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Panel Discussion: Made by Asia... Not Just in Asia - The Latest From Microsoft Research India and China
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December 6th, 2011
Jonathan TIEN
Director of Engineering
Advancing Technology with Microsoft Research Asia
Microsoft Research
Research lab wordwide locations – Redmond, Washington (Sep, 1991) – Cambridge, UK (July, 1997) – Beijing, China (Nov, 1998) – Silicon Valley, California (July, 2001) – Bangalore, India (Jan, 2005) – Boston, MA (Sep, 2008)
Cambridge India Redmond Silicon Valley Boston Beijing
Opportunities in Asia/China
Strong focus on education & engineering
Big talent pool
Largest Internet and mobile phone user population
Aspiration to innovate technologies for Asia and the world
MSRA Focus Areas
Natural User Interface
CS Fundamentals Search and Online Ads
Data-Intensive Computing
Multimedia
MSR Asia in the Past 13 Years
• Founded on Nov. 5th, 1998
• 3000+ papers published on top-tier journals / conferences, 20+ best paper awards
• 300+ technologies transferred to MS products
• 20+ technologies licensed to other companies
Research Impact Extensive publication: over 3000 publications to date
• NIPS 2009 5 papers
• WWW 2010 6 papers
• CVPR 2010 20 papers
• SIGIR 2010 5 papers
• SIGGRAPH 2010 7 papers
• ACL 2010 4 papers
• COLING 2010 10 papers
• SIGKDD 2010 3 papers
• SIGCOMM 2010 2 papers
• ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 3 papers
• ACM CCS 2010 1 paper
• NSDI 2011, CoNEXT 2010, ISSAC 2010, AIRS 2010, UIC 2010, IEEE CSVT 2011 Best Paper Award
• ECML PKDD 2010 Best Student Paper Award & ACM MM 2010, SIGCOMM 2010, MMM 2010 Best Demo
Community Leadership
• Extensive visitors and speakers program
• Professional Services: TVCG, PCM, WWW, SIGIR, SIGGRAPH, Mobicom, CVPR, UbiComp… …
Technology Samples
Engkoo (英库) A powerful English learning experience
WJ Asia Innovation Choice Award 2010
Http://www.engkoo.com
http://dict.bing.com.cn
Growing Popularity
• 15X traffic growth since January.
• Query Volume: 86m / month,
2.9m / day
• We have a new traffic high,
almost every week
• Http://www.engkoo.com
Million
60
90
30
Mar Sept Jul Nov 0
May
Gigapixel Camera
Gigapixel Camera
Large-Format Digital Camera
Resolution: 1.3 GP = 1300MP
Capture 3mx3m fresco or
niche at 300 PPI
Focus Stacking for Super
Depth-of-Field
Panning and tilting
Dunhuang
Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, China
• An UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 700+ caves dated 366-1400 AD with some of the
finest examples of Buddhist art.
• 1st time captured hi-resolution imaging of 3D
structures in the caves
High Resolution
Giga-Pixel result Regular DC result
High Resolution (Cont.)
Piece of full-size image
Regular DC result
Looking Forward in the Future
• Software + Service
• Rich client (device) experience
• Internet services - software as a service
• Emails, IM’s, internet search, …
• Clients + Cloud experience – Clients are becoming more powerful, capable, and mobile
– Services in the cloud provide efficiency, scalability and redundancy
• 3 Screens + 1 Cloud
3 Screens + 1 Cloud
