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MSRA Faculty Summit 2004, Beijing

Theme: Collaboration among Government, Academia and Industry
Date:    Nov. 8-9, 2004
Hotel:   Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China
             Address: No.1 ZhongGuanCun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing
             Phone: 86-10-6849-8888
URL:    http://www.bjfriendshiphotel.com/enew.htm
Attendees: About faculties from universities in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand
Event Web Site: http://research.microsoft.com/asia/asiaur/summit04/index.aspx

Nov. 7, 2004, Sunday, Check-in
Time	Description	Location
	Arrive in Beijing and check in to the hotel	Beijing International Airport Shuttles will be arranged according to the arrival confirmation. Please look for signs at the exit of customs.
19:00-21:00	Buffet Dinner	Coffee shop in Friendship Palace, Friendship Hotel
Nov. 8, 2004, Monday, Faculty Summit
Time	Topics	Speakers	Location
7:00	Morning Call
7:00-8:30	Breakfast		Ju Fu Yuan Restaurant in Friendship Palace
8:00-8:30	Guest Sign-in		Multi-function Hall at Grand Building
8:30-8:35	Opening Remarks	Lolan Song, Director, University Relations Group, Microsoft Research Asia
8:35-9:00	The Latest Development at Microsoft Research Asia	Harry Shum, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia
9:00-9:40	Higher Education in China	Yaoxue Zhang, Director, Higher Education Department, Ministry of Education of China 30-min presentation and 10-min Q&A
9:40-10:20	A Snapshot of MSR: 2004	Dan Ling, Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
10:20-10:30	Break
10:30-11:15	Computer Science Education at UC Berkeley	Jitendra Malik, Chair, Department of EECS, University of California at Berkeley
11:15-12:00	Latest Developments of University of Tokyo: New Campus & Programs	Kiyoharu Aizawa, Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Science, University of Tokyo
12:00-12:20	Group Picture Session		At the Gate of Friendship Palace
12:20-14:00	Lunch and Research Demo Show Demos of MSRA research projects and posters of joint research projects with universities		YaShi Restaurant at Grand Building
14:00-14:45	Seamless Mobile Computing	Ya-Qin Zhang, Vice President, Microsoft Corporation	Multi-function Hall at Grand Building,
14:45-15:30	Graphics Technologies for Games and Digital Entertainment	Baining Guo，Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia
15:30-16:15	Wireless Sensor Networks: Seamless Computing across Physical and PC Worlds	Feng Zhao, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
16:15-16:30	Break
16:30-17:30	Panel Discussion: How to Help Young Faculty Build Successful Careers	Host l Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia Distinguished Panelists l Ke Gong, Professor and Vice President, Tsinghua University, China l Yoichi Muraoka, Professor and Vice President, Waseda University, Japan l Pak-chung Ching, Head of Shaw College and Professor of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong l Vijay Varadharajan, Professor and Microsoft Chair for Innovation in Computing, Dept of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia l Sue Moon, Assistant Professor, Dept. of EECS, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea l Kevin Schofield, General Manager for Strategy and Communications, Microsoft Research Redmond l Lolan Song, Director, University Relations Group, Microsoft Research Asia
18:00	Depart from the hotel to the restaurant		Friendship Palace Square
19:00-21:00	Summit Banquet Research Managers at Microsoft Research Asia will join the banquet. 3^rd building, Huixin North, , Chaoyang District, 010-64950018，010-54950018		Beijing DazhaiMen Restaurant
21:00	Depart from the restaurant back to the hotel
Nov. 9, 2004, Tuesday, Computing in the 21^st Century Conference
Time	Topics	Speakers	Location
6:45	Morning Call
6:45-7:30	Breakfast		Cafeteria in Friendship Palace
7:30	Depart form the hotel to Tsinghua University		Friendship Palace Square
8:10-8:30	Guest Sign-in		South Entrance at the First Floor, Tsinghua Sport Center
8:30-12:15	Empowering the Individual	Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corporation	Tshinghua University
	Reflections on the Creation of the Modern Computer in the 20^th Century	Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel Prize Laureate
	Computers for the 21st Century	Chuck Thacker, Draper Prize winner
	Computing in the Service of Society	Dan Ling, Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
	Q&A
12:20-13:35	Lunch		Tshinghua University
13:35-16:15	Parallel Session 1	Harry Shum, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia	Tsinghua Sport Center
		Nan-Ning Zheng, President, Xi’an Jiao Tong University
		Andrew Herbert, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge
		Jitendra Malik, Chair, EECS of University of California at Berkeley
	Parallel Session 2	Ikeuchi Katsushi, Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
		Roy Levin, Director, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
		Victor Zue, Co-Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
		Kurt Akeley, Senior Researcher , Microsoft Research Asia
16:30	Depart from Tsinghua University back to the hotel		South Entrance of First Floor, Tsinghua Sport Center
18:00-20:00	Dinner at Friendship Hotel with MSRA UR team		Ju Fu Yuan Restaurant, Friendship Hotel
Nov. 10, 2004, Wednesday, Check-out and Departure
7:00-10:00	Breakfast		Ju Fu Yuan Restaurant, Friendship Hotel