Venue: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
This event is by invitation only.
Swiss JRC Workshop 2017, read more on this blog.
Swiss JRC Workshop 2014, read more on this blog.
The Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC) is a collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research and the two universities that make up the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology: ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, which serves German-speaking students) and EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, which serves French-speaking students). The Swiss JRC is a continuation of a collaborative engagement that began back in 2009, when the same three partners embarked on ICES (Innovation Cluster for Embedded Software) and was renewed for another five years in 2014. The current phase of the collaboration comprises ten project collaborations, four between ETH Zurich and Microsoft and six between EPFL and Microsoft respectively.
The 5th annual workshop of the Microsoft-Swiss Joint Research Center (with ETH Zurich/EPFL) took place February 19 -20, 2018 at EPFL in Lausanne. This was the last workshop before the Swiss JRC ramps down later this year. The mood was bright and jolly as the ten collaborations are thriving one year after the kick-off of phase II.
The workshop provided an opportunity for project updates and collaborative meetings across the ten active projects. Speakers from each project collaboration presented the current states of their projects and outlined future plans. Recent successes include the collaboration between Sebastian Nowozin at Microsoft Research Cambridge and Thomas Hofmann at ETH Zurich on generative adversarial networks (GANs) that yielded in a much acknowledged NIPS 2017 paper.
More details can be found on the project overviews tab. The full agenda is available on the agenda tab.
Swiss JRC Steering Committee
James Larus, Dean of School of Computer and Communications Science, EPFL, Switzerland
Markus Püschel, Professor of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Donald Kossmann, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK (Workshop Chair)
Marc Weder, Microsoft Switzerland, Switzerland