Innovation: A Global Process With Local Talent

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Innovation A Global Process With Local Talent

• P. AnandanManaging Director
• Microsoft Research India

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Long run growth in GDP is not so much due to
capital investment as due to Technological
progress

• Robert Solow, Nobel Prize Winner Economics

Innovation leading to increased productivity is
the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an
economy.
Source Wikepedia
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Technological Progress and Innovation

• Goal of innovation is make something new or do
  something better
• Innovation involves both R and D

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Why R in Industry?

• Technology growth key to social development
• Technology growth drives economic growth
• Technology inventions central to quality of life
• No technology was invented accidentally
• No technology was developed overnight
• Perfecting the technology requires decades of
  investment
• Only industry can take ideas to completion

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Microsofts Approach to Innovation

• Innovation in and through our products
• Microsoft Research
• Ecosystem support of partner innovation

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Top RD investors

• 80 companies in the world with RD exceeding 1
  bn (27 from the EU)
• 45 with RD exceeding 2 bn (15 from the EU)
• 8 with RD exceeding 5 bn (1 from the EU)
• Microsoft (5.58 bn),
• General Motors (5.54 bn)
• Toyota Motor, (5.45 bn)
• Pfizer (5.53 bn)
• Nokia (5.28 bn) partly through acquisitions
• Johnson Johnson (5.25 bn)
• Ford Motor (5.13 bn)
• Roche, ( 5.01 bn) (Swiss)
• Volkswagen (4.92 bn)
• Daimler (4.89 bn)
• NO INDIAN COMPANY IN THE TOP 50 (are you
  surprised?)

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R in support of D in Microsoft

• Every product group innovates during the course
  of the product development
• Innovations include
• New designs, architectures, frameworks
• Platform for software development
• Features in specific products
• Business innovations

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The MSR Experience
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Microsoft Research

• Established 1991
• 1000 full-time staff in 6 locations
• Redmond Beijing Cambridge, UK Bay Area
  Bangalore Cambridge, MA, USA
• Over 60 computer-science research areas
  represented
• Regular publications in major CS journals and
  conferences
• Contributions to products at Microsoft
• Ranging from development tools, data mining,
  photo editing, text-to-speech, grammar checking,
  spam filtering, etc.

MSR HQ in Redmond
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MSR Mission Statement

• Expand the state of the art in each of the areas
  in which we do research
• Rapidly transfer innovative technologies into
  Microsoft products
• Ensure that Microsoft products have a future

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Expanding the State of the Art

• Thousands of peer-reviewed publications
• 13 of papers at 2001 CHI (UI)
• 20 of papers at 1996 SIGGRAPH (graphics)
• 25 of papers at 1999 PLDI (prog languages)
• 30 of papers at 2001 PLDI
• Most papers SIGIR2004, SIGMOD2004, SIGGRAPH2006,
  OSDI, MOBICON
• More than 30 SIGGRAPH papers by Harry Shum (MSRA
  Dirctor) alone!

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Technology Transfer Impact

• Critical support technologies.
• Opt. Technology enabled sim-ship of
  Win95/Office95.
• Automated bug detection in Windows 2000.
• Extensive capabilities within Windows Vista
• Key technologies that drive products.
• E.G., MS audio 4.0, ClearType, collaborative
  filtering, intelligent search, etc.
• Incubated major products.
• Windows streaming media.
• Windows CE, eBook.
• Ecommerce, Datamining.
• TabletPC
• SPOT

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Product Innovation TabletPC

• Configuration of twistable screen keyboard
  conceived by Chuck Thacker (winner of Draper
  Prize)
• MSR researchers involved in virtually every
  aspect of project

Tablet PC
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Accelerating Science and Education

• Working with academia on software platforms to
  accelerate scientific advancement and pedagogy
• Skyserver, ConferenceXP
• Bioware Languages
• Representing the structure and function of
  biological systems via formal languages, for
  description, simulation, analysis and
  (eventually) compilation
• Early Detection of Cancer
• AIDS vaccine candidate analysis
• Web service for vaccine evaluation
• Technical Computing Initiative
• European Science Initiative

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Why did we come to India

• Strong engineering education, talent pool
• Growing economy and aspirations for RD and
  innovation
• Interesting research topics stimulated by the
  socio-economic-cultural environment

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Microsoft Research India

• Established January, 2005
• Seven research areas
• Algorithms
• Cryptography, Security Applied Math
• Vision, Graphics, and Visualization
• Mobility, Networks, and Systems
• Multilingual Systems
• Rigorous Software Engineering
• Technology for Emerging Markets
• Contributions to products at Microsoft
• MultiPoint, Netra, Virtual India
• Currently 50 full-time staff, growing
• Collaborations with government, academia,
  industry, and NGOs in India

Microsoft Research India Sadashivnagar, Bangalore
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India and Innovation (in IT)
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The Developed World

• Over 15,000 corporate labs in the US
• Employ over 750,000 scientists and engineers
• 70 of the total number of such professionals
• Total RD investment USD 150B
• Industry funds over 65 RD conducted in US
• Ctsy Engines of Tomorrow Bob Buderi

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Many models for success

• Bell Labs / ATT
• GE
• IBM
• HP
• Xerox
• Siemens
• NEC
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Google

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India Today

• Booming economy
• Growing consumer sector
• Large skilled labor population
• Rich investors
• Many Indian companies in Fortune 500
• The place to be!

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Challenges

• Not enough RD, mostly service sector work
• Very little basic research
• Changing values, easy job opportunities, easy
  money, changing lifestyles
• Corruption still endemic

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Indian Economy at a Glance
Changing Composition of Indias GDP
Real GDP growth Percentage, 1991-2007
India
100
80
63
60
Developing World Average
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20
18
0
FY80
FY90
FY02
FY08
Developed World Average
Agriculture
Industry
Services
Source Usda.gov
Source RBI
The Indian economy has experienced rapid growth
buoyed by a shift from an agriculture to a
services-led economy Source - NASSCOM
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NASSCOM DATA
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Priorities

• Rapid upgrading of the college education system
• Increase number of qualified college professors
• Make academic careers rewarding
• Make research a requirement
• Get the industry into the RD game
• Convince parents to encourage children to go into
  research

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THANK YOU!