Home to Kinect and a boatload of other technology advances that go far beyond Windows
Microsoft has just wrapped up a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Microsoft Research, which employs about 1,200 people (including about 3/4 of them with Ph.Ds) at labs around the world.
The celebration is well earned, considering Microsoft’s advances in not just Windows, Kinect and other technologies it is best known for, but in areas as diverse as AIDS research and the environment.
Here’s a brief interview from Xconomy Seattle with Rick Rashid, who has headed up Microsoft Research for 20 years.
And here’s a whole batch of content from Microsoft, including a Silverlight-powered timeline, of Microsoft Research’s accomplishments over the years (lectures from the anniversary celebration are now live online and can be subscribed to as new ones come online).
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