Microsoft Research Asia is Microsoft’s basic research arm in Asia-Pacific region. Since its founding in November 1998, Microsoft Research Asia has attracted over 100 top-caliber researchers and scientists from all over the world, supplemented by a Post-Doc research center and over 200 visiting researchers and students. We perform leading-edge research on advanced user interface, networking and wireless, next-generation multimedia, and Asian information processing technologies.

Microsoft Research Cambridge was founded in 1997 and now numbers over 100 employees. The Cambridge lab conducts basic computer science research on a wide variety of topics, including machine learning, security, information retrieval, operating systems, programming techniques, and networking. Microsoft Research Cambridge maintains close ties to the University of Cambridge and the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Microsoft Research India was established in January 2005 in Bangalore. The lab employs about 50 scientists and support staff and hosts a large number of interns each year. The lab conducts long-term basic and applied research in different areas: cryptography, security, and algorithms; digital geographics; mobility, networks, and systems; multilingual systems; rigorous software engineering; and technology for emerging markets. Microsoft Research India also collaborates extensively with research institutions and universities in India and abroad to support scientific progress and innovation.

Microsoft Research New England will build on Microsoft’s commitment to collaborate with the broader research community and to advance the state of the art in multiple areas of computing research. The lab, Microsoft Research’s sixth research facility worldwide, will pursue new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to understand, model, and enable the computing and online experiences of the future.

Microsoft Research Redmond was founded on the Microsoft Redmond campus in 1991. To this day, the bulk of Microsoft researchers work out of the Redmond, Washington, campus in building 99. Being near the product teams at Microsoft proved valuable in the early days, and that remains true today. Redmond often hosts researchers from Cambridge, England; Beijing, China; and San Francisco, California who come to collaborate closely with teams and other researchers onsite.

Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, located in Mountain View, California, was founded in August 2001 and now employs about twenty-five researchers. The Silicon Valley lab maintains a research focus in the area of Distributed Computing — including privacy, security, resource location, protocols, the Internet as a platform, reliability, availability, scalability, management, and related theory. In January 2006, the Silicon Valley lab merged with Microsoft’s Bay Area Research Center (BARC) in San Francisco. The joint lab will continue to build Microsoft Research’s presence in the San Francisco Bay Area.