Microsoft Research opens new facility in Bangalore

Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology,
recently inaugurated Microsoft Research's India (MSR) facility called "Scientia".

The Indian center is Microsoft's third basic research facility in the
world. It would cover five research areas like multilingual systems, sensor
networks, digital geographics, machine translation, technology for emerging
markets and software engineering.

"We are also doing collaborative projects with various institutions such
as Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-Bombay) and International
Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIITB), in areas like landslide
detection and impact of computing technology on agriculture. We are also in
talks with Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) for a
partnership in multi-lingual systems and machine translation," said Dr P
Anandan, MD, Microsoft Research India.

Anandan said, "The change from translating an idea into a product has
not happened. But we are creating opportunities to make this happen. It is not a
cultural issue but merely a question of creating the right environment."

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