14 years ago a small software company called Microsoft made a big bet on the future by starting a basic research group in Computer Science.  It made this bet at a time when most companies in the world were cutting back or eliminating their research organizations. That initial investment had a profound impact on Microsoft and the industry and created a new model for industrial research.  In this new era of data centric computing, Microsoft is once again betting big on the future by increasing it’s investment in research and Microsoft Research is entering a new era of unprecedented growth. In my talk I will look at the creation and growth of Microsoft Research, the impact it has had on Microsoft and the computer science community and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in a “data centric” world.

Bio

Harry Shum received his Ph.D. in robotics from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. He worked as a researcher for three years in the vision technology group at Microsoft Research Redmond. In 1999, he moved to Microsoft Research Asia where he is currently the Managing Director. His research interests include computer vision, computer graphics, human computer interaction, pattern recognition, statistical learning and robotics. He is on the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), and Graphical Models. He is the General Co-Chair of Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005 Beijing).

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