research.microsoft.com en us labs asia microsoft research asia microsoft s fundamental research arm in the asia pacific region was founded in beijing china on november 5 1998 . the lab conducts basic research in natural user interfaces next generation multimedia data intensive computing search and online advertising and computer science fundamentals . it employs around 250 researchers and engineers has used more than 2 500 interns has awarded over 230 microsoft fellowships has published over 1 500 papers for top international journals and conferences and has achieved many technological breakthroughs . 1 microsoft research asia operates under a mission of advancing the state of the art in computing through a combination of basic and applied research . 2 more than 300 research results have been transferred to microsoft products including windows office bing xbox kinect and windows phone . in addition technologies from the lab have been adopted by international standards bodies such as mpeg4 error resilient video transmission ietf tcp ip header compression and itu iso video compression technology . 3 the lab maintains a research agenda that focuses on five areas natural user interfaces that enable users to interact with a computer using speech gestures and expressions . next generation multimedia that allows people to search for and to be immersed in interactive online shopping education meeting and entertainment activities . data intensive computing that explores infrastructures algorithms tools and applications to collect analyze and mine results for data intensive endeavors . search and online ads by applying data mining machine learning and knowledge discovery techniques to information analysis organization retrieval and visualization . fundamental computer science including areas such as theoretical computer science theory systems networking and machine learning . 4 contents 1 university relations 2 events 3 notable developments 4 see also 5 references university relations edit msr asia cooperates with many universities in asian countries mainly through joint laboratories . the university relations ur program at microsoft research asia works with the academic community and governments across the asia pacific region to foster innovative research and advanced education and to promote academic collaboration . the ur team has worked with universities and institutions to organize various programs and events including theme based research projects joint labs international conferences faculty summits visiting researcher programs and on campus lectures and courses . since 1998 ur has sponsored more than 600 events in some 10 countries and regions that have attracted 300 000 participants . ur has partnered with nearly 100 universities and institutes . in recent years ur has launched a series of initiatives to develop strategic relations with governments and academia across the region . one component of these new initiatives is an emphasis on regional programs that extend collaborations with universities in hong kong taiwan japan south korea and singapore . 5 events edit in addition to fundamental research msr asia also plays host to events that facilitate collaboration among academics researchers and industry experts . these events include computing in the 21st century conference 21ccc 6 asia faculty summit 7 notable developments edit researchers at msr asia have contributed to a number of technological breakthroughs faster speech recognition technology 8 engkoo.com an input method editor ime that leverages the power of the cloud 9 see also edit it is one of the thirteen microsoft research labs see 10 references edit microsoft research asia . microsoft research asia the future of computing . microsoft research asia overview . microsoft research asia . microsoft research connections . microsoft research 21ccc 2012 . microsoft research asia faculty summit 2012 . microsoft revs speedier smarter speech recognition for phones . 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