Microsoft names new managing director of research
Microsoft has named a new managing director for its Research division.
The company said that US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program director Dr. Peter Lee would be taking over as managing director of the Microsoft Research Redmond operation beginning in the Fall of 2010.
Formerly a professor at Carnegie Melon University, Lee had previously worked as director of DARPA's Transformational Convergence Technology Office, a project focused on areas such as crowdsourcing, machine intelligence and biosynthesis.
