2008 Microsoft technology Festival keynote (part I)

Speaker: Rick · Crest Dr Microsoft Global Senior Vice President, Microsoft research, founder

This week is my most enjoyable this year for a week, not being able to see from the Institute of colleagues from Microsoft and the rest of the world media friends, Frank said, this is also a good opportunity to look at these outstanding research results.

In the early days of Microsoft research, we often say that as long as you do some live on the line, technology does not need to spend large sums of money and energy organizations technical sections of such activities.

But in the end, we are convinced of the importance of the technical section, and I was after all the deeply shocked. The company's staff are pleased to have this kind of activity, particularly active in response. I received a lot of messages, they are said to see the results of their research it feel very happy, that actually let employees increased and Microsoft's feelings, let them as your own work and pride. This really is an exciting activities that do not need to say, we would still have been held.

We probably have created in the 16 years ago, the first Microsoft research, did not expect we will achieve the success it is today.

We have Research Institute at the global, the first is in Redmond, and then we in San Francisco, Cambridge, Beijing, Silicon Valley, Bangalore, and the establishment of a research institution, we recently announced a laboratory in Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts in July was founded. We have the world's nearly 800 has a PhD researcher to join. In a sense, Microsoft Research 16 years to grow, just like every year, a Berkeley Computer Science Academy. Together we all power, these results are surprising.

Said Microsoft Research 800 doctoral researcher, this is a conservative estimate, because we still have a lot of visiting scholars and interns, and postdoctoral work with us.

Throughout the summer we have intern in the job, and postdoctoral projects in operation around the globe together at least 2000 people work in our laboratory. The whole time, we all have the same mission, but can continue for so long, to our ongoing research work of remarkable foresight did people actually amazed. Our statement also is about our research areas, and we in this area of outstanding performance. We passed peer review can measure the quality of our work. We do have is some world class research University has done. Obviously, once we have the good ideas, we want to make these technologies rapidly transformed into product, TechFest is provide such opportunities — the Microsoft employees get together to brainstorm, to see if there's a new technology which can be integrated in the product. Every year we have a lot of top-level products born. You can go to cargo booth and see that each have a card reader, the reader is to want to understand a detailed project for Microsoft employees. We have a database, and regular contact with you, to discuss the technology transfer, research into products. Ultimately we want to ensure that within 10 years on the market to have Microsoft products.

We like the clarity of the University have the same structure.

In fact, before coming to Microsoft, I am in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University · became a Professor of 12 years. Carnegie Mellon University · is my model, and in the organisation of work, I feel very frustrated. We believe that you only need to have a good organization to allow the researchers to interact, results in full will occasionally was born. We can make the impossible become possible, unless your creativity across many areas. We like open working environment and will be published in our research results. We are computer science research fields of one of the top issuers. We believe that if you do not bring items for peer reviews, you will never experience the fun of it. Not every industry research institutions are accredited with that view, but we do believe. We and the world's many colleges and universities have established good relations of cooperation. We and university cooperation project in cooperation with industry is different. Every year more than 1000 has a doctorate of interns and we work together. Last summer, just in Redmond, 300 PhD internship internship. 2006 United States computer graduate doctoral only 500 in total. From these two data can tell us the scale of the project.

I just talked and we measure our project standards and University, is the approach used for peer review.

In the computer's top-level meeting, Microsoft Research's annual paper contribution rate can reach 10%, this is an outstanding achievement. At the International Conference, Microsoft provides a number of papers have reached 30%. We work closely with the academic community also is also part of the academic community.

Our technology transfer into products have achieved outstanding results.

Take a look at Microsoft's today, you will find that because Microsoft research, it has a lot of change. You can see what we're doing digital media projects, while in fact I in 1992, 1993, has already begun to study. You can also see Internet interactions and data sets, video and audio is generated. This technology has now become a high definition DVD playback capabilities of the technology base. This one really great changes have taken place. Our 3D image generation technology on X-box also has direct effect. Even today, we play the game, one-third of, or use X-box game matching technology, all of these are based on research results, our technology and products have a very good cooperative relationship with.

As long as Microsoft's products, some of it comes from the Institute for the study.

I don't know how many people read a Research Association of slides called TiRedTrackSlide, it mainly expression of recycling, from creative to final realization of products of a long process. If you look at the United States industrial technology investment, we will find it for the country's economy and for the survival and development have a critical role. Then you can think of Microsoft research, we have developed a lot of important technologies, we have a rich treasure trove of talent, we have a lot of creativity and technology, and is widely used within the company. Many of our idea of wisdom become products or into product features. This company is a valuable asset. Even Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer has said to us all the return on investment, compared to Microsoft Research's feedback is the best. We are a great mechanism to solve the problem.

　　　

(To be continued)