1. P. Anandan Managing Director Microsoft Research India
From 0 to 50 in Two Years
P. Anandan
Managing Director
Microsoft Research India

2. Our Mission Still the same! World-class academic research
Impact on Microsoft products and business groups
Collaborations with external institutions to further technology research in India
Microsoft Research India
In Sadashivnagar, Bangalore

3. Highlights People Research Publications Technology Transfer
50 full-time staff (+64%); 81 interns in 2006
Research
Consolidated six research areas + Advanced Development & Prototyping team
Publications
Published over 60 papers; award-winning papers at FSE 2006 and ICTD 2006
Technology Transfer
Major tech transfers: Virtual India, MultiPoint, Elliptic Curve Crypto, Netra
External Research & Programs
Co-organized ICTD2006 w/UC Berkeley, Crypto Summer School w/IISc

5. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous Highlights

6. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
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7. 96% job-offer acceptance rate! (We missed two in 2005.)
People
Full-time staff total: 46
12 women, 38 men
Technical staff total: 40
17 with PhD (42.5%)
5 PhD from India
12 PhD from abroad
Location before joining:
India: 23 (57.5%)
Abroad: 17 (42.5%)
7 women, 36 men
Lab growth
96% job-offer acceptance rate! (We missed two in 2005.)

8. People “Dress-up Day,” August 2006
Joined in 2006 (leadership team in yellow):
Vidya Natampally
Srivatsan Laxman
Sridhar Vedantham
Satya Lokam
Vijay Patankar
Krishna K. Mehra
Randy Wang
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi
Debapratim De
Gopal Srinivasa
Kalika Bali
Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
Raghavendra Udupa
Ganesan Ramalingam
Anuradha Padmanabha
Vibhuti Sengar
Raghav Bhaskar
Abishek Kumarasubramanian
Lakshmisubrahmanyam Velaga
Just in…
Ram Ramjee
Ranjita Bhagwan
Venkat Padmanabhan
Ashwini Sharma
“Dress-up Day,” August 2006

9. Internships Total internships in 2006: 81
To date: 122
Institutions represented (40+ total):
India
BITS Pilani
IIIT-Bangalore
IIIT-Hyderabad
IISc
IITs (Delhi, Madras, Bombay)
ISI Calcutta
MIT Chennai …
Abroad
Carnegie Mellon
Georgia Tech
London School of Economics
New York University
UC Berkeley
University College London
University of Washington
Yale
Lab size over two years

11. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
ADP, CSA, DGR, MNS, MLS, RSE, TEM
Publications
Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

12. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
ADP, CSA, DGR, MNS, MLS, RSE, TEM
Publications
Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

13. Cryptography, Security, and Algorithms
Goals
Mathematical and
practical aspects of…
Cryptographic primitives
New paradigms for cryptanalysis protocols
System and code security
Algorithms
Error-correction problems in machine learning
Group born May 2006

14. Cryptography, Security, and Algorithms
People
Interns
Abishek Kumarasubramanian, IITM
Anand Kumar Narayanan, MIT Chennai
Avinash Varadarajan, IITM
Debapratim De, BITS
Krishna Bhat, IISc
Kunal Rajvanshi, IITD
Prasad Raghavendra, IIT M
Rajasekar Manokaran, IIT M
Ramesh Raju, IIT M
Seetharam S. T. , ANR College
Subrahmanyam K., Georgia Tech.
Sundeep B., IIT M
Tamoghna Ghosh, ISI C
Rishiraj Bhattacharya, ISI C
Arnab Roy, ISI C
Vaibhav Singh, IIT M
Staff
Raghav Bhaskar, Postdoc, PhD, INRIA
Debapratim De, Assistant Researcher, MSc, BITS
Abishek Kumarasubramanian, Assistant Researcher, BTech, IIT Chennai
Srivatsan Laxman, Postdoc, PhD, IISc
Satya Lokam, Researcher, PhD, Chicago
Vijay Patankar, Associate Researcher PhD, Toronto
Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Head of the group Principal Researcher (Redmond) PhD, Boston
Everyone joined in 2006

