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Innovation: The Key to technology leadership

Innovation: The Key to technology leadership. P. Anandan Managing Director Microsoft Research India. Robert Solow, Nobel Prize Winner Economics. Long run growth in GDP is not so much due to capital investment as due to Technological progress.

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Innovation: The Key to technology leadership

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  1. Innovation: The Key to technology leadership P. AnandanManaging DirectorMicrosoft Research India

  2. Robert Solow, Nobel Prize Winner Economics Long run growth in GDP is not so much due to capital investment as due to Technological progress Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy. Source: Wikepedia

  3. Technological Progress and Innovation • Goal of innovation is make something new or do something better • Innovation is the process of enabling effective and efficient solutions to meet people’s needs • Innovation begins in the lab and ends at the hands of the customer • Innovation involves both R and D

  4. Why R in Industry? • Technology growth key to social development • Technology growth drives economic growth • Technology inventions central to quality of life • No technology was invented accidentally • No technology was developed overnight • Perfecting the technology requires decades of investment • Only industry can take ideas to completion

  5. Microsoft’s Approach to Innovation • Innovation in and through our products • Microsoft Research • Ecosystem support of partner innovation

  6. R in support of D in Microsoft • Every product group innovates during the course of the product development • Innovations include: • New designs, architectures, frameworks • Platform for software development • Features in specific products • Business innovations

  7. The MSR Experience

  8. MSR Mission Statement • Expand the state of the art in each of the areas in which we do research • Rapidly transfer innovative technologies into Microsoft products • Ensure that Microsoft products have a future

  9. Microsoft Research • Established 1991 • ~1000 full-time staff • Over 60 computer-science research areas represented • Contributions to products at Microsoft • Inventing the future

  10. Microsoft Research locations : • Redmond, Washington, USA • (Sep, 1991) • Cambridge, United Kingdom • (July, 1997) • Beijing, China • (Nov, 1998) • Silicon Valley, California • (July, 2001) • Bangalore, India • (Jan, 2005) • Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA • (July, 2008)

  11. Technology Transfer Impact • Critical support technologies. • Opt. Technology enabled sim-ship of Win95/Office95. • Automated bug detection in Windows 2000. • Almost every aspect of Windows 7 • Key technologies that drive products. • E.G., MS audio 4.0, ClearType, collaborative filtering, intelligent search, etc. • Bing is continually evolving through research collaboration • Incubated major products. • Windows streaming media. • Windows CE, eBook. • Ecommerce, Datamining. • TabletPC • Surface • Speech processing

  12. Why did we come to India • Strong engineering education, talent pool • Growing economy and aspirations for R&D and innovation • Interesting research topics stimulated by the socio-economic-cultural environment

  13. Microsoft Research India The First Five Years P. Anandan Distinguished Scientist & Managing Director MSR India

  14. People & Place • Full-time staff total: 56 • Technical staff: 48 • 34 with PhD (69%) • Total interns (5 years): ~430 • Indian universities: 60% • Foreign universities: 40% • PhD candidates: 43% • Bachelors/Masters: 57% • Universities include… • IISc, IITs, BITS, DAIICT, IIITs, MIT, CMU, UC Berkeley, UW, Yale, Cambridge, Chicago, Bristol, National University of Singapore, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Oxford, Georgia Institute of Technology, Princeton, New York University, University of Maryland, McGill University, U. Cape Town, UC Santa Barbara, U Michigan

  15. Research Groups • Algorithms and Search • Cryptography, Security, and Applied Mathematics • Mobility, Networks, and Systems • Multilingual Systems • Rigorous Software Engineering • Technology for Emerging Markets • Vision, Graphics, and Visualization

  16. Publications Award winning research • ACM Eugene Lawler Award (Digital Study Hall) • Best-paper awards in • FSE • ICTD • COMSNETS • TED Award • First place in FIRE (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation) 2009 • Joint winner in PASCAL VOC Object Detection Challenge 2009 Papers per year!

