Microsoft Live Labs was a partnership between
MSN and
Microsoft Research
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that focused on applied research for
Internet
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products and services at
Microsoft
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. Live Labs was headed by Dr.
Gary William Flake, who prior to joining Microsoft was a principal scientist at
Yahoo!
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Research Lab and former head of research at the Web portal's
Overture
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Services division.
Live Labs' focus was on applied research and practical applications of
computer science
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areas including
natural language processing
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,
machine learning
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,
information retrieval
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,
data mining
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,
computational linguistics
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,
distributed computing
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The components of a distributed system commu ...
, etc.
Microsoft Live Labs was formed on January 24, 2006. On October 8, 2010, Microsoft announced the shutdown of Live Labs and the transition of its remaining team of 68 to
Microsoft Bing
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. As a consequence Live Labs' original founder and leader Dr.
Gary William Flake has resigned from Microsoft.
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Projects
The following table shows all of the projects that had been initiated by Microsoft Live Labs:
See also
*Windows Live
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References
External links
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