Microsoft Research China, founded in 1998, was the second basic-research facility set up by Microsoft outside the United States. The staff works with Microsoft teams to improve current and future products, and also enjoys a relationship with the Chinese computer-science community unprecedented for a corporate lab. Key areas of Microsoft research include next generation multimedia, information processing, user interface, and wireless and network technologies. Many projects are furthering the development of computer use as widespread, convenient and easy in China and other Asian nations as it is in other parts of the world. Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang leads approximately 100 researchers in a relationship with the wider computer science community, including the prestigious National Science Foundation of China. MSR China has established programs to support basic computer research and foster alliances with researchers in local universities and industry.
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