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Redmond, WA | March 8-9, 2012 Microsoft.com / pilhighered. Jaime Puente Director, Microsoft Research Connections. 03/09/12. Update on Microsoft Research (Leveraging Technology for e-Research). Jaime Puente Director— Latin American and Caribbean Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research
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Redmond, WA | March 8-9, 2012 Microsoft.com/pilhighered Jaime Puente Director, Microsoft Research Connections 03/09/12
Update on Microsoft Research(Leveraging Technology for e-Research) Jaime Puente Director— Latin American and Caribbean Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research Worldwide Presence MSR India MSR New England Redmond • Redmond, Washington Sept, 1991 • Cambridge, United Kingdom July, 1997 • Beijing, China Nov, 1998 • Silicon Valley, California July, 2001 • Bangalore, India Jan, 2005 • Cambridge, Massachusetts July, 2008 MSR Cambridge, UK MSR Asia (Beijing) Silicon Valley, California
Microsoft Research • 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 http://research.microsoft.com/
Computer Systems & Devices Israel Labs Security &Privacy ComputationalLinguistics Rich Media Labs India Labs ProductGroups ProductGroups ComputationalSciences Human-ComputerInteraction Live Labs Mobile Labs MicrosoftLabs MicrosoftResearch Machine Learning Hardware& Devices Startup BusinessAccelerator Startup Labs Graphics &Multimedia Information Retrieval& Management Search Labs E&D Labs Communication& Collaboration Office Labs Present 2-4 years 5-10 years +
Long-Term Basic Research Agility • Long-term basic research group allows a company like Microsoft to respond more rapidly to change • Research provides a reservoir of technology, expertise and people that can be quickly brought to bear: • New technologies • New competitors • New business models • Two Recent Examples • Computer Vision and Machine Learning (ML) • Kinect for Xbox and Windows • Machine Translation (MT) • Haitian Creole → English translator • Produced in less than 5 days
Strong interactions with academia • Active participation in community • Conference committees • Editing of key journals • Professional service – NSF, NRC, DARPA, … • Strong ties with universities • Faculty Summits and worldwide Academic Summits • Technology Centers and Institutes • Extensive visitor and speaker program • Students, faculty, research scientists • Post-docs, sabbaticals, interns • ~300 interns in MSR Redmond in 2009, ~1,000 worldwide • Largest intern program in IT industry (maybe the largest ever)
Microsoft Research |ConnectionsOutreach. Collaboration. Innovation. Division within Microsoft Research focused on partnerships between academia, industry and government to advance computer science, education, and research in fields that rely heavily upon advanced computing Supporting groundbreaking research to help advance human potential and the wellbeing of our planet Developing advanced technologies and services to support every stage of the research process Microsoft Research Connections is committed to interoperability and to providing open access, open tools, and open technology http://research.microsoft.com/collaboration/ 8
Microsoft Research Connections Advance the State of the Art Work with the worldwide academic research community to speed research, improve education, and foster innovation. Inspire Computer Scientists Accelerate Discovery and Exploration
Engagement and Collaboration Focus Core Computer Science Natural User Interface Earth, Energy & Environment Education & Scholarly Communication Health & Wellbeing
Research Accelerators Publishing Scientific Computing Research Management Learning and Exploration http://research.microsoft.com/accelerators
Enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities • Microsoft Research Connections Contributions • Chemistry Add-in for Word: Chem4Word is an add-in for Microsoft Word that enables semantic authoring of chemical structures. • ConferenceXP: Platform for real-time collaboration that seamlessly connects people or groups over a network, providing high-quality, low-latency videoconferencing and a rich set of collaboration capabilities. • .NET Bio: This open-source platform features a library of commonly used bioinformatics functions plus applications built upon that framework, and can be extended by using any Microsoft .NET language. • ChronoZoom: The intuitive, visually appealing cross platform solution that allows you to explore, author, and develop insights across 13.75 billion years of universal history. http://www.outercurve.org/
