Career Reflections

Career Reflections Collection

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Microsoft Research, we invited innovators in computer science and related fields to join us for a day to look back and then forward to the next 20 years of computer science. These reflections on advice to young scientists are provided as a gift to the computer science community. We plan to release one set of thoughts per month over the anniversary year. We hope you'll subscribe to the series and check in again soon.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM A DAY OF REFLECTION

This overview video captures highlights from a day of brainstorming and discussions at Microsoft Research. Six groups (teams Babbage, Boole, Gödel, Turing, Shannon, and Simon), composed of Microsoft Research computer scientists and their colleagues from other research organizations, reflected separately about the past 20 years and the future to come, in the context of providing advice to young scientists. Afterwards, participants came together to listen to briefings about the discussions from the chairs of each team. Beyond the overview video below, we invite you to listen in to videos of the briefings from each group.

REFLECTIONS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Oren EtzioniWashington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor, University of Washington

Sam MaddenAssociate Professor of E.E.C.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

> Cross Disciplinary Borders

Anna KarlinMicrosoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

> Embracing Frustration

Greg MorrisettAllen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

> Understand Through Teaching

Tom DanielKomen Endowed Chair of Biology, University of Washington

> Embrace Computing

Deborah EstrinProfessor of Computer Science, UCLA

> Embracing Applications And Building Skillsets

Ed LazowskaProfessor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

Dave PattersonPardee Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Edward FeigenbaumKumagai Professor of Computer Science Emeritus, Stanford University

Robert ColwellDeputy Director of the Microsystems Technology Office, DARPA

Eva TardosJacob Schurman Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University