"Microsoft Research is committed to supporting academic partnerships that enable scientific breakthroughs through software innovation."

- Rob Bernard
Chief Environmental Strategist
Microsoft

Top Projects

Here are key Microsoft and independent research projects that are supported by Microsoft Research. We believe that through partnerships like these, we can drive innovations that will help combat climate change and lead to a healthier planet.

Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Ecosystems: automatically monitoring the effects of changing environmental conditions on the ecology and behavior of indicator species.
ClearFlow: using artificial intelligence to calculate motorist routing based upon traffic patterns - thereby reducing average travel times and carbon emissions.
DC Genome Project: leveraging networked sensing and control technologies to understand and optimize data center energy consumption.
Digital Green: developing a participatory framework for agricultural extension through digital video.
Digital Watershed: transforming the field of hydrology with the development of integrated software/hardware solutions.

Fluxnet: driving global science collaboration to more effectively manage our terrestrial resources in the face of climate change.
Life Under Your Feet: revolutionizing soil ecology with wireless sensor networks that can provide measurements at previously impossible temporal and spatial granularities.
SEAMONSTER: advancing climate change research through the development of remote monitoring tools for harsh environments.
SenseWeb: developing a sensor community infrastructure and innovative tools for publishing, managing, querying, and visualizing sensor data.
Trident: enabling scientists to explore and visualize oceanographic data in real-time and to visually compose, run and catalogue workflows.