I went to a talk given by one of the most senior guys at Microsoft Research, and it seems that they work on interesting problems there. One of the few gems in the dark Microsoft mine, I suppose.
Oh come on, that's bullshit. Microsoft Research is working on a whole bunch of stuff. Anyone in OS research knows how often MSR appears on the most influential papers.
OK, well that's not really true either. To say that there is no cross over from MSR to product development is incorrect. I know for a fact that SQL server has been inspired by MSR and vice versa.
So this is something like Einztein or Academic Earth - but not for courses but for papers/publications, as far as I can get it.
Deserves a bookmark, even if it requires Silverlight for rendering certain components of the page ( "To view the trends of publication and citation, you need Microsoft Silverlight." ).
I like it pretty well so far, as it nicely recognizes authors and gives you all their latest work. Bookmarked for use later.. hopefully it does a nice job at getting me the articles I need by title, which sometimes google scholar doesn't do as well as I'd like.
