December 6th, 2011

Jonathan TIEN

Director of Engineering

Advancing Technology with Microsoft Research Asia

Microsoft Research

Research lab wordwide locations – Redmond, Washington (Sep, 1991) – Cambridge, UK (July, 1997) – Beijing, China (Nov, 1998) – Silicon Valley, California (July, 2001) – Bangalore, India (Jan, 2005) – Boston, MA (Sep, 2008)

Cambridge India Redmond Silicon Valley Boston Beijing

Opportunities in Asia/China

Strong focus on education & engineering

Big talent pool

Largest Internet and mobile phone user population

Aspiration to innovate technologies for Asia and the world

MSRA Focus Areas

Natural User Interface

CS Fundamentals Search and Online Ads

Data-Intensive Computing

Multimedia

MSR Asia in the Past 13 Years

• Founded on Nov. 5th, 1998

• 3000+ papers published on top-tier journals / conferences, 20+ best paper awards

• 300+ technologies transferred to MS products

• 20+ technologies licensed to other companies

Research Impact Extensive publication: over 3000 publications to date

• NIPS 2009 5 papers

• WWW 2010 6 papers

• CVPR 2010 20 papers

• SIGIR 2010 5 papers

• SIGGRAPH 2010 7 papers

• ACL 2010 4 papers

• COLING 2010 10 papers

• SIGKDD 2010 3 papers

• SIGCOMM 2010 2 papers

• ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 3 papers

• ACM CCS 2010 1 paper

• NSDI 2011, CoNEXT 2010, ISSAC 2010, AIRS 2010, UIC 2010, IEEE CSVT 2011 Best Paper Award

• ECML PKDD 2010 Best Student Paper Award & ACM MM 2010, SIGCOMM 2010, MMM 2010 Best Demo

Community Leadership

• Extensive visitors and speakers program

• Professional Services: TVCG, PCM, WWW, SIGIR, SIGGRAPH, Mobicom, CVPR, UbiComp… …

Technology Samples

Engkoo (英库) A powerful English learning experience

WJ Asia Innovation Choice Award 2010

Http://www.engkoo.com

http://dict.bing.com.cn

Growing Popularity

• 15X traffic growth since January.

• Query Volume: 86m / month,

2.9m / day

• We have a new traffic high,

almost every week

• Http://www.engkoo.com

Million

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90

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Mar Sept Jul Nov 0

May

Gigapixel Camera

Gigapixel Camera

Large-Format Digital Camera

Resolution: 1.3 GP = 1300MP

Capture 3mx3m fresco or

niche at 300 PPI

Focus Stacking for Super

Depth-of-Field

Panning and tilting

Dunhuang

Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, China

• An UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• 700+ caves dated 366-1400 AD with some of the

finest examples of Buddhist art.

• 1st time captured hi-resolution imaging of 3D

structures in the caves

High Resolution

Giga-Pixel result Regular DC result

High Resolution (Cont.)

Piece of full-size image

Regular DC result

Gigapixel_camera_Cave45.mp4

Looking Forward in the Future

• Software + Service

• Rich client (device) experience

• Internet services - software as a service

• Emails, IM’s, internet search, …

• Clients + Cloud experience – Clients are becoming more powerful, capable, and mobile

– Services in the cloud provide efficiency, scalability and redundancy

• 3 Screens + 1 Cloud

3 Screens + 1 Cloud