Passion dream factory

Author: Li the IT Manager world "

To inspire the lives of young people in entertainment enthusiasm, inspired by nature after work with burst.

Microsoft Research Asia band performance

Lighting in silence for a moment, when he was a burst of song, Flash stage lights as the day, the atmosphere of the scene, the stage was detonated by the band burst out Rugose.

When the lead singer of the reins to roar out of It ' s BonJovi my life, meadow mood of the audience began to burn, the whole lot is caught in a Midsummer night of revelry.

This is a Microsoft Research Asia family day performance — the stage leads with High band members are Research Institute researcher or interns.

This establishment is only half a year the band called MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia's initials), seven members of the band from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and China.

Drummer Bennett Wilburn

Thin drummer BennettWilburn, on stage and his body is rhythm.

Bennett from the United States, California, is the cream of Stanford University, music is his infinite number of hobbies. Bennett to Beijing 3 years, with half-cooked Putonghua, Visual Computing Group at Microsoft research. As Microsoft's first foreign interns, Bennett was a small company has, the band's performance reputation makes his popularity in company bursting, his colleagues will be patted him on the shoulder: "Hey, your day cool!"

The lead singer on the stage of explosive force wangshuo Super, who can't imagine the life he is very shy and quiet.

Wangshuo is Microsoft Research Asia served the longest human-computer interaction researchers and user experience designer. In the company, like a star wangshuo, he studied at the Institute organization singing pick and calendar year party, won the "Asia-Pacific Institute Idol" and "best presented" award.

Microsoft Research Asia in imagination was a "ferocious" institutions, brought together the various national top scientific talent, in some "inexplicable" scientific and technological research.

From its establishment in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia has become the Microsoft Corporation in the United States in addition to the creation of local maximum of basic scientific research institutions, whose research interests over the computer's basic research 20 multiple areas, including natural user interface, a new generation of multimedia, data-centric computing, search and online advertising.

The band is 80 young people more, against 80 after work crowd survey, 50.7% lack of job satisfaction, that value cannot be achieve work, 20.6% of respondents think that work only passively is making money, more 30.1 per cent of respondents think the work is only a part of life.

To a large extent, these figures reflect the population more focused on personal values, the more value the overall quality of life. And the above findings, for young people, Microsoft Research Asia, work is more of a challenge, an entertainment, a process full of adventure. "Sometimes very hard, but very excited!" said wangshuo.

United Kingdom management guru Charles ·

Han-di in their book the future of work and life, "points out that for the next generation of people, most of the work will only occupy their 5 000 hours or so (equivalent to 25 years) instead of 10 000 hours (equivalent to 50 years), plus the people's life will extend this to people outside of the formal work left more room for staff arrangement of all time is gone.

Microsoft Research Asia is like a dream machine, a large number of young people with dream, nervous and through interviews enters Academy, liberal and human

e working atmosphere, lots of free discussion of interest groups, are fully aroused the enthusiasm of the young men of creation, their dream of being light to illuminate.

3 months ago, intern extension Hao dragging luggage, and travel from New York to Beijing, hand to pinch a Microsoft Research Asia geographic location map and print a small Tips of note.

In his view, companies will have to give him a message reminding foreign students to Beijing's various considerations, even how to distinguish the black are written zaike.

Yan Hao from New York University, the big handsome boy very Star pitch, singing, dancing, sports everything red.

He holds a master in China finished, to the United States to study computer science PhD, as issued a number of scientific articles, famous in the industry. In recent corporate family day show, the extension of the first to sing a few Hao Andy song, then in the pantry and corridors, colleagues saw him always smiled, nodded back also gossip undertone: "he is the one Andy Lau?"

Although it is a playful big guys, very extended Hao

Focus on, while he is enjoying the process. Yan Hao opinion, research and development is different is that research can find their favorite direction to delve into, and development work is like compositions, the need to respond to business requirements. "Often has a painful torment, as I practice when playing basketball, process very painful, but get the results, I would find it very interesting. ”

Lead singer wangshuo

Lead singer wangshuo in Microsoft Research Asia has worked for 5 years.

