October 22 (Sunday), Arrival and reception
 Description  Location
 Arrival and Hotel Check-in  Tianhong Plaza Hotel, Beijing
October 23 (Monday), Faculty Summit
 Time  Topics/Activities  Speakers  Location
 Morning Session
 6:30 Morning Call    
 6:30-7:50 Breakfast At Hotel
 7:50-8:10 Transition from hotel to conference venue   Gather together at the hotel lobby to take shuttles before 7:50
 8:10-8:30 Guest Sign-in  
北航新主楼会议中心1号报告厅
No. 1 Report Hall at New Main Building of Beihang University
Maps:
Location of Beihang University
Beihang Map
Beihang Campus Map
Campus Map
Venue Map
Venue Map
 8:30-8:45 Opening and MSRA UR Update Lolan SONG, Director, University Relations, Microsoft Research Asia
 8:45-9:00 Research and Education in Computer Science at Beihang University Wei LI, President, Beihang University
 9:00-9:30 Microsoft Research: Turning ideas into reality for 15 years Rick RASHID, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
 9:30-9:50 Latest Developments at Microsoft Research Asia Harry SHUM, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia
 9:50-10:20 Break and Group Photo  
 10:20-11:10 Computer Science is Everywhere:
Leveraging interconnections to other fields
Eric GRIMSON, Department Head, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bernard Gordon Professor, AI Vision Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 11:10-12:00 Computer Science in the U.S. Pacific Northwest Ed LAZOWSKA, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
 12:00-13:30 Lunch   Beihang University
 Afternoon Session
 13:30-14:00 Computing Trends and Their Implications for Education Jian WANG, Principal Researcher and Research Area Manager, Microsoft Research Asia
No. 1 Conference Hall at New Main Building of Beihang University
Maps:
Location of Beihang University
Beihang Map
Beihang Campus Map
Campus Map
Venue Map
Venue Map
 14:00-14:25 Challenges and Support for Young Researchers in Japan Takeo IGARASHI, Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science, University of Tokyo
 14:25-14:50 Experiences as a Doctoral Student/Supervisor in China Zhi-Hua ZHOU, Professor of the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Nanjing University
 14:50-15:00 Break  
 15:00-16:00 Panel Discussion Topic:
Fostering High-quality PhD Students
Moderator:
Vijay VARADHARAJAN, Microsoft Chair and Professor of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia
Panelists:
Andrew Chi-Chih YAO, Professor of Tsinghua University, China, and 2000 Turing Award recipient
Ke GONG, President of Tianjin University, China
Myung-Soo KIM, Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea
Noriko KANDO, Professor, Software Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Pat HANRAHAN, CANON USA Professor of Stanford University, USA
Wei-Ying MA, Principal Researcher and Research Area Manager, Microsoft Research Asia
 16:00-16:30 Closing Speech: Overcoming Concurrency and Complexity through Composability Craig MUNDIE, Chief Research & Strategy Officer, Microsoft
 16:30-18:00 MSRA DemoFair & Group Discussions For details please see
DemoFair & Group Discussions
 18:00-19:00 Transition from campus to the venue of summit banquet   Gather together and Take Shuttle at the campus
 19:00-21:00 MSRA Faculty Summit Banquet   TBD
 21:00 Back to the hotel   Gather together and Take Shuttles
Oct. 24, 2006 (Tuesday), Conference of Computing in the 21st Century
 Time  Topics/Activities  Location
 6:30 Morning Call
 6:30-7:40 Breakfast At Hotel
 7:40-8:10 Transition from hotel to Tsinghua University Gather together at the hotel lobby to take shuttles before 7:40
 8:10-8:30 Guest Sign-in Gymnasium of Tsinghua University
 8:30-17:10 Conference of Computing in the 21st Century
http://research.microsoft.com/asia/21stcomputing/2006/Agenda_en.htm
 17:10 Adjourn
 17:10-21:00 Dinners hosted by MSRA UR managers:
  • Greater China: Gao ZHANG
  • Korea: Miran LEE
  • Japan: Hajime WADA
  • Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and other southeast Asian countries: John WARREN
  • Gather together and Take Shuttle at Tsinghua University, Hosted by MSAR UR managers
    October 25 (Wednesday), Departure
     Description  Location
     Hotel Check-out  Tianhong Plaza Hotel, Beijing

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