External Research & Programs Overview

1. External Research & Programs Overview Sailesh Chutani Director, External Research & Programs Microsoft Research

2. Goals • Invest in innovative research • Collaborate with academia and governments to advance education • Cultivate next-generation academic thought leaders • Partner to build knowledge economies

3. FY07 Highlights – A Productive Year • Request for Proposals • 6 RFPs; 485 proposals; 44 awards; 5 continents • $3.6 million in research project awards • Institutes • The Institute for Personal Robots in Education; Georgia Institute of Technology in collaboration with Bryn Mawr College • Microsoft Carnegie Mellon Center for Computational Thinking, Carnegie Mellon University • Microsoft Research – FAPESP Institute for IT Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil • Latin American Collaborative Research Federation, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile • Events • 2 Academic Summits, 11 Workshops • Support of ecosystem • Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowships, National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) , Ph.D. Fellowships, Summer Internships . . .

4. Latin American Collaborative Research Federation “A Virtual Institute” Goal: Stimulate Latin American academic collaborative research in Information and Communication Technology as an enabler of economic and social development Announced on May 9th, 2007 $930K Microsoft Research support over 3 years Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile is working in association with the Universidad de Chile to form the “Hub” administrative center of the Research Federation. Collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Organization of American States (OAS). LATAM Government Orgs Local GOVERNMENT Orgs MSR Other WW Federations

5. Looking Forward – FY08 Roadmap

6. FY08 – A Collaboration Roadmap For Announcements and Step-by-Step instructions http://research.microsoft.com/erp

7. “Center for Collaborative Technologies, University of Washington” July 16 announcement • Enabling the Next-Generation of Virtual Collaboration • $750K over 3 years • Goal: Extend the ConferenceXP collaborative platform for distance learning and research support. Teachers, students, and researchers will benefit from real-time collaboration, wireless-enabled classrooms, and highly interactive distance-learning environments.

8. “A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award” Encourage research that impacts science, industry and/or society. Projects will combine multiple domains of experience and innovative computational approaches. The total RFP amount available is $1,000,000. Microsoft Research anticipates making between ten and twelve awards. The award honors the memory, legacy and accomplishments of the late A. Richard Newton, former dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Richard Newton leading the plenary panel at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2006

9. Microsoft Research Summit 2008 • “Gathering the Next Generation of Thought Leaders” • Focus on early-stage faculty and Ph.D. students • In 2009 – Microsoft Research Faculty Summit

10. Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Program 2007 5 Fellowships, $1M total, $200K per fellowship Luis von Ahn Carnegie Mellon University Josh Bongard University of Vermont Magdalena Balazinska University of Washington Yixin Chen Washington University in St, Louis Adam Siepel Cornell University Frédo DurandMIT Dan Klein Berkeley Wei Wang UNC Aaron Hertzmann University of Toronto Scott Klemmer Stanford Eddie Kohler UCLA Fei-Fei Li Princeton Regina Barzilay MIT Subash Khot Georgia Tech Radhika Nagpal Harvard 2005 2006

11. Computer Science: The Future Ed Lazowska, (Moderator) Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington and Chair of the Computing Community Consortium Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Advanced Strategies and Policy, Microsoft Corporation Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research Dan Reed, Director, Renaissance Computing Institute, Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association Jeannette Wing, Assistant Director for Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation

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