University and institute collaborations in Latin America

 Microsoft Research is working to build research capacity and to advance the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) research agenda in Latin America. Academic researchers throughout the region have received grants through our Latin American program.

Spotlight: Microsoft Research
Latin American Faculty Summit 2009

This year’s summit, held May 13-15, 2009 in Buenos Aires, focuses on collaboration between computer scientists and other disciplines, as well as Microsoft Research’s work with Latin American universities. The event brings together more than two hundred academic leaders from around the world. Read more....

Case Study: Researchers Collaborate with ConferenceXP

Academic researchers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean make important contributions to computer science, yet much of their work involves collaboration with project teams on other continents and does not address locally relevant challenges. Several universities have joined forces to change that by using ConferenceXP, a set of Web-based videoconferencing tools. Read more....

Academic and Research Awards

Since this program began in 2004, more than 30 Internships and Ph.D. Fellowships from Microsoft Research have been granted to students and researchers in our region.

• Fellowship Awards in Latin America 
• LACCIR guide to Microsoft Research-Latin America Fellowships and Internships
• Student Programs in Latin America - Apply for Internships

Projects at the Latin America Virtual Institutes

• To advance the Latin America virtual institutes, we partner with the following, as well as national research and technological councils:
  Inter-American Bank (IDB) 
  Organization of American States (OAS)
  State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

• LACCIR – Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research
  • Luis A. Guerrero, Universidad de Chile, Chile. A Digital Workbook Tool to Support Asynchronous Collaboration
  • Regina Motz, Universidad de La República, Uruguay. JARDIN: Just an Assistant for instructional DesIgN
  • Domingo Mery, Pontifíca Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Low Cost Computer Vision Systems for Quality Evaluation of Food Products in Small and Medium Enterprises
  • Marcos R. S. Borges, Universidade Federa do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Collaborating in Disaster Relief Efforts
  • Jesús Favela, CICESE Research, México. Smart Phones and Ambient Displays to Support Collaboration in Hospital Work
• Microsoft Research-FAPESP Institute for IT Research
  • Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas, UNICAMP, Brazil. E-Citizenship: systems and methods for the creation of a culture mediated by Information and Communication Technologies
  • Cláudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil. E-Farms: a two-way Road for small farms to the networked world
  • Fábio Kon. IME-USP, Brazil. Project Butterfly: integrated Mobile Computer System for providing home care services
  • Lúcia Filgueiras. Poli-USP, Brazil. X-Gov: application of the crossmedia concept in e-public services
  • Sandra Maria Aluísio, USP-SC, Brazil. SimplePortuguese: textual simplification of Portuguese for the digital inclusion and accessibility

Conferences and Workshops

• Microsoft Research Latin American Faculty Summit, May 2009
• Grand Challenges in Computer Science Research in Latin America Workshop, June 2008 
• Microsoft Research Latin America Academic Summit, May 2008
• More conferences...

Collaboration Links

• LACCIR – Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research
• Microsoft Research-FAPESP Institute for IT Research
• Microsoft Research Faculty Summits
• Conversations

Resources for Research

• Microsoft Academic Resource Center
• Microsoft Shared Source Initiative  
• MSDN Academic Alliance

• Silverlight Tools for Visual Solutions 

Faculty Summit 2008 - Redmond 

• Computer Science Research in Latin America
  • Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Pushing and Pulling Information From the Mexican Dataspace
  • Mayana Zatz, How Can Microsoft Help Geneticists?
  • Webcast: Computer Science Research in Latin America