Word: microsoft
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...TIME:Some people say that innovation is ideally suited to the young, cool, hip and nimble companies. Microsoft is certainly older and bigger than it used to be, but you haven't really slowed down. How much harder is it to innovate as a massive established company...
...quite a sight. Last week at the post-doctoral science fair that is Microsoft's annual TechFest, Bill Gates was standing with his hands in his pockets, stomping his feet on the floor, staring at the image of the contents of an Outlook email inbox folder projected on the wall. But this was no temper tantrum about spam or inadvertently lost messages. Gates was trying out a demo that lets people do multi-limbed multitasking...
...What the Sundance Film Festival is to Hollywood, TechFest, now in its sixth year, is to Microsoft. It's where the company's 700 or so imagination entrepreneurs from the Microsoft Research (MSR) division have for the past six years unveiled their envelope-pushing inventions and futuristic prototypes for consideration by more than 6,000 company employees on the products side of the business...
...Microsoft Research, started in 1991 as the first of its kind corporate computer science research lab, may well be more dynamic than any university computer science department. That's the way Rick Rashid, the senior VP in charge who was a professor at Carnegie Mellon, designed it . "For me basic research has to be first and foremost about moving the state of the art forward in computer science. We publish in peer reviewed journals just like professors so that our research is subject to the same purity of process that a university would have," says Rashid. "It's not about...
...feature was so popular that within 6 months of installing the prototype on computers at Microsoft in January, over 7,000 employees were enthusaistically using it. By August of that year, the company executives decided to market it. Meantime, Gupta's MSR group co-authored a paper with a computer science professor from the University of Calgary that was presented at a leading conference on computer and human interaction, reporting on the development of the prototype and the results of user studies with the enhanced telephony device. The resulting product, Microsoft Office Communicator, which brings together email, IM telephony...