15. Cryptography, Security, and Algorithms
Traitor Tracing
Anonymous Credentials
Cryptography, Security, and Algorithms
Users wish to prove credentials (e.g. age) without revealing their identity
Credentials issued by a Certification Authority (CA)
Transactions must be nonlinkable and untraceable even by a collusion of CA and verifiers.
Identify private keys illegally held by a pirate decoder in broadcast encryption
New and efficient protocols for small number of traitors
Use bilinear pairings and set-covering partitions
Sample Projects
ML for Prioritization of Attack Scenarios: access control
Relaxation Methods for SAT In Cryptanalysis
Error Correction Problem
in Machine Learning
Used to attack specific ciphers and hash function
Unique in using only one or two encryptions; usually >240
Cope with deliberate or
unintentional attacks on training set of SVM
Can be of wide use in cleaning training sets of anti-spam, search, etc.
Transfer knowledge from security experts / compliance users to 1000s devs;
New formulation of problems
Inversion Attacks on Hash functions
Yellow: crypto, green: security, red: algorithms
Mutated Virus Detection by GraffDiff and Randomized Environment Tests
Polynomial Ideals for Integrity verification of Programs
Elliptic Curves and Number
Theory
Randomized Representation
Of integers EC crypto
Primality tests, Pairing
Based crypto, Higher
Genus curves, algebraic
geometry
Concrete Box—software protection tools
Code 4 Bill:project 15 15

16. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
ADP, CSA, DGR, MNS, MLS, RSE, TEM
Publications
Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

17. Auto-generated panoramic map
Digital Geographics
Goals
Invent new technologies to support digital mapping and location-based services
Conduct research in…
Graphics
User interfaces
Spatial databases
Image processing
Visualization
Etc.
Auto-generated panoramic map
(Neeharika Adabala)

18. Digital Geographics Research staff Neeharika Adabala Soumyajit Deb
People
Research staff
Neeharika Adabala
Researcher, IISc
Soumyajit Deb
Assistant Researcher, IIIT-Hyd
Kentaro Toyama (Acting Head)
Principal Researcher, Yale
Manik Varma
Researcher, Oxford
Interns
Shiben Bhattacharjee (IIIT-Hyd)
Debajyoti Ray (U College London)
Rahul Garg (IIT-Delhi)
Ankit Gupta (IIT-Delhi)

19. Dynamic occlusion culling
Digital Geographics
Sample Projects
Auto-generated panoramic maps
Handling occlusion in cityscapes
Functional animation in maps
Dynamic occlusion-culling in 3D scenes
3D geometry streaming
Texture classification w/ fractal features
Reading text in imagery
Baseline
L=0
L=1
L=2
Rejected Tile l
Projection of
View Frustum dt
Baseline
L=0
L=1
L=2
Rejected Tile l
Projection of
View Frustum dt
Dynamic occlusion culling
(Soumyajit Deb)

20. 3D Geometry Streaming Soumyajit Deb
Complete end-to-end streaming system
Seamless integration of existing techniques such as LOD, Pre-fetching, local caching and geometry compression
Continuous connection monitoring and detail adjustment
Fast, incremental visibility culling
Dynamic object handling
Top-to-bottom scalability –
can handle PDAs to workstations
Realistic Rendering
Dynamic Objects
Tile based LOD
Visibility Culling

21. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
ADP, CSA, DGR, MNS, MLS, RSE, TEM
Publications
Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

22. Mobility, Networks & Systems
Goals
To conduct research in networked systems:
Internet-scale systems
Distributed systems
Network protocols
Wireless networking
Mobile computing
Sensor systems
(Evolved from the HCS group managed by Chandu Thekkath)
COMBINE: collaborative downloading

23. Mobility, Networks & Systems
People
Research Staff
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
Assistant Researcher (BITS Pilani)
Ranjita Bhagwan
Researcher (IITKGP UCSD  IBM Research)
Venkat Padmanabhan
(Research Manager)
Senior Researcher (IITD Berkeley  MSR-Redmond)
Ram Ramjee
Senior Researcher (IITM UMass  Bell Labs)
Lenin Sivalingam
Assistant Researcher (Anna University)
Interns
Anmol Sheth (Colorado)
Thanks to…!
Prof. Uday Desai (IIT-Bombay)
For consulting in 2005
Chandu Thekkath (MSR SVC)
For providing leadership throughout
Sean Blagsvedt
For conceptual and technical contributions to projects so far

