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MSR Silicon Valley is a satellite office, smaller than Redmond, Cambridge, Beijing, and probably several others. Still, it employs (employed?) some heavy hitter
by davmre 12y ago
MSR Silicon Valley is a satellite office, smaller than Redmond, Cambridge, Beijing, and probably several others. Still, it employs (employed?) some heavy hitters, including Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport. Many of these people will probably receive offers to relocate, per the article, but presumably not everyone wants to move to Redmond, hence the existence of the SV lab in the first place. So some will leave Microsoft and seek jobs elsewhere, as will all the researchers that don't receive relocation offers.
As some of my grad student friends have observed, this may be a tough year to be on the academic/research job market...
- AceJohnny2 12y ago> including Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport I can think of one or two companies in the Silicon Valley who are salivating at the idea of hiring the pioneer of distributed systems.
- arjunnarayan 12y agoPossibly one of those companies down the road from MSR SV with the multicolored bikes.
- JetSpiegel 12y agoYou mean the inventor of LaTeX. And by "mean", I mean "also".
- it_learnses 12y agoYou also the inventor of LaTex?
- presty 12y agoThese layoffs remind me of when Yahoo did the same with Yahoo Research. You know what happened next... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-google-hiring-researchers-yahoo-is-firing-rumor/10508 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-google-hiring-re...
- curiousDog 12y agoI think he'd consider retiring now that he's 73 yrs old..
- NamTaf 12y agoAn academic like that doesn't tend to retire, as they don't tend to be 'working' like the typical office plebe. He'd no doubt be making his own hours and effectively 'working' to satisfy his interests. Retiring is equivalent to stopping his passion. My observation is that it tends to be the case with any industry-leading expert that they sort of transition into part-time work but pick and choose the work they do so that it isn't really 'work' to them. Holding that much clout has upsides.
- merrua 12y agoPlus that kind of person can make you money just by the talent who will work with you to work with them. Also great rewards from the right question from the expert to the up-and-coming talent.
- utopkara 12y agoThis article(http://blogs.seattletimes.com/microsoftpri0/2014/09/18/microsoft-sending-out-layoff-notices-to-2100-employees-747-of-them-in-puget-sound-area/ http://blogs.seattletimes.com/microsoftpri0/2014/09/18/micro...) has details on the numbers. The lab has 75 researchers.
- jcchambers 12y agoTHREE Turing Award winners: Leslie Lamport, Charles Thacker, Butler Lampson (and Jim Gray, who died a few years ago when his sailboat disappeared)