Gelios-hotel, Zelenogorsk, St. Petersburg 21–23 April 2004

These Microsoft Research Academic Days provided an opportunity to learn about many current and future technologies from Microsoft to academics from Russia.

Presentations material

• From Eiffel and Design by Contract to Trusted Components and .NET, Bertrand Meyer - ETH Zurich
• Phoenix: A Next Generation Optimization and Compiler Framework, Shahrokh Mortazavi - Microsoft
• .NET: Road to Pervasive Integration, Rafal Lukawiecki - Project Botticelli
• WWW Challenges: Publishing, Searching, and Browsing the Web, Natasa Milic-Frayling - Microsoft Research
• End to End Application Security, Steven Adler - Microsoft
• Using new SOAP and XML technologies to solve practical problems of platform management in the enterprise (in Russian), Alexander Nosov - Microsoft
• Next in database development: XML, .NET, WinFS (in Russian), Alexander Vaschillo - Microsoft
• The Storage User Experience in Windows "Longhorn", Walter Smith - Microsoft
• ObjectSpaces and SQLXML: Data access in Visual Studio "Whidbey", Avner Aharoni - Microsoft
• Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI) as a research platform, Peter Drayton - Microsoft
• C# in Whidbey, Erik Meijer - Microsoft
• Cω, Damien Watkins - Microsoft Research