Microsoft looking to fill positions in biologically inspired systems

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Tom Ray forwarded a request from Microsoft where they're looking to fill
positions in biologically-inspired systems.

-Steve

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> Microsoft is looking to hire peolple working with
> biologically inspired systems.  See below.
>
> Tom Ray
>
> ----
>
> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 11:43:59 -0800
> From: Tandy Trower <[hidden email]>
> Subject: hello
> To: [hidden email]
>
> I would like to introduce myself and see if it would make sense for us
> to have some further discussion.
>
> I work as a senior manager in the advanced strategies group of
> Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer (Craig Mundie). My focus is on next
> generation user interface design and I am part of a team incubating new
> technologies for future products. This is somewhat different than
> Microsoft's Research Group which also does investigations in the future
> in that our efforts are somewhat more near term and more specifically
> product focused.
>
> My current explorations are in the area of applying "biologically
> inspired" techniques to the next generation/paradigm shift of technology
> which we believe will evolve toward parallel distributed processing and
> we have incubations ongoing toward this goal. I believe that such an
> architecture when combined with these biologically inspired techniques
> (such as neural nets, genetic algorithms, particle swarm intelligence,
> etc.) offer the potential of creating the infrastructure for a user
> interface that processes information more similar to the way we do and
> thereby potentially enabling more natural and more adaptive
> human-computer interfaces.
>
> We are adding to our team here so I am also looking for potential
> prospects and wondered if you have some good grad students looking for
> great positions. If so, I would be interested in corresponding with
> them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tandy Trower
> General Manager, Advanced UI Strategies
> Microsoft
>
> Subject: RE: hello
> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:18:09 -0800
> From: "Tandy Trower" <[hidden email]>
> To: "Thomas Ray" <[hidden email]>
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Yes, for now I am looking to hire some fulltime staff. Ideally I am
> looking for candidates with a good mix of Windows and C++ programming
> experience and experience with various "biologically inspired"
> algorithms and technologies. As noted my particular focus is to see if
> we can lay a foundation for future user interfaces. GUI was a major
> paradigm shift, due in part because it leveraged visual metaphors,
> thereby providing a veneer of a common ground/model of communication
> between users and computers (i.e., folders, desktop, etc.). However,
> this was only "skin-deep". My goal is to determine what we can do to
> advance things further; imagine that computer really did process
> information more similar to us. My premise that this would facilitate
> more "natural" human-computer interaction.

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[Friam mailing list]

Sounds like I better get those patents in gear.

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf
Of Stephen Guerin
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:19 PM
To: [hidden email]; Friam
Subject: [FRIAM] Microsoft looking to fill positions in biologically
inspired systems


Tom Ray forwarded a request from Microsoft where they're looking to fill
positions in biologically-inspired systems.

-Steve

____________________________________________________
http://www.redfish.com    [hidden email]
624 Agua Fria Street      office: [phone]
Santa Fe, NM 87501        mobile: [phone]

> Microsoft is looking to hire peolple working with
> biologically inspired systems.  See below.
>
> Tom Ray
>
> ----
>
> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 11:43:59 -0800
> From: Tandy Trower <[hidden email]>
> Subject: hello
> To: [hidden email]
>
> I would like to introduce myself and see if it would make sense for us
> to have some further discussion.
>
> I work as a senior manager in the advanced strategies group of
> Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer (Craig Mundie). My focus is on next
> generation user interface design and I am part of a team incubating new
> technologies for future products. This is somewhat different than
> Microsoft's Research Group which also does investigations in the future
> in that our efforts are somewhat more near term and more specifically
> product focused.
>
> My current explorations are in the area of applying "biologically
> inspired" techniques to the next generation/paradigm shift of technology
> which we believe will evolve toward parallel distributed processing and
> we have incubations ongoing toward this goal. I believe that such an
> architecture when combined with these biologically inspired techniques
> (such as neural nets, genetic algorithms, particle swarm intelligence,
> etc.) offer the potential of creating the infrastructure for a user
> interface that processes information more similar to the way we do and
> thereby potentially enabling more natural and more adaptive
> human-computer interfaces.
>
> We are adding to our team here so I am also looking for potential
> prospects and wondered if you have some good grad students looking for
> great positions. If so, I would be interested in corresponding with
> them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tandy Trower
> General Manager, Advanced UI Strategies
> Microsoft
>
> Subject: RE: hello
> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:18:09 -0800
> From: "Tandy Trower" <[hidden email]>
> To: "Thomas Ray" <[hidden email]>
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Yes, for now I am looking to hire some fulltime staff. Ideally I am
> looking for candidates with a good mix of Windows and C++ programming
> experience and experience with various "biologically inspired"
> algorithms and technologies. As noted my particular focus is to see if
> we can lay a foundation for future user interfaces. GUI was a major
> paradigm shift, due in part because it leveraged visual metaphors,
> thereby providing a veneer of a common ground/model of communication
> between users and computers (i.e., folders, desktop, etc.). However,
> this was only "skin-deep". My goal is to determine what we can do to
> advance things further; imagine that computer really did process
> information more similar to us. My premise that this would facilitate
> more "natural" human-computer interaction.

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624 Agua Fria Street      office: [phone]
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