How Microsoft Research is Designing What s Next

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1 How Microsoft Research is Designing What s Next Rico Malvar Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research Mobile Workforce Big Data Cloud Computing Social Enterprise Privacy and Security

2 Microsoft Research: origins & mission Born from a 1990 memo from CTO Nathan Myhrvold to CEO Bill Gates Advance state-of-theart in the areas we choose to do research Transfer the best research results into Microsoft products Ensure the future of Microsoft and the computing field

3 What makes MSR unique Over 1,000 Researchers and Engineers (most with PhDs) Cover the breadth of computing and information technology Global locations: hire the best, foster diversity, local-toglobal impact Basic & applied research: short- and long-term impact on products and services used by billions of people

4 Microsoft Research worldwide MSR Redmond FUSE Labs Station Q MSR New England MSR New York ATL Brazil MSR Cambridge T&R ATG Munich T&R ATG Cairo T&R ATG Israel MSR India MSR Asia Bing R&D Brazil

5 Value of research to Microsoft Agility to drive & respond to technology shifts Expanded problem-solving capabilities MSR generates ~ 15% of Microsoft s patents Promote use of MS platforms for research Enable other fields of science Technology portfolio for long-term impact

6 Nearly every product or service from Microsoft includes technology from Microsoft research

7 Golden era for research Inflection point in computing capabilities Moore s Law slowing down new approaches needed Growing computing and storage in Data Centers Computers that can see, hear, understand New sensors to better capture user s voice and gestures Recent advances in Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning Recent advances in Machine Learning e.g. Deep Neural Networks Cloud computing growing rapidly Beyond SAAS/PAAS/IAAS: big-data-driven analytics Computer Science enabling scientific advances Genomics, economics, computational sociology

8 Basic model for MSR open-ended Disruptive Blue-Sky Mission-focused Evolutionary focused scheduled unscheduled

9 Basic model for MSR open-ended Be first Be smartest Be responsive Be the best focused scheduled unscheduled

10 Disruptive HoloLens Enabling augmented reality Artificial intelligence as a cloud service (AIAS) Station Q Elements of quantum computing

11 Blue Sky Machine learning algorithms Theoretical developments in math, computer science, and other sciences New models for natural interaction

12 Mission-focused SQL server Hekaton super fast databases Catapult Fastest cloud Most secure cloud

13 Evolutionary Video & photo enhancement through computational methods New capabilities for Xbox & Kinect SAGE automatic generation of software tests

14 Kinect: 15 years of R&D microphone arrays computer vision: since body parts Kinect original muscle man Kinect v2

15 Hand gestures: at-a-distance interaction Several labs involved Expertise in camera design computer vision computer graphics Technology will enable new interaction models

16 Intelligent cloud = new experiences Tomorrow: Fido finally caught the frisbee thrown by Paulo, in the fifth try

17 New cloud computing hardware Catapult FPGA-based boards Programmable hardware adapts to specific loads (ASICs much less flexible) 2x 50x throughput/energy gains Going online in Azure very soon

18 Cloud security Databases with trusted in-cloud processing Insert isolated computing element into cloud, use to store keys and perform computation (Intel SGX, FPGA, secure co-processor) PHC: computation on strongly encrypted data decrypt, compute, encrypt Compute Azure client device

19 Azure Machine Learning Visual programming interface Support Python & R languages HDInsight for Hadoop Machine learning methods in the cloud Real-time analytics & actions Intelligent APIs: Text analysis Computer vision Text voice conversion Face recognition

20 Skype Translator: no language barrier Preview App for: English Spanish French German Italian Mandarin Portuguese arriving soon Download from (Windows 8.1 & 10)

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