The Scholarly Communication Lifecycle Excel 2010 Windows Server HPC Windows Workflow Foundation Collaboration SharePoint LiveMeeting Office 365 Office 2010: • Word • PowerPoint • Excel • OneNote Tablet PC/UMPC Office OpenXML XPS Format SQL Server & Entity Framework Rights Management Data Protection Manager Discoverability FAST SharePoint 2010 Word 2010 + PowerPoint 2010 WPF & Silverlight “Sea Dragon” / “PhotoSynth” / “Deep Zoom”
Education and Scholarly Communication • Data Collection, Research & Analysis Chem4Word Semantic chemistry for students and publishers Project Tuva Enhanced Video Player Research Information Centre (RIC) Virtual Research Environment (VRE) Toolkit for SharePoint Project Garibaldi Large Art Display on a Surface (LADS) Zentity Semantically-enabled repository software Project Trident Scientific Workflow Workbench Academic Search • Storage, Archiving & Preservation • Authoring • Publication & Dissemination • The Scholarly Communication Lifecycle
Creative Commons Add-in for Office 2007/2010 Intent: Insert Creative Commons licenses from within Office 2007 Services: Integrates with Creative Commons Web API to create new licenses Relationships: license information stored as RDF XML within the document OOXML Source code and binary: http://ccaddin2007.codeplex.com
Project "Chem4Word"– Chemical Drawing in WordSemantic chemistry for students and publishers Author/edit 1D and 2D chemistry. Change chemical layout styles. Intent: Recognizes chemical dictionary and ontology terms Relationships: Navigate and link referenced chemistry Data: Semantics stored in Chemistry Markup Language (CML) <?xmlversion="1.0" ?> <cmlversion="3" convention="org-synth-report" xmlns="http://www.xml-cml.org/schema"> <moleculeid="m1"> <atomArray> <atomid="a1" elementType="C" x2="-2.9149999618530273" y2="0.7699999809265137" /> <atomid="a2" elementType="C" x2="-1.5813208400249916" y2="1.5399999809265137" /> <atomid="a3" elementType="O" x2="-0.24764171819695613" y2="0.7699999809265134" /> <atomid="a4" elementType="O" x2="-1.5813208400249912" y2="3.0799999809265137" /> <atomid="a5" elementType="H" x2="-4.248679083681063" y2="1.5399999809265137" /> <atomid="a6" elementType="H" x2="-2.914999961853028" y2="-0.7700000190734864" /> <atomid="a7" elementType="H" x2="-4.248679083681063" y2="-1.907348645691087E-8" /> <atomid="a8" elementType="H" x2="1.0860374036310796" y2="1.5399999809265132" /> </atomArray> <bondArray> <bondatomRefs2="a1 a2" order="1" /> <bondatomRefs2="a2 a3" order="1" /> <bondatomRefs2="a2 a4" order="2" /> <bondatomRefs2="a1 a5" order="1" /> <bondatomRefs2="a1 a6" order="1" /> <bondatomRefs2="a1 a7" order="1" /> <bondatomRefs2="a3 a8" order="1" /> </bondArray> </molecule> </cml> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/technology/personaltech/08askk.html?_r=1 Intelligence: Verifies validity of authored chemistry V1.0 now available (binary and open source) http://research.microsoft.com/chem4word/ http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/quickwire-microsoft-word-goes-chemical/29423
Zentity – Semantically-enabled repository softwareBuilt on top of SQL Server & Entity Framework Default web UI with CSS support and custom ASP.Net controls • Awesome A semantic computing platform to store and expose relationships between digital assets Flexible data model enables many scenarios and can be easily extended over time Binary & Source Code (Version 2.0): http://research.microsoft.com/zentity/
Research Information Centre (RIC) ProjectVirtual Research Environment (VRE) Toolkit for SharePoint Collaborative environment for research groups Personal site for each researcher and project site for each project Document management, federated search, social networking, real-time communication, blogs, wikis Version 1.1 (Open Source under Ms-PL): http://ric.codeplex.com/ Project Overview: http://research.microsoft.com/ric/
