{"id":1156979,"date":"2025-11-29T13:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:02:09","slug":"ideas-research","status":"publish","type":"msr-group","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/ideas-research\/","title":{"rendered":"IDEAS Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background-catalina-blue card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1327\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IDEAS-Research-Site-Banner-3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"background pattern\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IDEAS-Research-Site-Banner-3.jpg 1327w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IDEAS-Research-Site-Banner-3-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IDEAS-Research-Site-Banner-3-1024x255.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IDEAS-Research-Site-Banner-3-768x191.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IDEAS-Research-Site-Banner-3-240x60.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1327px) 100vw, 1327px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 \">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card material-md-card py-5 px-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ideas-research\">IDEAS Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Science + Innovation for Next-Gen Productivity<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>IDEAS Research is the applied science team in IDEAS, the central data organization in Microsoft&#8217;s productivity division. 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