Research & (Economic) Development

When Microsoft Research’s India lab was launched in 2005, assistant managing director Kentaro Toyama found himself far from his work in Redmond, Wash., where he had been researching computer vision and other highly technical projects. Instead of pushing the boundaries of technology itself, part of his new charter at Microsoft Research India was to investigate the intersection of technology and society with India as a test bed. Toyama soon realized the importance and scale of the challenge.

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