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TechVista Bangalore 2007, held on January 23, 2007 in Bangalore at the JN Tata Auditorium,
Indian Institute of Science, was attended by more than 800 students, faculty and
industry representatives. The speakers at TechVista 2007 included:
- Prof. Ken Perlin, Media Research Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science,
New York University and Academy award winner
- Prof. Mriganka Sur, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience, and
Head, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT
- Prof. Jeannette Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science, Computer
Science Department Head, CMU
- Prof. N Balakrishnan, Associate Director, IISc
- Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior VP, Microsoft Research
- Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, Microsoft
Research
The inaugural session of TechVista 2007 was themed "Making
India a Powerhouse in Research". The symposium also featured a panel discussion
chaired by Dr. Dan Ling, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research, on the same
theme. The other panelists were:
- Prof. Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley
- Prof. Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad
Some of the speakers from previous editions of TechVista
include:
- Dr. Butler Lampson, Microsoft Research and Turing award winner
- Prof. Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University and Turing award winner
- Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Turing award winner
- Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Chennai
- Prof. Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University
- Prof. Maria Klawe, Princeton University
- Dr. Dan Ling, Microsoft Research
- Dr. Rick Rashid, Microsoft Research
- Prof. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford
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