Students at Microsoft"s Israel R&D Center
Telecom Group
Founded in 2007 as an incubation, the goal of the Telecom Group is to turn Microsoft into a dominant force in the telecom industry. The group focuses on developing an operator-hosted, telco-grade platform to empower the operators' businesses and allow them to deploy differentiating services and experiences, which leverage their existing infrastructure and service investments.
The group attracts, and consists of, the best minds of the thriving local high-tech and telecom industries.
Security Group
The Access and Security Division is a team within the company's Server and Tools Business Group. We specialize in providing solutions and services designed to protect the security, access, and PC Care software of all Windows users. Our goal is to equip MS customers, from both business and consumer markets, with tools for easy and cost-effective protection of both systems and data from the latest threats; our services and solutions help customers maintain their computers, while benefiting from secure, unlimited access to critical applications.
Innovation Labs
Microsoft Israel Labs [http://www.microsoftrnd.co.il] focuses on developing groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting technologies and business models, which are unlimited by subject, scope or focus. It fosters the creation of new, highly disruptive products and technologies by allowing its talented team members to dream up wild ideas, while providing them with the ideal environment and enabling a long-term development spam of 5-10 years.
Comprised of small teams of 4-5 experts and researchers, the Labs group encourages a dynamic, highly speculative, and experiential research and development process.
The group funnels ideas from within the center, across MS, and the world at large. Ultimately, our goal is to bring several projects to the point of "irrefutability", whereby a product group acknowledges a project's value and "acquires" it for full-fledged incubation.
Students at Microsoft's Israel R&D Center
The Imagine Cup '09 Contest
This year Israel participated for the first time in the Imagine Cup contest - Microsoft's international competition of technological challenges. The contest, held during July 2009, focused on the use of advanced technology to realize a few vital UN Millennium Resolutions - reducing global poverty and stopping the spread of AIDS.
The Israeli group developed a digital Rubik's Cube game based on augmented reality technology, which combines actual and virtual reality on visual means. With the use of a camera, movement of the cube's sides and movement of the cube in space, the user can create an unlimited combination of "situations" which are translated into movement, problem-solving and continuous plot development. The game was intended to promote the Millennium Resolutions' targets in an unconventional way.
The local team included Kyril Fabenzer and Nati Levi from Ben-Gurion University who developed and applied the algorithm; and Yulia Smilanski and Shoham Blau from Bezalel College of Design who created the game animation. The team also participated in the finals which were held in Cairo, together with 444 other students from 124 countries.
Summer Camp for Students from the Excellence Program
Founded in 2007 as an incubation, the goal of the Telecom Group is to turn Microsoft into a dominant force in the telecom industry. The group focuses on developing an operator-hosted, telco-grade platform to empower the operators' businesses and allow them to deploy differentiating services and experiences, which leverage their existing infrastructure and service investments.
The group attracts, and consists of, the best minds of the thriving local high-tech and telecom industries.
Security Group
The Access and Security Division is a team within the company's Server and Tools Business Group. We specialize in providing solutions and services designed to protect the security, access, and PC Care software of all Windows users. Our goal is to equip MS customers, from both business and consumer markets, with tools for easy and cost-effective protection of both systems and data from the latest threats; our services and solutions help customers maintain their computers, while benefiting from secure, unlimited access to critical applications.
Innovation Labs
Microsoft Israel Labs [http://www.microsoftrnd.co.il] focuses on developing groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting technologies and business models, which are unlimited by subject, scope or focus. It fosters the creation of new, highly disruptive products and technologies by allowing its talented team members to dream up wild ideas, while providing them with the ideal environment and enabling a long-term development spam of 5-10 years.
Comprised of small teams of 4-5 experts and researchers, the Labs group encourages a dynamic, highly speculative, and experiential research and development process.
The group funnels ideas from within the center, across MS, and the world at large. Ultimately, our goal is to bring several projects to the point of "irrefutability", whereby a product group acknowledges a project's value and "acquires" it for full-fledged incubation.
Students at Microsoft's Israel R&D Center
The Imagine Cup '09 Contest
This year Israel participated for the first time in the Imagine Cup contest - Microsoft's international competition of technological challenges. The contest, held during July 2009, focused on the use of advanced technology to realize a few vital UN Millennium Resolutions - reducing global poverty and stopping the spread of AIDS.
The Israeli group developed a digital Rubik's Cube game based on augmented reality technology, which combines actual and virtual reality on visual means. With the use of a camera, movement of the cube's sides and movement of the cube in space, the user can create an unlimited combination of "situations" which are translated into movement, problem-solving and continuous plot development. The game was intended to promote the Millennium Resolutions' targets in an unconventional way.
The local team included Kyril Fabenzer and Nati Levi from Ben-Gurion University who developed and applied the algorithm; and Yulia Smilanski and Shoham Blau from Bezalel College of Design who created the game animation. The team also participated in the finals which were held in Cairo, together with 444 other students from 124 countries.
Summer Camp for Students from the Excellence Program
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