24. Mobility, Networks & Systems
Sample Projects
Proximity Networking
SPACE: Lightweight Peer-to-Peer Trust
ACM HotNets 2006
COMBINE: Collaborative Downloading
IEEE HotMobile 2007 (to appear)
WiFiAds: Location-sensitive Advertising
Sensor Networking
SenSlide: Sensor System for Landslide Prediction
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 2007 (to appear)
SPACE: establishing peer-to-peer trust

25. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
ADP, CSA, DGR, MNS, MLS, RSE, TEM
Publications
Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

26. Multilingual Systems
Goals
To develop seamless natural-language-neutral approaches in all aspects of linguistic computing
To help create an Indic-language research ecosystem
wikiBABEL project

27. Multilingual Systems Research staff Interns/Developers People
Kumaran A (Group Head)
Corpora Tools, CLIR, Multilingual Database Systems
Baskaran S
Machine Translation, Linguistic Tools
Raghavendra Udupa
Machine Translation, Comparable Corpora
Kalika Bali
Phonetics, Speech Processing, Linguistic Tools
Jagadeesh J
Document Understanding
Interns/Developers
Saravanan K (Developer)
Srinivasan, IIIT-B
Sonali, IIIT-B
Tejaswi, IIIT-A
Sandeep, BITS
Lucia, Sao Paulo (to join)

28. Multilingual Systems Glyphic Phonemic Text Project Overview
Transliteration
Ontologies
Machine Translation
Summarization
Intonation Studies
Language Research
SQL Operators
wikiBabel
Comp. Corpus
Corpora Collection & Management
POS Tags
TTP
Language Tools
Char-set Conversion

29. Project Focus Areas Machine Translation & Transliteration
Machine Learning-based Frameworks
Primarily, between English and Indian Languages
Linguistic Tools & Ontologies
Basic Tool-set in Indian languages
Automatic “inference” of Linguistic Ontologies from corpora
Corpora Collection for Research
Various Linguistic Corpora in Indian Languages
Cross-lingual Search

30. Corpora Collection: Goals
To collect Indian languages corpora to support our internal research
To create a collaborative eco-system for standardization, creation/collection & sharing
TAB 2007 Kumaran

31. Corpora Collection: Methodology
1. Acquisition of Corpora
2. Standards Definitions & Creation
3. Community Contributed Collaborative Efforts
4. Mine “rich” data from large volumes of “plain-vanilla” data
TAB 2007 Kumaran

32. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
ADP, CSA, DGR, MNS, MLS, RSE, TEM
Publications
Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

33. Rigorous Software Engineering
Vision
Improve productivity by bringing rigor to “software development in the large”
Look at Microsoft platform from the point of view of partners and customers, and conduct research to improve their productivity
RSE team, summer 2006

34. Rigorous Software Engineering
People
Staff
Krishna Mehra
B Tech, IIT Kharagpur
Prasad Naldurg
PhD, U. Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Aditya Nori
PhD, Indian Institute of Science
Sriram Rajamani
PhD, UC Berkeley
Ganesan Ramalingam
PhD, U of Wisconsin
Subbu Velaga
Interns
Chris Conway, NYU
Sumit Jha, CMU
Avik Choudhury, UC Santa Cruz
Prakash Chandrasekharan, CMI
Madhu Gopinathan, IISc
Kapil Vaswani, IISc
Bhargav Gulavani, IIT-Bombay
Visiting Researchers
Stefan Schwoon, Stuttgart
Prasad Sistla, U Chicago

35. Rigorous Software Engineering
Projects
Code Analysis
Yogi: Combining testing and verification for analyzing binaries
PPP: Preferential Path Profiling
Shape analysis
Analysis of binaries
Configuration Analysis
Netra: Seeing through access control
Design
Clarity: Programming asynchronous layers
Roundtrip: Validating O/R maps
Design Rules: Verifying and enforcing rules that involve multiple inter-related objects