Virtual Research Environment Toolkits Currently Available Kits • Cancer Imaging for SharePoint (Oxford University) • Collaborator Search Kit (British Library) • Content Archiving Kit (British Library) • Content Lifecycle Integration Framework (University of Hull) • Data Management Kit(University of Southampton) • Document Review Workflow Kit (British Library) • LabTrove Research Blog (University of Southampton) • Literature Review Kit (British Library) • Repository Integration Kit (University of Southampton) • RSS Feeds Kit (British Library) • User Administration (FBA) Kit (British Library) • X-Ray Diffraction Data Converter Kit (University of Delhi) Templates • Researcher and Project Templates (British Library) • La Trobe Templates for VRE – RIC with Active Directory (La Trobe University)
Project Chronozoom @ Cal-Berkeley A “zoomable” timescale platform See the demo live at www.chronozoomtimescale.org Watch the video at http://bit.ly/alvarez97
Chronozoom Beta www.chronozoomproject.org
Microsoft Translator Your website/content in 30 languages http://worldwidescience.org Query-time translation Embeddable widget Bilingual side-by-side viewer http://www.microsofttranslator.com/AddIn.aspx http://www.microsofttranslator.com/dev/ajax/
Explore over 38.8 million publications…and growing http://academic.research.microsoft.com
MSR Academic Search data comes from open access repositories, publishers, and web crawls • Currently 38.8M papers across 20+ domains • 100M+ papers in the queue • More enhancements to come…
Joint Research Institutes in LAC • Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research (LACCIR) Institute • www.laccir.org • Microsoft Research-FAPESP Institute for ICT Research • www.fapesp.br/en/5392
Founded on May 2007 Goal: Stimulate Latin American-Caribbean collaborativeresearch in ICT as enabler of economic and social development Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research FAPESP Uruguay Argentina Colombia NSF • Created and supported by Microsoft Research with a Seed Grant of USD $ 3,000,000 over seven years. • Implemented with PUC Chile, U. Chile and universities throughout LAC. • Sponsorship by IADB& OAS • (IADB grant of USD $ 550,000) • Partnerships with: NSF, FAPESP, CLEI, CONICYT, COLCIENCIAS, CONACyT, …. Chile Caribbean Ecuador CONA CyT Costa Rica COLCI ENCIAS Mexico MSR ……. OAS IADB
Grants and support for ICT applied research projects within LAC. Seed grant money from MSR & IADB. Seeking new funding. Support for LAC graduate students mobility: short stays internships, fellowships in LAC universities and MSR. Collaboration among researchers and educators: LiveMeeting for video-conferencing and e-learning. MS software/servers platform. Workshops and summer e-learning schools. Repository of papers & thesis. Web Portal: LAC ICT researchers community, projects highlights, ICT statistics, data collection (publications, thesis, projects, R+D investment). Fellowships and Support for New Faculty in LAC universities. LACCIR main activities
LACCIR - First 4 Years in Numbers • 500 researchers from 50 institutions in 19 countries connected to the LACCIR network. • 180 world class expert researchers have evaluated research proposals. • 22 regional collaborative research projects funded by LACCIR . • 80 international publications . 62 research teams. • 28 graduate students funded by LACCIR have visited other LAC countries for research stays, connecting 13 countries.
MSR-FAPESP Virtual Institute for IT RESEARCH • The Microsoft Research-FAPESP • Virtual Institute for IT Research • supports high-quality fundamental • research in information and • communication technologies that • relates to social and economic • development challenges in the • region: • Collaboration agreement signed • in December 2006 • 3 Calls for Proposals published • 11 research projects in execution • Research workshops held annually • Overall joint investment for the • Institute US$2M
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Muchas Gracias! Jaime Puente Director, Latin American and Caribbean Microsoft Research | Connections japuente@microsoft.com http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/default.aspx