July 15, 2013 - July 16, 2013

Faculty Summit 2013

Location: Redmond, WA, USA

Monday, July 15

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
8:00-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-10:30	Opening Plenary Session		Kodiak
9:00-9:15	Welcome and Introduction \| video	Tony Hey, Vice President, Microsoft Research Connections \| slides Eric Rudder, Executive Vice President, Advanced Strategy and Research, Microsoft
9:15-10:30	Innovation and Opportunity: The Contribution of Computing to Improving Our World \| video	Keynote speaker: Bill Gates Moderator: Rick Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-12:00	Breakout Sessions
	Prediction Engines \| video	Chair: David Pennock, Microsoft Research \| slides Speakers: Sanmay Das, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University \| slides Robin Hanson, George Mason University \| slides Nicolas Lambert, Stanford University	Cascade
	Efficiently Verifying Outsourced Cloud Computation: from Theory to Practice \| video	Chair: Bryan Parno, Microsoft Research \| slides Speakers: Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University \| slides Michael Walfish, University of Texas at Austin \| slides	Rainier
	Database Systems Exploiting New Hardware Platforms \| video	Chair: David Lomet, Microsoft Research \| slides Speakers: Paul Larson, Microsoft Research \| slides Justin Levandoski, Microsoft Research \| slides Thomas Neumann, Technische Universität München \| slides Jignesh Patel, University of Wisconsin, Madison \| slides	St. Helens
	Data in Disasters—the Potential and the Limits \| video	Chair: Kate Crawford, Microsoft Research Speakers: Eytan Adar, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor \| slides Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Microsoft Research \| slides Leysia Palen, University of Colorado-Boulder \| slides	Hood
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:30	Breakout Sessions
	Interaction for Machine Learning \| video	Chair: Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research \| slides Co-organizers: Dan Bohus, Ece Kamar, Lihong Li, and Jason Williams, Microsoft Research Speakers: James Fogarty, University of Washington Lise Getoor, University of Maryland \| slides Patrice Simard, Microsoft Research \| slides Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison \| slides	Cascade
	The Economics of Computing \| video	Chair: Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research Speakers: Dan Huttenlocher, Cornell University \| slides Muthu Muthukrishnan, Microsoft Research \| slides Eva Tardos, Cornell University \| slides	Rainier
	Hosting Blazing Fast Services: From 1 Core to 1M Cores \| video	Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Speaker: David Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University \| slides Vijay Gill, Microsoft Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research \| slides	St. Helens
	Computer-Aided Education \| video	Chair: Donald Brinkman, Microsoft Research Speakers: Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft Research \| slides Armando Solar Lezama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \| slides Zoran Popovic, University of Washington \| slides	Hood
2:30-2:45	Break
2:45-4:15	Breakout Sessions
	Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Practical Challenges and Opportunities	Chair: Lihong Li, Microsoft Research \| slides Co-organizers: Dan Bohus, Ece Kamar, Ashish Kapoor, and Jason Williams, Microsoft Research Speakers: Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research \| slides Léon Bottou, Microsoft Research \| slides Michael Littman, Brown University \| slides David Traum, University of Southern California	Cascade
	Towards a Research Platform for Internet of Things (IoT) \| video	Chair: Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research \| slides Speakers: Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research \| slides Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia \| slides	Rainier
	Big Data Platforms \| video	Chair: Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research Big Data at Microsoft Raghu Ramakrishnan, Microsoft \| slides Taming Big Data with Spark and Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS) Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley \| slides Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services Vivek Narasayya, Microsoft Research \| slides	St. Helens
	Publishing and Perishing in the Twenty-First Century \| video	Chair: Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Speakers: Jennifer Lin, Public Library of Science \| slides Filippo Menczer, Indiana University \| slides Enrico Motta, Open University \| slides Jevin West, University of Washington	Hood
4:15-4:30	Break
4:30-5:30	Plenary Session The Beast from Below: How Changes in the Hardware Ecosystem Will Disrupt Computer Science \| video	Keynote speaker: Doug Burger, Director, Client & Cloud Applications, Microsoft \| slides	Kodiak
5:30-6:00	Travel to Kirkland Dock
6:00-9:30	Argosy Cruise on Lake Washington