Also do interns, he and colleagues spent 3 months time, complete the 2-d shape deformation animations interact study papers, wins the man-machine interaction areas most prestigious SIGCHI for computing machinery computer-human interaction, professional organization's annual Conference, this is the first article from mainland China long papers selected.

Since then, there are many article wangshuo WINS SIGCHI, the venue is also changing, from Montreal entranced Conference Center, the San Jose Silicon Valley-style, each year Grand academic gatherings, wangshuo and researchers share data visualization, camera game playability, mixed reality of interactive features such as topics, leading to these human-computer interaction domain expert and novice issued invitation from Beijing.

Microsoft Research Asia global experience, to open wangshuo career a new platform.

He clearly remembers, in March 2005, the annual Microsoft technology Festival held in Redmond, wangshuo and colleague Dave took turns unattended Asia Research Institute's booth. The bustling crowd, the Asia Research Institute, accompanied by the Yang Shen, Microsoft Senior came to wangshuo introduce them and demonstrates new technology – the future PhotoPie to authorize access to the user in the form of technical patents, digital life, cross-platform photo sharing experience interface. This is also the first wangshuo to Microsoft global high level reporting, Shen to ocean patting wangshuo shoulders, he congratulated for the excellent presentation, Shen also humorously said, because it is seen, when xiaonianqing wangshuo standing guard for he caught secretly sweating.

Microsoft family day among all the actors were, from left to right: Yan Hao, Bennettwilburn, Jung-Ho Wangshuo,

In formal performance, MSRA band rehearsal week to once or twice, each time about 3 hours.

This is in his spare time, wangshuo and band colleagues are passionate about. The team leader and guitarist Liu Wei was formed the band, is the spur. Last year, Microsoft Research Asia to hold 10th anniversary celebration, Liu Wei and Japan to discuss it with colleaguesPanasonic Kang formed a band to performances, and later served as Panasonic Kang bassist, convened by mail, drummer, and so on, the lead singer was soon a "team" ride.

The "United Nations" band lineup, there are 4-bit guitarist, lead singer, drummer, bassist and keyboard player, and Microsoft Research Asia sings of beautiful women do.

Their rehearsal place in a bar called the flowers deep alley — Bobby Chen of the Beijing night "a place name mentioned. MSRA band here hired rehearsal room, this area is Beijing's rock people often rehearsal and gathering places.

Although now only Microsoft Research Asia small range for performance, but the band had a reputation in the IT circle on the map, even when in the year they are warmly invited.

The current list of MSRA band performances has 7 piece, sufficient to open a field has a small concert.

At Microsoft Research Asia, similar interest group very much and colleagues through establishing mail group mechanism to find colleagues with similar interests, or life in general class of queries.

Bennett has just arrived in Beijing, to go to the dentist but doesn't know where to go, he later participation in the company to a "ForeignersinBeijing" mail group discussions, almost became Beijing. This group is at the Microsoft Research Asia foreigners were formed, because many foreign colleagues to speak Mandarin Chinese, but they know very little, and everyone in the mail in English communication, sharing the experience of living in Beijing. These cross-departmental, cross-research fields of the mail group, individual projects for young people, makes the whole Institute corporate culture showing a happy atmosphere of passion.

In fact, not only young people, as a veteran of Microsoft Research Asia, also was in this atmosphere of growth.

A senior student at the Microsoft dream factory "this book, online message said:" the MSRA staff constantly filled with the work of passion, their work is changing the world. But I have dreams and they the same? don't know is when I started with the status quo, to reality to concede defeat. What I want and not a lot of money, I want an achievable dream job, and colleagues writing myths and transform the world of work, I am a big four students, are going to officially start in life, can not give up the dream?. Starting today, I want to become a part of them, trying to live like them. ”