microsoft research. what do you do? jeannette: the labs to open basic research. by open i mean we public own -- we publish openly. we are open with what we do in our research. the public knows what we do. by basic research we use foundational research, research that is bold, envisioned, long-term. hopefully that will lead to new innovations that lead to new products and services. peter: can you give us an example of open research and basic research? jeannette: what we're doing in this particular text there is project premonition -- particular tech fair is project from edition -- project premonition. the application of project premonition is actually to collect mosquitoes that have been people -- that have written people -- that have bitten peop le and determine what kind of viruses and diseases mayb be around through taking blood samples from the mosquitoes and figuring out the genetic code of the constituents of their blood. that is the application of collecting mosquitoes. the mosquitoes are going to be collected through drones. these drones are flying around w

she is in changer of microsoft research. >> guest: i'm in charge of the core research labs for microsoft research. >> host: and what does that mean? what do you do? >> guest: well, we have -- the labs do what we call open, basic research. by open i mean that we publish openly, we go to conferences we're very open with what we do in our research. so the public knows what we do. by basic research i mean we do foundational research, research that is bold, envisioned and long term in ambition. and hopefully, that will lead to new innovations and lead to new products and services. >> host: well, can you give us an example of both, the open research and the basic research? maybe a project on each -- >> guest: well, one of the projects that we're demoing in this particular tech fair is project premonition. and it is an example of a bold very ambitious and long-term research project. the application of project premonition is actually to collect mosquitoes that have bitten people and to determine what kind of viruses might be around what kind of diseases might be around through taking the blood s

offices to talk about microsoft's lobbying efforts and about what's going on at microsoft's research labs. >> host: and now joining us on "the communicators" is fred humphries who serves as vice president for u.s. government affairs for the microsoft corporation. mr. humphries, what does that mean? what do you do for a living? >> i am microsoft's chief advocate. i'm one of -- i'm microsoft's ambassador. ambassador to capitol hill, to the administration, lead a wonderful team of government professionals that do advocacy, public policy issues that range from privacy security, surveillance trade, tax a whole host of issues and one that's real important education. so we do the advocacy for the company. >> host: you don't come from a tech background. >> guest: no. i worked on capitol hill. i worked for u.s. representative dick gephardt when he was minority leader or the

microsoft research. >> guest: i am in charge of the core research labs for microsoft research. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: the labs to what we call open basic research. by open i mean that we publish openly. we go to conferences. we are very open with what we do in our research so the public knows what we do. by basic research i and may we do for basic research that is bold and long-term in ambition and hopefully that will lead to new innovations and lead to new products and services. >> host: can you give us an example of love, the open research and a basic research and maybe a project? >> guest: one of the projects we are demoing in this particular tech fair this project premonition and is an example of a bold very ambitious among term research project. the application of project premonition is actually to collect mosquitoes that have bitten people and to determine what kind of viruses might be around what kind of diseases might be around through taking blood samples of the mosquitoes and figuring out the genetic code of some of the constituents of their blood. .. >> >> if it is is really

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