36. ACM/SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award!
Synergy
Aditya Nori
Bhargav Gulavani
Thomas Henzinger
Yamini Kannan
Sriram Rajamani
Interleave testing and verification to identify bugs in code or to provide correctness proofs.
Group: Rigorous Software Engineering
Title: “Synergy: A new algorithm for property checking”
Authors: Bhargav S. Gulavani, Thomas A. Henzinger, Yamini Kannan, Aditya V. Nori and Sriram K. Rajamani
Venue: 14th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), November 2006.
One step of Synergy
on sample code
ACM/SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award!

37. Papers
Kapil Vaswani, Aditya V. Nori and Trishul M. Chilimbi. Preferential Path Profiling: Compactly Numbering Interesting Paths. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), ACM Press,  January 2007.
Bhargav S. Gulavani, Thomas A. Henzinger, Yamini Kannan, Aditya V. Nori and Sriram K. Rajamani. Synergy: A new algorithm for property checking. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), ACM Press, November WINNER OF ACM SIGSOFT DISTINGUISHED PAPER AWARD
Prasad Naldurg, Stefan Schwoon, Sriram Rajamani and John Lambert. NETRA: Seeing Through Access Control. 4th ACM Workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering: From Specifications to Code (FMSE), November 2006.
Bhargav  S. Gulavani and Sriram K. Rajamani. Counterexample driven Refinement for Abstract Interpretation. Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), March 2006.

38. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
ADP, CSA, DGR, MNS, MLS, RSE, TEM
Publications
Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

39. Technology for Emerging Markets
Goals
Social:
Understand (potential) technology users in emerging-market countries
E.g., urban middle-class
E.g., rural entrepreneurs
Technical:
Identify applications of computing that support socio-economic development of poor communities worldwide
Sugarcane co-op member using
a mobile phone to check on
details of his harvest in Warana, Maharashtra

40. Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan
Interdisciplinary Research
Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan –
Public Administration and
International Development
Society
Society
Jonathan Donner –
Communications
Nimmi Rangaswamy –
Social Anthropology
Group
Group
Impact
Impact
Understanding
Understanding
Rajesh Veeraraghavan –
Computer Science and
Economics
Indrani Medhi
Individual
Individual –
Design
Kentaro Toyama –
Computer Science
Technology
Technology
Innovation
Innovation
Randy Wang –
Computer Science
Udai Singh Pawar –
Physics

41. Areas of Work Education Agriculture Computer-Illiterates Healthcare
Rural PC Kiosks
Microentrepreneurs
Urban Consumers
Credit and Microfinance
Development

42. Technology for Emerging Markets
People
Research Staff
Jonathan Donner
Researcher, PhD, Stanford
Indrani Medhi
Asst. Researcher, MDes, Ill. Inst. Tech.
Udai Singh Pawar
Asst. Researcher, MSc, IIT-Kanpur
Nimmi Rangaswamy
Assoc. Researcher, PhD, Mumbai
Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan
Assoc. Researcher, MPA, Harvard
Kentaro Toyama (Group Head)
Principal Researcher, PhD, Yale
Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Assoc. Researcher, MS, Clemson
Randy Wang
Researcher, PhD, UC Berkeley
Interns
Shabnam Aggarwal [CMU]
Savita Bailur [London School of Econ]
Divya Balachandran [BITS Pilani]
Rahul Gupta [BITS Pilani]
Shanks Krishnan [GA Tech]
Renee Kuriyan [UC Berkeley]
Joyojeet Pal [UC Berkeley]
Bharathi Pitti [BITS Pilani]
Sireesh Sriramula [BITS Pilani]
Molly Steenson [Yale]
Carolyn Wei [U Washington]
Naga Yasodhar [BITS Pilani]
Joined
in 2006

