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Article: Microsoft: Deep pockets for deep thinkers.(Microsoft Research)(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Network World
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- November 23, 1998
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While other companies may be under pressure to cut back on basic research, Microsoft is going in the other direction, embarking on an aggressive effort to expand its research lab. The company has attracted 300 scientists to its Redmond, Wash., campus since it created a research lab in 1991, and plans to add 300 more over the next few years.
Microsoft Research is a separate organization charged with looking into four strategic areas: advanced interactivity and intelligence; programming tools and methodologies; systems; and architecture and theory.
James Kajiya, assistant director of Microsoft Research, says 200 scientists are working on what could be ...