1. Sailesh Chutani Director, External Research & Programs Microsoft Research

2. Invest in innovative research Collaborate with academia and governments to advance education Cultivate next-generation academic thought leaders Partner to build knowledge economies

3. Request for Proposals 6 RFPs; 485 proposals; 44 awards; 5 continents $3.6 million in research project awards Institutes The Institute for Personal Robots in Education; Georgia Institute of Technology in collaboration with Bryn Mawr College Microsoft Carnegie Mellon Center for Computational Thinking, Carnegie Mellon University Microsoft Research – FAPESP Institute for IT Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil Latin American Collaborative Research Federation, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile Events 2 Academic Summits, 11 Workshops Support of ecosystem Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowships, National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), Ph.D. Fellowships, Summer Internships...

4. Goal: Stimulate Latin American academic collaborative research in Information and Communication Technology as an enabler of economic and social development Institute Hub (Chile) Argentina FutureAndean Caribbean And Central America BrazilMexico Uruguay Local GOVERNMENT Orgs MSR Other WW Federations LATAM Government Orgs Announced on May 9 th, 2007 $930K Microsoft Research support over 3 years Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile is working in association with the Universidad de Chile to form the “Hub” administrative center of the Research Federation. Collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Organization of American States (OAS).

6. For Announcements and Step-by-Step instructions http://research.microsoft.com/erphttp://research.microsoft.com/erp Open Requests for ProposalPlanned Launch Amount Intelligent Web 3.0Fall 2007$500,000 Cell Phone as a Platform for HealthcareFall 2007$1,000,000 Mechanisms for Safe and Scalable Multicore ComputingFall 2007$500,000 Sustainable ComputingFall 2007$500,000 Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)Fall 2007$500,000 Biomedical Computing for Genome Wide Association StudiesWinter 2007$700,000 Special OpportunitiesPlanned Launch Amount 2008 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship NominationsFall 2007$1,000,000 A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research AwardFall 2007$1,000,000

7. July 16 announcement Enabling the Next-Generation of Virtual Collaboration $750K over 3 years Goal: Extend the ConferenceXP collaborative platform for distance learning and research support. Teachers, students, and researchers will benefit from real-time collaboration, wireless-enabled classrooms, and highly interactive distance-learning environments.

8. Richard Newton leading the plenary panel at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2006 Encourage research that impacts science, industry and/or society. Projects will combine multiple domains of experience and innovative computational approaches. The total RFP amount available is $1,000,000. Microsoft Research anticipates making between ten and twelve awards. The award honors the memory, legacy and accomplishments of the late A. Richard Newton, former dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

9. Microsoft Research Summit 2008 “Gathering the Next Generation of Thought Leaders” Focus on early-stage faculty and Ph.D. students In 2009 – Microsoft Research Faculty Summit

10. 5 Fellowships, $1M total, $200K per fellowship Magdalena Balazinska University of Washington Josh Bongard University of Vermont Yixin Chen Washington University in St, Louis Adam Siepel Cornell University Luis von Ahn Carnegie Mellon University Fei-Fei Li Princeton Aaron Hertzmann University of Toronto Scott Klemmer Stanford Eddie Kohler UCLA Regina Barzilay MIT Subash Khot Georgia Tech Dan Klein Berkeley Radhika Nagpal Harvard Wei Wang UNC Frédo Durand MIT 2005 2006

11. Ed Lazowska, (Moderator) Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington and Chair of the Computing Community Consortium Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Advanced Strategies and Policy, Microsoft Corporation Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research Dan Reed, Director, Renaissance Computing Institute, Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association Jeannette Wing, Assistant Director for Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation

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13. Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007