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— — Passionate feelings TechFest2008

Author: Joseph Internet search and data mining group

As Microsoft's internal best technology event, Techfest has years of history.

From Microsoft's internal technical staff interaction platform, to gradually become the research sector and product groups expand cooperation bridge, today TechFest has inadvertently become show Microsoft innovation strength and lead the industry in technology development. Each meeting is to bring many surprises in the industry, but also for people on the future of the new technology of infinite longing and desire.

5 March, with our demonstration project (GeoLife) and slightly agitated mood, I stood in front of the news media.

As from multiple projects selected from among seven public presentations, GeoLife not only represents my personal and group also shouldering reveal the entire Microsoft Research Asia style of responsibility and mission.

At 11: 45, I could open a lunch box, a large number of news media, and was invited to participate in the activities of university professors and company representatives have crowded the venue.

A little later, I was all of zhanweiqian surrounded. Careful preparation and efficient team, let our projects whether in a poster or a system interface seem more attractive. In addition, the passionate speech, proper body language, careful listening and patience to answer a series of performance in exchange for the audience on the recognition and praise GeoLife.

(Booth before Joseph was enthusiastic audience surrounded)

A little later, BBC journalist handheld microphone appears in front of me, began to detail asked some details.

Usually only hear on the Radio BBC News, BBC interview yourself truly become the object, but like a heart. However, in Microsoft's work over the last two years, I know a lot of foreign colleagues, and their communication and cooperation projects has been basically to help me eliminate language and psychological disorders. Plus the previous Headquarters senior PM to give us a lecture counselling and detailed PR departments for training, these young researchers in the face of the news media can get to the right.

Shigebujiu, the Seattle Times reporters and local TV station staff carrying his cameras came to me.

Although previously also been to mirror, but life is the first time in the face of the blond and have completely different cultural style of television programmes (later, see the next day's newspaper found that our work has become the Seattle Times reports that the activities of a specific reference to one of the five projects, and the description of coverage and detail level is also beyond the other four technology). Next time, the United Kingdom's guardian, France's ordinateur and China Sina, "China", more than ten media are on our project for a detailed interview. Such a question and answer process lasted until 5 p.m., a full five hours without a pause for one minute. This intensive interviews allow subsequent results are not surprising. GeoLife Internet rapidly became famous. The next two days the news media, but ushered in more internal employees visit. Each covers not only exercise their own opportunity for continuous feedback from others in the process of learning and knowledge. In order to increase staff at TechFest in competitive and fun, while at the same time facilitate the audience and project leader of Exchange, the Organizing Committee in each item's booth before placing a card reader. If the audience is interested in the project and want to know more information, you can add your own employee card in the card reader light brush to leave your own ID. The second day of the evening, when the British and Xie Mawei fortune telling me that the number of people concerned about GeoLife almost 300 people, I realized the day turned out to so many people. At the same time, through listening to other members of the project around, on the one hand, to broaden their own ideas, learn valuable scientific research experience, on the other hand also realized the heavens-day sense.

The last day of the event, come to the venue remains unabated.

Just when I thought it would end up like this, a cameraman suddenly stuck in the crowd for a sentence of "Vice President, 5 minutes to your exhibition stand". I'm ready to start relaxing moments of neural and tight. Although prior to know like Bill Gates and other big man to "to watch the entire Institute of scientific research results, visit routes are arranged in advance. I have not been notified, would mean that I should not within the plan. But maybe the GeoLife in lastA day in a higher ranking for Vice President, temporary change your mind, specially to my booth. No time to think, because the audience is the same. 5 minutes later, the Vice President appears on time, a brief statement about yourself, I began to expertly explain our project, several days of actual combat experience, let my skills on a bench again. From his face, I seemed to see a little praise and recognition, at least he didn't disappoint. Subsequently, the Organizing Committee and especially the two Microsoft cooperation company's CEO, received my booth, they are distinct GeoLife expressed interest.

Night fell, lasts 3 days of TechFest successfully draw a full stop.

Everyone with a full harvest have left the venue. GeoLife final tickets honoured to 547 for inclusion of the region's first and leading Microsoft six Research Institute overall ranking of the 16-bit. An interesting thing, in our TechFest2007 project Photo2Search also made the same ranking and results. The next few days, whether on the Internet, or in the newspapers and the media have emerged the GeoLife. At the same time, I received a business card, a total of 15 groups of products, 5 PM, 1 bit, Manager, Vice President, 2-bit partners company President expressed the GeoLife is very interested in it. I think this is our entire team of the best hard and sweat. Can't remember how many weekends, we take the initiative to give up the rest; so many nights, everybody fight into the night. Hard work pays off at this time was the most profound interpretation.

GeoLife in the success of TechFest, not only is my personal to wing it, but also our whole team long and careful preparation.

If we say that in the event of outstanding individual performance in the play depends on their long-term accumulation and carefully prepared, effective training and repeated, then the GeoLife success to benefit from the team to work together and Microsoft the giant's shoulders. By participating in the TechFest, I not only improves their ability to open up the horizons, enhanced cooperation with other working groups, also let me once again realized the power of teamwork. Twinkle myriad Microsoft TechFest who sweat and hard, uncontaminated Microsoft giant's mature and robust.