Innovation & Opportunity—The Contribution of Computing to Improving Our World

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shares his thoughts and perspective on computing’s impact on society and fields questions from the audience at the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. Rick Rashid, chief research officer of Microsoft, moderates the discussion.

Series:: Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
Date:: July 15, 2013
Speakers:: Bill Gates and Rick Rashid
Affiliation:: Microsoft

- Lori Stone
Research Area
- Social sciences
Event
- Faculty Summit 2013

Series: Microsoft Research Faculty Summit

A Conversation with Bill Gates Hosted by Eric Horvitz
July 24, 2019
Speakers:

Eric Horvitz
Quantum Computing and Workforce, Curriculum, and Application Development: Case study
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Krysta M. Svore,

Martin Roetteler
Cars, Computing and the Future of Work: Specific topics of mutual interest
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Ece Kamar,

Ed Doran,

Shamsi Iqbal
Quantum Computing and Workforce, Curriculum, and Application Development: Overview and access
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Krysta M. Svore,

Mariia Mykhailova
Quantum Computing and Workforce, Curriculum, and Application Development: Open Resources
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Bettina Heim,

Krysta M. Svore
Crowd, Cloud and the Future of Work: Updates from human AI computation
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Besmira Nushi,

Vani Mandava
Quantum Computing and Workforce, Curriculum, and Application Development: Insight into real-world quantum applications
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Krysta M. Svore
Cars, Computing and the Future of Work: A UW & MSR Workshop: Welcome and Overview of Projects
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Ed Doran,

Eric Horvitz,

Satish Sangameswaran

, et. al.
Quantum Computing and Workforce, Curriculum, and Application Development: An overview of quantum computing
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Jeongwan Haah,

Krysta M. Svore
Crowd, Cloud and the Future of Work: Welcome and Updates
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Besmira Nushi,

Ece Kamar,

Kori Inkpen
Empowering People to Achieve More: How Useful a Concept is Productivity?
July 19, 2019
Speakers:

Brendan Murphy
Keynote - The Future of Work And the Power of Data
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Johannes Gehrke
Productivity in Software Development
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Neel Sundaresan,

Margaret-Anne Storey,

Prem Kumar Devanbu

, et. al.
Artificial Emotional Intelligence, Social Systems, and the Future of Collaboration
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Mary Czerwinski
Workers of the World, Connect! Tech Innovations and Organizational Change for the Future of Work(ers)
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Jacki O'Neill,

Mary L. Gray
Increasing AI Programmer Productivity
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Markus Weimer,

Sarah Bird
Human-AI Collaboration for Decision-Making
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Besmira Nushi,

Ece Kamar,

Rich Caruana
Future of Spreadsheeting
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Andy Gordon,

Shi Han,

Ben Zorn
Program Synthesis meets Notebooks
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Sumit Gulwani
Accessible Virtual Reality
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Eyal Ofek
Calendar.help: A Virtual Meeting Scheduling Assistant
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Pamela Bhattacharya
Visual Studio IntelliCode
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Mark Wilson-Thomas
Microsoft Teams: Collaborate with Any Researcher Anywhere
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Jethro Seghers
Project Alava: Programming Webs of Microcontrollers
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

James Devine,

Teddy Seyed
AI in PowerPoint
July 18, 2019
Speakers:

Kostas Seleskerov