Innovation: The Key to technology leadershipP. AnandanManaging DirectorMicrosoft Research India

Robert Solow, Nobel Prize Winner Economics

Long run growth in GDP is not so much due to capital investment as due to Technological progress

Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.

Source: Wikepedia

Technological Progress and Innovation

Goal of innovation is make something new or do something better

Innovation is the process of enabling effective and efficient solutions to meet people’s needs

Innovation begins in the lab and ends at the hands of the customer

Innovation involves both R and D

Why R in Industry? Technology growth key to social development

Technology growth drives economic growth

Technology inventions central to quality of life

No technology was invented accidentally

No technology was developed overnight

Perfecting the technology requires decades of investment

Only industry can take ideas to completion

Microsoft’s Approach to Innovation Innovation in and through our products

Microsoft Research

Ecosystem support of partner innovation

R in support of D in Microsoft Every product group innovates during the course of the

product development

Innovations include: New designs, architectures, frameworks

Platform for software development

Features in specific products

Business innovations

The MSR Experience

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MSR Mission Statement Expand the state of the art in each of the areas in which we

do research

Rapidly transfer innovative technologies into Microsoft products

Ensure that Microsoft products have a future

Microsoft Research Established 1991

~1000 full-time staff

Over 60 computer-science research areas represented

Contributions to products at Microsoft

Inventing the future

Microsoft Research locations :

Redmond, Washington, USA(Sep, 1991)

Cambridge, United Kingdom(July, 1997)

Beijing, China(Nov, 1998)

Silicon Valley, California (July, 2001)

Bangalore, India (Jan, 2005)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

(July, 2008)

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Technology Transfer Impact Critical support technologies.

Opt. Technology enabled sim-ship of Win95/Office95.

Automated bug detection in Windows 2000.

Almost every aspect of Windows 7

Key technologies that drive products. E.G., MS audio 4.0, ClearType, collaborative filtering, intelligent search, etc.

Bing is continually evolving through research collaboration

Incubated major products. Windows streaming media.

Windows CE, eBook.

Ecommerce, Datamining.

TabletPC

Surface

Speech processing

Why did we come to India Strong engineering education, talent pool

Growing economy and aspirations for R&D and innovation

Interesting research topics stimulated by the socio-economic-cultural environment

Microsoft Research India

The First Five Years

P. Anandan

Distinguished Scientist

& Managing Director

MSR India

People & Place Full-time staff total: 56

Technical staff: 48 34 with PhD (69%)

Total interns (5 years): ~430 Indian universities: 60%

Foreign universities: 40%

PhD candidates: 43%

Bachelors/Masters: 57%

Universities include… IISc, IITs, BITS, DAIICT, IIITs, MIT, CMU, UC

Berkeley, UW, Yale, Cambridge, Chicago, Bristol, National University of Singapore, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Oxford, Georgia Institute of Technology, Princeton, New York University, University of Maryland, McGill University, U. Cape Town, UC Santa Barbara, U Michigan

Research Groups Algorithms and Search

Cryptography, Security, and Applied Mathematics

Mobility, Networks, and Systems

Multilingual Systems

Rigorous Software Engineering

Technology for Emerging Markets

Vision, Graphics, and Visualization

Publications

Award winning research

ACM Eugene Lawler Award (Digital Study Hall)

Best-paper awards in

FSE

ICTD

COMSNETS

• TED Award

• First place in FIRE (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation) 2009

• Joint winner in PASCAL VOC Object Detection Challenge 2009

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Paper count

Papers per year!

Technology Transfers from MSRI in 2009

System Security tools for diagnosing vulnerability to attacks

Developer support tools to improve programmer productivity:

Program verification, debugging

Networking and cloud efficient compression while protecting privacy for data transfers from data

centers to clients

Search Robust location of addresses in BING Maps

Machine translation Community creation of multilingual content

INNOVATIONS FROM INDIA AT MSR

Multi-Mouse for Education

Problem: PCs in emerging-market schools are used in a one-to-many fashion.

