Microsoft Research VP Gives a Look into the Process
Microsoft senior vice president Rick Rashid has been the steady hand at the helm of Microsoft Research for nearly 17 years. Under Rashid’s guidance, Microsoft Research has grown into an organization modeled after academia, yet it has also contributed to Microsoft’s bottom line. SD Times sat down with Rashid to learn about what drives research and how projects surface in shipping products.
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Suit forces eHarmony to offer gay dating service
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Reuters - Online dating service eHarmony has agreed to create a new website for gays and lesbians as part of a settlement with a gay man in New Jersey, the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General said on Wednesday.
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Harmonic Opens New International Operations Center in Switzerland
Sunnyvale, Calif. - Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that it has expanded its global presence with the addition of a new international operations center in Fribourg, Switzerland, which wil... [WebWire - Wednesday, November 19, 2008]
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Microsoft Goes Far Afield to Study Emerging Markets
A nine-person team at Microsoft Research India approaches the technology of emerging markets in unconventional ways. Most often, they rely on a mix of sociology and empirical testing to see whether quirky ideas can make technology useful to those who have heretofore lived without it.
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