The Microsoft I once knew had virtually no serious researchers. However, there's nothing like waving a big handful of cash to attract top research talent.

Waving Cash Still Successful for Microsoft Research

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Veteran supercomputer researcher Dan Reed will join Microsoft Research as its new director of scalable and multicore computing. Reed brings to Microsoft a long background in parallel computing and activism in technology policy matters, as the group gears up to tackle problems that have puzzled scientists for twenty years.

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