Kevin Schofield - Inside Microsoft Research

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Jul 14th, 2004 @ 3:20 PM

Kevin Schofield, general manager at Microsoft Research, has a unique job. He's responsible for helping move technologies out of Microsoft Research and into Microsoft's products.

Recently he invited Channel 9 to come over for a chat and a tour around to meet some interesting people inside Microsoft Research.

Over the next week you'll see the tour -- some really interesting people work at Microsoft, including the inventor of the laser printer.

Anyway, here's the interview with Kevin. If you want to hear more from Kevin, check out his weblog.

By the way, did you know that Research now is publishing RSS feeds so you can always be up to date on the latest that they are working on?

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pacelvi
Phear

This was interesting to watch and actually got very interesting right when it ended. It's probably the longest video I've seen here. Not a complaint.

Thanks.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Thanks, I think the really good stuff from this interview is yet to come! Smiley

AdamKinney
Agent of Change

This is great, I love the new "conversational" approach that MS Research is taking. Thanks a lot for the video.

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ArSa
HAL 9000

the voice level in this video and in general audio quality is pretty low for ammount of talking this guy does Smiley

pretty interesting, only if i could hear it well...

Mazric

This video was very interesting, it would be interesting to see some interviews for some of the other MS Research teams are working on

jsrfc58

The Channel 9 Team wrote:

...some really interesting people work at Microsoft, including the inventor of the laser printer.

Side question: in order to get a job in Microsoft Research do you have to have a PhD or be the inventor of something like a laser printer? Just curious as to what the "bar" was set at for entry in that area. Great video, by the way...hope to see more soon.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

ArSa: hmmm, sorry about the audio level. On my system I can turn up my speaker volume and hear it just fine. You might want to get a pair of powered speakers so you can adjust the volume up a bit.

The Channel 9 Team
5 guys from Redmond

Mazric: more interviews coming soon. I spent a bit of time with research. Second part of the tour comes up today -- a look at the University Relations group.

Hollasch

jsrfc58 wrote:

... in order to get a job in Microsoft Research do you have to have a PhD or be the inventor of something like a laser printer? Just curious as to what the "bar" was set at for entry in that area.

In general, you do indeed need to have a PhD or distinguished yourself in a research area. Lesser-qualified people can work in MSR, but they tend to be supporting developers, equivalent to grad students in academia. That's not to say that the RSDE's (Research Software Development Engineers) don't do any research -- they actually do get support for writing papers and so forth -- but they fill more of a supporting role in the research organization.