It's not in the official job description, but Jack Breese gets paid to play around with "pretty cool stuff" for a living.
So do some 600 like-minded folk he helps direct in his official role as assistant director of Microsoft Research. With research groups in Silicon Valley, the United Kingdom, China and Redmond, Wash., the division functions as a technological brain trust, filling the same role for Microsoft that Bell Labs did for AT&T.
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