Solution: Multiply the value of PCs by allowing multiple USB mice to be plugged into a PC, with each mouse having a cursor on-screen with a different color.

Children grasp the concept immediately and show greater engagement.

Deployed and distributed by Microsoft product teams

Before

After

Digital Green

Problem: Agriculture extension (transfer of expert knowledge to farmers) is slow and difficult

Solution: Locally recorded videos of good farming practices and ad hoc screenings in villages

Stockholm Challenge Award 2008

Spun off as an independent non-profit organization

Aiming to impact ~400,000 households in 3 years

Digital Green video screening in rural Karnataka

Work by Rikin Gandhi, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Vanaja Ramprasad, Randy Wang, Kentaro Toyama

Robust Location Search

Goal Find regions on Earth that “best

match” freeform textual input

Examples 2nd main, 10th cross, Indira Nagar 1st

stage, near RTO office Bangalore 560038

... in Madrid, somewhere near calle de arroyofresno and avenida de la llustracion

#67, वि�द्या� अपा�र्ट�मन्र्ट�स, फॆ� स-3, डे�ली� के� न्र्ट�न्मन्र्ट

Now Deployed in BING MAPS in several countries, including parts of India

Spatial

Data Repo

si-tory

Search Engine

Region

Index

Fuzzy Text

Index

Debug Advisor

Allow user to search diverse repositories using a “fat query” Fat query allows user to simply

concatenate all the context for the current bug

Match fat query with all historical data from repositories

Deployed and actively used by various MS product development teams

Has this bug or a similar bug already been fixed or studied somewhere else?

What is already known about this kind of bug?

Where should I start?

Who would be able to help?

External Research

Strengthen CS Research Ecosystem• Capacity

Building• Communitywi

de Research Initiatives

Partner with Academia, Industry and Government

Address Societal Challenges• Community

Engagement• Social

Responsibility

Empower with Technologies • Help advance

research process

• Innovation

Innovation and R&D in the world

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• Microsoft is the second highest R&D investor in the world: Euro 6.48B(Toyota is number 1)

• Microsoft has been in the top 3 for several years, was number 1 last year (Euro 5.58B)

• No Indian company in Top 50(surprised?)

Other Indian companies include: Polaris, Prithvi, Mindtree, Reliance, Ranbaxy, Infosys, BHEL, HCL, etc.

India and Innovation (in IT)

The Developed World Over 15,000 corporate labs in the US

Employ over 750,000 scientists and engineers 70% of the total number of such professionals

Total R&D investment USD 150B

Industry funds over 65% R&D conducted in US

Ctsy: “Engines of Tomorrow” – Bob Buderi

Many models for success Bell Labs / AT&T

GE

IBM

HP

Xerox

Siemens

NEC

Intel

Microsoft

Google

India Today Booming economy

Growing consumer sector

Large skilled labor population

Rich investors

Many Indian companies in Fortune 500

The place to be!

Challenges Not enough R&D, mostly service sector work

Very little basic research

Changing values, easy job opportunities, easy money, changing lifestyles

Corruption still endemic

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Indian Economy at a Glance

The Indian economy has experienced rapid growth buoyed by a shift from an agriculture to a services-led economy Source - NASSCOM

India

Developing World Average

Developed World Average

Real GDP growthPercentage, 1991-2007

Changing Composition of India’s GDP

Source: Usda.gov Source: RBI

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40%

60%

80%

100%

FY80 FY90 FY02 FY08

Agriculture Industry Services

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19%

63%

NASSCOM DATA

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STATISTICS AT A

GLANCE: 2007-08 MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Govt.of India, Technology Bhawan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110016, (INDIA)

OCTOBER, 2008

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Priorities Rapid upgrading of the college education system

Increase number of qualified college professors Make academic careers rewarding

Make research a requirement

Get the industry into the R&D game

Convince parents to encourage children to go into research

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