As part of Turing Week, Wired.co.uk travelled to Microsoft's campus in Redmond and met with Rick Rashid, chief research officer at Microsoft Research. Rashid was employee number one at Microsoft Research after joining in 1991, and now oversees worldwide operations for the division, which encompasses R&D facilities across the globe.
Rashid was previously a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and has published scientific papers in the fields of computer vision, operating systems, network protocols and communications security. He is a member of the National Science Foundation Computer Directorate Advisory Committee and is a Trustee for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
Wired.co.uk spoke to Rashid to find out his thoughts on Turing's contributions to fields Microsoft Research is invested in, as well as whether passing the Turing test is still a goal we should be focussed on achieving.
By: Nate Lanxon, Edited by: Olivia Solon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/20/turing-microsoft-research-q-and-a
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