2014年7月14日 - 2014年7月15日

Faculty Summit 2014

地点: Redmond, WA, USA

Together with researchers around the world, we aspire to generate groundbreaking ideas, techniques, and tools that enable us to gain the greatest benefit of the data revolution for the good of society. Presentations and demonstrations are key to the summit experience.

Monday, July 14

Time Session Speaker Location
8:00 – 9:00
Breakfast
Hood/Baker
9:00 – 10:15
Opening Keynote
Harry Shum, executive vice president, Microsoft Technology and Research | video | slides Kodiak
10:15 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 11:30
Hot Topics
Chair: Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research | video | combined slides Kodiak
Back to the Future: The Second Age of Computing Is Ending
Doug Burger, Microsoft Research
Quantum Leaps in Computing
Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research
“Mobilizing” Healthcare
Desney Tan, Microsoft Research
Crowds Are People Too!
Mary L. Gray, Microsoft Research
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch
 
McKinley
11:30 – 12:30
When Data Science & Human Subject Research Collide: Ethics, Implications, Responsibilities
Chair: Mary L. Gray, Microsoft Research
Speakers:
  • Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jeff Hancock, Cornell University
  • Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Baker
12:30 – 2:00
Impossibly Small Devices
Chair: Desney Tan, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Georgia Institute of Technology | slides
  • Chris Harrison, Carnegie Mellon University | slides
  • Brandon Lucia, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Kristofer Pister, University of California-Berkeley | slides
Cascade
The Future of Crowdsourcing and the Sharing Economy—Part I
Chair: Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Elizabeth Gerber, Northwestern University | slides
  • Michael Luca, Harvard Business School | slides
  • Jeffrey Nickerson, Stevens Institute of Technology | slides
  • Arun Sundararajan, New York University | slides
Rainier
Deep Learning for Text Processing
Chairs: Li Deng, Microsoft Research; Christopher Manning, Stanford University | video
Speakers:
  • Jeff Bilmes, University of Washington | slides
  • Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
  • Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University | slides
  • Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University | slides
St. Helens
Big Dream, Campaign to Unite & Grow More Women in Computing
Chair: Rane Johnson, Microsoft Research | video | combined slides
Speakers:
  • Jennifer Breslin, UN Women
  • Kelly Cox, Iron Ways Film
  • Karen Peterson, National Girls Collaborative Project
  • Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology
Baker
2:00 – 2:15
Break
 
2:15 – 3:45
In-situ Research Using Connected Devices—Challenges and Opportunities
Chair: Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland | slides
  • Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Affan Syed, FAST-NUCES, Pakistan | slides
Cascade
The Future of Crowdsourcing and the Sharing Economy—Part II
Chair: Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Jeffrey P. Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Eric Horvitz, Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research
  • Haoqi Zhang, Northwestern University – Evanston
Rainier
New Perspectives on Machine Learning and Science
Chair: Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Misha Bilenko, Microsoft
  • Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research
  • Isabelle Guyon, Chalearn | slides
St. Helens
The Coming Genomics Software Revolution
Chair: Ravi Pandya, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Jonathan Carlson, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Lee Hood, Institute for Systems Biology | slides
  • Eliezer Van Allen, Harvard University | slides
  • Ravi Pandya, Microsoft Research | slides
Baker
3:45 – 4:30
Demonstrations
 
Hood
4:30 – 5:30
Thinking Above the Code
Leslie Lamport, Turing Award winner, Microsoft Research | video | slides
Kodiak
5:30 – 6:30
Travel to Seattle
6:30 – 9:00
Dinner Event at Museum of History and Industry

Tuesday, July 15

Time Session Speaker Location
8:00 – 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00
Is the grass any greener? Pervasive awareness, social media, and well-being
Keith N. Hampton, Associate Professor, Rutgers University | video | slides Kodiak
10:00 – 10:15
Break
 
10:15 – 11:45
Networked Publics as Third Places
Chair: Shelly Farnham, Microsoft Research | video | slides
Speakers:

