Newly Published Academic Papers
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Cryptography
and Anti-Piracy
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Databases
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Systems
and Networking
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Programming Languages
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Theory
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User Interfaces
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In September, Microsoft became one of the
first software companies to create its own computer-science research
organization. Microsoft declared that it would support research without
regard to product cycles, so there would be new foundations and technology
breakthroughs upon which future generations could build.
 Rick Rashid, currently
charged with oversight of Microsoft Research's
worldwide operations, left Carnegie Mellon University to start Microsoft
Research. During his tenure at Carnegie Mellon, he developed the Mach
multiprocessor operating system, which has been influential in the design of
many modern operating systems and remains at the core of a number of
commercial systems. Karen Jensen and George Heidorn were hired to start
the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group. NLP, now headed by Bill Dolan,
has been pivotal in providing many improvements to Microsoft products,
including Smart Tags and grammar checkers. The team also has developed
MindNet, a knowledge-representation project. |
