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Redmond, Washington - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - January 26, 2006 - Software and Internet giant, Microsoft Corp., has announced the formation of Microsoft Live Labs, a research partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research.

The new research venture will be lead by Dr. Gary William Flake, noted industry technologist and Microsoft technical fellow. Live Labs will consist of a dedicated group of researchers from MSN and Microsoft Research that will work with researchers across Microsoft and the academic research community. Live Labs will provide consistency in vision, leadership and infrastructure as well as a nimble applied research environment that fosters rapid innovations.

Dr. Flake explained, ”Live Labs is a fantastic alliance between some of the best engineering and scientific talent in the world. It will be the pre-eminent applied research laboratory for Internet technologies. This is a very exciting opportunity for researchers and technologists to have an immediate impact on the next evolution of Microsoft’s Internet products and services and will help unify our customers’ digital world so they can easily find information, pursue their interests and enrich their lives.”

The Live Labs - a confederation of dedicated technologists and affiliated researchers in pre-existing projects from around Microsoft - will focus on Internet-centric applied research programs including rapidly prototyping and launching of emerging technologies, incubating entirely new inventions, and improving and accelerating Windows Live offerings.

This complements the company’s continuing deep investment in basic research at Microsoft Research and product development at MSN. Ray Ozzie, Craig Mundie and David Vaskevitch, Microsoft’s chief technical officers, will serve as the Live Labs Advisory Board.

Mr. Ozzie sees Live Labs as an agile environment for fast-tracking research from the lab into people’s hands. He stated, ”Live Labs is taking an exciting approach that is both organic and consumer-driven. Within the context of a broad range of rich usage scenarios for Windows Live, the labs will explore new ways of bringing content, commerce and community to the Internet.”

Live Labs will investigate a broad and comprehensive set of research topics such as multimedia search, machine learning, distributed computing and data mining, and will engage in rapid prototyping and the incubation of disruptive technologies. Unlike basic research, which is geared toward visionary discoveries that may or may not end up in actual products, and product development, which is feature-focused and geared toward solving tactical engineering problems, Live Labs’ applied research will study the relationship and applicability of theories or principles to the solution of a problem or an actual product or service.

Search Labs in Silicon Valley Microsoft also announced the hiring of Dr. Ashok Chandra, a notable industry and academic researcher, as general manager of Search Labs, a new organization devoted to innovation and incubation that will be closely aligned with Live Labs. Search Labs will be stationed in Redmond and at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, Calif. Search Labs will focus on areas such as personalization, socialization and improved user experiences while maintaining strict regard for user privacy.

To learn more about Live Labs, please visit: http://labs.live.com.

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