Microsoft strengthens ties with Japan universities
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft is bolstering its joint research with Japanese universities, targeting such areas as security and natural language processing, the world's largest software maker said on Tuesday.
It will set up a collaboration network on July 1, hoping to promote exchange with researchers at top schools including the University of Tokyo, often called the Harvard of Japan.
Although Microsoft has established research centers in India, Britain and China as well as California's Silicon Valley and its headquarters in Redmond, Washington State, it has not made any major research efforts in Japan, partly due to a lack of programming talent at Japanese schools.