Beszámoló a 2007 április 14-21 közötti USA utazásról (Dessewffy Tibor, Dömölki Bálint) április 14 szombat- április 16 hétfő: • Utazás sok nehézséggel, Delta overbooking miatt, • Érkezés szombat este helyett hétfő délután április 16 hétfő – április 17 kedd: • Részvétel az IFTF Ten Year Forecast konferencián San Joseban (programot ld. 1. Mellékletben) • Jól szervezett nagy konferencia kb. 120 résztvevővel, főleg a programban résztvevő kliensek • A TYF témáinak színvonalas prezentálása, feldolgozás a hallgatóság bevonásával. • A forecast főbb gondolatai: o Hosszú távú kitekintés szükséges (pl. klíma miatt) o Ekológiai problémák fontossága o Felkészülés a bizonytalan helyzetek kezelésére • Tíz „perspektíva”: Economics Ecoscience in the marketplace Demographics Extreme longevity Politics Participatory Panopticon Culture Digital Natives, civic space Manufacturing Do-it-yourself Finance Intangible reform Asia Chinese consumer collectives Communities Citizens of sustainability Education Open economy makeover Science The next revolution • •
IFTF információ-gyüjtő („signal”) rendszerének megtekintése o Mike Love, collaborative media designer Közben beszélgetések résztvevőkkel és IFTF munkatársakkal. Howard Rheingold, Marina Gorbis, …
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o Módszer: külső szakemberek erőteljes részvételével folytatott sok vita után kevés szöveg o Főbb programok (előfizetéses alapon): Ten Year Forecast, Technology Horizons, Health Horizons o közös projektek ügyfelekkel ill. társintézetekkel o Ness egyéni témája: kisvállalkozók támogatása •
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Hazai tevékenységek ismertetése o NHIT jellege, feladatai, tevékenysége o Internet kutatás, World Internet projekt o IT3 prezentáció (ld. 2. Melléklet), három legutóbbi Körkép angol változatban Őszi rendezvény: o Alex Pang és Anthony Townsend szeptember végén résztvesz MTA által szervezendő „Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence” konferencián (Nyiri Kristóf) o Ehhez időben kapcsolódva október 1-én egynapos konferenciát lehetne szervezni a TYF néhány általunk kiválasztandó témájáról, további IFTF munkatárs (Jamais Cascio) meghívásával), magyar korreferensekkel. A konferencia szervezés részleteinek tisztázása az IFTF-el folyamatban van. o Pang részére 10-15 fős workshopot szervezni a „Future of S&T” témában További együttműködési lehetőségek o bekapcsolódás IFTF tevékenységbe „signal platform”-ként o Közép Európai kutatás-fejlesztés helyzetének vizsgálatához segítség o stb. ? (ősszel tisztázandó)
este: • Látogatás a Google telephelyén o Woytek Skut (kint dolgozó magyarok kollegája) o „teenager környezet”, ingyenes szolgáltatások, intenzív munka o Jó munkahelyi hangulat, hetenkénti találkozás a top managementtel április 19 csütörtök: délelőtt: IBM Almaden Research Center. impozáns épület(ek), hegyi környezetben … Carolyn R. Wallace, client relationship manager Stefan Nusser, content protection manager Dave Kamalsky -- Digital Convergence Project Manager • IBM Research általános ismertetés (Wallace) o mintegy 3000 kutató 8 telephelyen, ebből itt 400 o kutatás finanszírozás business unit-okkal együtt o együttműködés kliensekkel („first of a kind”, „ride together”,) o hangsúly a szabadalmakon, software is! (US vs. EU eltérések) o néhány példa: memória-kocka (Collective Intelligence Brick”, sok terabyte), „speech-to-speech”: instant tolmácsgép (Irak)
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o A szigorúan belső GTO mellett a külvilág felé nyitott előrejelzési project a Global Innovation Outlook: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/www_innovate.nsf/pages/world.gi o3.html#gio-mc Bekapcsolódási lehetőség GIO 3.0-ba ? Content and Media témában az egyik „deep dive” rendezvény novemberben állítólag Budapesten lesz. o Fontos kutatási (és felsőoktatási együttműködési) témája az IBM Research-nek a gazdasági életben egyre nagyobb szerephez jutó szolgáltatások elméletének kutatása és oktatása (Service Science, Management and Engineering). Részletesebben ld.: http://www304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/scholars/skills/ssme/index.html •
Részletes ismertetés a Global Technology Outlook-ról (Nusser) munkamódszer: o 4-5 full-time szerkesztő + sok szakértő world-wide o évente 5-6 téma, erős versenyben kiválasztva o ’Genetic Map” a témák történetéről o eredmény 150 tömören megfogalmazott slide (IBM bizalmas) néhány téma bemutatása: o Digital Communities, reputation management o Managing Business Integrity o Event –Driven World o Metadata o Service 2.0 o Application-Optimized Systems o CMOS development a GTO szakmai anyagai nem publikusak, kliensek számára előadásokban ismertetik őket, a fóliák átadása nélkül (A GPO 2006 ill. 2007 témáinak nyilvánosan elérhető kivonatait ld. a 3. Mellékletben)
