MSN and Microsoft Research form Microsoft Live Labs

In a press release on January 26, Microsoft announced Microsoft Live Labs, a research partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research. According to the press release, "The Live Labs ... will focus on Internet-centric applied research programs including rapidly prototyping and launching of emerging technologies, incubating entirely new inventions, and improving and accelerating Windows Live(TM) offerings." This'll include research in multimedia search, data mining, machine learning, etc.

Live Labs is available at http://labs.live.com/. Unfortunately I couldn't read the menu when I looked at it in Firefox. Looking at it in user mode (no page style) revealed it.

The first thought I had was, "Wow, people-oriented!" The front page is dominated by pictures of folks who are working in the Labs. Some of these are just biographies, some of these pages look like the personal pages of professors. A quick skimming through them didn't find any links to blogs. I am bummed. A larger list of people involved in the Labs is available at http://labs.live.com/people.aspx. They're hiring too; there's a mailto: link on that same page for sending them your CV.

There's an announcements page at http://labs.live.com/announcements.aspx that has an RSS feed. There's a list of related sites on the right side of every page. But there's not a lot of content central to this site yet. Thanks to the RSS feed however I can stay tuned.

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