Microsoft Research today announced the launch of its operations in India. Kapil Sibal, Minister of State for Science and Technology, and Ocean Development for the Government of India, inaugurated the operations by unveiling a plaque at the opening ceremonies for the research facility. The Bangalore lab, the third Microsoft Research facility outside the United States, will conduct long-term basic and applied research. Microsoft Research India (MSRI) will initially start investigating the areas of geographic information systems (GIS), technologies for emerging markets, multilingual systems and sensor networks.
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