The Work of Microsoft Research Connections in the Region

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Microsoft Research Connections

Work broadly with the academic and research community to speed research, improve education, foster innovation and improve lives around the world.

Accelerate university Support university research and research through education through collaborative technology partnerships investments

Inspire the next Drive awareness generation of of Microsoft researchers and contributions scientists to research Engagement and Collaboration Focus

Core Computer Natural User Earth Education and Health and Science Interface Energy Scholarly Wellbeing Environment Communication

Research Accelerators Global Partnerships People • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Investment Focus

Education & Earth, Energy, Health & Computer Science Scholarly and Environment Wellbeing Communication

Programming, Natural User WW Telescope, Academic Search, MS Biology Tools, Mobile Interfaces Climate Change Digital Humanities, Foundation & Tools Earth Sciences Publishing

Judith Bishop Kris Tolle Dan Fay Lee Dirks Simon Mercer

Regional Outreach/Engagements EMEA: Fabrizio Gagliardi LATAM: Jaime Puente India: Vidya Natampally Asia: Lolan Song America/Aus/NZ: Harold Javid

Engineering High-quality and high-impact software release and community adoption Derick Campbell

CMIC EMIC ILDC

• • . New member of MSR family • • • . Telecoms, Security, Online services and Entertainment

Microsoft Confidential Regional Collaborations at Joint Institutes

INRIA, FRANCE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA TRENTO, ITALY SUPERCOMPUTING SOFTWARE SECURITY CENTRE, SPAIN COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION MULTI CORE SYSTEMS

INTERACTION ARCHITECTURES AND PROGRAMMING

LANGUAGE RUNTIMES

WWW.MSR-INRIA.INRIA.FR WWW.COSBI.EU WWW.BSCMSRC.EU • Fabrizio Gagliardi (EMEA Director) • Luisa Marie Küppers (EMEA Business Manager) • Noemie Elisa Laverne • Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche (EMEA Scientific Manager) • Kenji Takeda (EMEA Technical Manager) • Julia Brading

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• Computer Science • Project Hawaii • F# • Gadgeteer • Earth, Energy and Environment • WW Telescope • Natural User Interfaces • Kinect research projects • Education & Scholarly Communication • Academic Search • Health & Wellbeing • Microsoft Biology Foundation • Started Innovation • Interaction with NLP, ISRC, • Interaction with DB team Foundation (SEIF) Bing in MSR-R • Interaction with RiSE • Promote cloud-based services • Student projects on • Promoting Visual Studio • Developed Web N-gram and phones at 17 universities through ICSE events language models • Promoting Azure and WP7 • Summer School in 2011 • Bing-MSR Speller Challenge • Prizes through Imagine • Developing Knowledge Cup Services Software Semantic Mobile Engineering Computing Computing

• Book with Ade Miller from • Interaction with Don Syme on F# • CS EdWeek the Patterns and Practices • Commissioned F# courseware • Work with the NSF, CRA, group from Imperial ACM, IEEE and IFIP • Course on Concurrency • Developing a Try F# system in a • MSR Software Summit in and Parallelism with Tom browser Paris Ball in RiSE • Workshop on “F# in Education” • Program for Interns joining • Promoting C# and F# • Supporting Pex4Fun the Redmond Lab

Parallelism and Programming Community Concurrency Languages interaction

CS is research-oriented with strong internal and external impact cloud mobile . Cloud Research services projects • Relay • Rendezvous Mobile Course • Speech to Text Development devices Projects • OCR in the Environment cloud (Windows (SDKs) • Compute in Phone 7) Windows Azure • Storage in Windows Azure • Launched Hawaii in 21 universities • Close to 300 students start using Hawaii (with Windows Phone 7)

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ID magazine International Design TIME magazine Annual “50 Best sites on “Best in category; Interactive the Internet 2009” 2009”

Harvard-Smithsonian: Alyssa Goodman Johns Hopkins University: Alex Szalay Microsoft Research: Curtis Wong, Jonathan Fay NUI – Kinect SDK and WWT