  17. Technology Transfers from MSRI in 2009 • System Security • tools for diagnosing vulnerability to attacks • Developer support • tools to improve programmer productivity: • Program verification, debugging • Networking and cloud • efficient compression while protecting privacy for data transfers from data centers to clients • Search • Robust location of addresses in BING Maps • Machine translation • Community creation of multilingual content

  18. INNOVATIONS FROM INDIA AT MSR

  19. Multi-Mouse for Education • Problem: PCs in emerging-market schools are used in a one-to-many fashion. • Solution: Multiply the value of PCs by allowing multiple USB mice to be plugged into a PC, with each mouse having a cursor on-screen with a different color. • Children grasp the concept immediately and show greater engagement. • Deployed and distributed by Microsoft product teams Before After

  20. Digital Green Problem: Agriculture extension (transfer of expert knowledge to farmers) is slow and difficult Solution: Locally recorded videos of good farming practices and ad hoc screenings in villages Stockholm Challenge Award 2008 Spun off as an independent non-profit organization Aiming to impact ~400,000 households in 3 years Digital Green video screening in rural Karnataka Work by Rikin Gandhi, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Vanaja Ramprasad, Randy Wang, Kentaro Toyama

  21. Spatial Data Reposi-tory Robust Location Search Fuzzy Text Index Region Index Goal • Find regions on Earth that “best match” freeform textual input Examples • 2nd main, 10th cross, Indira Nagar 1st stage, near RTO office Bangalore 560038 • ... in Madrid, somewherenear calle de arroyofresno and avenida de la llustracion • #67, विद्याअपार्टमन्ट्स, फॆस-3, डेलीकेन्टान्मन्ट Now Deployed in BING MAPS in several countries, including parts of India Search Engine

  22. Debug Advisor • Allow user to search diverse repositories using a “fat query” • Fat query allows user to simply concatenate all the context for the current bug • Match fat query with all historical data from repositories • Deployed and actively used by various MS product development teams Has this bug or a similar bug already been fixed or studied somewhere else? What is already known about this kind of bug? Where should I start? Who would be able to help?

  23. External Research Partner with Academia, Industry and Government • Strengthen CS Research Ecosystem • Capacity Building • Communitywide Research Initiatives • Address Societal Challenges • Community Engagement • Social Responsibility • Empower with Technologies • Help advance research process • Innovation

  24. Innovation and R&D in the world

  25. Next Few Slides from this document

  26. Microsoft is the second highest R&D investor in the world: Euro 6.48B(Toyota is number 1) • Microsoft has been in the top 3 for several years, was number 1 last year (Euro 5.58B) • No Indian company in Top 50(surprised?)

  27. Other Indian companies include: Polaris, Prithvi, Mindtree, Reliance, Ranbaxy, Infosys, BHEL, HCL, etc.

  28. India and Innovation (in IT)

  29. The Developed World • Over 15,000 corporate labs in the US • Employ over 750,000 scientists and engineers • 70% of the total number of such professionals • Total R&D investment USD 150B • Industry funds over 65% R&D conducted in US • Ctsy: “Engines of Tomorrow” – Bob Buderi

  30. Many models for success • Bell Labs / AT&T • GE • IBM • HP • Xerox • Siemens • NEC • Intel • Microsoft • Google

  31. India Today • Booming economy • Growing consumer sector • Large skilled labor population • Rich investors • Many Indian companies in Fortune 500 • The place to be!

  32. Challenges • Not enough R&D, mostly service sector work • Very little basic research • Changing values, easy job opportunities, easy money, changing lifestyles • Corruption still endemic

  33. Changing Composition of India’s GDP Real GDP growth Percentage, 1991-2007 Indian Economy at a Glance India 100% 80% 63% 60% Developing World Average 40% 19% 20% 18% 0% FY80 FY90 FY02 FY08 Developed World Average Agriculture Services Industry Source: RBI Source: Usda.gov The Indian economy has experienced rapid growth buoyed by a shift from an agriculture to a services-led economy Source - NASSCOM

  34. NASSCOM DATA

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  37. Priorities • Rapid upgrading of the college education system • Increase number of qualified college professors • Make academic careers rewarding • Make research a requirement • Get the industry into the R&D game • Convince parents to encourage children to go into research

  38. THANK YOU!

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