 The Research Partnership Programme (RPP) at Microsoft Research Cambridge facilitates collaboration between Microsoft researchers and Microsoft teams in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, ensuring that research experience and innovative academic thinking is embraced in ground-breaking projects by Microsoft customers and partners.
Through the RPP, Microsoft Research shares its knowledge and insights and enables industry-leading customers, including governments and public sector organizations, to develop innovation strategies and compete in the global economy. Microsoft researchers who take part in the RPP are presented with real-world industry problems and often inspired to expand their research agenda to address the challenges.
Informed about technological and business challenges, RPP works closely with the Microsoft strategy teams to develop programmes that
can strengthen local economies by connecting research and business communities.
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Microsoft Research Participation in the PLANETS Project
Through the Research Partnership Programme,
Microsoft Research joined the British Library-led consortium
of 16 organizations from Europe, working on the PLANETS project,
sponsored by the European Union. Over a four year period,
PLANETS will investigate critical issues of long-term
preservation of digital objects. Microsoft Research
Cambridge is contributing the expertise and the technology
for preserving Office documents through conversion into the
Microsoft Office Open XML format. |
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Microsoft Research Collaboration with ROMAS
and iCity
The RPP recently engaged with the ROMAS project (Research On
Mobile Applications and Services) initiated by a research consortium
of several Belgian partners. Microsoft Belgium and Luxembourg is one
of three founding members of the consortium and has provided support
for evaluating mobile prototypes from the Cambridge lab. These will
be deployed within the iCity living lab environment, blanketed by
wireless networks in which 4,000 volunteers will participate in user
studies. Microsoft Research Cambridge, ROMAS, and iCity will conduct
joint user research, focused on understanding of social implications
of mobile technologies. |
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