Together with researchers around the world, we aspire to generate groundbreaking ideas, techniques, and tools that enable us to gain the greatest benefit of the data revolution for the good of society. Presentations and demonstrations are key to the summit experience.
Monday, July 14
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8:00 – 9:00
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Breakfast
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Hood/Baker
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9:00 – 10:15
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Opening Keynote
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Harry Shum, executive vice president, Microsoft Technology and Research | video | slides | Kodiak |
10:15 – 10:30
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Break
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10:30 – 11:30
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Hot Topics
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Chair: Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research | video | combined slides | Kodiak |
Back to the Future: The Second Age of Computing Is Ending
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Doug Burger, Microsoft Research
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Quantum Leaps in Computing
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Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research
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“Mobilizing” Healthcare
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Desney Tan, Microsoft Research
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Crowds Are People Too!
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Mary L. Gray, Microsoft Research
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11:30 – 12:30
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Lunch
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McKinley |
11:30 – 12:30
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When Data Science & Human Subject Research Collide: Ethics, Implications, Responsibilities
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Chair: Mary L. Gray, Microsoft Research
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Baker
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12:30 – 2:00 |
Impossibly Small Devices
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Chair: Desney Tan, Microsoft Research | video
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Cascade
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The Future of Crowdsourcing and the Sharing Economy—Part I
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Chair: Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Microsoft Research | video
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Rainier
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Deep Learning for Text Processing
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Chairs: Li Deng, Microsoft Research; Christopher Manning, Stanford University | video
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St. Helens
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Big Dream, Campaign to Unite & Grow More Women in Computing
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Baker | |
2:00 – 2:15 |
Break
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2:15 – 3:45 |
In-situ Research Using Connected Devices—Challenges and Opportunities
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Chair: Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research | video
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Cascade
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The Future of Crowdsourcing and the Sharing Economy—Part II
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Chair: Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers:
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Rainier
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New Perspectives on Machine Learning and Science
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Chair: Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research | video
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St. Helens
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The Coming Genomics Software Revolution
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Chair: Ravi Pandya, Microsoft Research | video
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Baker
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3:45 – 4:30 |
Demonstrations
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Hood |
4:30 – 5:30 |
Thinking Above the Code
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Kodiak | |
5:30 – 6:30 |
Travel to Seattle
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6:30 – 9:00 |
Dinner Event at Museum of History and Industry
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Tuesday, July 15
Time | Session | Speaker | Location |
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8:00 – 9:00
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Breakfast
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9:00 – 10:00
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Is the grass any greener? Pervasive awareness, social media, and well-being
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Keith N. Hampton, Associate Professor, Rutgers University | video | slides | Kodiak |
10:00 – 10:15
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Break
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10:15 – 11:45
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Networked Publics as Third Places
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Chair: Shelly Farnham, Microsoft Research | video | slides Speakers: |
Cascade |
From Exceptional to Everyone: Microsoft’s Efforts to Democratize Blended Learning
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Chair: Anoop Gupta, Microsoft Research | video
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Rainier
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Frontiers in Speech and Language
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Chair: Geoffrey Zweig, Microsoft Research | video
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St. Helens
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Challenges in Geo-Distributed Data Center and Application Design
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Chair: Aman Kansal, Microsoft Research | video
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Baker
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10:15 – 12:45 |
Design Expo
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In a world with a billion sensors, how will we make sense of it all?
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Kodiak |
11:45 – 12:45 | Lunch | ||
12:45 – 2:15 | Meet the Crowd: Political Economies and Cultural Meanings of Digital Labor |
Chair: Mary L. Gray, Microsoft Research | video
Speakers: |
Cascade |
Science in the Cloud | Rainier | ||
Recent Advances in Parallel Algorithms |
Chair: Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research | video
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St. Helens | |
2:15 – 3:00 | Demonstrations |
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Hood |
3:00 – 4:30 | Towards Scalable Quantum Computation |
Chair: Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research | video
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Cascade |
Specialized Computing in the Cloud | Rainier | ||
And how does that make you feel? |
Chair: Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research | video
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St. Helens | |
4:30 – 5:00 | Academic Industry Collaboration—a Dialog |
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Kodiak |
5:00 – 7:00 | Reception |
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Rainier |