Located in Mountain View, California, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley was founded in August 2001 and now employs about 45 researchers. Our research work focuses on Distributed Computing and includes privacy, security, protocols, fault-tolerance, large-scale systems, the Web, concurrency, computer architecture and related theory.
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Research Areas
Research at the Silicon Valley lab focuses on the
following areas.
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Careers
Check out the career opportunities
at SVC for PhD researchers. We have over fifty researchers
already on board and will continue to grow over the coming
years. If you think you are a good match for us, please email
your resume (Word, HTML, PDF, PostScript, or ASCII format) to
msrsvchr@microsoft.com.
We are always looking for exceptional PhD candidates to join us as interns, especially during the summer. For more information about becoming an intern, please visit our internship Web site.
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Feature Stories
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 Our primary goal is to advance the state of the art in distributed systems and related fields, while strengthening the architecture and technology of Microsoft’s products. Our lab emphasizes technical excellence, technical breadth and flexibility, commitment to impact, and collegial interaction among researchers. Our research projects explore and prototype technologies likely to be strategic to the company in the two to five year time frame.
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Roy Levin, Distinguished Engineer and
Director, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley |
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