September 16, 2018 -
September 18, 2018
Microsoft Research AI Breakthroughs
Location: Redmond, Washington
Sunday, September 16, 2018
| Time (PDT) | Speaker | Title |
| 6:00 PM–8:00 PM | Welcome Reception |
Monday, September 17, 2018
| Time (PDT) | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 AM–10:00 AM | Eric Horvitz | Opening Remarks |
| 10:00 AM–10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM–12:00 PM | Chair: Ece Kamar | Session 1 |
| Zeyuan Allen-Zhu | Accelerated Gradient Methods via Linear Coupling | |
| Ofer Dekel | AI on the Edge: Deploying Machine-learned Models onto Resource-constrained Devices | |
| Rich Caruana | Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning | |
| Asli Celikyilmaz | Learning to Write Better Than Your Teacher | |
| 12:00 PM–1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM–2:00 PM | Chair: Paul Bennett | Session 2 |
| Ece Kamar | Discovering Blind Spots of AI | |
| Andy Wilson / Christian Holz | Interacting in VR: From Physical to Virtual and Back | |
| Sean Andrist | Situated Interaction in the Open World: New Systems and Challenges | slides | |
| 2:00 PM–2:30 PM | Break | |
| 2:30 PM–3:30 PM | Chair: Ofer Dekel | Session 3 |
| Paul Bennett / Mark Encarnación / Shamsi Iqbal / Ryen White | Intelligent Personalized Experiences | |
| Ashish Kapoor | AI Powered Flying Machines | |
| Adith Swaminathan | A Brief Overview of Reinforcement Learning Research @ MSR AI | slides | |
| 3:30 PM–3:45 PM | Poster Session Set Up | |
| 3:45 PM–5:30 PM | Poster Session | |
| 7:00 PM–7:30 PM | Lucas Joppa | Dinner Talk – AI for Earth |
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
| Time (PDT) | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 AM–2:00 PM | Team Introductions / Group Workshops |