- Jim Gray
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) is an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation."
- Gordon Bell
C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is a computer engineer and manager, an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) who designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering and oversaw the development of the VAX.
- Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee (Traditional Chinese:李開復 Simplified Chinese:李开复 pinyin:Lǐ Kāifù, b. December 3, 1961) is an information technology executive and a computer science researcher. The founding president of Google China, he was hired in July, 2005. He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and Microsoft, his former employer, …
- Paul Maritz
Paul Maritz , was President and General Manager of EMC Corporation's Cloud Computing division. Maritz was a senior executive at Microsoft from 1986 to 2000, where he served on the 5-person executive management team. He was founder and CEO of Pi Corporation, a company backed by Warburg Pincus, which was acquired by EMC in February 2008. In July of 2008 he was appointed President and CEO of VMware, replacing Diane Greene .
- Tony Hey
As Corporate Vice President of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research, Tony Hey is responsible for the worldwide external research and technical computing strategy across Microsoft Corp. He leads the company's efforts to build long-term public-private partnerships with global scientific and engineering communities, spanning broad reach and in-depth engagements with academic and research institutions, related government agencies and industry partners.
- John Platt
Dr John Platt is a senior researcher in the Knowledge Tools Group at Microsoft Corporation. Platt has worked for Microsoft since 1997. Prior to Microsoft, Platt had served as Director of Research at Synaptics. Platt was born in Elgin, Illinois and matriculated at California State University, Long Beach at the age of 14. After graduating from CSULB at the age of 18, Platt enrolled in a computer science PhD program at California Institute of Technology.
- Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper, an advocate of interaction design, runs a design company and writes books about how to make software user interfaces more usable. Cooper is sometimes called "the father of Visual Basic", although much of work on Visual Basic was done by Microsoft's internal development group. Cooper was the leading force behind VB 1.0 and pioneered the use of an IDE to create a GUI via wrapped calls to system routines in the API (see Adapter pattern).
- David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com.
- Leslie Lamport
Dr. Leslie Lamport (born 1941) is an American computer scientist. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972. His dissertation was about singularities in analytic partial differential equations.
- Andrew Blake
Andrew Blake, FREng, FRS, is a Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and a leading researcher in computer vision.
- Weld Pond
Chris Wysopal (better known as Weld Pond) was a member of the high profile hacker think tank, the L0pht. Weld Pond earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Systems & Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Weld Pond was the seventh member to join the L0pht. His projects there included L0phtCrack and Netcat for Windows. He was also webmaster/graphic designer for the L0pht's web site, and for Hacker News Network (the first hacker blog).
- Susan Dumais
Susan Dumais is a Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction Group of Microsoft Research. Before working at Microsoft, she was one of the pioneers of Latent semantic analysis. In 2006 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Luca Cardelli
Luca Cardelli is an Italian computer scientist who is currently an Assistant Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Cardelli is well-known for his research in type theory and operational semantics. Among other contributions he implemented the first compiler for the (non-pure) functional programming language ML and he defined the concept of typeful programming. Recently, he helped develop the Polyphonic C# experimental programming language.
- Surajit Chaudhuri
Surajit Chaudhuri is a computer scientist best-known for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is an ACM Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1991.
- Bill Gates
"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935. Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
- Jeremy Elson
Jeremy Elson (1974 -) is a computer researcher specializing in wireless Sensor Networks. He is also the creator of the popular CircleMUD. Elson received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2003. External link: Jeremy Elson's home page
- C. A. R. Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development of Quicksort (or Hoaresort), the world's most widely used sorting algorithm, in 1960.
- Kurt Akeley
Kurt Akeley is a computer graphics engineer.
- Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth century France. He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb, among others. He worked as reporter at The New York Times from 1964 to 1965. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, …
- Jim Kajiya
Jim Kajiya is a pioneer in the field of computer graphics. He is perhaps best known for the development of the rendering equation. Kajiya received his PhD from the University of Utah in 1979, was a professor at Caltech from 1979 through 1994, and is currently a researcher at Microsoft Research.
- Andrew D. Gordon
Andrew D. Gordon is a British computer scientist. Gordon is the co-designer of Spi Calculus (with Martin Abadi), Ambient calculus (Luca Cardelli), and other various programming languages. Until 1997 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, after which he became Senior Researcher in Programming Principles and Tools for Microsoft.
- Dr. Peter James
Dr. Peter James aka Boffin1157 born in the late 1950's in the United Kingdom. I currently live, work, and tutor in Northern Romania. I am engaged to Dr. Cristina Felea, teacher, translator and daughter of Romanian Poet & Writer: Victor Felea (1923-1993).Among my numerous qualifications to-date are a degree in Psychology and a 2nd in Forensic Psychology, the latter is my speciality.