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Worldwide Telescope

Project: Seamless Astronomy at WWT Outreach Harvard Windows Client launched at TED‟08 WWT at center of China eclipse NASA Space Act Agreement July „09 Silverlight Client launched at MIX‟09 Localizations in 5 languages NASA provide content in WWT WWT|Earth format for Moon and Mars – Over 6 Million unique visitors Community Servers in China & Japan launch March ‟10 TED‟10 demo by Blaise to show Visualize environmental datasets WWT Coursework developed SAA allowed MS to have more Bing Maps SL integration with combined marketing Bring gaming experience to WWT SL Galileo Tour celebrating 400th environmental data anniversary launched PDC Azure Demo by DPE – Be A Martian, leveraged GalaxyZoo Have high-end Rich Internet App WWT Ambassadors program effort to complement Bing Maps (Harvard & WGBH) NSF funding NASA Explorer Schools to adopt Prototype demo‟d at AGU‟09

WWT Planetarium Re-architecture building on Win7, DX11, etc – exposing API 3D Scientific exploration and inquiry tool Earth, Energy, and Environment • A seamless visual environment • Sky and earth-based visualizations • Create and share tours of your data • Run demo

• Fund academic • MRC large “swim • Focus resources on projects and lane” project the success of Kinect competitions around and MT the Kinect SDK • Leverage the MSR MT Team for • Focus on Data • Leverage MCR community outreach Visualization Events, Subs and and development MSR Labs • Rely on regions to • Rely on MSR PM for PM additional local • Rely on DPE/ADEs ALL tech transfer projects for broader reach work A Special Data Source: Wikipedia • • • • • •

Wikipedia Content by Language

But passionate local Wikipedia Communities … The WikiBhasha Project: A symbiotic mix of Machine and Human Translation… Community of users to create content using MT output

Article to WikiBABEL Target on Wikipedia Wikipedia

Linguistic Machine Collaborative Resources Machine Translation used to Translation Translation System Cache create rough content

Wikipedian’s Perspective: Faster creation of Multilingual content Technology Perspective: User corrections captured as data SenseCam: A Wearable Automatic Digital Camera • – – – • – – – – • ‒ ‒ ‒ • ‒ www.viconrevue.com SecondLight: Interaction Beyond the Surface • • •

Chem4Word Data Semantic chemistry for students and Collection, publishers Research & Analysis Project Tuva Enhanced Video Player

Storage, Research Information Centre (RIC) Archiving & Authoring Virtual Research Environment (VRE) Preservation Toolkit for SharePoint

Project Garibaldi Large Art Display on a Surface (LADS) Publication & Dissemination Zentity Semantically-enabled repository software

The Scholarly Project Trident Communication Lifecycle Scientific Workflow Workbench

Academic Search Microsoft Academic Search

Microsoft Academic Search is a free academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research

• Easily search the top papers, authors, conferences, and journals for a topic

• See details about a specific paper, author, conference, journal or organization

• Quickly explore relationships between authors

• Discover influential papers, authors, conferences, journals and organizations within a domain

• Get the latest call for papers From Web Pages to Web Entities

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• • Technologies in Academic Search

Fetch (Crawl) Process Build Serve

Knowledge Knowledge Knowledge Exchange Exchange Exchange

Various technologies come into play at various stages

Interaction

Extensibility

ClassificationClustering / InformationExtraction DocumentFeatures Link ExtractionEntity/Object RelationshipEntity Mining Statistics Human Computer

basedFeatures

Technologies in Academic Search

• Object-Level Ranking: Bringing Order to Web Objects

• Object-Level Vertical Search

• Extracting Objects from the Web

• Simultaneous Record Detection and Attribute Labeling in Web Data Extraction

• 2D Conditional Random Fields for Web Information Extraction

• Web Object Retrieval

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Search by keyword Results in Author/Conference/Journal

Authors Conference Journals s Which Michael Cohen? Author Profile

Six-degree path Organization Profile

Explore the Relationships

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History in its broadest possible context

Challenge: The exploration of Big History, with smooth transition from billions of years down to individual nanoseconds.

This is what Walter Alvarez, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at University of Berkeley set out to do. And he did it, with the help of Microsoft Research and the Live Labs team. Interactive Opportunities with ChronoZoom

Exploring Life Scientific Works Cultural Heritage

Significant Events National History Classification and Evolution Zoom Technology for Big History

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2q-U02HLb0

Phase 1: Human Genome project Human Genetic Variation

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• Variations may have: • Harmless effect e.g. change in hair colour • • Harmful effects • Higher risk to certain diseases • Genetic disorders • Drug toxicity/effectiveness Human Diseases and Genes

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