Microsoft Development Center Serbia

Abstract

Microsoft Development Center Serbia (MDCS)

Established: 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia

Expertise: Software Engineering/Applied Mathematics

Staff: 75

About MDCS

MDCS is created with a mission to take an active part in conception of novel Microsoft technologies by hiring unique local talent from Serbia and the region. Our teams contribute components to some of Microsoft’s premiere and most innovative products.

We operate as a start-up within a large company with friendly and dynamic work environment. Team members are software engineers with solid industry experience as well as fresh college graduates - the common trait among all of our team members is hunger to achieve and to make substantial impact. We have the highest concentration of champions in international mathematics and programming competitions such as Olympics, ACM, and Imagine Cup.

Our development center is becoming widely recognized across Microsoft as a center of excellence for the following domains: computational algebra engines, pattern recognition, object classification, computational geometry and core database systems. The common theme uniting all of the efforts within the development center is applied mathematics.

MDCS teams maintain collaboration with engineers from various Microsoft development centers around the world (Redmond, Israel, India, Ireland and China), and Microsoft researchers from Redmond, Cambridge and Asia.

Teams and Projects

Handwriting Recognition Team
MDCS’ initial Handwriting Recognition team focused on development of handwriting recognizer technology for tablet pc. This early effort culminated in 7 language handwriting recognizers and Math recognizer shipped in Windows 7. Reco team also enabled shape recognition technology in PowerPoint 2010.

Image Analysis Platform Team
Image Analysis Platform team started with document layout analysis project for MS Live Book Search and later on moved towards development of common Microsoft image analysis platform. The most recent projects focused on improving online search experience for mobile devices.

SQL Server Team
SQL Server team was founded in 2007 focusing on development of spatial type extensibility support in SQL Server - first deployed as part of SQL Server 2008. SQL team specializes in complex data analytics, and is now in charge of all SQL Server features related to spatial and XML data types, improvements in the area of data warehousing, and other related projects. It is the only SQL Server engine team outside of USA and it has made a noted contribution to the upcoming SQL Server 2012.

SQL Server Team

SQL Server team was founded in 2007 focusing on development of spatial type extensibility support in SQL Server - first deployed as part of SQL Server 2008. SQL team specializes in complex data analytics, and is now in charge of all SQL Server features related to spatial and XML data types, improvements in the area of data warehousing, and other related projects. It is the only SQL Server engine team outside of USA and it has made a noted contribution to the upcoming SQL Server 2012.

Mathematics Team
Mathematics team was the most recent addition to Microsoft Development Center Serbia. Originally tasked to improve existing MS Mathematics suite with the MS Office Education Group, the team has completely redesigned the product and delivered technology improvement in two flavors: Math add-in for MS Office Word and MS Mathematics as a standalone product.