Tuesday, May 12
Time | Session |
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11:00–19:00
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Welcome and Registration
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16:00–19:00
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LACCIR (opens in new tab) Joint Steering Committee Meeting (By invitation only)
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20:00–22:00
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Group Dinner
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Wednesday, May 13
Time | Session |
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10:15–10:30
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Welcoming Words
Sandra Yacheline – General Manager, Microsoft Argentina |
10:30–11:30
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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Data Intensive Research: The Fourth Paradigm
Tony Hey – Corporate Vice President, External Research, Microsoft |
11:30–12:00
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Refreshment Break (Transition time before the arrival of government authorities) |
12:00–12:45
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OPENING CEREMONY
Event Opening Presentations:
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12:45–13:15
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Group Photo |
13:15–14:30
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Lunch |
14:30–15:30
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KEYNOTE PANEL SESSION
Science, Technology and Innovation as drivers for social and economical development in Argentina and Latin America
Panel Discussion Facilitator: Daron Green – Senior Director, External Research, Microsoft
Panelist Speakers:
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15:30–16:30
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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Innovation Policies in the Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation
Lino Barañao, Ph.D – Minister of Science, Technology, and Productive Innovation; Argentina |
16:30–17:00
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Refreshment Break |
17:00–18:00
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RESEARCH TALK
Computer Security: From Art to Science (and Back)
Martin Abadi – Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research |
18:00–19:00
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RESEARCH TALK
Visualization Research at Microsoft
George Robertson – Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research |
21:00–21:30
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Reception |
21:30–23:00
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Dinner/Show |
Thursday, May 14
Time | Session |
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9:00–13:30
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PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS
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9:00–10:00
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Research Track
FAPESP-MSR Institute for ICT Research Institute Presentations
E-Farms, a two-way road for small farms to the networked world
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros – Professor, Institute of Computing, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
JAM Session – A Descentralized Architecture for Specialized Virtual Worlds and the Web 3.0
Flavio Soares Correa da Silva – Professor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
Curriculum Innovation Track
Introducing Computing with Personal Robots
Keith O’Hara – PhD Candidate,School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States; Affiliated also with the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE (opens in new tab)) |
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e-Science Track
From Galaxies to Sensor Networks: Science in an Exponential World
Alex Szalay – Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Department of Computer Science, John Hopkins University, United States |
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10:00–11:00
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Research Track
New Tools for Enabling Collaborative Web Search
Merrie Ringel Morris – Researcher, Microsoft Research |
Curriculum Innovation Track
The Gaming and Computer Science: A Successful Experiment
John Nordlinger – Senior Research Program Manager, External Research, Microsoft
Games and XNA in the RIT Game Design and Development Curriculum |
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e-Science Track
The Health and Wellbeing Initiative in Microsoft External Research
Daron Green – Senior Director, External Research, Microsoft
.NET-based Clients and Services in the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG)
Marty Humphrey – Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, United States |
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11:00–11:30
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Refreshment Break |
11:30–12:30
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Research Track
Partial Behaviour Modelling of Software Intensive Systems
Sebastian Uchitel – Assistant Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Curriculum Innovation Track
Active Learning Using Tablet PCs
Joseph Tront – Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, United States |
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e-Science Track
Tools and Services for Data Intensive Research
Roger Barga – Principal Architect, External Research, Microsoft
Christophe Poulain – Senior Research Software Developer, External Research, Microsoft |
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12:30–13:30
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Research Track
Tools for Researchers: The Scholarly Communication Lifecycle
Alex Wade – Senior Research Program Manager, External Research, Microsoft Research |
Curriculum Innovation Track
15 Years of Research in Technology for the Classroom
Miguel Nussbaum – Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile |
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e-Science Track
Enhance Astronomincal Research and Science Education with World Wide Telescope
Yan Xu – Senior Research Program Manager
Jonathan Fay – Principal Research Software Developer, External Research, Microsoft
WWT and the Argentinean Virtual Observatory
Guillermo Bosch – Researcher, School of Astronomy and Geophysics, University of La Plata, Argentina |
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13:30–15:00
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Lunch |
15:00–16:00
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RESEARCH TALK
Ensuring Microsoft’s Future: An Overview of Microsoft Research
Alex Acero – Research Area Manager, Microsoft Research |
16:00–17:00
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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
The Uses of Computers: What is Past is Merely Prologue
Butler W. Lampson – Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research |
17:00–18:00
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Free Time |
18:00–18:30
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Assemble for Departure to the Social Event |
18:30–23:00
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Social Event and Dinner Show |
Friday, May 15
Time | Session |
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8:30–11:30
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DemoFest (Onsite Research Demos)
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10:30–10:00
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Refreshment Break |
12:00–13:30 |
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION
Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research Federation (LACCIR)
Topic Introduction: Jaime Puente – Senior Research Program Manager, External Research, Microsoft Research
Presentation:
Principal Investigators (New Awarded Projects)
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13:30–15:00 | Farewell Lunch and Closing Ceremony |
15:00
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The Event Ends |