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Help wanted: MS seeks talent in China
SINGAPORE--Microsoft is on the lookout for research talent in China to focus on four core future technologies--speech recognition and synthesis, digital pen, panoramic pictures and multimedia compression for wireless communications networks. Over the next two years, the company will intensify its study of these areas with help from Asian educational institutions such as Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Sydney, Tokyo University and Taiwan's Tsinghua University and Harbin Institute of Technology in China. The software giant's research center in Beijing, founded in 1998, currently employs 150 full-time engineers. The team is set to expand to 200 people by 2003, Microsoft Research Asia Managing Director Zhang Ya-Qin told CNETAsia. For the full story see http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/applications/0,39001094,39044396,00.htm on CNet Asia. --Irene Tham, Special to ZDNet News
SINGAPORE--Microsoft is on the lookout for research talent in China to focus on four core future technologies--speech recognition and synthesis, digital pen, panoramic pictures and multimedia compression for wireless communications networks.
Over the next two years, the company will intensify its study of these areas with help from Asian educational institutions such as Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Sydney, Tokyo University and Taiwan's Tsinghua University and Harbin Institute of Technology in China. The software giant's research center in Beijing, founded in 1998, currently employs 150 full-time engineers. The team is set to expand to 200 people by 2003, Microsoft Research Asia Managing Director Zhang Ya-Qin told CNETAsia. For the full story see http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/applications/0,39001094,39044396,00.htm on CNet Asia. --Irene Tham, Special to ZDNet News