We strongly deeply in supporting our colleagues in academia. It is through partnerships and support that we will make significant progress in our feild. Our professional involvement, internship program, visiting researcher program,  conference & workshop support, academic events, faculty research support, distinguished speakers series etc. are all because of this belief.

Conference Support

We have a history of consistently supporting strong conferences on networking. Here is a sampling of conferences we have supported in the past.

• ACM MobiCom 1998-2010
• ACM SIGCOMM 1999-2010
• USENIX NSDI 
• IEEE DySPAN 2005-11
• ACM/USENIX MobiSys 2003-10
• ACM MobiHoc 2006
• ACM SIGMETRICS 2007
• ACM IMC 2005-06, 2008
• NOSSDAV 2004-05
• IPTPS
• IEEE ICNP 2006
• ACM HealthNet 2007
• IEEE MASS 2010

Research Support

Although Microsoft Research has an extensive University Relations Program dedicated to funding research at Universities, occasionally we too support faculty research in areas of our interests. Examples of institutes we have supported in the past include:

• University College London (Prof. Brad Karp, 2010)
• Duke (Prof. Romit Roy, 2009)
• USC (Prof. Ramesh Govindan, 2009)
• Harvard (Prof. Matt Welsh, 2008) 
• University of Toronto (Prof. Yashar Ganjali, 2010; Prof. Stefan Saroiu, 2007)
• Princeton University (Prof. vivek Pai, 2007)
• UCLA (Prof. Todd Millstein, 2008)
• MIT (Prof. Dina Katabi)
• International Computer Science Institute Berkeley (Prof. Scott Shenker)
• UCSD (Prof. Geoff Voelker)
• CMU (Prof. Peter Steenkiste, 2010; Prof. Srini Seshan)
• Columbia (Prof. Dan Rubensteini & Prof. Vishal Misra)
• Texas A&M University (Prof. Nitin Vaidya)
• University of California Berkeley
• University of Maryland, College Park (Prof. William Arbaugh)
• UT Austin (Prof. Lili Qiu)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (Prof. Suman Banerjee)
• Rice (Prof. Ed. Knightly, 2010; Prof. T. S. Eugene Ng, 2007)

Networking Events

We have built up a track record of organizing 2-day mindswap events between reseachers from industry, academia, and government organizations. At these events we have open discussions on important research topics and the challenges ahead. For the benefit of the community, we make videos and presentation slides from all talks available on the event's web site.

• June 2-3 2010: Mobile + Cloud Summit, Westin Hotel, Bellevue, WA
• July 26-29 2009: Unraveling the Knot in the Home, Blaine, WA
• June 5-6 2008: Cognitive Wireless Networking, Sakish Lodge, Snoqualmie, WA
• February 5-6, 2007: High Speed TCP, Redmond, WA
• June 1-2, 2006: Life at the Edge, Snoqualmie, WA
• April 7-8, 2006: WiNS 2006: Goa, India
• June 1-2, 2005: Self Managing Networks, Kirland, WA
• June 23-24, 2004: Mesh Networking Summit: Snoqualmie, WA (Press Report)

Distinguished Guests

For the past several years Microsoft Research has organized a succesful faculty summit in Redmond. The summit offers a unique opportunity for us to mingle with reseachers in academia. In addition, we have had the pleasure of hosting several distinguished researchers in our lab as well. Here is a partial list of a few who have visited us:

• Prof. Uday B. Desai, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, May 30, 2007
• Prof. Ashok K. Agarwal, University of Maryland, Baltimore, November 15, 2006
• Prof. Xin Liu, University of Canlifornia Davis, California, November 10, 2006
• Prof. Vivek Pai, Princeton University, New Jersey, November 3, 2006
• Prof. Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, October 27, 2006
• Prof. Brian Levine, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, October 27, 2006
• Dr. Guru Parulkar, National Science Foundation, October 9, 2006
• Prof. Scott Shenker, University of California Berkeley, California, September 20, 2006
• Prof. Nick McKeown, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, September 20, 2006
• Prof. Tajana Simunic Rosing, University of California San Deigo, San Diego, September 1, 2006
• Prof. Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, July 17, 2006
• Prof. Srini Sheshan, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, July 6, 2006
• Prof. Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany, March 6, 2006
• Prof. Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, December 12, 2005
• Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, New York, September 29, 2005
• Prof. David Kotz, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 8, 2005
• Prof. Hari Balakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, August 15, 2003
• Prof. Dipankar Raychauduri, Director WINLAB, Rutgers University, New Jersey, August 4, 2003
• Prof. Robert T. Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, May 2003
• Prof. Anthony D. Joseph, University of California, Berkeley, November 2002
• Prof. David B. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University, August 1997, August 2002
• Prof. Brian Noble, University of Michigan, May 2002
• Prof. Deborah Estrin, University of California Los Angeles, June 2000
• Charles E. Perkins, Nokia Research, May 2000
• Prof. Nitin H. Vaidya, Texas A & M University, Summer 1999
• Prof. Randy H. Katz, University of California Berkeley, December 1998, Decmber 2002
• Prof. Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, November 1998
• Prof. David Goodman, Rutgers University, December 1997
• Prof. Raj Jain, Ohio State University, October 1997