Rashid Peter Lee took over in July
2013
2. Microsoft Research worldwide ATL CAIRO ATL EUROPE MSR
CAMBRIDGE MSR INDIA MSR ASIA MSR SILICON VALLEY STATION Q MSR
REDMOND FUSE LABS RESEARCH CONNECTIONS ATL ISRAEL MSR NEW ENGLAND
MSR NEW YORK ATL BRAZIL* * to open in 2014 3. NEARLY EVERY PRODUCT
OR SERVICE FROM MICROSOFT INCLUDES TECHNOLOGY FROM MICROSOFT
RESEARCH 4. What makes MSR unique Over 1,100 PhD researchers and
engineers Less than 1% of Microsofts employee base, but by far the
largest Computer Science research organization in the world Cover
the breadth of computing Global locations allow us to hire the best
and brightest The opportunity to have an impact on products and
services that are used by billions of people 5. Value of Research
to Microsoft Agility to drive & respond to technology shifts
MSR generates ~ 20% of Microsofts IP Expanded problem-solving
capabilities Promote use of MS platforms for research Enable other
fields of science Long-term impact 6. MSR investment framework
short-term long-term reactive open-ended Disruptive Blue Sky
Mission- focused Sustaining 7. Kinect: technology foundations from
MSR 1998 2004 remove echoes remove reverberation & noise
computer vision: 1995 to 2010 depth-camera video body parts
microphone arrays 2010 8. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%
100% 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Word Error Rate Speech
recognition is really hard 9. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100% 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 WER % After 10+ years,
an unexpected breakthrough 10. Speech translation demonstration 11.
Building your own device 12. .NET Gadgeteer 13. Gadgeteer Modules
14. One Toolset 15. + + = 16. Orchestrating many, many devices 17.
Lab of Things Downloads: Lab-of-things.com Join
www.facebook.com/groups/labofthings/ Join mailing list send email:
[email protected] Feedback/suggestions:
[email protected] 18. Researching at scale 19. A new way
of doing Research 20. Example: 21. Example 22. Implications for
research? 23. Azure for Research Accelerate the Speed of Scientific
Discovery Windows Azure provides researchers with the power and
scalability of cloud computing for collaboration, computation, and
data-intensive processing. This open and flexible global cloud
platform supports any language, tool, or framework. The Microsoft
Azure for Research program: Free access to Azure cloud computing
and storage (submit proposals for Windows Azure Research Awards)
Azure for Research training classes Support and technical resources
Apply the power of cloud computing to your computational and data
challenges. Experiment at azure4research.com. 24. Sergey Chernov,
New Economic School, Russia Enabling Large-Scale Social Network
Analysis Using VK Data Abstract: Social media ecosystem attracted a
great deal of research attention in the past decade. Numerous
research projects aim at large-scale analysis of available online
networks, including worldwide- popular resources like Facebook,
Twitter, etc. Still, these studies fall short to address countries,
in which aforementioned networks are not the most widespread ones.
In particular, Russian social network VK has about 220 mln active
accounts, but it is mostly ignored in research literature. We would
like to collect and process VK data into a publicly available
research dataset to provide interested scientists with an easy
access to the social network data on Russia. Evgeny Rogaev, Vavilov
Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
Alzheimer Bio Project Abstract: The goal of the project is to
analyze in Microsoft Azure Alzheimer human sequence data (the
Institute have public open data available) and analyze the
annotations of various effects for Alzheimer disease. The project
will allow prediction and drug analysis. Our partners are eager to
collaborate, provide their bio expertise and their unique bio
software pipeline for analysis. Example Projects 25. Chronozoom
