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Microsoft Research (MSR) is a division of Microsoft created in 1991 for researching various computer science topics and issues.

1 Laboratories
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

Microsoft Research is one of the top research centers worldwide, currently employing Turing Award winners, C.A.R. Hoare, Jim Gray, Fields Medal winner Michael Freedman, Wolf Prize winner Laszlo Lovasz, MacArthur Fellow Jim Blinn, Dijkstra Prize winner Leslie Lamport and many other highly recognized experts in Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics.

MSR research is categorized into ten broad areas:^[1]

Algorithms and theory
Hardware development
Human–computer interaction
Machine learning, adaptation, and intelligence
Multimedia and graphics
Search, retrieval, and knowledge management
Security and cryptography
Social computing
Software development
Systems, architectures, mobility, and networking
Computational and Systems Biology^[2]

One of the stated goals of Microsoft Research is to "support long-term computer science research that is not bound by product cycles."^[3]

MSR sponsors the prestigious Microsoft Research Fellowship for graduate students and the New Faculty Fellowship for new faculty members.

[edit] Laboratories

There are laboratories around the world in Bangalore, Beijing, Cambridge, Mountain View, Redmond, and San Francisco.

Microsoft Research Redmond was founded on the Microsoft Redmond campus in 1991 working in buildings 112 and 113.

Microsoft Research Cambridge was founded in 1997 by Roger Needham and now numbers over 100 employees. It maintains close ties to the University of Cambridge.

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) was founded in Beijing in November 1998. Advanced Technology Center was initially a group of MSRA until it became an independent R&D group of Microsoft.

Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, located in Mountain View, California, was founded in August 2001. In January 2006, the Silicon Valley lab merged with Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC) in San Francisco.