May 18, 2016 - May 20, 2016

Latin American Faculty Summit 2016

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Wednesday, May 18

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
12:00	Opening Ceremony – WATCH (opens in new tab)	Paula Bellizia, General Manager, Microsoft Brazil Rico Malvar, Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research Gustavo Tutuca, State Secretary of Science, Technology & Innovation	Bromélia II & III
12:30	Recent advances in Information Technology – WATCH (opens in new tab)	Chair: Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research Speaker: Rico Malvar, Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
13:30	Group photo and lunch		Hilton Restaurant
15:00	Panel on Technological Innovation in Brazil	Moderator: Rico Malvar, Microsoft Research Panelists: Celso Massaki Hirata, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA) Roberto Boisson de Marca, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Gustavo Tutuca, State Secretary of Science, Technology & Innovation	Bromélia II & III
16:00	Computational Modeling in Medicine: Some Recent Results and Future Perspective	Chair: Jaime Puente, Microsoft Research Speaker: Carlos Eduardo Pedreira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)	Bromélia II & III
17:00	Refreshment break		Bromélia Foyer
17:30	Physically Situated Dialog: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrative Artificial Intelligence	Chair: Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research Speaker: Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
20:00	Welcome reception and dinner		Plaza and Hilton Restaurant

Thursday, May 19

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
8:30	Open source software and industry: exploring the reality – WATCH (opens in new tab)	Chair: Michael Zyskowski, Microsoft Research Speaker: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
9:30	Intelligent Vision Technologies	Chair: Leonardo Nunes, Microsoft Research Speakers: On the automatic detection of abandoned objects \| Sergio Lima Netto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Hand Tracking \| Jonathan Taylor, Microsoft Research Emotion Recognition from Images in the Wild \| Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research	Nogueira I
	Intelligent Language and Speech Technologies	Chair: Sunayana Sitaram, Microsoft Research Speakers: Auto-Captioning and Translation in the Classroom: Breaking Down the Language and Hearing Barriers \| Will Lewis, Microsoft Research Natural Language Queries and Auto-Suggest over Knowledge Graphs \| Alex Wade, Microsoft Research High Performance Image Captioning \| Geoffrey Zweig, Microsoft Research	Bromelia II & III
	Data and Code at your Fingertips	Chair: Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft Research Speakers: The BBC micro:bit: a programming device for the new generation \| Jonathan Protzeko, Microsoft Research Insight from Interaction with Data \| Dave Brown, Microsoft Research Methods and Measures: Real world implications of eye-gaze communication systems \| Jon Campbell, Microsoft Research	Nogueira II
11:00	Refreshment break		Bromélia Foyer
11:30	CNTK: Microsoft’s Open-Source Deep-Learning Toolkit	Chair: Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Speaker: Frank Seide, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
12:30	Demo madness: a sneak peek at what to see at the Research Showcase	Chair: Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
13:00	Lunch		Hilton Restaurant
14:30	Research Showcase	Chair: Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft Research	Bromelia I
	Spatial Audio for Augmented & Virtual Reality	Ivan Tashev and David Johnston	Booth 1
	Microsoft Academic	Alex Wade	Booth 2
	Microsoft Cognitive Services	Geoff Zweig	Booth 3
	Emotion Recognition	Cha Zhang	Booth 4
	Microsoft Translator	Will Lewis	Booth 5
	NUI Graph	Dave Brown	Booth 6
	Project Malmo	Katja Hofmann	Booth 7
	Project Premonition	Michael Zyskowski	Booth 8
	Audio and Video Processing at the SMT Lab, UFRJ	Sergio Lima Netto, Lucas Maia, and Jose F. L. de Oliveria	Booth 9
	Micro:bit	Jonathan Protzenko	Booth 10
	Machine Learning for non-experts: Platform for Interactive Concept Learning (PICL)	Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez	Booth 11
	Real-time Event Detection in Video	Leonardo Nunes	Booth 12
	EchoSense Project	Ricardo Sabedra and Witallo Oliveira	Booth 13
	Ability Eye Gaze	Jon Campbell	Booth 14
	Open Source Software	Judith Bishop	Booth 15
	Project Melange: Translating Code-mixed Tweets	Sunayana Sitaram	Booth 16
	Interaction through Hand Tracking	Jonathan Taylor	Booth 17
16:30	Refreshment break		Bromélia Foyer
17:00	Perspectives on Health Intelligence	Chair: Leila Pontes, FAPERJ Speakers: Innovation model, challenges and opportunities in a leading healthcare organization \| Claudio Terra, Einstein Hospital Impact of Biomedical Imaging on Healthcare \| Marcel Jackowski, University of Sao Paulo (USP) Project Premonition: Preventative Monitoring of Infectious Agents \| Michael Zyskowski, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
19:45	Social event		Meet in Hilton Lobby
20:00	Dinner show		Churrascaria Fogo de Chão

Friday, May 20

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
8:30	Microsoft Academic: New applications and research opportunities – WATCH (opens in new tab)	Chair: Geoffrey Zweig, Microsoft Research Speaker: Alex Wade, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
9:30	Machine Learning Advancing Artificial Intelligence	Chair: Will Lewis, Microsoft Research Speakers: Learning Reusable Skills and Behavioral Hierarchies \| Bruno Castro da Silva, Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Machine Learning made easy: Platform for Interactive Concept Learning (PICL) \| Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Microsoft Research Tackling the next big AI challenges \| Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
	Intelligent Devices	Chair: Jonathan Taylor, Microsoft Research Speakers: Project Torino: A physical programming language inclusive of blind children \| Nicolas Villar, Microsoft Research Audio for Intelligent Devices \| Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Research Personal Near-field Interaction: Across Devices and Across the Body \| Christian Holz, Microsoft Research	Nogueira I
	Quantum Computing and AI Tutorial	Chair: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research Speakers: Quantum Machine Learning, Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft Research	Nogueira II
11:00	Refreshment break		Bromélia Foyer
11:30	Artificial Intelligence – Microsoft Perspectives	Chair: Jaime Puente, Microsoft Research Speaker: Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
12:00	Closing Remarks	Jaime Puente, Microsoft Research Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research Roy Zimmerman, Microsoft Research	Bromélia II & III
12:15	Lunch		Hilton Restaurant
14:00	Event ends