July 8, 2015 - July 9, 2015

Faculty Summit 2015

Location: Redmond, WA, USA

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Past events:
Faculty Summit 2017
Faculty Summit 2016
Faculty Summit 2014
Faculty Summit 2013
Faculty Summit 2012
Faculty Summit 2011
Faculty Summit 2010
Faculty Summit 2009

Now that the summit is over, we hope you will enjoy the recorded sessions and access the presentation materials.

Wednesday, July 8

Time Session Speaker Location
7:30 – 8:30
Breakfast
Hood/Baker
8:30 – 9:15
Welcome and Introduction
Microsoft’s Unique Role in the Computing Research Ecosystem
  • P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research
  • Jeannette Wing, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research | video | slides
Kodiak
9:15 – 10:00
Panel: Progress in AI: Myths, Realities, and Aspirations
Moderator: Eric Horvitz, Managing Director, Microsoft Research | video
Panelists:

  • Christopher Bishop, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research
  • Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  • Fei-Fei Li, Associate Professor, Stanford University
  • Michael Littman, Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
  • Josh Tenenbaum, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kodiak
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:00
Commonsense and World Knowledge
Chair: Margaret Mitchell, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Ray Mooney, University of Texas at Austin | slides
  • Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | slides
  • Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Benjamin Van Durme, Johns Hopkins University | slides
Kodiak
What Can We Solve with a Quantum Computer?
Chair: Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Edward Farhi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | slides
  • Matthias Troyer, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich | slides
  • Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft Research | slides
Cascade
Research Challenges in Internet Governance
Chair: Carolyn Nguyen, Microsoft | video
Speakers:
  • Susan Aaronson, George Washington University
  • Laura DeNardis, American University
  • Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico
  • Brenden Kuerbis, Syracuse University
Rainier
Programmability at Cloud Scale
Chair: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | slides
  • Philip Bernstein, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Sergey Bykov, Microsoft | slides
St. Helens
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch
 
1:00 – 2:30
Vision to Language
Chair: Larry Zitnick, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign | slides
  • Margaret Mitchell, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Richard Zemel, University of Toronto | slides
Kodiak
Computing for Global Development and Resource Constraint
Chair: Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research | video | slides
Speakers:
  • Elizabeth Belding, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • Andrew Cross, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | slides
Cascade
Universal Design: How to Attract More Diverse Researchers
Chair: Kristin Tolle, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Lili Cheng, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Ann Quiroz Gates, University of Texas at El Paso | slides
  • Charles Isbell, Georgia Institute of Technology | slides
  • Ed Lazowska, University of Washington | slides
Rainier
Design Verification: Treating Networks Like Programs or Chips
Chairs: Nikolaj Bjorner and Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research | video | slides
Speakers:
  • Nate Foster, Cornell University | slides
  • Sharad Malik, Princeton University | slides
  • George Varghese, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Geoffrey Xie, Naval Postgraduate School | slides
St. Helens
2:30 – 3:00
Break
 
3:00 – 4:30
Question Answering
Chair: Matthew Richardson, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Yan Ke, Microsoft | slides
  • Benjamin Van Durme, Johns Hopkins University | slides
  • Scott Wen-tau Yih, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington | slides
Kodiak
Digital Ink and Touch on NextGen Devices
Chairs: Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research; Jeff Han, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland | slides
  • Steven Feiner, Columbia University | slides
  • Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University
  • Andries van Dam, Brown University | slides
Cascade
Computer Vision and Intelligent Services
Chairs: Baining Guo, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon University | slides
  • Tao Mei, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research | slides
Rainier
5G: Opportunities and Challenges
Chair: Aakanksha Chowdhery, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Sharon Gillett, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Sundeep Rangan, New York University | slides
  • Xinyu Zhang, University of Wisconsin Madison | slides
  • Heather Zheng, University of California Santa Barbara | slides
St. Helens
4:30 – 5:15
Fireside Chat
Chair: Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Speaker: Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology and Research, Microsoft
Kodiak
5:15 – 6:00
Travel to Seattle
 
6:00 – 9:00
Dinner at Chihuly Garden and Glass at the Seattle Center
 

Thursday, July 9

Time Session Speaker Location
8:00 – 9:00
Breakfast
Hood/Baker
9:00 – 9:45
Keynote
A Revolution Against Big-Brother Social Networks
Speaker: Monica Lam, Professor, Stanford University | video Kodiak
9:45 – 1:00
Research Showcase
 
McKinley
11:45 – 1:00
Lunch
1:00 – 2:30
Integrative AI
Chair: Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Larry Zitnick, Microsoft Research | slides
Kodiak
Privacy in Context
Chair: Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Jaeyeon Jung, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research
  • Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University
Rainier
Programming Models for Estimates, Approximation, and Probabilistic Reasoning
Chair: Kathryn S. McKinley, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Michael Carbin, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Noah Goodman, Stanford University | slides
  • Dan Grossman, University of Washington | slides
  • Todd Mytkowicz, Microsoft Research | slides
St. Helens
2:30 – 3:00
Break
 
3:00 – 4:30
Integrative AI: Panel
Chair: Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research | video
Panelists:
  • Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research
  • Charles Rich, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research
  • Larry Zitnick, Microsoft Research
Kodiak
The Holoscene: Virtual and Mixed Reality
Chair: Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research
Speakers:
  • Mark Bolas, University of Southern California | slides
  • Steven Feiner, Columbia University | slides
  • Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina | slides
  • Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research
  • Ken Perlin, New York University
Cascade
Semantics and Knowledge Bases for Next-Generation Scholarly Discovery
Chairs: Alex Wade and Yang Song, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University | slides
  • Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence | slides
  • Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China | slides
  • Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research | slides
Rainier
Industry Embraces Open Source—What This Means for Academia
Chair: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Ross Gardler, Microsoft
  • Phil Haack, GitHub | slides
  • Carlos Jensen, Oregon State University | slides
  • Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research | slides
St. Helens
4:30 – 5:30
A Better Way to Deliver Innovation?
Speaker: Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research | video | slides
Kodiak
5:30 – 7:00
Reception
 
Hood/Baker
7:00
Summit Closes