Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences(FUSE) Labs https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/ was started by Ray Ozzie and is run by Lili Cheng. The group focuses on real-time and media-rich experiences and is located in Bellevue, WA. It used to have offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Cambridge, UK. A similar, earlier initiative was Microsoft Live Labs, a collaboration between Microsoft Research and MSN which ended in 2010.

Selected Projects

• Microsoft Bot Framework & Conversational AI tools for developers.
• Bing Twitter – Find out what topics are hottest on Twitter.
• Docs.com – Discover, create and share Office docs with your Facebook friends
• So.cl ([2]) – Social search service
• Kodu Game Lab – Kodu Game Lab.

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