I wonder what they do there?
With MS record in innovation are these boffins all historians?
Microsoft's UK research arm in Cambridge, England is moving home after more than 10 years occupying the Roger Needham Building on J J Thomson Ave. The company is transferring its 150 lab boffins - and up to 90 interns during the busy summer months - to Station Road in 2012 when the firm's current lease will be up. Microsoft …
Where they are now, they literally couldn't get much closer to computer science (in the William Gates Building across the road) Maths, Physics and electrical engineering, so which academic departments were you thinking of them being closer to in town?
Isn't the private science park in Milton? or were you thinking of the one on Newmarket road, both of which are closer to town than they are to the west Cambridge site IMO.
The developers are likely to have made MS a *very* attractive offer.
I believe that 90 of the staff are being housed in the new dev. That and the fact that there's very little car parking in the scheme should mean that traffic levels shouldn't increase too much from their current (abysmal) levels.
They don't turn into idiots just because they now work for Microsoft (though, cleverly on MS's part, they probably aren't motivated to comment on the usefulness or otherwise of MS products).
For example, Prof C.A.R. Hoare (of Communicating Sequential Processes fame) is One Of Them. There are some other famous ones too, but research.microsoft.com website is currently unresponsive (IIS?), and Tony Hoare's name is all I can remember.
Icon: Nothing to do with grammar, just to do with dreaming spires and all that.