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3D Internet (Kamalsky) o stratégiai téma az Emerging Business Oportunities (EBO) csoportban o virtuális világok (kezdetben játékok, később jelentős üzleti alkalmazások): kereskedelem, „rendezvények”, oktatás o jelentős részvétel a Second Life-ban (2600 IBM-es tag, egy éve csak 15) o épületek, események modelljei (pl. pekingi Tiltott Város, Wimbledon és Australian Open tenisz ) o rendszeres értekezletek a Second Life-ban (egyelőre telekonferencia hanggal) o előrejelzés: 5 éven belül lesz 3D-enabled browser
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délben: Microsoft Research Silicon Valley: nagy Microsoft fejlesztő telephelyen egy épület Roy Levin, Director • Microsoft Research általános ismertetése (Ld. 4. Mellékletben) o kb. 700 kutató, ebből 45 itt o ”Turning ideas into reality” o Teljesen központi finanszírozás, „driven by technology, not specific business needs”, “researchers create projects, not management” o Mission statementben első prioritás: “Advance the state of the art”. o DE: eredmények gyorsan megjelennek a termékekben, technológia transzfer hatékony támogatása • Néhány aktuális projekt: o Singularity, a dependable operating system (http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/) o Privacy in Statistical Databases (http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/DatabasePrivacy/) o Dryad, infrastructure for data-parallel applications (http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/dryad/) o Scalable Hyperlink Store (http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=1489) o eScience: SkyServer (http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/SDSS/) o PhotoSynth (http://labs.live.com/photosynth/) délután: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) • Nagy független üzleti alapon működő kutató központ (korábban Xerox) • Modern épület természeti környezetben (legelők mellett…) • Hetenként nyilvános előadás érdekes témákról • JB Straubel:„Electric Vehicles and the Future of Transportation Energy Use – Tesla Motors Perspective” o teljesen elektromos meghajtású luxus sportkocsi (kb 100kUSD) április 20 péntek- április 21 szombat: • hazautazás minden komplikáció nélkül Mellékletek: 1. IFTF Ten Year Forecast Retreat konferencia programja 2. Prezentáció az NHIT IT3 projektjéről (IFTF-nél és IBM-nél előadva) 3. Az IBM Global Technology Outlook 2006 és 2007 témáinak nyilvánosan elérhető kivonatai 4. Microsoft Research prezentáció
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Megtekinthető anyagok: I. IFTF brosúra az egyes programok rövid leírásával II. IFTF Map of the Decade és Ten Year Forecast Executive Summary III. IFTF Ten Year Forecast (részletes anyagok) IV. IBM Research brosúra és Almaden Research Center rövid leírása V. IBM Global Innovation Outlook 2.0 report VI. IBM 3D Internet prezentáció VII. Microsoft Research brosura VIII. PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) brosúra
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32ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE TEN-YEAR FORECAST RETREAT Dolce Hayes Mansion | 200 Edenvale Avenue | San Jose, CA 95136 DRAFT AGENDA
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007 12:30 PM SUPERHEROES 2.0: OPTIONAL PRE-CONFERENCE GAME EVENT Join us for a session of serious play where we’ll explore some of the big themes of this year’s forecast through a game exercise that will allow you to test your superhero skills for the world of 2017. Jane McGonigal and Jason Tester will be your guides. 5:00 PM REGISTRATION & RECEPTION 6:00 PM DINNER 6:45 PM WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS 7:15 PM THE DECADE AT A GLANCE: TEN BIG STORIES TO TRACK Kathi Vian and Jamais Cascio will guide us through the coming decade with an overview of this year’s Ten-Year Forecast. They’ll touch on everything from the weather to the emerging world of retail in China as they prepare us for deeper conversations the next day. 8:15 PM ADJOURN
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007 7:45 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM THE SUPERHEROES MORNING REPORT We’ll hear from those who participated in the Superheroes 2.0 event with tips for getting the most out of the day’s meeting.
