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Fortunately, that assumption is false: junior researchers can start their own projects. I joined Microsoft Research a year ago. In that time, I've been encourag
by ephermata 16y ago
Fortunately, that assumption is false: junior researchers can start their own projects. I joined Microsoft Research a year ago. In that time, I've been encouraged to come up with new projects where I can lead, as well as make contributions to existing projects. As you point out, this degree of independence is rare in industry, so it makes MSR a competitive place to work.
- joubert 16y agoWhat are the typical languages you guys use? I know F# came out of MSR.
- ephermata 16y agoWhatever you want to use for the project. For a recent project, one of my coworkers created a domain specific language and the rest of us coded in that language. For another project, I use C++, because I'm leveraging an existing code base. Colleagues of mine use F# for program analysis tools, which they love. As you say, F# came out of the MSR Cambridge languages group, that's a great tech transfer story. That being said, there are a lot of internal libraries or projects written in C/C++ or C#. So I see a lot of those languages. I've also been learning ASP.NET, in part so I can better understand cross site scripting attacks on applications written on that platform.