Microsoft Research has talked up the way that its research arm is sharing information with the educational community at a company event at its Silicon Valley campus. Working with universities is vital, argued Roy Levin, director of Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley, because academia is driving innovation....George Johnson, associate dean in charge of special programmes at the engineering department for the University of California Berkeley, said that Microsoft Research is typifying the approach of "first the science, then the company".
Commercial research organisations are increasingly pulling their research in house to prevent having to share the results with competitors, or to focus more on product research. Microsoft Research was founded in 1991 and focuses on long-term research, looking 10 to 15 years into the future. The group employs 700 people in its labs in Seattle and has satellite locations in Beijing, Bangalore, Cambridge and Silicon Valley.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/03/2006 11:13:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
