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Past events:<\/strong> The Microsoft Research Asia Faculty Summit 2010 was held in Shanghai, China, October 18\u201319, 2010. The central theme of this year\u2019s faculty summit was \u201cTechnological Trends and Future Talent.\u201d The summit provided an opportunity for leading faculty from the Asia Pacific region to share views about how technological advances and computing trends can present new opportunities for research and development in computer science and other related disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2010-10-18","msr_enddate":"2010-10-19","msr_location":"Shanghai, China","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-region":[197903],"msr-event-type":[197950],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-199715","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","hentry","msr-region-asia-pacific","msr-event-type-faculty-summits","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"Past events:<\/strong>\r\nAsia Faculty Summit 2016<\/a>\r\nAsia Faculty Summit 2014<\/a>\r\nAsia Faculty Summit 2012<\/a>\r\nAsia Faculty Summit 2008<\/a>","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"The Microsoft Research Asia Faculty Summit 2010 was held in Shanghai, China, October 18\u201319, 2010. The central theme of this year\u2019s faculty summit was \u201cTechnological Trends and Future Talent.\u201d The summit provided an opportunity for leading faculty from the Asia Pacific region to share views about how technological advances and computing trends can present new opportunities for research and development in computer science and other related disciplines. The Computing in the 21st Century Conference followed the summit on October 20.\r\n By Rob Knies<\/a>\u00a0| October 14, 2010 10:00 AM PT<\/p>\r\nMore than 70 million individuals are expected to visit Expo 2010 Shanghai China, which began May 1 and concludes Oct. 31. The event, designed to foster ways in which people can enjoy improved lives in the urban environments of the future, includes as one of its five themes \u201cinnovations of science and technology in the city.\u201d\r\n\r\nThat sentiment was amplified across town Oct. 18-20 when Microsoft Research Asia<\/a> hosted its Asia Faculty Summit 2010 and the 12th annual Computing in the 21st Century Conference<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe events underscored the facility\u2019s commitment to active, mutually supportive collaboration with academia. The faculty summit, held Oct. 18-19, offered leading faculty members from universities across the Asia Pacific region a chance to hear from some of the world\u2019s most eminent computer scientists and to share views about the opportunities offered by current technological advances and computing trends.\r\n\r\nMany of those same faculty members also were on hand on Oct. 20 for the Computing in the 21st Century Conference, which drew almost 2,000 professors and students, from universities in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and adjacent areas, who gathered to gain exposure to the new horizons of computing.\r\n\r\nNo fewer than three winners of the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, commonly referred to as the \u201cNobel Prize of computing,\u201d participated in one or both of the events, including Barbara Liskov<\/a>, institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the 2008 Turing recipient; John Hopcroft<\/a>, IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, who won the award in 1986; and Chuck Thacker<\/a>, a Microsoft technical fellow who works at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley and who in March was revealed as the winner of the 2009 honor.\r\n\r\nThat sort of star power is but one reason why the conference has drawn 30,000 attendees over its history\u2014and has led Wenjun Zhang, vice president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to call the event \u201cthe most significant academic exchange in Chinese computer-science research.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cThis conference is a fantastic way for us to engage the academic community in the Asia Pacific region,\u201d says Feng Zhao, assistant managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, \u201cand to provide thought leadership on what\u2019s coming to computing in the next five to 10 years.\u201d\r\n\r\nAttendees of the events learned about some of the areas in which cutting-edge research is being conducted today, much of it within Asia Pacific universities and research facilities. The Asia Faculty Summit and the Computing in the 21st Century Conference underscored opportunities for computer scientists, now and in the future, to play a role in solving society\u2019s most challenging problems and to help determine how future generation will work, play, and communicate.\r\n
\nAsia Faculty Summit 2016<\/a>
\nAsia Faculty Summit 2014<\/a>
\nAsia Faculty Summit 2012<\/a>
\nAsia Faculty Summit 2008<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\r\n \t
Technological Trends and Future Talent<\/h3>\r\nThe faculty summit will highlight current technological trends, such as cloud-client computing, natural user interaction, and the challenges of large data and its visualization. The demand for training in these fields presents challenges as well as opportunities for developing new talent for the future.\r\n\r\nPresentations and discussions will focus on how technology is helping\u00a0solve issues that society is facing and how to train the future talent to meet societal needs. Participants will have the opportunity to interact directly with visionaries working in these important technical areas and to communicate directly with researchers who are involved in some of the most exciting technologies.\r\n\r\nBelow are a few of the many topics to be discussed during the Microsoft Research Asia Faculty Summit 2010:\r\n
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Asia Faculty Summit 2010<\/h3>\r\nThe excitement began Oct. 18 at the Hyatt on the Bund, with the first day of the Asia Faculty Summit, which featured as its theme Technological Trends and Future Talent. The event focused on three burgeoning directions of computer-science research:\r\n
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Computing in the 21st Century<\/h3>\r\nOne of the biggest, most influential gatherings in computer-science education in the Asia Pacific region, the Computing in the 21st Century Conference, chaired by Zhao, was held for the second time in Shanghai, where the event occurred in 2001. This year\u2019s conference featured the theme People, Computing and the Physical World.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThose in attendance Oct. 20 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University\u2014co-host of the conference, along with Microsoft Research Asia\u2014heard about the connections between people and computing, the intricacies of the physical and cyber worlds, and the impact of cloud computing and sensor networking on people\u2019s lives.\r\n\r\nZhao notes how the conference has evolved over the last dozen years.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe have been at the epicenter of leading computer-science research in this region for the last 12 years,\u201d he says. \u201cThis conference has been a watershed of change in the computing scene. It\u2019s been an incredible journey, from core computing to the broad societal impact of computing.\u201d\r\n\r\nLeading lights in computer science from China and around the world spoke during the event. All three of the aforementioned Turing winners appeared, and the intellectual firepower hardly stopped there.\r\n\r\nIn addition to keynote addresses from Liskov, Thacker, and Hopcroft, the audience heard talks from Rashid; Culler; Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; and Hsiao-Wuen Hon<\/a>, managing director of Microsoft Research Asia.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe had an exciting and diverse set of speakers this year,\u201d Zhao says. \u201cThis was a forum for students, faculty members, and leading scientists from around the world to have an engaging dialogue on where computing is heading and what it means to society in areas such as energy, environment, and social networks.\u201d\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Download the group photo\"]\r\n
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