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Research 2.0

Researchers in research methods and tools must keep pace with the times.

The emergence of the Internet to a wide range of social economy and the profound impact that the use of the Internet this tool is the key to ensuring research advancement. In addition, mutual understanding and self-transcendence research culture is just as important.

Liu Paul: the emergence of the Internet changed the way many things that I believe will change the way you do the research.

So now Microsoft Research Asia research, research system and before?

Hong Xiao: last year we introduced the concept of the study, the main 2.0 is the Internet's influence on us.

From a historical point of view, the above changes is also an inevitable trend. I was at the Carnegie Mellon School · United States, with the mainframe, in my isn't Microsoft, I've never used a PC. Today almost everyone using the PC, the PC on the whole human society has a huge impact.

(Microsoft Research Asia, President of Hsiao-wuen Hon)

Today the Internet has had on our research are wide-ranging and far-reaching influence.

I give you a few simple example, one data collection. In the absence of the Internet, like if I do a search, you need a corpus. We also need to press for an electronic version of the news, and then put it into a corpus. You can see the collection of information is very hard and scale impossible. But today the Internet changed everything. According to the most conservative estimates, the Internet now has more than 200 million Web sites, almost cover all disciplines need information, not to mention the Internet will continue to update, so we get the information on a very fast, but access to content is also particularly significant.

In this case, last year we started in the courtyard promoting research 2.0.

The main research 2.0 is using the Internet to do research on such a concept. Over the past year, we made some adjustments to encourage researcher through the Internet platform, capable of online everything online, let these research ideas or experiences put out later to try and get feedback, thus accelerating the progress of the study, improve the quality of research results.

Liu Paul: research 2.0 is really a good idea.

Microsoft for years in the IT field, survive, and closely related to innovation. But what's interesting is that not every latest technology are Microsoft's first invention, but Microsoft later almost all can do after winning. As research is concerned, how to ensure Microsoft technical mechanisms to always back the pioneer of technical transcendence?

Hong Xiao: what you said is very correct, I think mainly because Microsoft has three advantages.

First of all, Microsoft is the world's largest IT companies, it is a very wide range of products, from Office software to the operating system, databases, games, and Internet. From this point on, any company with us than, their products are made of a subset of the product. Has the most extensive product advantages, we also have the most extensive in the field of IT.

Because our software product range is the most extensive, so we contacted the broadest and most of the users.

Whether in software or Internet user, regardless of industry or the mass consumer, we have the contacts. The widest range of users access to truly let Microsoft know each should rent what you want, this is important. This is Microsoft's second advantage.

The third advantage is the Microsoft culture.

We established a culture and its own ratio. We work the first time ever to come with their own performance. This continually surpass yourself, we can make more and better products. So when we get a new product, if we have confidence in this product, we must have confidence in the final you can catch up.p STYLE="TEXT-INDENT: 2em">