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Academic Research Collaboration with Microsoft Pusheng Zhang Microsoft Virtual Earth/Local Search pzhang@microsoft.com. Research Collaborations with Microsoft. External Fund Opportunity at MS http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps Virtual Earth Academic RFP (World Wide)
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Academic Research Collaboration with Microsoft Pusheng Zhang Microsoft Virtual Earth/Local Search pzhang@microsoft.com
Research Collaborations with Microsoft External Fund Opportunity at MS http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps Virtual Earth Academic RFP (World Wide) Virtual Earth http://maps.live.com VE Interactive SDK http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ Sensor Network - SensorMap Joint Research Project with Microsoft Research under a consulting agreement or in an open research collaboration New Faculty Fellowship Program http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff/
Open Problems in Local Search Local search “Italian restaurants” + “Boston” Relevance Ranking UI for desktop and mobile devices Indexing and Retrieving Location-based Advertisement Geo-tagged photos Organizing, browsing, retrieving VR Automatic Reconstruction GPS tracks Social network Privacy Issues