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Red balloon man named as top Microsoft boffin
DR PETER LEE has been named as the managing director of Microsoft Research in Redmond.
We have been assured that he had nothing to do with the 1970's singing duo Peters and Lee but was a big wheel at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
According to the Vole, while at DARPA Lee "challenged conventional Department of Defense (DoD) approaches" to computer science research by improving its relationships with academia and industry.
One of his ideas was to get people to hunt for red weather balloons, something that had not been attempted since Nena warned about "bugs in the software, Flash the message, Something's out there. Floating in the summer sky. 99 red balloons go by."
Apparently it was a game changing magical event that was immediately dubbed a "unique experiment in social media", which made an impact on thinking throughout the DoD. Probably everyone is a lot safer now that that the US cannot be attacked by red balloons as a result of his work.
In a press release, Lee is quoted as saying that Microsoft Research is an "incredible place". However we guess there was an absence of any red balloons there, unless you count Steve Ballmer.
He said that the things that are invented by the Vole have an impact on billions of computers and he can't wait to get started.
Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
It looks at 55 areas of computing and collaborates with leading academic, government and industry researchers to advance technology.
Of course some might say that once the technology is advanced, it is immediately forgotten until a rival makes it successful. Sometimes, like the recent Microsoft tablet, it is completely mothballed. µ
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So what did this guy do? Write a program that detects red dots in satellite images so a weather service can recover balloons? He was in a room of guys that thought it was an innovative idea and they made him king? And he just started working in a bureaucratic hell hole and he described it as an amazing place? If I was desperate to get a job in the high unemployed USA I would be super happy as well.
"Facebook was created by a student and it's the new craze, therefore we need to buy up student website ideas"
Is that it? Is he going to oversee the YahooHotmail marriage?
Microsoft bought hotmail and one of their changes was to make you type in the stuff after @ as part of your username. Nice! lol.
Outlook Express, an email client and newsgroup client. Now Windows Mail is an email client only, no newsgroups afaik.
Microsoft invents the Office ribbon. I CBA to learn it and found it very counter-intuitive, installed my last copy of Office and have stuck with that. Why don't they provide the old menus?
Some poor decisions, some great ones. Google is where it's at these days because of it's products. MS is where it's at because of IT'S products too. Mmm.
So guess I can agree that 'Microsoft Research is an "incredible place"'.