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8:50 AM A WORLD AT RISK: STRATEGIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Alex Pang and Jamais Cascio will probe the various ways that ecoscientists and economists, as well as investors and householders, are trying to build a more sustainable future. We’ll work with a new IFTF map to see how organizational strategies may shift in a landscape where markets and regulation vie to solve problems related to the carrying capacity of the planet. 10:15 AM BREAK 10:45 AM PARTICIPATORY CULTURE: BEYOND THE CONSUMER PARADIGM Lyn Jeffery, Mani Pande, and Kathi Vian will interpret changes in consumer attitudes and behaviors, with a special focus on several new IFTF indexes— including collective behavior and do-it-yourself lifestyles—that have emerged from our bi-annual survey. 12:00 PM LUNCH 1:30 PM THE OPEN-ECONOMY TOOLKIT: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS Andrea Saveri will introduce a new IFTF toolkit for strategic planning in a world where open economies are disrupting traditional industries and institutions from media to medicine, from telecommunications to science. Peter Kollock, professor of sociology at UCLA, will share his research on cooperation that helped shape the toolkit. 3:00 PM BREAK 3:30 PM PARADIGM SHIFTS: OUR BODIES AND MINDS Alex Pang and Jamais Cascio will show us how two fundamental processes— how we age and how we describe the world—may be facing transformational shifts. Those shifts could change not only the way we live our daily lives but also the very way we imagine and plan for our individual and collective futures. 4:15 PM TOUCHING DOWN: HOW THE TEN STORIES WILL CHANGE LIFE ON THE GROUND Jason Tester will share his interpretive video visions of what happens when these big ideas collide in the everyday world of the future. In the process, he’ll introduce us to what he sees as an emerging discipline of human–future interaction. 5:00 PM WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION
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Information Society Technology Perspectives (IT3) Balint Domolki National Council for Communications and Information Technologies, Hungary
National Council for Communication and Information Technology • high level board advising the Hungarian government on ICT issues • 11 members – government + professional organizations
• Basic activity: opinions on legislation, strategy documents etc. related to ICT • + own supporting activities, incl. a technology assessment project
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Information Society Technology Perspectives (IT3) • initiated in 2005 • to survey the trends in the development and application of ICT in the next decade filtered by their expected impact on the information society in Hungary • audience: – decision makers in strategy planning – general public interested in ICT
3-step approach Overview
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12 key areas: technology push (7) utilization pull (3) cross cutting (2) vertical: ~30 “drill deep” studies horizontal: ~ 6 application visions (just starting!)
