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While there are exceptions, you generally need the research merit badge - a PhD. If it's something you seriously want to do, consider entering grad school.
Microsoft Hires 14 Yahoo Researchers to Kickstart New NYC Research Lab
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Re: Microsoft Hires 14 Yahoo Researchers to Kickstart New NYC Research Lab
#12Yahoo has more pressing issues than research. A shift of focus away from research was to be expected after the last reorg.
Yes, but it's a sign of a company in decline. Research is what keeps you at the forefront of your industry- at this point no-one is expecting Yahoo to do that, but it's still sad.
Not always. It's extremely hard to integrate an internal R&D department into a product pipeline. Id your research organization is detached from the rest of the company, its work will not be as readily integrated into the products other divisions make.
Re: Microsoft Hires 14 Yahoo Researchers to Kickstart New NYC Research Lab
#13David Pennock
Morgan Stanley Process Driven Trading, New York, NY, May 2008
Many quants have moved to silicon alley/valley from wallstreet due to the spectacular crash of 2007. Curiously, there have been much chatter about a crash in the tech sector lately - strange attractors.
Re: Microsoft Hires 14 Yahoo Researchers to Kickstart New NYC Research Lab
#14This is awesome news. Microsoft Research already has a great set of theorists in their New England lab, but clearly they were missing resident sociologists/economists. They can't have hoped for a richer haul than what they just landed here, that too in one shot.
Also this just proves further (in case anyone doubted) that Microsoft is in the game for the long haul.
Re: Microsoft Hires 14 Yahoo Researchers to Kickstart New NYC Research Lab
#15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_and_Strogatz_model
Serious pickup for MS.