On: YC Research

[exgrv]

Microsoft Research is also an excellent organization for CS related research.

[chimtim → exgrv]

MSR has published lots of great papers but it has not yet replicated the success of PARC or Bell Labs by any means. I am not sure why this has happened, but it has been pretty obvious to everyone in the research community. Google, which came in with a research agenda pretty late, has more or less single handedly pushed the boundaries of industrial research in the last decade.

[eli_gottlieb → chimtim]

Funny: back when I was in school, we always used to say that Google publishes mediocre papers with great marketing.

[gone35 → exgrv]

Except when they close entire research labs overnight with practically no notice, corporate-style:

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/innova...

[2] https://thmatters.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/letter-re-closing...

[arasmussen → exgrv]

Do they have similar policies with regards to openness as YC's research lab?

[raphman_ → arasmussen]

MSR publish a lot but try to get patents on potentially valuable research first.

[semi-extrinsic → raphman_]

Like literally any research organization or university anywhere today.

[argonaut → semi-extrinsic]

Which only makes an organization like YC Research even more valuable of an experiment.

[raphman_ → semi-extrinsic]

FWIW, as a researcher at a university, it is only my decision whether I apply for a patent or not. In contrast, patenting inventions is an inherent part of the research workflow at research labs such as MSR, Yahoo Research, etc.

[Qworg → arasmussen]

MSR publishes continuously, both in journals and in white papers. It is part of the evaluation.

(Source: I work at MSR)

[p4bl0 → arasmussen]

In my experience, MSR researchers publish openly just like people in "regular" academia. I think the main difference is that they are better paid.

[srean → p4bl0]

But who gets to own the IP ?

[pavpanchekha → srean]

MS