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Learning From Microsoft R4D.

Posted by frankahilario on October 3, 2007

A New Paradigm For Research

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Bill Gates is acting strange. Microsoft is no stranger to computer science research and development (R&D) – but agriculture R&D?

Today, Bill Gates is into crop research, specifically the Tropical Legumes II Project, in faraway Sub-Saharan Africa, no relation to Microsoft Windows or Office 2007. He might have been talking to officials of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) based in Patancheru, India, perhaps even officials of the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) based in Cali, Colombia; International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) based in Ibadan, Nigeria. The three are implementing Legumes II. The full essay


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One Response to “Learning From Microsoft R4D.”

  1. Games » Learning From Microsoft R4D. said

    October 4, 2007 at 5:45 am

    [...] Maggie Greene wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThat’sa big jump for Bill Gates from software to soybean, from programming to pigeonpea, from computer code to chickpea, from Visual Basic to beans, from client security to cowpea, from computer games to groundnuts. From design to DNA, … [...]

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