Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft. It was formed in 1991, with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technological innovation in collaboration with academic, government, and industry researchers.

Microsoft Research, along with FUSE Labs, were the developers of Kodu Game Lab and the Kodu Game Lab Community founders. Microsoft Research is co-led by corporate vice presidents Peter Lee (formerly the director of a major technology office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University) and Jeannette Wing (formerly a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and assistant director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the NSF).

Collaborations
Microsoft Research invests in multi-year collaborative joint research with academic institutions at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, INRIA, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the Microsoft Research Centre for Social NUI and others.

Trivia

 * Microsoft Research and FUSE Labs are both made by Microsoft and developed Kodu Game Lab.