Rick Rashid Quotations

The personal and informational connections made possible through computing and communications technology are becoming ever more critical to economic, educational and social progress,

Today, it's hard to find anything we do as a company that hasn't been influenced by the research group.

We're on the verge of making a terabyte of data storage available even on laptops.

What you're seeing now is Brown and Microsoft stepping up to the next level.

Going forward, we plan to develop a countrywide mechanism with the Indian department of science and technology for spatial data creation, collection and dissemination that can be used for multiple applications such as disaster management.

Pen-based computing has the potential to alter the way students and teachers interact.

Our India plans include expansion of the teams in the existing research areas and forming new research groups for cryptography and security.

Our primary research location will always be in Redmond, but Cambridge is a stand-alone lab, ... We're not dictating their research.

Our number one priority is to expand the state of the art in each of the areas in which we do research.

Nathan is a tremendous person, and his intellect is something that is sorely missed. But in terms of the research groups, hiring and everything else, we've been going full speed.

Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows represent the best new professors in computing disciplines today. The intellectual curiosity and capacity that each fellow has demonstrated is inspirational, and we will watch their careers develop with interest.

Microsoft Research is a pioneer in the area of digital maps. Its TerraServer system has provided millions of users with online access to geographically indexed map and image data since 1998.

We will double the staff strength to 60 this year and ramp it up to 100 in 2007. We continue to identify research areas that are relevant to the region and germane to the high-quality talent available in India.

Yet many significant challenges remain to be solved in the push toward digital inclusion on a global scale. We hope these programs will encourage more researchers to pursue approaches in computing technology that advance these goals--getting us one step closer to digital inclusion.

Together with Brown University, we will create new ways of combining the pen and the computer to positively affect not only the educational process, but our working methods and our culture.

These devices will eventually replace paper print media. We are reaching a point in the future where any surface can be an interactive surface. Input and output will soon be equal.

You should not go. Things will be very unpleasant for you if you go,

Your notebook knows all that about you already. We think we could put this information to use.

This center is an example of the kind of research environment that will drive innovation in the future.

It's a very early stage of the technology. We get about 50 percent of the answers right.

It's a very early stage of the technology,

Daisy. This is not a technology that in any way threatens Simon & Garfunkel.