Microsoft Research Cambridge

Microsoft Research is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was formed in 1991, with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technological innovation in collaboration with academic, government, and industry researchers. The Microsoft Research team employs more than 1,000 computer scientists, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians, including Turing Award winners, Fields Medal winners, MacArthur Fellows, and Dijkstra Prize winners.

Microsoft Research includes the core Microsoft Research labs and Microsoft Research AI, directed by Technical Fellow Eric Horvitz, and Microsoft Research NeXT (for New Experiences and Technologies), directed by corporate vice president Peter Lee.

Microsoft research is categorized into the following broad areas:

Microsoft Research sponsors the Microsoft Research Fellowship for graduate students.

Microsoft has research labs around the world:

Microsoft Research invests in multi-year collaborative joint research with academic institutions at Barcelona Supercomputing Center,INRIA,Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the Microsoft Research Centre for Social NUI and others.

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