microsoft research innovation at the frontiers of computing andrew herbert chairman, microsoft...
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Microsoft Research Innovation at the Frontiers of
ComputingAndrew HerbertChairman, Microsoft Research, EMEA31st March 2011
Microsoft Research Mission
Advance state of the art in computer science
Transfer technology to Microsoft businesses
Lead Microsoft into the future
Integrated Systems Information Retrieval Cloud Computing Computational Biology Programming Security Machine Learning Inference Supporting European Science Sensors and Devices Constraint Reasoning Distributed Systems Socio-digital Systems Natural User Interfaces Operating Systems Game Theory Networking Computational Ecology Data Mining Environmental Science Understanding Images Disease Modelling
Integrated Systems Information Retrieval Cloud Computing Computational Biology Programming Security Machine Learning Inference Supporting European Science Sensors and Devices Constraint Reasoning Distributed Systems Socio-digital Systems Natural User Interfaces Operating Systems Game Theory Networking Computational Ecology Data Mining Environmental Science Understanding Images Disease Modelling
"This is a pivotal moment that will carry with it a wave of change, the ripples of which will reach far beyond video games“
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Andrew Blake, Kentaro Toyama, Probablisitic tracking in a metric space,
Awarded the Marr Prize , IEEE International conference on Computer Vision, 2001
Understanding Human Motion
Ramanan Navaratnam, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Roberto Cipolla, The Joint Manifold Model for Semi-supervised Multi-valued Regression, IEEE International conference on Computer Vision, 2007
Understanding Human Motion
Understanding Images
J. Shotton, J. Winn, C. Rother, A. Criminisi, TextonBoost: Joint Appearance, Shape and Context Modeling for Multi-Class Object Recognition and Segmentation.European Conference on Computer Vision, 2006
Skills Mathematics
● Algebra: logic, matrices, …● Probability, Bayes, …
Electronics and materials Engineering
● Systems, devices Design Social sciences
● Psychology, ethnography, … Economics
● Business and behavioural Philosophy
● Ethics Science – methods of research, use of evidence
Taxonomy for Computing Talent Inventors
● Create new concepts, technologies and business models● Creative, risk takers, visionaries
Integrators● Combine technologies and create platforms to deliver new capabilities● Deep and broad knowledge, professional
Application Builders● Use platforms to build solutions in fields of application● Business oriented● Best are innovators in business processes and new applications● Worst are locked into specific technologies
Operators● Keep the stuff running● Vocational skills, people skills esp. in support and public facing roles
Users● Digitally literate, but less and less so as technology “consumerizes”