Industry research has a rich legacy in computer science [9]. However, as opposed to the blue-sky approach to research, increasingly there is a trend to align industry research more closely with the products. This is manifested in several new trends in industry research: (i) emphasis on product impact, e.g., improving existing products or seeing new ones coming around the bend, (ii) popularity of blended job functions, such as scientist, research scientist, and data scientist, and (iii) setting up research teams that are integrated within the product organization to forge closer collaborations. The latter is a case in point in Azure Data group at Microsoft, where the Gray Systems Lab (GSL) [2] is an applied research team within the product group. Such integrated research labs offer beautiful opportunities for combining research with product impact. Yet, due to their product focus from the get-go, applied research labs could also be challenging to get started. Fortunately, it turns out that there are a set of things that new researchers could do in order to set themselves up for success in a product group.

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CloudViews 项目的应用研究课程

工业研究在计算机科学方面有着丰富的遗产 [9]。然而，与蓝天研究方法相反，越来越多的趋势是将行业研究与产品更紧密地结合起来。这体现在行业研究的几个新趋势中：(i) 强调产品影响，例如，改进现有产品或看到新产品即将出现，(ii) 混合工作职能的普及，如科学家、研究科学家和数据科学家，以及 (iii) 建立集成在产品组织内的研究团队，以建立更紧密的合作。后者是微软 Azure 数据组的一个典型案例，其中 Gray Systems Lab (GSL) [2] 是产品组内的一个应用研究团队。这种综合研究实验室为将研究与产品影响相结合提供了绝佳的机会。然而，由于他们从一开始就专注于产品，应用研究实验室的起步也可能具有挑战性。幸运的是，为了在产品组中取得成功，新研究人员可以做一系列事情。