Conclusions
the thesis short description of the topic state of the art ongoing R&D activities expected changes influencing factors impacts on society/economy relevance to Hungary summary
7 “main trends” spelling out „significant changes” and „dangers”
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Organizations are using in an increasing extent the services of professional enterprises specialized to perform IT services and managability of such services becomes more and more important Wide use of real-time infrastructures
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IV. Intelligence Different forms of intelligent behavior appear more and more often in our IT systems and services, increasing the efficiency of information processing and also enhancing the convenience of human-computer interaction Relevant studies: Semantic technologies Flexible human-computer connections Agent-based technologies Integration of IT and biology Autonom and mobile robots Business intelligence and data mining Text understanding Significant changes
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Behavior of IT systems is becoming more People may get used to avoiding independent similar to human thinking (and not the other thinking way round)
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Panorama (Körkép) • • • •
„by product” bi-monthly publication editorial on an actual topic 24-26 news items – interesting and relevant
• starting in May 2007: new section on „Society Perspectives” • (using in a large extent IFTF materials)
Dissemination • Paper copies sent to decision makers (~80) • All materials downloadable from NCCIT homepage www.nhit.hu • Publishing on interactive website with wide searching possibilities (starting May 2007) • Regular monthly meetings with „IT3 Friends” to discuss newly prepared studies
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2006 Global Technology Outlook (GTO) The Global Technology Outlook (GTO) is IBM Research’s vision of the future for information technology (IT) and its impact on industries that use IT. It highlights emerging software, hardware, and services technology trends that are expected to significantly impact the IT sector in the next 3-7 years. In particular, the GTO identifies technologies that may be disruptive to an existing business, have the potential to create new opportunity, and can provide new business value to our customers.
The 2006 GTO focuses on five topics: Technology Update: CMOS technology will continue to flourish for at least 10 years before radically new non-CMOS devices are called for. There are two main challenges for future CMOS devices: increasing leakage currents causing high power dissipation and increasing device variability. Near term new materials (high-K/metal gate, low-K dielectrics, and strained silicon), device structures and tailored layouts will increase performance, to compensate for the flattening of the frequency curve. The future extension of CMOS will incorporate ultra-low voltage devices which will enable 3D silicon integration. Concurrently, random variability is becoming the dominant limiter for scaling and advances in complex on-chip monitoring, and control can and will mitigate this. On-chip caches will be stressed with the onset of multi-core and multi-threaded processors as SRAM demand a larger percentage of chip space. The Event-Driven World: The capability to handle events in software is an increasingly important business need in the areas of financial services, manufacturing, etc. Detecting and responding to events in a just-in-time basis is sometimes critical whether the events are business needs or public emergencies (e.g., credit card misuse, money laundering, real-time compliance, terrorism, internet services, critical asset tracking, detecting sand in oil intake pipeline, etc.) This topic addresses the increasingly sensordriven world we live in and how events, rather than data, are beginning to be recognized as a unit of information. It deals with the requirement for systems to sense, analyze, act on, and deal with events in a deterministic, time-dependent fashion with due importance to throughput, latency, programmability, and scalability, by building time-dependent and throughput-sensitive middleware (application servers,databases, Java virtual machines, messaging, publish/subscribe entities), programming models, tools, and by extending standards to this evolving field. Application-Optimized Systems: Modularity, scale-out, virtualization and the flattening of device performance growth are leading to an era of significant systems performance gains through optimization for classes of applications. Systems are moving new and evolving workloads from general purpose to ones optimized for specific workloads (e.g., anti-virus, event-driven applications, web services/ XML, in-line analytics, etc.). New design approaches, architectural optimization, and power efficient processors are making it easier to design, develop, and deliver systems with an order of magnitude better