  • John Carroll, Pennsylvania State University | slides
  • Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | slides
  • Robert Mason, University of Washington | slides
Cascade
From Exceptional to Everyone: Microsoft’s Efforts to Democratize Blended Learning
Chair: Anoop Gupta, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Sumit Basu, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Anoop Gupta, Microsoft Research | slides
Rainier
Frontiers in Speech and Language
Chair: Geoffrey Zweig, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Jeff Bilmes, University of Washington | slides
  • Christopher Manning, Stanford University | slides
  • Nima Mesgarani, Columbia University
  • Dong Yu, Microsoft Research | slides
St. Helens
Challenges in Geo-Distributed Data Center and Application Design
Chair: Aman Kansal, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Michael Freedman, Princeton University | slides
  • Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University | slides
  • Adam Wierman, California Institute of Technology | slides
Baker
10:15 – 12:45
Design Expo
In a world with a billion sensors, how will we make sense of it all?
Kodiak
Escola Superior De Desenho Industrial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | video | slides
Professors: Rodolfo Capeto, Noni Geiger, Elianne Jobim, Marcos Martins
Students: Raquel Cordeiro, Clara Juliano, Nikita Vidal
New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York, NY, United States | video | slides
Professor: Liesje Ann Hodgson
Students: Carolyn Concepcion, Haylee Hongeun Jung, Adarsh Kosuru, Zhuoying Li
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Media Innovation Lab, Herzliya, Israel | video | slides
Professors: Guy Hoffman, Noa Morag, Oren Zuckerman
Students: Asaf Blatt, Amit Gilat, Tali Gueta, Adi Yarden, Roy Zanbel
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design, Pittsburgh, PA, United States | video | slides
Professors: Bruce Hanington, Peter Scupelli
Students: Leslie Bloomfield, Shannon Impellicceiri, Alex Sciuto
University of Washington, Interaction Design Program, Seattle, WA, United States | video | slides
Professor: Axel Roesler
Students: Mason Catt, Kristina Colleen, Dan Doan, Courtney Dutton, Gwenyth Hardiman, Abigail Steinem
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, Copenhagen, Denmark | video | slides
Professor: Troels Degn Johansson
Students: Patrick Fritz, Monika Havnø, Nikoline Høgh, Jalte Windum
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, Copenhagen, Denmark | video | slides
Professors: Simona Maschi, Alie Rose
Students: Claudia Ciarpella, Simon Herzog
University of London, Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom | video | slides
Professor: Tobie Kerridge
Students: Samantha Miller, Anuradha Reddy
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, United States | video | slides
Professors: Anne Burdick, Ben Hooker, Phil van Allen
Students: Kristina Ortega, Jenny Rodenhouse
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 2:15 Meet the Crowd: Political Economies and Cultural Meanings of Digital Labor
Chair: Mary L. Gray, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Rajesh Patel, Microsoft | slides
  • Matthew Lease, University of Texas at Austin | slides
  • Winter Mason, Stevens Institute of Technology | slides
  • Siddharth Suri, Microsoft Research | slides
Cascade
Science in the Cloud
Chair: Dennis Gannon, Microsoft Research | video | slides
Speakers:
  • Hyunju Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology | slides
  • Parker MacCready, University of Washington-Seattle | slides
  • Yan Xu, Beihang University | slides
  • Chunmiao Zheng, Peking University | slides
Rainier
Recent Advances in Parallel Algorithms
Chair: Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Grey Ballard, Sandia National Laboratories | slides
  • Andrew Lenharth, University of Texas at Austin | slides
  • Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research | slides
St. Helens
2:15 – 3:00 Demonstrations
 
Hood
3:00 – 4:30 Towards Scalable Quantum Computation
Chair: Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • David Reilly, University of Sydney | slides
  • Robert Schoelkopf, Yale University | slides
  • Dave Wecker, Microsoft | slides
Cascade
Specialized Computing in the Cloud
Chair: Eric Chung, Microsoft Research | video | slides
Speakers:
  • Adrian Caulfield, Microsoft Research | slides
  • Martha Kim, Columbia University | slides
  • Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan | slides
Rainier
And how does that make you feel?
Chair: Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
  • Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research | combined slides
  • Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research
  • Erin Solovey, Drexel University
St. Helens
4:30 – 5:00 Academic Industry Collaboration—a Dialog
Speakers:
  • P. Anandan, Distinguished Scientist-Managing Director
  • Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President and Head of Microsoft Research
Kodiak
5:00 – 7:00 Reception
 
Rainier