{"id":170805,"date":"2011-09-13T07:03:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T07:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/university-of-edinburgh-microsoft-research-joint-initiative-in-informatics\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T04:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:44:45","slug":"university-of-edinburgh-microsoft-research-joint-initiative-in-informatics","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/university-of-edinburgh-microsoft-research-joint-initiative-in-informatics\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Edinburgh Microsoft Research Joint Initiative in Informatics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictured left to right: Jelte Meuse, Anastasis Georgoulas, Andy Gordon, Miltiadis Allamanis and Jinli Hu<\/p><\/div>\n

The joint initiative celebrates and consolidates research ties between the School of Informatics (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> of the University of Edinburgh,\u00a0and Microsoft Research, through the annual award of studentships to up to four PhD scholars within the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship programme.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The initiative\u00a0was launched October 5, 2011, at a meeting between Professor Sir Tim O\u2019Shea, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and Rick Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft Research.<\/p>\n

The convenor of the initiative is Andy Gordon<\/a>, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and Professor of Computer Security, University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Twenty one PhD students participated in the initiative, which consisted of six annual cohorts of PhD students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Coverage of the Launch of the Initiative<\/h2>\n