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Internet Services
Understanding the new challenges and
opportunities presented by the new wave
of Internet services.
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Background
With the dramatic and progressive improvement of
computing and communications technologies, the
Internet today has evolved into a computing
platform and infrastructure to support
programmability and software-driven services on
a global scale. The Internet services arena
represents the next major bellwether in the IT
industry, very much like the PC revolution and
the web. Many Internet services such as search,
emails, instant messaging, Web community, and
online advertising have already made a huge
impact on people's daily lives.
With the ubiquity of broadband and wireless
networking, people are increasingly being drawn
toward software-based Internet services. This is
because of the pervasiveness and simplicity of
such services, and its ability to deliver
integrated and seamless user experiences. The
Internet services wave is not only causing a
paradigm shift in computing that started with
consumers but is also progressively working its
ways toward enterprise development with the
growing importance of service-based Internet
economics.
Topics of Interests
To understand the new challenges and
opportunities Internet services presents,
Microsoft Research Asia sponsors projects which demonstrate innovative
research in the following areas:
- Web data management
- Web-scale machine learning
- Text or data mining on Web data
- Web graph analysis and Web modeling
- User intent detection and personalization
- Social networks and Web 2.0
- Structured search
- Rich media and user generated content
- Services for mobile applications
- Internet Monetization
- Internet Economics
- Distributed system and infrastructure supporting Web-scale computing
- Web information retrieval, information extraction and information integration
Invitation for Proposal (IFP)
- See IFP document here
- See funded projects here
Theme Workshop
On August 9-10, 2007, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)-Tsinghua University Workshop on Internet Services was successfully held at Tsinghua University. It¡¯s co-organized by MSRA and the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE)-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Media and Networking Technology, Tsinghua University. Some 70 professors from more than 40 top universities or research organizations in Asia-Pacific Countries and Regions attended the workshop.
See more information here
Additional Resources
This program is supported by the Web
Search and Mining Group at MSR Asia, led by
Dr. Wei-Ying Ma. |
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Contact Us
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email, or write to
Microsoft Research Asia, University Relations, 5th Floor, Beijing Sigma
Center, No.49 Zhichun Road, Haidian District,
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