SIGHCI at ICIS 2006 Kent Foster Higher Education Faculty Programs US Subsidiary Microsoft Corporatio

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SIGHCI at ICIS 2006Kent Foster - Higher
Education Faculty ProgramsUS Subsidiary -
Microsoft Corporationjkfoster_at_microsoft.com
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Microsoft Research - History

• Founded in 1991
• Internationally recognized research teams
• Staff of 750 in over 55 disciplines
• Investing over 6B in RD in Research and product
  development
• Strengthening the Ecosystem
• Curriculum Repository
• more than 1,000 curriculum resources
• averages 14,000 downloads per month
• Since 1997, awarded more than 100 fellowships
• 1.2 million to 24 Ph.D. fellows
• 1 million to five new faculty fellows last year
  alone

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Names And Notables

• Jim Gray, 1998 ACM Turing Award
• Butler Lampson, 1992 ACM Turing Award
• C.A.R. Hoare, 1980 ACM Turing Award
• Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the laser printer
• Jim Blinn, Graphics pioneer
• Michael Freedman, Fields Medal winner
• Gordon Bell, Father of the VAX
• Rick Rashid, creator of the MACH kernel

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Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research Lab Locations External
Research Groups Technology Learning
Labs Institute Future
Redmond (1991) San Francisco (1995) Cambridge
(1997) Beijing (1998) Mountain View
(2001) Bangalore (2005)
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Why Think Global?
Sources IDC, UN
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Incubate Ideas Products

• A Safe House for Incubating products and Ideas
• Windows streaming media, Windows CE, TabletPC,
  eBook, Smart Personal Objects Technology
• Ecommerce, Datamining, IIT (natural language and
  speech technologies, etc.
• Critical role in MSFT growth
• Driving software engineering technologies and
  practices
• Developing future systems, high speed networking,
  wireless and data mining
• Pioneering research in software that allows
  computers to see, hear, speak and understand

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Research Initiatives
Pervasive Computing
Technology Solutions
Digital Inclusion
Championing CS
Computational Sciences
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What value could be delivered to emerging markets?

• Information as a utility
• Communication and transaction infrastructure
• Education platforms, apps, tools
• Grants and investments in development projects
• Business skills and training

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IT for Under-Served Communities

• Akhtar Badshah
• Senior Director, Microsoft Community Affairs

Among his responsibilities, Dr. Badshah manages
Microsoft Unlimited Potential (UP), a global
program to promote digital inclusion and
increased access to technology skills training in
underserved communities. Microsofts UP program
is designed to help narrow the technology skills
gap aid global work-force development and
create social and economic opportunity by
providing technology skills through community
technology centers (CTCs).  UP offers a
comprehensive approach to broadening digital
inclusion by bringing together critical
components, including training grants, software
donations, community learning curricula and a
global support network called telecentre.org.
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External Research Programs

• Collaborate with leading research universities,
  government agencies, professional organizations
  and industry partners
• Enhance the teaching and learning experience
• Create joint research institutes and host
  academic summits, workshops and symposiums
• Award annual fellowships and internships

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New Faculty Fellowship 2005

• 110 Nominations, 20 Semi-finalists, 11 Finalists,
  5 winners
• 5 Fellowships, 100K x 2 years (cash)
• Winners have gained more prominence since being
  nominated
• Microsoft will award five (5) fellowships in
  Spring 2007.

Subbash Khot Georgia Tech
Frédo DurandMIT
Radhika Nagpal Harvard
Dan Klein Berkeley
Wei Wang UNC
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Request For Proposal
Largest RFP program in the IT Industry 7 RFPs in
FY06 alone provided academics gt 4 million
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Collaboration Model
Accelerate Reach
Institutes
Projects
Validate Directions
Workshops RFPs
Explore Ideas
Supporting programs Faculty Summit, Ph.D.
fellowships, New Faculty Awards, Ecosystem
engagements
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Workshops and Conferences

• February 22-25, 2007
• Disney Wonder Cruise Ship
• www.msadgd07.net

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Trustworthy Computing Security
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How to Find MSR

• Microsoft Research http//research.microsoft.com/d
  efault.aspx
• External Research Programs http//research.micro
  soft.com/ur/us/default.aspx
• Research Funding Opportunities http//research.mic
  rosoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/default.aspx
• Fellowships http//research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr
  /jobs/fellowships/default.aspx
• Internships http//research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr
  /jobs/internships/default.aspx
• Human-Computer Interaction at MSR
  http//research.microsoft.com/research/detail.aspx
  ?id2

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http//www.microsoft.com/facultyconnection
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MS IT Intern Program

• Since 2001, main entry path into Microsoft IT for
  college hires
• Students typically in senior year (sometimes
  juniors), doing real work (entry level duties)
• Intern support system (manager, mentor, coach)
  and networking opportunities
• Ex-interns in MACH (Microsoft Academy of College
  Hires) upon return as full time employee
• Possible participation in rotation program upon
  return as full time employee

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Typical IT Intern Positions

• Program Manager
• Application Developer
• System Analyst
• Business Analyst
• Software Test Engineer
• Product Manager
• Support Analyst
• Ops Analyst
• Build Engineer

• Messaging Service Manager
• Support Engineer
• Technologist
• Business Manager
• Project Coordinator
• Network Analyst
• Service Manager
• System Engineer

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Intern Program Typical Majors Timeframes

• Majors
• Computer Science
• Business Administrations
• Computer Engineering
• Information Technology
• Informatics
• Managed Information Systems
• Industrial Engineering
• Computer Information Systems
• Information Systems
• Most common Microsoft IT internship timeframes
• January June
• July November/December
• Less common internship timeframes
• May-August (returning interns and international
  interns)
• April September (Drexel)
• September March (Drexel)

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Thank You