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Sunday, October 30, 2005

Location: Hangzhou World Trade Center

Address: No.122 Shuguang Road, Hangzhou, China, 310007

Time

Description

14:00

Participants who arrive at Hangzhou before 11:00 are scheduled to have lunch at hotel and depart for Hangzhou city tour at 2:00pm.

16:00

Participants who arrive at Hangzhou between 12:00 and 4:00pm are scheduled the West Lake tour at 2:00pm, 3:00pm, 4:00pm.

After 16:00

There is no scheduled tour for participants who arrive at Hangzhou after 4:00pm.

 

Monday, October 31, 2005

Location : Linshui Report Hall

Address: Zijing Campus of Zhejiang University

Time

Description

6:30

Morning Call

6:30-7:20

Breakfast at hotel

7:20-8:20

Transition from hotel to conference venue at Zijing District

Gather together at the hotel lobby to take shuttles before 7:20

8:20-8:30

Participants Sign-in

8:30-8:40

Opening Speech

Lolan Song, Director of University Relations, Microsoft Research Asia

8:40-9:10 Research and Education of Computer Science and Engineer in Zhejiang University
Yunhe Pan, President, Zhejiang University

9:10-9:30

Innovation together with Academia: MSRA Update 2005
Harry Shum, Managing Director and Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia

9:30-10:10

A Snapshot of MSR: 2005
Daniel T. Ling, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation

10:10-10:40

Break and Group Picture

10:40-11:10 Infrastructure to Help Innovation in Research and Education in Chinese Universities
Xie Huanzhong, Director General, Department of Science and Technology, Minister of Education of P.R. China

11:10-11:50

Computational Thinking and CS @ CMU
Jeannette M. Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science and Head of Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

11:50-13:30

Lunch, Restaurant in Zhejiang University

13:30-14:00 Research and Corporation Cooperation of the University of Tokyo
Masatoshi Ishikawa, Executive Vice President, University of Tokyo
14:00-14:20 MSRA Research Demo 1

14:20-15:00

University-Industry Collaboration in Computer Science Education and Research
Eugene Fiume, Dean, Department of Computer Science, Toronto University

15:00-15:20 Break
15:20-15:40 MSRA Research Demo 2

15:40-16:20

MS Search: A Case Study of Research in Microsoft Research Asia
Wei-Ying Ma, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

16:00-16:20

Break

16:20-17:30

Panel Discussion: How do IT-related Schools/Departments attract the best students?

Moderator: Dr. Harry Shum, Managing Director of MSRA

Speaker: Kevin Schofield, General Manager, Strategy and Communications, Microsoft Research

Panelists:

  • Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
  • Prof. Zheng Yuanfang, Dean of School of Electronic, Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Prof. Masatoshi Ishikawa, Executive Vice President, University of Tokyo
  • Prof. Peter Yum, Dean of Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Prof. Maria Orlowska, Professor of Information Systems and Director, Postgraduate Studies, University of Queensland
  • Prof. Lee, Yoon Joon, Department Chair of Computer Science, KAIST
  • Lolan Song, Director, University Relations, MSRA
17:30-19:00

Transition from the Campus to the venue of summit banquet

Gather together and Take Shuttle at the campus

19:00-21:00

Faculty Summit Banquet

Hangzhou Continental Hotel, Osmanthus Pavilion Hall
Address:No 2 Pinghai Road, Hangzhou, China
URL: www.hzch.com/index.asp

21:00 Back to the hotel

Gather together and Take Shuttles

 

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Conference on "Computing in the 21st Century"

Location : The People's Hall

Address: No. 9, Shengfu Road, Hangzhou

Time

Description

7:00

Morning Call

7:00-7:30

Breakfast

7:30-8:20

Transportation

8:20-8:30

Sign-in

8:30-9:00

Welcome Speeches

9:00-9:40

Keynote 1 – Betting on the Future
Rick Rashid
Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corp

9:40-10:20

Keynote 2 – Voting in the 21st Century
Ronald L. Rivest
Turing Award Recipient, Viterbi Professor of Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:20-10:40 Break

10:40-11:20

Keynote 3 – Predictable Software
Jeannette M. Wing
Computer Science and Head of Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University

11:20-12:00

Keynote 4 – Computing Trends 2005
Alexander Gounares
Technology Assistant to Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp

12:00-12:40

Q & A

12:40-14:15

Lunch

14:15-14:55

Keynote 5 – Data-Centric Computing: Controlling Your Information
Harry Shum
Managing Director and Chief Scientist
Microsoft Research Asia

14:55-15:35

Keynote 6 – Mathematics in the Real World and the Fake World
Stanley Osher
Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
15:35-15:55 Break
15:55-16:35

Keynote 7 – Research on Mobile Devices
Daniel T. Ling
Vice President, Microsoft Corp

16:35-17:15

Keynote 8 -- Data-centric Realistic Computer Graphics
Eugene Fiume
Professor, University of Toronto

17:15-18:00 Q & A
18:00 End of event