- Glenn Gutmacher
Glenn Gutmacher , President of Recruiting-Online.com , developed the Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques seminar in 1997. He can be reached at glenn@recruiting-online.com . This article was first published in Mass High Tech.
- Cristina Felea
I currently teach ESP to sociology and social work students in my home town Cluj, Romania. My professional interests also include literature studies - I've got a Ph.D. in Beat literature. I've always been fascinated by translation work - I've tried my best to give a Romanian "voice" to authors such as Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, and Peter Beagle.
- Harry Shum
Harry Shum Distinguished Engineer/Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft Corp. Harry Shum brings his extensive research skills, excellent management capabilities, and outstanding academic background to Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft's basic research arm in the Asia-Pacific region, where he serves as the managing director, overseeing and directing research activities and External Research & Programs.
- Frank McSherry
Comp Scientist / Mathematician. Currently doing research on the interface of privacy and data mining.
- Paul Larson
Paul Larson is a computer scientist. He is most famous for inventing the linear hashing algorithm with Witold Litwin. Paul Larson is currently a senior researcher in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. He is frequent chair and committee member of conferences such as VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE. In 2004 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Rashmi Sinha
Rashmi Sinha is a designer, researcher and entrepreneur. She is the CEO for SlideShare , a rapidly growing site for sharing slideshows. Rashmi writes a blog at rashmisinha.com . Rashmi received a PhD in cognitive psychology from Brown University in 1998. After moving to UC Berkeley for a PostDoc, she fell in love with the web, and realized that many issues that web technologists think about are problems of human psychology.
- Bo Thiesson
Bo Thiesson Bo Thiesson is a Researcher in the Machine Learning and Applied Statistics group at Microsoft Research. His recent work has focused on scalable learning algorithms, clustering and mixture models, adaptive learning methods, and time-series analysis. Prior to Joining Microsoft in 1996, Bo worked as an Associate Professor in the Statistical Department at Aalborg University , Denmark.
- Andrew Kennedy
Andrew Kennedy Researcher
- Dan Kaminsky
Dan was responsible for the Dynamic Forwarding patch to OpenSSH, integrating the majority of VPN-style functionality into the widely deployed cryptographic toolkit. Finally, he founded the cross-disciplinary DoxPara Research in 1997, seeking to integrate psychological and technological theory to create more effective systems for non-ideal but very real environments in the field. Dan is based in Silicon Valley.
- Mary Czerwinski
Mary Czerwinski is a Cognitive Psychologist at Microsoft Research in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group. Her primary research foci include understanding the cognitive requirements in designing computer support for prospective and retrospective memory, the definition of optimal attention switching during computer tasks, and the interaction requirements of novel but usable information visualizations.
- Marc Rettig
I am a founding principal of Fit Associates. We conduct research for product and service companies, employing ethnographic / behavioral methods to help them understand how products fit into people's lives. We also help our clients translate research insights into strategy and design. I have done such work for years, as well as interaction and interface design. Clients include Whirlpool, BBC, Crate and Barrel, Cisco, and Microsoft, as well as startups. I have held influential roles in . . .
- Lisa Galarneau
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, looking at social learning in and around massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and virtual worlds. I have worked in technology-related areas for over ten years, and most recently have been advising on various e-learning and educational game projects. I have just started part-time work at Microsoft Games User Research while I complete my dissertation.
- Shelly Farnham
I am an expert in building and evaluating social technologies designed to enhance social coordination, community, social networks, communication, identity, and knowledge sharing. My primary roles as a research consultant are to: a) serve as an knowledge expert to organizations as they implement social technologies; b) participate in the process of designing, building, and deploying technologies; and; c) provide tools for evaluating technologies through instrumentation and log analysis, . . .
- Jonathan Grudin
Jonathan Grudin is a Senior Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research. He was previously Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, which he joined after teaching at Aarhus University in Denmark.
- Richard Mortier
Richard Mortier is a researcher in the Cambridge Systems and Networking group. His research interests are in networking and systems, covering operating systems, distributed systems, local and wide-area networking, and most things in between.
- Stuart Ozer
I am a researcher in Microsoft Research’s San Francisco-based eScience group, working on problems of data organization and tools and algorithms for analysis in biological and health sciences.
- Kannan Achan
Kannan Achan Post doctoral researcher Kannan Achan is currently a Post doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon valley . Prior to this, he was a member of the Probabilistic and Statistical Inference Group (PSI) at the University of Toronto . He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto , Canada, under the supervision of Brendan Frey and Sam Roweis . He also has a graduate degree in mathematics.
- John MacCormick
John MacCormick has degrees in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and the University of Auckland, and a doctorate in computer vision from the University of Oxford. He was a research fellow at Linacre College, Oxford from 1999-2000, a research scientist at HP Labs from 2000-2003, and joined Microsoft Research in November 2003.