“Microsoft Corp. is luring faculty elites to its research center
at a pace so fast that some campus departments say they’re being
picked clean.”
“Microsoft Research, known as MSR, is aiming for 600 “faculty”
by the end of next year. It already is among the biggest computer
science laboratories in the world, with 350 researchers.”
“Microsoft spends $3 billion a year on research and development.
Carnegie Mellon’s total endowment, by comparison, is $600 million.
In recent years, the company has opened basic research labs in
Cambridge, England; Beijing; and Silicon Valley.”
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