Faculty Summit 2016

Watch the Keynote highlights video:

Day 1

• Computational Problems in Healthcare and Biomedicine
• Enabling Breakthrough and Disruptive Technologies
• How to Keep your Genome Secret
• Meeting the Challenge of Educating Data Scientists
• Optical Networks for the Cloud
• Recognizing Achievements and Collaborations
• Systems and Artificial Intelligence
• The BBC micro:bit
• The Future of Work: Societal Challenges

Day 2

• Building Practical Verified Systems
• Computing with Exotic Technologies and Platforms
• Machine Reading for Science and Society
• Spatial Audio for Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Supporting Big Tasks Through Microtasks
• Transport Protocols for Hyper-scale Networks

Day 3 Workshops

The Edge of Artificial Intelligence

• Welcome and AI Perspectives at Microsoft
• Human Level AI
• Cognition
• AI Experimentation Platform Overview

Visualization on Touch Enabled Platforms

• Welcome and Intros, Surface Hub, MSR NeXT and MSR Labs
• Demos and Discussions Part 1

System Design for Cloud Services

• Part 1: Killer Microseconds and the Tail at Scale
• Part 2: Intelligent Personal Assistant and its Implication on Future Warehouse Scale Computers
• 3-Minute Madness
• Afternoon Session