The development of a computer science laboratory by Microsoft is discussed. The research products includes software converting video image to graphic animation, microphone eliminating background noise and machine translation. Microsoft establishes a dating service to ensure that products get transferred from researchers to developers. It is found that Microsoft ranked higher than any other top patenting computer-industry firm, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard, in a science linkage index, which examines how often a business cites scientific papers in its own patents.