43. Technology for Emerging Markets
Rural Microfinance and IT
Peri-Urban Internet Cafes
Technology for Emerging Markets
Can computers help existing structures for rural microfinance?
Study of Internet cafes in areas between urban and rural
Sample Projects
Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan
MPA, International Development
Nimmi Rangaswamy
PhD, Sociology
Computers in Agriculture
MultiPoint for Education
Digital Study Hall
Experiments with computing and communication systems in agriculture
DVD exchange over postal service and TVs as display for rural education
Multiple mice to multiply the value of PCs in schools.
Rajesh Veeraraghavan
MS, Economics and CS
Udai Singh Pawar
MSc, Physics
Randy Wang
PhD, Computer Science
After only one year of operation, MSR India has firmly established its place in research in “technology for development”. We’re able to attract the best people in this area – Indian and otherwise. Students from the best US schools are willing to come to MSR India for internships, even on India-scale stipends, because…
We’re in India and close to the communities where the research needs to take place.
We’re one of the few industry labs with an active research program in this area.
Our approach is critical and analytical, but optimistic.
We have a strong, interdisciplinary research team.
Participatory Development
Preventative Healthcare
IT and Microentrepreneurs
UIs without text for users who are illliterate and may never have seen a computer before
An analysis of ICT in development projects using the lens of post-colonial theory.
Information ecology of small businesses in developing markets
Savita Bailur
PhD cand., Information Sys.
Indrani Medhi
MDes, Design
Jonathan Donner
PhD, Communications 43

44. Multi-Mouse for Education
Problem: PCs in emerging-market schools are used in a one-to-many fashion.
Solution: Multiply the value of PCs by allowing multiple USB mice to be plugged into a PC, with each mouse having a cursor on-screen with a different color.
Children grasp the concept immediately and show greater engagement.
Papers presented at WWW2006 & ICTD2006.
Currently working on software SDK to be distributed online, as well as studies to test educational value of multi-mouse paradigm.
Before
Preliminary user tests included three groups of children. Each group was first asked to play a flash-card game for 20 minutes, single mouse; then, multiple mice were added, for at least another 20 minutes, longer if the children wanted.
Single mouse scenario:
Even with a dominant child, all children engage.
Engagement decreases with time for students without a mouse.
Sharing patterns differ between boys and girls (girls share more).
Everyone wants to interact with the mouse.
Multiple mouse scenario:
Children immediately understand the idea of multiple mice and cursors.
Children are not confused by multiple cursors on screen.
Children with mice remain engaged throughout.
Overall engagement increases, even for children without a mouse! (There is more opportunity to grab one.)
Other observations:
In interviews, student reactions were very much in favour of multiple mice.
One child did not like multiple mice because of its competitiveness.
There can be considerable difference in game-playing competence, especially with large variance in age.
Children rapidly pick up finer points of UI and game control.
After
More info:

45. Text-Free User Interfaces
Problem: Can a UI be developed to allow an illiterate, first-time PC user to access information he/she needs without any assistance or prompting?
Solution: Liberal use of semi-abstracted cartoons; voice feedback; introductory video for broad context
Subjects who initially don’t want to touch the PC become engaged users; subjects who can read a little bit, still prefer text-free UI.
Papers presented at AACC 2005 and ICTD 2006.
Currently working on an authoring tool, and testing in different domains (e.g., healthcare).
Job search for domestic laborers
Some statistics on illiteracy:
~1 billion non-literate adults (25% of the world’s adult population). This is likely an optimistic estimate, due to liberal definitions of “literacy”.
Women make up two-thirds of all non-literates.
98 percent of all non-literates live in developing countries.
In the least developed countries, the overall illiteracy rate is 49 percent.
52 percent of all non-literates live in India and China.
Africa has a literacy rate of less than 60 percent.
(Source: UNESCO, 2001)
More info:

46. Selected for special issue of ITID: ICTD2006 Best Papers!
Text-Free UI
Indrani Medhi
Aman Sagar
Kentaro Toyama
Identify design principles for designing UIs that allow non-literate, first-time computers user to gain value from their first interaction with a computer.
Group: Tech for Emerging Markets
Title: “Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users”
Authors: Indrani Medhi, Aman Sagar, Kentaro Toyama
Venue: IEEE/ACM First Int’l Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Develompent, UC Berkeley, May 2006.
Text-free user interface?
Selected for special issue of ITID: ICTD2006 Best Papers!

47. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

48. Publications Overview
Research papers
41 published to date
17 additional accepted
24 submitted, in review
~2.5 papers per technical staff, ~6.8 papers per PhD (per year)
Major conferences and journals
Software Engineering
FSE, TACAS, POPL, FMSE
Graphics and HCI
CHI, SIGGRAPH (sketches)
Databases: ICDE
ICT for Development:
ICTD, ITID, EPIC
Mobility: HotMobile, SenSys
Other: WWW, IJCAI
Two Best Paper Awards in 2006!

49. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

50. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
ADP, CSA, DGR, MNS, MLS, RSE, TEM
Publications
Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

51. Advanced Development + Prototyping
Goals
Philosophy – “Code talks!”
Prototype to drive product transfer and thought leadership
Showcase individual ideas through demos
Work across all research areas
Maintain deep, long-term relationships with selected product groups
Mobile SMS projects

52. Advanced Development + Prototyping
People – 9 FTEs
Joseph Joy (MSFT 16 yrs, Windows Networking+Server)
Co-Head, Dev Manager
Sean Blagsvedt (Brown, MSFT 7.5 yrs, Office + Windows)
Co-Head, PM
Other Team Members
Archana Prasad (NID, Designer)
Gopal Srinivasa (UNC-R, RSDE)
Nitin Vats (IISc, Assistant Researcher)
Tanuja Joshi (UIUC, Consultant)
Vibhore Goyal (IIT-B, RSDE)
Vibhuti Sengar (IISc, RSDE)
Yamini Kannan (BITS, RSDE)
Interns
Vikram Bodavula, Prerna Bhandari: text-free
Vijay Pothi : Phone to TV
Raj Kumar Parihar:  eBook  for EM
Russell Kondaveti: Wireless Keyboard and Remote
Adithya Hemakumar, Karthik Kambatla SPACE
Richa Singh: Image tagging utility, Virtual India
Mohit Gupta, Prateeksha Chandraghatgi : Virtual India
Samarth Prakash, Geocoder

53. Tech Transfer Overview
Major technology transfers to product groups:
Virtual India
MultiPoint
Elliptic curve cryptosystems
Netra
Other product-group collaborations ongoing

54. Technology transferred to Virtual Earth / Windows Live Local!
Virtual India
Joseph Joy
and Virtual India
virtual team
Multilingual online map of Indian cities generated from Survey of India data.
History
Jan 2005: MoU signed with Ministry of Science & Technology
Jan 2006: Online prototype unveiled by Minister Kapil Sibal
Summer 2006: Tech transfer
Transferred:
Tile generation pipeline
Transliteration
Person transferred, also 
Udayan Khurana [Thapur Institute of Engineering and Technology]
(MSR intern  IDC employee)
Kannada and Hindi views of Bangalore
in Virtual India
Technology transferred to Virtual Earth / Windows Live Local!

55. SMS2Blog: mobile social networking
Advanced Development + Prototyping
Major Initiatives
Virtual India
Global geo-coding
Involving the community
SMS Tidal Wave
Consumer: Search, SMS2Blog
(public release in Feb)
Verticals: microfinance, agriculture, corporate
Platform: SDK
RSE Collaboration
Clarity
Yogi
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56. Development + Prototyping
Verifiable Asynchronous Software
Hole in the Office
Advanced
Development + Prototyping
Study and publicize effect of computers for low-skill staff in enterprises
Programming asynchronous layers with CLARITY
Joseph Joy,
Sriram Rajamani (RSE)
Sample Projects
Udai Pawar, Aishwarya Ratan
Sean Blagsvedt
Global Geocoding
Text-Free
RFID Track everyone and everything in
Video, ink, photos sounds over for first time and non-literate users
Textual queries over spatial databases, with applications to geocoding
Find your phone &colleague. Combine IM, Calendar, Wifi/Bluetooth, etc
Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy,
Vibhuti Sengar + DMX tech.
Archana Prasad
MS, NID Design/Animation
Vibhore Goyal, Srikrishna R (intern BITS)
Other HTML caching:
Mobile Banking
Blue: Internet Scale Systems
SMS SDK
Assess impact and make MSFT + policy suggestions to accelerate mobile banking in India.
Smartphone + PC = SMS Server.
Simplify development
(2 functions to use!!)
Launch March 07 of O’reilly ETech
Simulating load placement algorithms for the next generation MSN servers
Jonathan Donner, SeanB
PhD, Stanford
Gopal Srinivasa, Joseph Joy,
John MacCormick (MSR-SVC)
Vibhore Goyal
IIT-Bombay 56 56 56

