Latin American Faculty Summit 2012
Riviera Maya, Mexico | May 23–25, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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Time |
Event/Topic |
Location | |
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12:00–12:30 |
Opening Ceremony |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
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12:30–1:30
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Opening Keynote Presentation Microsoft Research: from Basic Research to Technological Innovations | slides |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
| 1:30–1:45 |
Group Photo |
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1:45–3:00 |
Lunch |
Azul Restaurant/ Chaká | |
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3:00–4:00 |
Keynote Presentation Sergio Carrera, Executive Director, INFOTEC, Mexico |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
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4:00–4:45 |
Plenary Session Hector Garcia-Molina, Professor, Stanford University, United States |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
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4:45–5:15 |
Refreshment Break |
Foyer Grand Velas | |
| 5:15–6:00 |
Plenary Session Putting the Cloud in the Palm of Your Hand |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
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6:00–7:00 |
Keynote Presentation Bringing Theories to Life: Computer Science at Microsoft Research | slides | video |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
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8:30–11:00 |
Welcome Reception and Dinner |
Zen Grand Garden | |
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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8:30–1:00—Parallel Track Sessions | ||||
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Computer Science |
Computer Science |
Computing in eScience |
CONACYT Thematic Networks Location: Grand Velas 15 | |
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8:30–9:30 | ||||
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Why Software Engineering is the Best Job in 2012 | slides | video Judith Bishop, Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States |
Kinect for Windows—an Update for Researchers | slides Stewart Tansley, Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States |
Lee Dirks, Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States |
Teaching a Robot How to Perform New Tasks | slides Eduardo F. Morales, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica, y Electronica (INAOE), Mexico | |
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9:30–10:30 | ||||
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Future of Software Engineering on Mobile Devices | slides | video Nikolai Tillmann, Principal RSDE, Microsoft Research, United States |
The World of Multi-Mouse Miguel Nussbaum, Professor, Catholic University of Chile, Chile
E-CLOUDSS: Building e-Government Clouds Using Distributed Semantic Services Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Universidad de Las Americas Puebla, Mexico |
Rethinking Computer Architecture: Research at BSC-Microsoft Research Centre Osman Unsal, Senior Researcher, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain |
Data Mining and Its Importance in the 21st Century | slides Christopher R. Stephens, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
The Discrete Compactness and Its Applications | slides Ernesto Bribiesca, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico | |
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10:30–11:00—Refreshment Break | Location: Foyer Grand Velas | ||||
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11:00–12:00 | ||||
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Engineering Methods for Ensuring Program Correctness | slides | video Rustan Leino, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, United States |
Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse – Architecture Overview | slides | video José Blakeley, Partner Architect, Microsoft, United States
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LACCIR Projects | video Chair: Ignacio Casas, Executive Director, LACCIR
LiveANDES: A Software Platform to Share and Analyze Information for Wildlife Conservation | slides Cristián Bonacic, Professor, Ecosystems and Environment Department, Catholic University of Chile (PUC-Chile), Chile
Andrés Neyem, Professor, Computer Science Department, Catholic University of Chile (PUC-Chile), Chile
Using Sensor Networks to Classify Frogs Based on Eduardo Freire Nakamura, Assistant Professor, Research and Technological Innovation Center (FUCAPI), Brazil |
Probabilistic Graphical Models: Applications in Biomedicine | slides | video Enrique Sucar, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica, y Electronica (INAOE), Mexico | |
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12:00–1:00 | ||||
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Experiences in Software Engineering | slides | video Derick Campbell, Director of Engineering, Microsoft Research Connections, United States |
Specialized Machine Translation Using the Microsoft Translator Hub – Customized Models for Language Preservation and Domain Specific Deployment | slides | video Kristin Tolle, Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States |
Big Data and the Cloud Phenomenon | slides | video Pedro Celis, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft, United States
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The Golem Project: a Laboratory for the Construction of Service Robots | slides | video Luis Pineda Cortés, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico | |
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Time |
Event/Topic |
Location | |
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1:00–2:30 |
Lunch |
Azul Restaurant/ Chaká | |
| 1:15–2:15 |
Panel Session (lunch) Moving the Needle and Growing Women in Computing in Latin America | slides | video Juliana Salles, Microsoft Research |
Azul Restaurant | |
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2:30–3:15
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Research Talk Deep Neural Networks for Speech and Image Processing | slides | video |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
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3:15–4:00 |
Research Talk Using Computer Vision for Graphics | slides | video Sing Bing Kang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, United States |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
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4:00–4:30 |
Refreshment Break |
Foyer Grand Velas | |
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4:30–5:15 |
Plenary Session Advancing Environmental Understanding: the Role of eScience | slides | video |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
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5:15–6:00 |
Keynote Presentation Driving Innovation Through the Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Labs Rico Malvar, Chief Scientist/Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Research, United States |
Grand Velas 7-12 | |
| 6:00–6:15 | Assemble for Departure to Social Event | Hotel Lobby | |
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7:00–10:00 |
Social Event and Dinner Show |
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Friday, May 25, 2012
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Time |
Event/Topic |
Location | |
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8:30–10:00
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Closing Plenary Sessions Chair: Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States |
Grand Velas 7-12
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Data-Intensive Discoveries in Science: the Fourth Paradigm | slides | |||
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LACCIR: Results, Thoughts, and Opportunities | slides Ignacio Casas, Executive Director, Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research Federation (LACCIR) Sergio Ochoa, Deputy Director, LACCIR | |||
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10:00–1:00 |
DemoFest (Onsite Research Demos) |
Grand Velas 1-6 | |
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11:00–11:30 |
Refreshment Break (During Demofest) |
Foyer Grand Velas | |
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1:00–3:00 |
Farewell Lunch |
Azul Restaurant | |
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3:00 |
Event Ends |
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