Founded in 2003 in Germany, the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) in Aachen is one of Microsoft’s facilities in Europe dedicated to collaborative research and technology development. The laboratory is unique to Microsoft in its focus on collaborative applied research and technology development and in its goal of contributing to the public research programs of the European Commission and the German Government.

Snapshot of EMIC’s history

Videos of some of our current technology developments

Our Open Research strategy is what sets us apart. We collaborate intimately with respected business and scientific partners throughout Europe, such as Deutsche Telekom, SAP, Siemens, Philips, Hewlett-Packard, the Fraunhofer Society, INRIA, and a number of universities.
It is very important to us to make a valuable contribution to the European economy. In the context of development programs sponsored by the European Commission and the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) is instrumental in transforming research outcomes into superior systems, products, and standards.
Since April 2003, more than 40 scientists and engineers from 10 countries have pursued collaborative applied research at the center’s Aachen facility together with 100 partners. More about us

Hand in Hand with Our Partners

We are working together with about 100 European partners. We are devoting a considerable share of our attention to projects within the Framework Program of the European Commission for Research and Technological Development and to projects sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
For more project details and our partners, visit Project overview

Research Areas

At the European Microsoft Innovation Center, our research is focused on these application domains:

• Enterprise: service level agreements (SLA) and distributed complex event processing (CEP), dynamic service composition and knowledge process support
• Mobility: network awareness and cognitive radio, service-oriented sensor applications, and peer-to-peer
• Home: recommender framework, home service middleware
• Security: security and privacy for service composition, dynamic authorization, and context-aware information rights management
• Software verification: industrially viable methodology and scalable tools

For more information, visit Research Areas

Microsoft Unveils Its First Windows Embedded R&DCenter in Europe

Microsoft Corp. announced the launch of its first Microsoft Embedded Systems Development Centre (MESDC) in Aachen, Germany. The MESDC is part of Microsoft’s effort to expand regional development centers in Denmark, France, Ireland, Serbia, the U.K. and other countries across Europe. The center will support global product development and drive smart, connected, service-oriented device development. Located within the European Microsoft Innovation Centre (EMIC) in Aachen, the MESDC is a significant part of the $75 million (U.S.) global R&D investment that the Windows Embedded Business is making in Europe this fiscal year. See also our press release

EMIC starts recruiting embedded systems engineers for the MESDC: The goal by the end of 2008 is to bring on board up to 15 engineers.
Please see also our open positions.

FP7:
6 new collaborative European research projects

It is with great pleasure that we can mention that 60% of our FP 7 proposals were accepted by the European Commission. We are looking forward to starting six new collaborative European research projects beginning of 2008.
In these research projects which are partly funded by the European Union we will once again partner with some of the best researchers, both academic and industrial, from all over Europe to achieve our common goals. This approach towards collaboration is sometimes called co-opetition: we work together in places where interoperability, standardization or general advancement of software solutions is important, while we compete in other parts of our research as well as in the market place.
European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) will lead two of the new European projects.

www.microsoft.com/emic /mymedia.mspx

www.microsoft.com/emic/consequence.mspx

Just started: Verisoft XT Project
Formal verification is the process of proving that a Computer system exactly fulfils its mathematical specification. The European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) is collaborating with German academic partners and the 'Microsoft Research group for Programming Languages and Methods' on the formal verification of the new Microsoft Hypervisor to be released as part of Windows Server 2008.
The Hypervisor will allow multiple guest operating systems concurrently on a single hardware platform. By proving the mathematical correctness of the Hypervisor we will guarantee stability and security of the implementation. The Verisoft XT Project is funded by the German Federal Ministery of Education and Research (BMBF). See also http://www.verisoftxt.de