JJ Cadiz

Biography
I am currently a program manager for Microsoft Research’s Incubation team where my task is to take promising ideas, prototype them, study them, and turn the successful prototypes into successful businesses. My primary areas of interest are technologies to help people coordinate, communicate, and collaborate.

In the past, I have worked in the Real-Time Collaboration product group and on Bill Gates’ technology assistance team. Past projects have involved Sideshow, a peripheral awareness display for the Windows desktop and Enhanced Telephony, a prototype that combines the phone and computer user experiences. Sideshow might appear as the sidebar in the next version of Windows, and many of Enhanced Telephony’s concepts can be found in the new Microsoft Office Communicator product.

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