Tuesday, July 16

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
8:00-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-10:30	Plenary Session Looking Over the Horizon: How Basic Research Helps Everyone \| video	Keynote speakers: Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research \| slides Jeannette Wing, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research \| slides	Kodiak
10:30-1:00	DemoFest		McKinley
10:30-11:30	Engaging with Microsoft Research		Hood
12:00-1:00	Lunch
12:00-1:00	Lunchtime Session
	Innovations and Research Highlights in Attracting Women in Computing \| video \| slides	Moderator: Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft Research Speakers: Tiffany Barnes, North Carolina State University Kathryn S. McKinley, Microsoft Research Ruthe Farmer and Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women Information Technology Juliana Salles, Microsoft Research; and Constance Steinkuehler, University Wisconsin at Madison	Cascade
1:00-2:30	Breakout Sessions
	The Coming Genomics Software Revolution? \| video	Chair: Bill Bolosky, Microsoft Research Speakers: David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz \| slides David Heckerman, Microsoft Research \| slides David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley \| slides George Varghese, Microsoft Research \| slides	Cascade
	Modern Programming for and via the Web Browser \| video	Chair: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research Speakers: Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University \| slides Steve Lucco, Microsoft \| slides Tom Ball, Microsoft Research \| slides	Rainier
	From Data Science to Data Intelligence \| video	Chair: Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research \| slides Speakers: Roger Barga, Microsoft Léon Bottou, Microsoft Research \| slides Percy Liang, Stanford University \| slides	St. Helens
	Visual Recognition \| video	Chair: Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research Speakers: Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin \| slides Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University \| slides Larry Zitnick, Microsoft Research \| slides	Hood
1:00-3:30	Design Expo Making Data Useful: Improving Your Life, Community, and World	Chair: Lili Cheng, Microsoft Research \| slides New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York, NY, United States \| video Professor: Clay Shirky Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design, Pittsburg, PA, United States \| video Professors: Peter Scupelli, Bruce Hanington Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel \| video Professors: Oren Zuckerman and Noa Morag National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India \| video Professors: Bibhudutta Baral and Rupeshkumar Vyas Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom \| video Professor: Trevor Duncan Technische Universiteit (TU) Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands \| video Professor: Berry Eggen Universidad Iberoamericana, Design Department, Mexico City, Mexico \| video Professor: Jorge Meza Aguilar University of California at Los Angeles, Design Media Arts, Los Angeles, CA, United States \| video Professor: Christian Moeller University of Washington, Interactive Design Division, Seattle, WA, United States \| video Professor: Axel Roesler	Kodiak
2:30-2:45	Break
2:45-4:15	Breakout Sessions
	Deep Machine Learning: a Panel \| video	Chairs: Li Deng, Microsoft Research, and John Platt, Microsoft Research \| slides Speakers: Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal \| slides Honglak Lee, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor \| slides Andrew Ng, Stanford University \| slides Ruslan Salakhutdinov, University of Toronto \| slides	Cascade
	Spam Wars: the Systems Strike Back \| video	Chair: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research Speakers: Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research \| slides Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research \| slides Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego \| slides	Rainier
	Quantum Computing: the Next Frontier \| video	Chair: Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research Speakers: Scott Aaronson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \| slides Charles Marcus, Niels Bor Institute \| slides Matthias Troyer, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich \| slides	St. Helens
	Visual Motion and Structure \| video	Chair: Rick Szeliski, Microsoft Research Speakers: Bill Freeman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \| slides Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research \| slides Noah Snavely, Cornell University \| slides	Hood
4:15-4:30	Break
4:30-5:30	Closing Plenary Session Making Data Useful: User-centric Approaches to Data \| video	Keynote speaker: Clay Shirky, Distinguished Writer in Residence and Assistant Arts Professor, New York University	Kodiak
5:30-7:00	Networking Reception