| Microsoft* | ||||||
| * information as of October 6, 2006 | ||||||
| Location | Redmond, WA | link | ||||
| Annual Sales** | 44,282.00 | |||||
| Market Cap** | ||||||
| Number of Employees | 71,000 | |||||
| ** in millions | ||||||
| Corporate R&D | ||||||
| Year | Country | Size in $$ | Size in People | Focus Area | Comment | Links |
| 2005 | India | research center opens in India | link | |||
| 2004 | England | External research office of the research center in England founded | ||||
| worldwide labs in Asia, India, Cambridge & Washington | link | |||||
| 2006 | U.S. | improving pen-based operation of Tablet PCs, Pocket PCs, Palm Pilot personal digital assistants, electronic whiteboards and conventional desktop computers | opens research center at Brown University | link | ||
| china | From 1999, 8 labs have been established in Zhejiang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Tsinghua University, Peking University etc. | link | ||||
| Sensor Networks for Human Activity Inferencing | ||||||
| Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington | ||||||
| Tiered: Development of Tiered Applications Across Motes and Micro-Servers | ||||||
| Sensor Networks & Web Services | ||||||
| Joe Hellerstein, University of California at Berkeley | ||||||
| Web Service Protocols for Self-Monitoring and Self-Healing Networked Embedded Sensor Systems | ||||||
| Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University | ||||||
| Wireless Sensor Networks for Soil Ecosystem Studies | ||||||
| Katalin Szlavecz, Johns Hopkins University | ||||||
| Integrating Sensor Networks into Medical Care Using Web Services | ||||||