The workshop is currently at our capacity of 50 attendees.  If you would like to be added to our waiting list, please send mail to cxpwks06@microsoft.com and you will be contacted if space becomes available.

Microsoft Research and the ConferenceXP Project Team will host a two-day ConferenceXP workshop for researchers, educators, developers, users, and administrators on Thursday, November 2 and Friday, November 3, 2006 in Bellevue, Washington.

The ConferenceXP workshop will bring together ConferenceXP researchers and collaborators to discuss the current status of and future directions for ConferenceXP. It will also enable ConferenceXP RFP award winners and other invitees to learn more about the ConferenceXP research platform, showcase their work, exchange ideas, and introduce new developers and researchers to the ConferenceXP development environment.

ConferenceXP Workshop Agenda

The ConferenceXP Workshop on Thursday, November 2 and Friday, November 3, 2006 will focus on ConferenceXP development, deployment, and future directions as well as related research in academia.

Workshop Day 1: Thursday, November 2, 2006

8:00 - Continental Breakfast

9:00 - Welcome
Kevin Schofield, General Manager, Microsoft Research

9:30 - ConferenceXP Project Update
Todd Needham, Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft Research

10:30 - ConferenceXP Release 4.0 Technical Update
Jason Van Eaton, Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Research

12:00 - Lunch

1:00 - ResearchChannel Update and Real Time HD encoding discussion
Mike Wellings, Director of Engineering, ResearchChannel

1:30 - Virtual Product Development Team update
Gino Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Isenberg School of Management

2:30 - Tutored Video Instruction with ConferenceXP and Classroom Presenter
Richard Anderson, University of Washington

3:30 - Break

4:00 - International Support, Infrastructure and Directions
Moderator: Todd Needham

4:30 - Conference Workshop 2007 Planning Session

5:00 - Dinner

Workshop Day 2: Friday, November 3, 2006

8:00 - Continental Breakfast

9:00 - Internet2 Collaboration Programs
Jonathan Tyman, Internet2

9: 30 - ConferenceXP Futures Discussion
Moderator: Ivan Judson, Montana State University

10:00 - Access Grid Update
Tom Uram, Argonne National Lab

10:30 - Breakouts
Developer Discussions
User and Administration Discussions

12:00 - Lunch

1:00 - Automated Tracking of Student Behaviors
LeenKiat Soh, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

2:00 - Microsoft RoundTable
Stella Chan, Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft

2:45 - MSR RTC Research Overview

3:30 - Concluding Remarks

ConferenceXP Pre-Workshop Training Available Online

A ConferenceXP pre-workshop training session was held on Wednesday, June 15, 2005. This provided a fast-paced, one-day class on Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and Microsoft Visual C#®. It was designed for professional developers or advanced computer science students with object oriented-programming (OOP) experience in C++ or Java who have written several large applications. However, security, database, and Web development experience were not required. This class, taught by DevelopMentor, was a subset of their highly respected curricula of .NET courses.

Topics covered included:

• .NET Platform architecture (covered new 2.0 features as well)
• Overview of C# programming
• Reference and Value Types (included Generics from 2.0)
• Garbage collection
• Delegates and Events
• Async execution and synchronization

If you are new to developing on ConferenceXP or new to C# and managed code, watch the videos of the pre-workshop training prior to registering and attending this year’s workshop (note: requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later).

Workshop Location

This year’s ConferenceXP Workshop will be held at the Bellevue Hyatt.

Bellevue Hyatt
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue WA 98004
(425) 462-1234

Registration

To apply for an invitation to attend the ConferenceXP Developers Workshop 2006, please fill out the application form. Acceptance notifications will include hotel registration information. As in previous years, there is no charge for the workshop and priority will be given to academic attendees. The workshop will be limited to 50 attendees this year.

For more information or if you have any questions, send an e-mail message to cxpwks06@microsoft.com.

Attendee Roster - 10/17/06

Olutayo Ajayi, University of Agriculture
Richard Anderson, University of Washington
Christopher Cassa, Havard/MIT
Jaro Cech, BINGS
Bruce Char, Drexel University
Jason Day, Georgia Tech
Jim Deroest, University of Washington
Sabahat Durrani, Maharishi University of Management
Adam Eck, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
José Feghali, Texas Christian University
Nathan Gardiner, University of Canterbury
Norman Garrett, Eastern Illinois University
Javier Gomez Alonso, The University of Manchester
Erik Hofer, University of Michigan
Alyce Hoggan, Kynamatrix Research Network
Andrew Howard, Australian National University
Ivan Judson, Argonne National Lab
Gurcharan Khanna, Rochester Institute of Technology
Laurence Kirchmeier, Internet2
Brenda Lapp, Cornell University
Jiang Li, Howard University
Ali Asad Lotia, University of Michigan
Daniel Maia, University of Sao Paulo
David McDonald, Georgia State University
Simmone Misra, Microsoft
Marvin Motley, University of California, Berkeley
Todd Needham, Microsoft Research
Wansin Ng, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Sergio Ochoa, University of Chile
Rajeev Pandey, Oregon State University
Alejandro Panelli, University of Buenos Aires
Jaime Puente, Microsoft Research
Hayder Rahda, Michigan State University
Bob Riddle, University of Michigan
Mauricio Saenz, University of Chile
Mark Serva, University of Delaware
Leen-Kiat Soh, University of Nebraska
Gino Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Frantz-Arthur Suzan, Unitransfer
Tom Uram, Argonne National Lab
Jason van Eaton, Microsoft Research
Irene Van Nostrand, University of Washington
Fred Videon, University of Washington
Michael Wellings, University of Washington
Stephen White, Sydney University
William Wichert, Case Western Reserve University
Dongxian Yao, DePaul University
Ning Zhou, DePaul University