57. Ongoing Interactions Tech-transfer discussions
SMS server
Binary tools
Online corpora collection
Text-free UI
Ontological query processing
Transliteration
Robust image feature detection
3D geometry streaming
Occlusion handling
Machine translation for IM
WiFi ads
SMS2Blog
Offline caching for browsing …
MSR India “consulting” for…
Education
Mobile devices
Mobile platforms
Microsoft India sales & marketing
Virtual Earth
Tablet PC
Healthcare
Emerging market groups
Windows Starter Edition
Secure Windows Initiative
Digital rights management
Human resources …

58. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous

59. Strategy: ERP and Communications
People
Vidya Natampally
Director
Sridhar Vedantham
Manager, Communications and PR
Ashwini Sharma
ERP Program Manager

60. Technical Advisory Board
Isher Judge Ahluwalia (PPC)
VS Arunachalam (TNPC)
Anupam Basu (IIT-KGP)
N. Balakrishnan (IISc)
U.B. Desai (IIT-B)
B.N. Jain (IIT-D)
Pankaj Jalote (IIT-K)
Ashok Jhunjhunwala (IIT-M)
Krithi Ramamritham (IIT-B)
S. Sadagopan (IIIT-B)
Rajeev Sangal (IIIT-H)
Jitendra Malik (UCBerkeley)
Maria Klawe (HarveyMudd)
Ken Keniston (MIT)
Eric Brewer (UCBerkeley)

61. ERP in India Three broad new programs: Existing programs:
Capacity Building
Global Reach Program
Managed Research Program
Existing programs:
Workshop and conference sponsorship
Academic collaborations

62. Capacity Building Working with PhD-granting universities
PhD Fellowships, travel grants, internships, RFP, sponsorship, etc
Summer school
Workshops
Sabbatical program, visiting researcher program
Joint post doc programs
TechVista – annual research symposium
Work with non-PhD-granting universities

63. Global Reach Program Post doc program Visiting researcher program
Internships
Research collaborations – specific areas
Global collaborations initiative
US universities UK
Israel

64. Conferences, Etc.
Conferences, workshops, and tutorials co-sponsored or co-organized by MSR India in 2006:
Wireless Networking Summit (WiNS) [April 2006, Goa]
2 days, 80+ participants (Victor Bahl, Uday Desai, Mythreyee Ganapathy)
ICASSP Tutorial on “Text-Dependent Speaker Recognition” [May 2006, Toulouse]
1 day (Amitav Das)
IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. on ICT and Development (ICTD) [May 2006, Berkeley]
2 days, 200+ participants (Raj Reddy, Anno Saxenian, Kentaro Toyama)
Cryptography summer school [May-Jun 2006, Bangalore]
21 days, 80+ participants (Venkie, Vidya Natampally, Anandan)
Afternoon with Design [Aug 2006, Bangalore]
1/2 day, 60+ participants (Archana Prasad)
Virtual Earth Academic Summit [Nov-Dec 2006, Redmond]
2 days, 60+ participants (Gur Kimchi, Kentaro Toyama)
IJCAI Workshop on AI for ICT and Development [Jan 2007, Hyderabad]
1 day, 20 participants (Kentaro Toyama, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Krithi Ramamritham, Anupam Basu)
IJCAI Tutorial on Design in ICT and Development [Jan 2007, Hyderabad]
1/2 day, 30 participants (Bernardine Dias, Rahul Tongia, Kentaro Toyama)
Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagset Workshop [Jan 2007, Bangalore]
9 days, 20 participants (A Kumaran)
Key:
MSR sponsorship and co-organization
MSR researcher led

