Microsoft Research Publications

How is it that they can say &quot;Our research&quot; about publications from 1951, like:<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=65008" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;default.aspx?id=6500...</a><p>and<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=65035" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;default.aspx?id=6503...</a><p>are they just part of Microsoft&#x27;s IP portfolio, or are these authors previous incarnations of Bill Gates?

I didn&#x27;t know they made videos of visiting speakers available:<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?p=1&amp;sb=no&amp;ps=25&amp;t=videos&amp;sf=&amp;s=&amp;r=&amp;vr=105128&amp;ra=" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;default.aspx?p=1&amp;...</a><p>There&#x27;s also an RSS feed:<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/rss/visitingSpeakers.xml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;rss&#x2F;visitingSpeakers.xml</a>

I&#x27;m curious about this paper: The use of Melodic Scales in Bollywood Music: An Empirical Study<p>Cool that Microsoft does research into Bollywood music?<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=198398" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;default.aspx?id=1983...</a>

Be aware - some algorithms described in publications on research.microsoft.com can be patented by microsoft (and this fact not referred in publication itself, google patent search can be useful for this).

There are lots of machine learning papers in there, and lots of papers about mobile, search, social networks, etc. This one seemed a little out of place: &quot;Taking Stock of Toilets in Bangalore’s Government Schools: Status, Challenges and Opportunities&quot;

Also this:<p><a href="https://github.com/MicrosoftResearchSVC/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MicrosoftResearchSVC&#x2F;</a><p>Dryad under an Apache license!

See also this more applied site, where you can try out results of some of a part of MS research in your browser -- <a href="http://rise4fun.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rise4fun.com&#x2F;</a> -- this comes from the &quot;research in software engineering&quot; group: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/rise/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;groups&#x2F;rise&#x2F;default.aspx</a>

Am I the only one who noticed they had articles published in August 2014 on that site?<p>Also, the first blog post I clicked on [1] brought this quote: &quot;We propose a new progressive analytics system based on a progress model called Prism&quot; <i>WHY</i> is Microsoft so terrible at picking names for their products?<p>1: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=200169" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;default.aspx?id=2001...</a>