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performance than before. Virtualization will simplify the deployment and management of systems enabling ‘ready-to-go’ systems that are preconfigured for various needs. The Accelerating Evolution of Software: Software development is going through a rapid evolution enabled by the ubiquity and ease-of-use of the web, simple to use software, tools, techniques, dramatic rise in computer literacy, and the development of standards around Web Services. All these forces together are giving rise to a new paradigm for the collaboration, creation, manipulation of dynamic content with the web as the platform, a.k.a. Web 2.0. The building of situational applications, built with just enough function to satisfy a business need (usually by business users) by mixing and remixing existing components are becoming more and more common. These trends will force businesses to rethink how their applications and services are designed, developed, and managed. This in turn will put the onus on IT infrastructure companies to offer new tools for development, management and integration of situational applications and services. This will also act as a disruptive agent and will hasten the refactor of monolithic applications into standardized and compartmentalized sub-components that can be mixed, matched, and replaced to deliver desired solutions. Services 2.0: The decomposition of businesses continues apace providing business efficiencies and flexibility. Web 2.0 will impact business services by accelerating the move to services composition (‘services mash-up’), particularly in small and medium businesses. Services mash-up is appearing as a classic disruptor to enterprise services business. New tools and methodologies for structured gathering of information about the extended value net, decomposing large complex business services, interfacing to legacy services, and managing relationship assets throughout the value-net will enable enterprises to also gain value from the composition of modular services. Overall these trends are growing the reach of business services further into IT and business services IT is responding by hiding more and more of the IT complexity
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GTO 2007 - Abstracts A New Era in Systems Design: In this topic, we are looking at the trends that are driving the evolution of microprocessor design today. Consistent with GTO topics of the past, frequency scaling for CPUs has slowed dramatically due to problems with power dissipation. Performance increases had been obtained in the past by increasing the CPU frequency. In this power-constrained environment, increased performance is obtained through the utilization of multi-core architectures. While traditional scale-up performance is still needed for some workloads (such as database), a growing number of new workloads can be addressed through the use of multiple small processors running in parallel. The engineering cost of designing leading edge CPUs has been increasing. It is not unusual for state-of-the-art CPUs to require 1000 to 2000 engineering years of design effort. As the underlying silicon technology continues to deliver transistor density, the cost of designing to use all of the available transistors will continue to increase, unless, the industry undergoes a fundamental change in the way CPUs are designed. This radical change is to introduce modular design techniques to greatly enable design IP reuse. Additionally, design techniques will have to include resiliency at the circuit and microarchitecture level, as well as fundamental understanding and control of variability at the device technology level. Finally, with the increase in parallel small processors, the levels of parallelism that were previously only seen within the high performance computing domain will now become mainstream. To utilize the available hardware resources, software will need to respond at all levels of the stack. Nanotechnology Update This year, the technology update is broken down into two sections. The first section covers the topics traditionally covered in the technology update – the direction that the base silicon technology is headed. The second section is a broad survey of emerging nanotechnologies, looking at areas beyond our traditional IT focus. The core silicon technology upon which all systems are built will continue to evolve for at least another decade, taking us deep into the nano-scale regime. How will this be done? Just as we always have, we will continue to push the technology to its limits. Patterning will continue to be done with optical lithography (utilizing 193nm light, also known as ArF excimer for the light source). The “cost” of utilizing 193nm wavelength light to print features much smaller than that will be process complexity and ultimately cost. In the current power-constrained environment, innovation in the form of new materials and technology elements will be required maintain performance improvements. Consistent with what we said last year, subsystem integration in the form of three dimensional structures will be a key component of performance improvements. This was covered in detail last year and we will not be going into this in any depth. Finally, nanotechnology is an exciting area. As you will see, the era of nanotechnology within silicon technology is already upon us. Nanotechnology is and will be a part of the 14 of 20
