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About time too! This man is responsible for most of our progress in distributed systems. One of the few researchers Google hasn't poached from Microsoft yet.
by curiousDog 13y ago
About time too! This man is responsible for most of our progress in distributed systems. One of the few researchers Google hasn't poached from Microsoft yet.
- derekchiang 13y agoNot sure why you seem to think researchers are flowing to Google. Microsoft Research is still the biggest name in distributed systems, if not CS in general. They have been consistently producing high-quality papers [1]. [1] http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html
- mehrdada 13y agoI do believe there is a flow of Systems researchers towards Google, at least from academia, if not Microsoft Research. I Microsoft Research is active in many more areas of research than Google. However, I'm not sure that implies they are better than Google in the specific area of distributed systems research. FWIW, it seems every now and then Google publishes incredible papers that surprises folks in that community.
- kvb 13y agoAren't there like 4 other Turing award winners at MSR that also somehow escaped poaching (and are there any at Google)? I think you may have the wrong idea about where researchers would prefer to work...
- mehrdada 13y agoOff the top of my head, there's at least one Turing Award winner at Google: Ken Thompson. They have certainly successfully poached a bunch of awesome systems people from their positions in academia. I'm not sure how many from MS Research though.
- psuter 13y agoWho are you thinking about who left MSR for Google?