{"id":2798,"date":"2014-09-19T18:44:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T00:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2014-09-19T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T00:44:17","slug":"no-more-msr-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"No more MSR Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/09\/18\/us-microsoft-redundancies-idUSKBN0HD2B820140918?feedType=RSS\">news report<\/a> is correct, the <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/labs\/siliconvalley\/\">Microsoft Research Silicon Valley<\/a> center has been cut.  The New York lab has not been directly affected although obviously cross-lab collaborations are impacted, and we sympathize deeply with those involved.  Most of the rest of MSR is not directly affected.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not privy to the rationale behind the decision, but in my opinion there are some very strong people in the various groups (<a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/groups\/algtheory-sv\/default.aspx\">Algorithms<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/groups\/architecture-sv\/default.aspx\">Architecture<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/groups\/distsys-sv\/default.aspx\">Distributed Systems<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/groups\/secpriv-sv\/default.aspx\">Privacy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/groups\/softtools-sv\/default.aspx\">Software tools<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/groups\/web-datamining-sv\/default.aspx\">Web Search<\/a>), and I expect offers have started raining on them.  In <a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=2341\">my experience<\/a>, this is harrowing in the short term, yet I know that most of my previous colleagues ended up happier after the troubles hit Yahoo! Research 2 1\/2 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news report is correct, the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley center has been cut. The New York lab has not been directly affected although obviously cross-lab collaborations are impacted, and we sympathize deeply with those involved. Most of the rest of MSR is not directly affected. I&#8217;m not privy to the rationale behind the decision, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=2798\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No more MSR Silicon Valley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}