Monday, July 15
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8:00-9:00
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Breakfast
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9:00-10:30
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Opening Plenary Session
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Kodiak | |
9:00-9:15
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Welcome and Introduction | video
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9:15-10:30
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Innovation and Opportunity: The Contribution of Computing to Improving Our World | video
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Keynote speaker: Bill Gates
Moderator: Rick Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft |
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10:30-10:45
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Break
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10:45-12:00
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Breakout Sessions
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Prediction Engines | video
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Chair: David Pennock, Microsoft Research | slides Speakers: |
Cascade | |
Efficiently Verifying Outsourced Cloud Computation: from Theory to Practice | video
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Chair: Bryan Parno, Microsoft Research | slides Speakers: |
Rainier | |
Database Systems Exploiting New Hardware Platforms | video
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Chair: David Lomet, Microsoft Research | slides Speakers: |
St. Helens | |
Data in Disasters—the Potential and the Limits | video
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Chair: Kate Crawford, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Hood | |
12:00-1:00
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Lunch
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1:00-2:30
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Breakout Sessions
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Interaction for Machine Learning | video
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Chair: Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research | slides Co-organizers: Dan Bohus, Ece Kamar, Lihong Li, and Jason Williams, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Cascade | |
The Economics of Computing | video
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Chair: Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Rainier | |
Hosting Blazing Fast Services: From 1 Core to 1M Cores | video
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Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Speaker: |
St. Helens | |
Computer-Aided Education | video
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Chair: Donald Brinkman, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Hood | |
2:30-2:45 |
Break
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2:45-4:15 |
Breakout Sessions
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Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Practical Challenges and Opportunities
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Chair: Lihong Li, Microsoft Research | slides Co-organizers: Dan Bohus, Ece Kamar, Ashish Kapoor, and Jason Williams, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Cascade | |
Towards a Research Platform for Internet of Things (IoT) | video | Chair: Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research | slides Speakers: |
Rainier | |
Big Data Platforms | video | Chair: Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research
Big Data at Microsoft Taming Big Data with Spark and Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS) Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services |
St. Helens | |
Publishing and Perishing in the Twenty-First Century | video | Chair: Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Hood | |
4:15-4:30 | Break | ||
4:30-5:30 | Plenary Session
The Beast from Below: How Changes in the Hardware Ecosystem Will Disrupt Computer Science | video |
Keynote speaker: Doug Burger, Director, Client & Cloud Applications, Microsoft | slides | Kodiak |
5:30-6:00 | Travel to Kirkland Dock | ||
6:00-9:30 | Argosy Cruise on Lake Washington |
Tuesday, July 16
Time | Session | Speaker | Location |
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8:00-9:00
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Breakfast
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9:00-10:30
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Plenary Session
Looking Over the Horizon: How Basic Research Helps Everyone | video
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Keynote speakers: | Kodiak |
10:30-1:00
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DemoFest
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McKinley | |
10:30-11:30
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Engaging with Microsoft Research | Hood | |
12:00-1:00
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Lunch | ||
12:00-1:00 |
Lunchtime Session
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Moderator: Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft Research Speakers:
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Cascade | ||
1:00-2:30 | Breakout Sessions | ||
The Coming Genomics Software Revolution? | video | Chair: Bill Bolosky, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Cascade | |
Modern Programming for and via the Web Browser | video | Chair: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Rainier | |
From Data Science to Data Intelligence | video | Chair: Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research | slides Speakers: |
St. Helens | |
Visual Recognition | video | Chair: Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Hood | |
1:00-3:30 | Design Expo
Making Data Useful: Improving Your Life, Community, and World |
Chair: Lili Cheng, Microsoft Research | slides
New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York, NY, United States | video Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design, Pittsburg, PA, United States | video Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel | video National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India | video Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom | video Technische Universiteit (TU) Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands | video Universidad Iberoamericana, Design Department, Mexico City, Mexico | video University of California at Los Angeles, Design Media Arts, Los Angeles, CA, United States | video University of Washington, Interactive Design Division, Seattle, WA, United States | video |
Kodiak |
2:30-2:45 | Break | ||
2:45-4:15 | Breakout Sessions | ||
Deep Machine Learning: a Panel | video | Chairs: Li Deng, Microsoft Research, and John Platt, Microsoft Research | slides Speakers: |
Cascade | |
Spam Wars: the Systems Strike Back | video | Chair: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Rainier | |
Quantum Computing: the Next Frontier | video | Chair: Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
St. Helens | |
Visual Motion and Structure | video | Chair: Rick Szeliski, Microsoft Research Speakers: |
Hood | |
4:15-4:30 | Break | ||
4:30-5:30 | Closing Plenary Session
Making Data Useful: User-centric Approaches to Data | video |
Keynote speaker: Clay Shirky, Distinguished Writer in Residence and Assistant Arts Professor, New York University | Kodiak |
5:30-7:00 | Networking Reception |