65. ICTD 2006 Conference IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Information and Communication Technologies and Development
May 25-26, 2006, Berkeley, CA
Co-organized by MSR India, UC Berkeley, IIIT-Bangalore, MIT, CMU
Focus on rigorous academic work, with all papers double-blind peer-reviewed
Establishing a community of academic researchers in technology for development
Next one likely in December 2007, location to be decided
UC Berkeley, site of
ICTD 2006

66. TechVista MSR India’s signature research symposium Annual event
World’s leading researchers and scientists invited to speak
Forum for scientists, researchers, government reps and students to interact
2 Turing award winners in TechVista 2006, more than 400 people attended event 66 66

67. Techvista Our premier annual event
Promotion of research and careers in research in India
“Gala” type event
Top shelf speakers, high PR
Combine with our TAB mtg
Annual visit of Rick and Dan to India
Has grown over time
150 people in 2005
500 in 2006
900 in 2007

68. Techvista 2007

69. Academic Collaborations
Ongoing research collaborations
Prof. Uday Desai, IIT-B
Prof. PJ Narayan, IIIT-Hyderabad
Prof. Prasad Sistla, U Chicago
Kapil Vaswani, IISc
PhD student of Prof. Srikant
Bhargav Gulavani, IIT-B
PhD student of Prof. Supratik Chakroborty
Renee Kuriyan, UC Berkeley
PhD student of Prof. Isha Ray
Ankit Gupta, Rahul Garg, Varun, IIT Delhi
Undergraduates
Shanks Krishnan, Georgia Tech
PhD student of Prof. Michael Best
Profs. Anupam Basu, Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur
On named entity recognizer in Hindi
Prof. TV Geetha, Anna University
On named entity recognizer in Tamil
Teaching activities
Formal Methods in Software Engineering, by Sriram Rajamani
IISc, Spring 2006
Lectures on Machine Learning, by Manik Varma
IIT-Delhi, Spring 2006
Introduction to Signal Processing, by Amitav Das
IIIT-Bangalore, Fall 2006
Computational Number Theory, by Vijay Patankar
IISc, Winter 2007
Key:
MSR sponsorship

70. Collaborations with NGOs
Azim Premji Foundation (KA)
Computers in education
Green (KA)
Agriculture extension by DVD
Stree Jagruti Samiti (KA)
Job search for urban domestic workers
Study Hall (UP) / CLT (KA)
Digital Study Hall
Pradan (WB) / Ujjivan (KA)
Mobiles for microfinance
Sankara Eye Hospital (TN)
Eye care education
Warana Sugar Cooperative (MH)
SMS-based inventory checking
“Computer munshi” working for Pradan,
a microfinance institution in West Bengal

71. Outline People Research Publications Technology Transfer
External Research & Programs
Miscellaneous Highlights

72. Lab Retreat
Masinagudi, Tamil Nadu
March 22-25, 2006

73. Building now fully restored!
Rajkumar Riots
Kannada film actor, Rajkumar passed away on April 12, He lived within several blocks of MSR India.
Fans and riff-raff rioted, imitating riots following his kidnapping in 2000.
Lab forewarned by Vidya and Vinod; building evacuated.
Most building windows were broken.
No physical harm to lab members.
Building now fully restored!

74. Abishek is the first (and the last?) Code4Bill intern!
Code4Bill Contest
The Prize: Write code for Bill Gates, reporting to his technical assistant for one year
Seven-month contest run by MS India DPE
Three rounds of puzzles and coding challenges online
Two rounds of interviews
Final round of presentations, winner selected by jury
24,000 contestants
19 in last round, all offered (and took) internships with Microsoft.
Four interned at MSR India.
And, the winner is…
Abishek Kumarasubramanian
IIT-Madras
Earlier worked with Venkie as an intern
Currently working as an assistant researcher in lab until visa issues clear
Abishek with Bill Gates’s then technical assistant,
Alex Gounares (now Corp VP)
Abishek is the first (and the last?) Code4Bill intern!

75. October 2004 (Diwali Festival)

77. Thank you!

78. Thank you!