Microsoft Research India aims to impact villages

Microsoft is keen on doing pure research in India that would show how "computing could impact rural areas and benefit emerging markets", says a senior scientist-businessman who heads the company's main research centre in the United States.

"A small group of outstanding people we have put together in Bangalore will focus on research that might have an impact on the lives of Indians in the villages... for this we are not only doing hardcore computer science, but also working with social scientists and ethnographers," Daniel T Ling, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research told.

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