Located in Mountain View, California, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley was founded in August 2001 and now employs about 45 researchers. Our research work focuses on Distributed Computing and includes privacy, security, protocols, fault-tolerance, large-scale systems, the Web, concurrency, computer architecture and related theory.
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Research Areas
Research at the Silicon Valley lab focuses on the
following areas.
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Careers
We have over forty researchers already on board and will continue to grow over the coming years. If you are a PhD researcher interested in seeking job opportunities at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, please email your resume (Word, HTML, PDF, PostScript, or ASCII text format) to Mike Schroeder (mds@microsoft.com), Assistant Lab Director.
We are always looking for exceptional PhD candidates to join us as interns, especially during the summer. For more information about becoming an intern, please visit our internship Web site.
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Feature Stories
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 Our primary goal is to advance the state of the art in distributed systems and related fields, while strengthening the architecture and technology of Microsoft’s products. Our lab emphasizes technical excellence, technical breadth and flexibility, commitment to impact, and collegial interaction among researchers. Our research projects explore and prototype technologies likely to be strategic to the company in the two to five year time frame.
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Roy Levin, Distinguished Engineer and
Director, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley |
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