core silicon technology. In addition, nanotechnology holds many opportunities in areas far beyond information technology. Digital Communities: Humankind has always benefited from geographically co-located communities as it provides social values by allowing members to feel a sense of belonging, to share knowledge and to collaborate and innovate. In recent years, we have seen an explosion in the number and the diversity of digital communities, e.g. MySpace, SecondLife, Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG). Enabled by emerging technologies such as social software and 3D internet, these digital communities are providing new forms of interactions that are important to individuals. In this topic we examine characteristics of digital communities and their potential in providing value to the globally integrated enterprise. In particular, digital communities technologies such as tagging, blogs, wikis, reputation systems, social network analysis and virtual worlds can be leveraged in the enterprise to enable collaboration and learning, team building and interaction with customers and business partners. Finally, we witness the increased use of digital communities such as MySpace and SecondLife as venues for viral marketing. Managing Business Integrity: The dynamics of disaggregated value nets, compounded by increasing regulations and data explosion, will require a new approach to manage business integrity. In particular, in addition to an imperative model of the enterprise based on the component business model, a declarative model of the enterprise is needed which focus on consistent information of the core entities of the enterprise, such as customers, products, employees and services. We believe that maintaining business integrity requires the management of policy integrity, process integrity and core entities information integrity. Policies consist of government regulations and rules, but also include business policies and ethical policies. Today, enterprises do not have a complete view of their policies, are not aware if processes are followed properly and have inconsistent information scattered throughout the enterprise. Emerging middleware solutions are addressing the integrity problem of policies, processes and core entities independently. What will manage and maintain business integrity will be an integrated platform which manages the integrity of policy, process and core entity and their interdependencies. This will be realized as an extension of the existing middleware platform. An integrated framework for business integrity can help deliver on the promise of SOAenabled disaggregated IT by maintaining the integrity of SOA components and their interactions. Another opportunity is in the Governance, Risk and Compliance space, where business integrity solutions can help business satisfy regulatory compliance, while also deliver business clarity for performance gains and better strategic planning. Finally, the capture and discovery of information provenance will be important to business integrity and new provenance storage and management systems will emerge to address the near-line availability and long term preservation requirements.
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A Brief Introduction to Microsoft Research Roy Levin April 19, 2007
http://research.microsoft.com
Labs at a Glance Lab Location
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http://research.microsoft.com
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Where We Sit Bill Gates Chairman
Steve Ballmer CEO
Kevin Johnson Platform Products and Services Division
Jeff Raikes Business Division
Robbie Bach Entertainment and Devices Division
Kevin Turner COO Field (Sales & Mktg)
Corporate functions (HR, Finance, Legal, etc.) are omitted.
Craig Mundie Chief Research and Strategy Officer
Ray Ozzie Chief Software Architect
Rick Rashid SVP MSR
http://research.microsoft.com
Research Areas
• Broad spectrum, 50+ areas (see web site) – speech recognition, user interface research, programming tools and methodologies, operating systems and networking, graphics, natural language processing, robotics, machine learning, mathematical sciences, …
• Driven by technology, not specific business needs – long-term and uncertain relevance, e.g., sensor nets, quantum computing, computing theory
http://research.microsoft.com
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Our Mission 1. Advance the state of the art. 2. Bring advances quickly to Microsoft products and services. 3. Ensure Microsoft products and services have a future.
http://research.microsoft.com
Why World-Wide? • Talent availability • University connections • Geographically flavored work – natural language processing (Asia, Redmond) – networking (Asia, India)
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Microsoft Research Norms • Bottom-up – researchers create projects, not management
• Collaborative – within and across groups and labs, and externally
• Flat management structure – as much as possible, given lab sizes
• Open – most work presented publicly
• IP-based – patent protection routinely sought
• Publish “at the right time”
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Relationship to MS Businesses • Historically, technology transfer is the research’s toughest problem. • MSR-PM – The “connector-facilitators”
• A contact sport – geography can pose challenges – development in Redmond, SVC, Beijing, Hyderabad
• Tech Fest • Building on past success – Most MS products affected
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Selected Technology Transfers • Natural language processes – Office help system; knowledge base automated translation
• Graphics – Windows Media; DirectX/Direct3D; numerous effect technologies (Xbox)
• Web search – MSN core engine; relevance ranking; spam reduction
• Large-scale spatial databases – MSN Virtual Earth
• Machine learning – Drivatar (Forza Motorsport); filters in Outlook/Exchange (spam reduction)
• Software development tools – PREfix/PREfast (find security holes); static driver verifier
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A Sampler of Current Projects • Singularity, a dependable operating system • Privacy in Statistical Databases • Dryad, infrastructure for data-parallel applications • Scalable Hyperlink Store • eScience: SkyServer • PhotoSynth
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