Microsoft research is especially amazing. Not only do they publish papers on their systems like Google and Facebook, they also do a lot of basic science on a v

Microsoft research is especially amazing. Not only do they publish papers on their systems like Google and Facebook, they also do a lot of basic science on a very diverse set of topics. The research talks are also worth checking out: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=videos http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=vi... The latest talks range from "Culture differences between US and China" to "Distributed Optimization via Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers".