First Honolulu gets a branch of Microsoft Research Labs… now Cambridge, Mass!
Microsoft to open first East Coast research lab in Cambridge
Kendall Square center expected to debut in summer, study intersection of computers and social scienceBy Robert Weisman
Globe Staff / February 4, 2008Microsoft Corp., building up its long-term research capability at a time when other corporate research powerhouses have scaled back, is set to disclose today that it will open a laboratory at its new offices in Cambridge this summer.
The Microsoft Research New England lab, to be led by veteran Microsoft researcher Jennifer Chayes, will focus on the intersection of computer science and social science, and seek to tap into the expertise of academic researchers in the
Boston area and worldwide. It will be the company’s sixth research center and its first on the East Coast.
"If you look at the future, people are going to be interacting online," said Chayes, 51, whose own research interests range from mathematical models of social networks to algorithmic game theories of Internet business. "We really want to be a facilitator for this new field on the boundary of computer science and social science."
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