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All papers published by Microsoft Research

169 points by zacs 15y ago

joelthelion 15y ago
It's good to see that a large research institution like Microsoft Research realizes that having your papers freely available on the web is a good way to give it some visibility.
- pork 15y ago
  No, it's just a list. Look at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=152187 http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1521... for example, no full-text download. It's sad, because most publishers allow authors to post a self-generated version of the text (i.e., the Latex output you generate yourself, vs. the official typeset journal print).
  - crenshaw 15y ago
    Others do have the PDF. Seems to just vary. Most of the ones I clicked did have full papers attached.
    - bigfoot 15y ago
      Depends on the publication date. A paper due to be published in December 2011 is not yet downloadable for obvious reasons.
pgbovine 15y ago
[cross-posting from the Googlers publication thread ...] I also noticed that someone recently posted a list of publications by Microsoft Research (MSR), presumably to contrast with Google's publication list. MSR does some amazing academic research, but it's not a fair apples-to-apples comparison to compare their publications with Google's, since the primary output of MSR is academic research papers (that's why the lab was founded!), while the primary output of Google is free web-based consumer products :)
- shithead 15y ago
  > the Googlers publication thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3013314 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3013314 > not a fair apples-to-apples comparison Speaking of apples, will the next up be "Apple papers", linking to http://daringfireball.net/ http://daringfireball.net/ ?
  - gobongo 15y ago
    Apple papers? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Apple+Inc&FIELD1=ASNM&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
  - copper 15y ago
    Well, would this do? http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ Pixar are very, very good at what they do :)
- zacs 15y ago
  I certainly wasn't trying to overtly contrast--the Googler papers thread just reminded me of the MSR listing. :)
boucher 15y ago
There are some great research papers in here, many of which have been turned into MS products. AJAX Scope in particular is a really cool idea, though it isn't clear to me if anyone is actually using the Visual Studio plugin they built after writing that paper.
kia 15y ago
Hint: press 'Reverse order' in bottom right corner and you'll see some interesting ones.
drallison 15y ago
Microsoft Research is one of the few real, non-university research institutions in the United States. No matter what you think of Microsoft products, the research they do is first class. In the olden times, a few decades ago, there were many industrial research labs that did science for the sake of science and not as an adjunct to product development. Sadly, those days are mostly gone. No more Bell Labs, no more DEC SRC, and so forth. Microsoft Research is one of the exceptions.

169 points by zacs 15y ago

It's good to see that a large research institution like Microsoft Research realizes that having your papers freely available on the web is a good way to give it some visibility.

pork 15y ago
No, it's just a list. Look at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=152187 http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1521... for example, no full-text download. It's sad, because most publishers allow authors to post a self-generated version of the text (i.e., the Latex output you generate yourself, vs. the official typeset journal print).
- crenshaw 15y ago
  Others do have the PDF. Seems to just vary. Most of the ones I clicked did have full papers attached.
  - bigfoot 15y ago
    Depends on the publication date. A paper due to be published in December 2011 is not yet downloadable for obvious reasons.

pgbovine 15y ago

[cross-posting from the Googlers publication thread ...] I also noticed that someone recently posted a list of publications by Microsoft Research (MSR), presumably to contrast with Google's publication list. MSR does some amazing academic research, but it's not a fair apples-to-apples comparison to compare their publications with Google's, since the primary output of MSR is academic research papers (that's why the lab was founded!), while the primary output of Google is free web-based consumer products :)

shithead 15y ago
> the Googlers publication thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3013314 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3013314 > not a fair apples-to-apples comparison Speaking of apples, will the next up be "Apple papers", linking to http://daringfireball.net/ http://daringfireball.net/ ?
- gobongo 15y ago
  Apple papers? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Apple+Inc&FIELD1=ASNM&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
- copper 15y ago
  Well, would this do? http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ Pixar are very, very good at what they do :)
zacs 15y ago
I certainly wasn't trying to overtly contrast--the Googler papers thread just reminded me of the MSR listing. :)

boucher 15y ago

There are some great research papers in here, many of which have been turned into MS products. AJAX Scope in particular is a really cool idea, though it isn't clear to me if anyone is actually using the Visual Studio plugin they built after writing that paper.

kia 15y ago

Hint: press 'Reverse order' in bottom right corner and you'll see some interesting ones.

drallison 15y ago

Microsoft Research is one of the few real, non-university research institutions in the United States. No matter what you think of Microsoft products, the research they do is first class. In the olden times, a few decades ago, there were many industrial research labs that did science for the sake of science and not as an adjunct to product development. Sadly, those days are mostly gone. No more Bell Labs, no more DEC SRC, and so forth. Microsoft Research is one of the exceptions.