MS Research Asia: first ten years

CREATED: 200801220807 SPEAKER: Hon Hsiao-Wuen

• MS Research started in 1991, today ~800 staff, 1% of company
• software does not age, not reason to upgrade unless there are new developments
• Areas ** Theory ** UI ** Digital media ** Network ** Search
• Technology transfer ** rapid transfer in Internet services, eg search ** slower for traditional s/w such as Office or Windows
• 21st Century Computing conference in Singapore
• New technologies ** image cut out - lazy snapping, Poisson matting ** image completion ** Photo2Search ** Search by humming
• Luis Von Ahn ** Captcha ** Re-Captcha ** ESP game
• Research 2.0 ** community is too conservative ** web/wiki as a publishing platform ** deployment driven research, SAS