Kai-Fu Lee (bom December 3, 1961) is an information technology executive and a computer science researcher.
李开复(1961年12月3日出生)是一位信息技术执行兼计算机科学研究员。
He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and Microsoft, his former employer, due to a one-year non-compete agreement that he signed with Microsoft in 2000 when he became its corporate vice president of interactive services.
他在2005年谷歌和他的前任雇主微软的法律纠纷中成为焦 点,2000年在他成为这家公司的互动服务的.副总裁时同微软签订 了一项一年的竞业禁止协议。
He is one of the most prominent figures in the Chinese internet sector. He was the founding president of Google China (July 2005 to 4 September, 2009.) His personal blog is widely followed in China and he runs a popular website () to help young Chinese people achieve careers in IT.
他是中国网络领域最杰出的几个人物之一。他曾是谷歌中国 的创始总裁(2005年7月到2009年9月在职）。他的个人博客在中国 广受追捧，并且他也拥有一个很受欢迎的网站(. com)用来帮助中国的年轻人在IT业开创事业。
In 1973，Lee immigrated to the United States and attended high school in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University (where he was a classmate of Barack Obama), earning a B.S. degree in computer science in 1983. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988.
1973年,李开复移民美国并就读于田纳西州的橡树岭高中。他 以荣誉学生身份从哥伦比亚大学毕业(在那里他曾和巴拉克?奥 巴马是同学），1983年获得计算机科学理学学士学位。1988年获得 卡耐基梅隆大学计算机科学博士学位。
At Carnegie Mellon, Lee worked on topics in machine learning and pattern recognition. In 1986， he and Sanjoy Mahajan developed Bill, a Bayesian learning-based system for playing the board game Othello that won the US national tournament of computer players in 1989. In 1988，he completed his doctoral dissertation on Sphinx, the first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system.
在卡耐基梅隆大学，李开复专攻机器学习和模式识别。1986 年,他和Sanjoy Mahajan研发了比尔’ 一个基于贝叶斯定理学习系 统的棋盘游戏——奥赛罗。并且在1989年赢得了美国全国电脑棋 盘游戏锦标赛冠军。1988年，他完成了他关于斯芬克斯搜索引擎的 博士毕业论文。这也是第一个大词汇量，独立发音的连续语音识别 系统。
Lee has authored two books on speech recognition and more than 60 papers in computer science. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1988 as a Kluwer monograph, Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the Sphinx Recognition System. Together with Alex Waibel, another Carnegie Mellon researcher, Lee edited Readings in Speech Recognition.
李开复著有两本关于语音识别的书以及60多篇关于计算机科 学的论文。1988年他的博士论文在Kluwer上作为一篇专刊发表，《自动语音识别:斯芬克斯识别系统的发展过程》。他同另一名卡 耐基梅隆大学的研究人员埃里克斯?魏贝尔合著了《语音识别 中的读音》。
In 1998, Lee moved to Microsoft and went to Beijing, China where he established the Microsoft Research division there. MSR China later became known as MSR Asia. Lee returned to the United States in 2000 and was vice president of interactive services at Microsoft from 2000 to 2005. In July, 2005, Lee left Microsoft to take a position at Google.
1998年，李开复加盟微软并到中国北京创立了微软研究所。中国微软研究所也就是后来的亚洲微软研究所。李开复在2000 年回到美国并从2000年到2005年一直担任微软互动服务部副总 裁一职。2005年7月，他离开微软加盟谷歌。
On July 19，2005, Microsoft sued Google and Lee in a Washington state court over Google’s hiring of its former Vice President of Interactive Services, claiming that Lee was violating his non-compete agreement by working for Google within one year of leaving the Redmond-based software corporation. Microsoft argued that Lee would inevitably disclose proprietary information to Google if he was allowed to work there.
2005年7月19曰，微软向华盛顿州法院递交了对谷歌的诉 讼，因为谷歌聘用了他们的前任互动服务部的副总裁。并声称李 开复如果离开位于雷德蒙的微软总部而去谷歌工作的话就违反了双方签订的无竞争协议。微软认为李开复如果被允许在谷歌工作的话就不可避免的会向泄露一 些专利信息。
On July 28, 2005, Washington state Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez granted Microsoft a temporary restraining order, which prohibited Lee from working on Google projects that compete with Microsoft pending a trial scheduled for January 9，2006. On September 13，following a hearing, Judge Gonzalez issued a ruling permitting Lee to work for Google, but barring him from starting work on some technical projects until the case goes to trial in January 2006. Lee was still allowed to recruit employees for Google in China and to talk to government officials about licensing, but was prohibited from working on technologies such as search or speech. Lee was also prohibited from setting budgets, salaries, and research directions for Google in China until the case was to go to trial in January 2006.
2005年7月28日，华盛顿州最高法院法官史蒂芬冈?萨雷斯承诺微软颁布一项暂时的禁止条 令，禁止李开复在谷歌从事同微软竞争项目相关的工作，这项禁令的效力一直持续到2006年1月9 日。9月13日，经过庭审法官冈萨雷斯裁定允许李开复为谷歌工作，但是禁止他从事一些技术类工 作直到2006年1月禁令失效为止。李开复被允许为谷歌中国招聘职员并且同政府官员就发放许可 证进行商谈，但是他被禁止从事比如搜索或语音相关的技术工作。李开复同样也不被允许替谷歌 中国设定预算、工资和捜索方向直到禁令在2006年1月失效。