{"id":648,"date":"2008-02-04T09:18:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T14:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=648"},"modified":"2008-06-17T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:45:04","slug":"microsoft-research-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Research New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2008\/feb08\/02-04MSRCambridgeLabPR.mspx\">announced<\/a> today that they&#8217;ll be opening a new research lab, in Cambridge, which will be called Microsoft Research New England.  The director of the lab will be mathematical physicist Jennifer Chayes, with deputy director her husband Christian Borgs, who is also a  mathematical physicist.  For an interview with them, see <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/news\/featurestories\/publish\/Chayes-Borg.aspx?0hp=n1\">here<\/a>, for a story in today&#8217;s New York Times, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/04\/technology\/04soft.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer and her ex-husband Lincoln Chayes (also a mathematical physicist, now at UCLA) were my class-mates during graduate student years in Princeton, as well as frequent companions on trips down to City Gardens in Trenton to see bands like the Ramones.  The two of them at the time had even more impressive leather outfits than the Ramones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  There&#8217;s more about this at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/2008\/02\/04\/new-microsoft-lab-in-cambridge-to-combine-math-and-social-science-already-besieged-by-potential-research-collaborators\/\">Xconomy<\/a> web-site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced today that they&#8217;ll be opening a new research lab, in Cambridge, which will be called Microsoft Research New England. The director of the lab will be mathematical physicist Jennifer Chayes, with deputy director her husband Christian Borgs, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=648\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}