{"id":199776,"date":"2011-12-02T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T09:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/events\/latin-american-faculty-summit-2012\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T13:10:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T20:10:33","slug":"latin-american-faculty-summit-2012","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/latin-american-faculty-summit-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin American Faculty Summit 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0Grand Velas Riviera Maya Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n Past events:<\/strong> Microsoft Research hosted the eighth annual Latin American Faculty Summit in the Riviera Maya, Mexico, from May 23 to 25, 2012. The theme of the 2012 Summit was \u201cTechnologies in Action.\u201d For the 2012 Latin American Faculty Summit, Microsoft Research united academic and government researchers; educators; and Microsoft researchers, product group engineers, and architects to explore new opportunities in computer-science research and advances that address world-scale challenges in such diverse disciplines as healthcare and wellbeing, energy and environment, and educational and social progress. The program consisted of a variety of keynotes, talks, panels, workshops, and demonstrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"msr_startdate":"2012-05-23","msr_enddate":"2012-05-25","msr_location":"Riviera Maya, Mexico","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":[13562,13563,198583,13553],"msr-region":[197901],"msr-event-type":[197950],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-199776","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-computer-vision","msr-research-area-data-platform-analytics","msr-research-area-ecology-environment","msr-research-area-medical-health-genomics","msr-region-latin-america","msr-event-type-faculty-summits","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0Grand Velas Riviera Maya Hotel<\/a>\r\n\r\nPast events:<\/strong>\r\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2016<\/a>\r\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2014<\/a>\r\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2011<\/a>\r\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2010<\/a>\r\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2009<\/a>","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"Home","content":"[caption id=\"attachment_296963\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"270\"] The Riviera Maya (Image: Shutterstock\/Actidea)[\/caption]\r\n\r\nMicrosoft Research hosted the eighth annual Latin American Faculty Summit in the Riviera Maya, Mexico, from May 23 to 25, 2012. The theme of the 2012 Summit was \u201cTechnologies in Action.\u201d For the 2012 Latin American Faculty Summit, Microsoft Research united academic and government researchers, educators, and Microsoft researchers, product group engineers, and architects to explore new opportunities in computer-science research and advances that address world-scale challenges in such diverse disciplines as healthcare and wellbeing, energy and environment, and educational and social progress. The program consisted of a variety of keynotes, talks, panels, workshops, and demonstrations.\r\n
\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2016<\/a>
\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2014<\/a>
\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2011<\/a>
\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2010<\/a>
\nLatin American Faculty Summit 2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technologies in Action<\/h2>\r\nThe need to solve real-world problems, whether social or scientific, has provided the impetus for technological advancements over the years. Computing research and technology provide novel approaches to meet these challenges. For years, multidisciplinary researchers have been employing computational innovations to advance investigations in the sciences. New developments in the world of computation have changed the landscape and offer new capabilities to scientists who are interested in increasing their ability to process and understand vast amounts of data. Increasingly, information is stored in the cloud rather than locally, scientists are looking at new ways to interact with data, and computational advantages are being applied to an ever wider range of disciplines.\r\n
About CONACYT<\/h2>\r\nThe National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT)<\/a> is responsible for the design and execution of science and technology policies in Mexico. CONACYT's aims are to consolidate a National Innovation System that responds to the priority demands of Mexico, provide solution to specific problems and needs, and help raise the standard of living and social wellbeing through five core objectives:\r\n
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