Joaquin Pe Fagundo is telling about the Technology Transfer Impact. Joaquin Fagundo is an Information technology professional and he is so bright in software development and testing stuff.

1. Technology Transfer Impact
Joaquin Pe Fagundo

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Microsoft’s Approach to Innovation
 Innovation in and through our products
 Microsoft Research
 Ecosystem support of partner innovation

6. 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

7. 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
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8. Microsoft Research
 Established 1991
 ~1000 full-time staff
 Over 60 computer-science research areas represented
 Contributions to products at Microsoft
 Inventing the future

9. 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)

10. 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
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11. Why did we come?
 Strong engineering education, talent pool
 Growing economy and aspirations for R&D and innovation
 Interesting research topics stimulated by the socio-economic-cultural
environment

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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
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15. Technology Transfers
 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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?

19. External Research
Strengthen CS
Research
Ecosystem
• Capacity
Building
• Communitywide
Research
Initiatives
Partner with Academia, Industry and Government
Address Societal
Challenges
• Community
Engagement
• Social
Responsibility
Empower with
Technologies
• Help advance
research process
• Innovation

20. Innovation and R&D in the
world

24. • 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?)

28. 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

29. Many models for success
 Bell Labs / AT&T
 GE
 IBM
 HP
 Xerox
 Siemens
 NEC
 Intel
 Microsoft
 Google

30. Today
 Booming economy
 Growing consumer sector
 Large skilled labor population
 Rich investors
 Many Indian companies in Fortune 500
 The place to be!

31. 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

32. NASSCOM DATA

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35. 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

36. THANK YOU!