Earlier today at the Search Champs event I announced the formation of Mircosoft Live Labs, an exciting new partnership between MSN and MSR. I also announced that Live Labs has sponsored a new set of academic research grants and 10 MSR Ph.D. fellowships now posted under the Graduate Fellowship Program. This is all really exciting stuff and it was nice to be able to announce it to the Search Champs directly, since they had great follow-up questions that provoked a lively discussion! The Live Labs press release does a nice job of summing up this news.

More details about the research grants are posted in the Request For Proposal (RFP) on the MSR Web site.

Lastly, I'd like to invite you to re-visit the Live Labs Announcements page in the coming weeks and months, or subscribe to the Live Labs feed, to stay in the loop as we share more news about Live Labs.

Gary Flake
Microsoft Technical Fellow