Research.microsoft.com
E. Jardin & C. Schoch
In July, Microsoft will open the doors to a new R&D center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by the Charles River.The managing director of the new lab, mathematician Jennifer Chayes, exhibits the ambition to bring together computer science and social sciences. Unlikely? Apparently not if co-manager of "Microsoft Research New England Lab," Christian Borgs (J. Chayes husband) is to be believed: "We should be developing expertise in economics so that we understand how people value things, in sociology so that we understand how people interact with one another, in psychology so that we understand what makes people do what they do."
But interaction with the social sciences is not the only ambition of the new R&D center. Opening it on the East Coast offers the computer multinational an opportunity to build relationships with the research labs in that area where there is a high concentration of basic research. Microsoft also intends to move closer to companies that it has recently acquired, such as Groove and SoftGrid.
Eventually the lab should employ some 50 people, two-thirds of which will not be part of the prominent research staff, J. Chayes announces.
More information about ABG?
Get ABG’s monthly newsletters including news, job offers, grants & fellowships and a selection of relevant events…
Discover our members
TotalEnergies
Généthon
Tecknowmetrix
CASDEN
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire - IRSN - Siège
CESI
SUEZ
Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais - LNE
ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab
ADEME
Nokia Bell Labs France
ANRT
Aérocentre, Pôle d'excellence régional
Institut Sup'biotech de Paris
MabDesign
PhDOOC
Groupe AFNOR - Association française de normalisation
MabDesign
Ifremer
-
Thesis topicRef. ABG124643EDF- Occitanie - France
Thèse CIFRE sur l'analyse en temps réel des conséquences thermomécaniques du soudage sur les tuyauteries F/H
Engineering sciences - Materials science -
JobPermanentRef. ABG123642Laboratoire des Courses Hippiques (GIE LCH)- Ile-de-France - France
Chargé(e) de Recherche et Innovation (H/F) / Senior Scientist Research & Innovation (M/F)
Chemistry - BiochemistryConfirmed -
Thesis topicRef. ABG124980École Polytechnique de MontréalMontréal - Canada
Advanced characterization of abradable coating wear phenomena during blade-tip/casing contacts in aircraft engines
Engineering sciences