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Article: Growing up is hard to do.(Microsoft Research's Dan Ling)(Company Operations)
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- Network World
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- March 29, 1999
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Redmond, Wash. - When Microsoft Research Vice President Rick Rashid called Dan Ling to offer him a job, Ling hesitated. After all, Ling knew Microsoft as a proprietary, quick-to-market company that barely contributed to the academic community.
But still Ling left IBM's prestigious T.J. Watson Research Center where he worked on the RISC processor to join Microsoft's fledgling research effort.
That was 1992, a year after Microsoft Research was started. Seven years later, as director of Microsoft Research, Ling sports a smile that says he made the right choice.
The biggest reason Ling left IBM is because Big Blue was afraid that research efforts ...