Microsoft Research is a comprehensive resource for advanced technology research and development. It encompasses a wide range of research areas, academic programs, events, and conferences.

Research Areas

Microsoft Research focuses on several key areas:

• Intelligence: This includes artificial intelligence, audio and acoustics, computer vision, graphics and multimedia, human-computer interaction, human language technologies, and search and information retrieval.
• Systems: This encompasses data platforms and analytics, hardware and devices, programming languages and software engineering, quantum computing, security, privacy and cryptography, and systems and networking.
• Theory: This involves algorithms and mathematics.
• Other Sciences: This includes ecology and environment, economics, medical, health and genomics, social sciences, and technology for emerging markets.

Programs and Events

Microsoft Research offers a range of academic programs for both faculty and students. They also host various events and conferences, webinars and tutorials, and produce blogs and podcasts.

Microsoft Research Labs

Microsoft Research Labs are located globally, including AI4Science, Asia Lab, Cambridge Health Futures, India, Montreal, New England, New York City, and Redmond. They also have other labs such as Applied Sciences, Mixed Reality & AI in Cambridge and Zurich, and Advanced Technology Lab Cairo.

Project Knowledge Exploration

Project Knowledge Exploration is a feature of Microsoft Research designed to enhance interactive search experiences over structured data via natural language inputs.