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Microsoft Research Asia Faculty Summit 2010

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Time	Description	Location
All day	Arrival and check-in	Hyatt on the Bund Hotel
18:00–21:00	Buffet dinner (optional)	Hyatt on the Bund Hotel

Monday, October 18, 2010

Time	Description	Location
08:00–09:00	Registration/check-in	Hyatt on the Bund Hotel – Grand Ballroom I, 1F West Tower
09:00–09:10	Welcome and Academic Collaboration Overview \| Presentation \| Video Lolan Song, Senior Director, University Relations, Microsoft Research Asia
09:10–09:50	Microsoft Research Update \| Presentation \| Video Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia
09:50–10:40	RARE: Rethinking Architectural Research and Education \| Presentation \| Video Chuck Thacker, Turing Award winner, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research
10:40–11:00	Break and group photo session
11:00–12:00	Panel Discussion: Internet of Things \| Presentation \| Video Session Chair: Feng Zhao, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia Panelists: David Culler, UC Berkeley; Guihai Chen, Nanjing University; Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University; Catharine van Ingen, Microsoft Research
12:00–13:15	Lunch
13:15–14:05	Cloud Computing Paradigm Shift \| Presentation \| Video Enwei Xie, General Manager, Microsoft China
14:05–15:05	Growing Talent \| Presentation \| Video John Hopcroft, Turing Award winner, Cornell University Session Chair: Baining Guo, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia
15:05–15:25	Break
15:25–16:25	The WorldWide Telescope: Challenges and Opportunities with Visualizing a Universe of Big Data \| Presentation \| Video Curtis Wong, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Chenzhou Cui, National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences
16:25–17:10	Empowering People with Knowledge: The Next Frontier for Web Search \| Presentation \| Video Wei-Ying Ma, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia
17:10–18:10	Panel Discussion: Fourth Paradigm – Exploring Trends and Talents for Data-Intensive Science \| Presentation \| Video Session Chair: Tony Hey, Corporate Vice-President, Microsoft Research Panelists: Key-Sun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology; Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University; Jimmy Liu, A*STAR; Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo and University of Manchester
18:10–18:15	Closing
18:15–18:30	Break
18:30–19:00	Transit to dinner
19:00–21:00	Dinner

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Time	Description	Location
09:00–13:00	Breakout sessions	Hyatt on the Bund Hotel
	Natural User Interaction: Exploring Future Computer Interfaces Today Session Chair: Frank Soong, Microsoft Research Asia Presentations: A Universal Approach to Synthesizing High Quality Speech and Photo-Real Talking—Frank Soong, Microsoft Research Asia \| Presentation Toward Music Listening Interfaces in the Future—Masataka Goto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology \| Presentation Be What’s Next – Context-aware Intelligent Companions (CAIC)—Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia Interacting with Face—Jian Sun, Microsoft Research Asia \| Presentation Natural User Interfaces for Activity-based UbiComp—James Landay, University of Washington \| Presentation Natural User Interactions Research: NUI Opportunities for Collaboration—Stewart Tansley, Microsoft Research \| Presentation	Bund Ballroom, 1F East Tower
	Mobile Sensing Session Co-Chairs: Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Asia; Jacky Shen, Microsoft Research Asia Presentations: Challenges in Creating Ubiquitous Services with Mobile Sensing Systems—Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University \| Presentation Internet of Things Towards Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing—Guihai Chen, Nanjing University \| Presentation Mobile Sensing in UbiComp and Persuasive Technologies—Hao-Hua Chu, National Taiwan University \| Presentation SensorWeb and Its Extension to Support Mobile Sensing—Jacky Shen, Microsoft Research Asia \| Presentation	Meeting Room 206–207, 2F East Tower
	Finding, Keeping, and Nurturing Talent: The Key to Success Session Co-Chairs: Baining Guo, Microsoft Research Asia; Weiping Li, University of Science and Technology of China Presentations: Overview: Talent Programs at Microsoft Research Asia—Lolan Song, Microsoft Research Asia \| Presentation Requests from Customers, and Our Efforts and Plans to the Requests—HyunWook Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology \| Presentation Recruiting, Cultivating, and Retaining Talented Academic Researchers: The Case of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology—Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \| Presentation Reducing Talent Gap—Xiaoning Ling, X-Gainian Foundation \| Presentation Teaching Advanced Software Engineering—Xin Zou, Microsoft Research Asia \| Presentation	Meeting Room 201, 2F East Tower
13:00–13:15	Break
13:15–14:30	Transit to afternoon venue (with lunch box)
14:30–16:00	Innovation Day: Demos	Microsoft Zizhu Campus
16:00–16:50	Wrap-up session \| Presentation Mobile Sensing—Jacky Shen, Microsoft Research Asia Finding, Keeping, and Nurturing Talent: The Key to Success—Weiping Li, University of Science and Technology of China Natural User Interaction—Frank Soong, Microsoft Research Asia/James Landay, University of Washington
16:50–17:00	Conference conclusion
17:00–18:00	Transit
18:00–20:00	Subsidiary dinners (optional)

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 (Optional)

Time	Description	Location
09:00–18:00	Computing in the 21st Century Conference	Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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