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
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
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
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
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
Nearly every product or service from Microsoft includes technology from Microsoft research
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
Basic model for MSR open-ended Disruptive Blue-Sky Mission-focused Evolutionary focused scheduled unscheduled
Basic model for MSR open-ended Be first Be smartest Be responsive Be the best focused scheduled unscheduled
Disruptive HoloLens Enabling augmented reality Artificial intelligence as a cloud service (AIAS) Station Q Elements of quantum computing
Blue Sky Machine learning algorithms Theoretical developments in math, computer science, and other sciences New models for natural interaction
Mission-focused SQL server Hekaton super fast databases Catapult Fastest cloud Most secure cloud
Evolutionary Video & photo enhancement through computational methods New capabilities for Xbox & Kinect SAGE automatic generation of software tests
Kinect: 15 years of R&D microphone arrays computer vision: since 1995 1998 2004 body parts 2008 2010 Kinect original muscle man 2013 2013 Kinect v2
Hand gestures: at-a-distance interaction Several labs involved Expertise in camera design computer vision computer graphics Technology will enable new interaction models
Intelligent cloud = new experiences Tomorrow: Fido finally caught the frisbee thrown by Paulo, in the fifth try
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
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
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: http://azure.microsoft.com/ml Text analysis Computer vision Text voice conversion Face recognition
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