July 8, 2015 - July 9, 2015

Faculty Summit 2015

Location: Redmond, WA, USA

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Past events:
Faculty Summit 2017
Faculty Summit 2016
Faculty Summit 2014
Faculty Summit 2013
Faculty Summit 2012
Faculty Summit 2011
Faculty Summit 2010
Faculty Summit 2009

Now that the summit is over, we hope you will enjoy the recorded sessions and access the presentation materials.

Wednesday, July 8

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
7:30 – 8:30	Breakfast		Hood/Baker
8:30 – 9:15	Welcome and Introduction Microsoft’s Unique Role in the Computing Research Ecosystem	P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Jeannette Wing, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research \| video \| slides	Kodiak
9:15 – 10:00	Panel: Progress in AI: Myths, Realities, and Aspirations	Moderator: Eric Horvitz, Managing Director, Microsoft Research \| video Panelists: Christopher Bishop, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence Fei-Fei Li, Associate Professor, Stanford University Michael Littman, Professor of Computer Science, Brown University Josh Tenenbaum, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Kodiak
10:00 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 12:00	Commonsense and World Knowledge	Chair: Margaret Mitchell, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Ray Mooney, University of Texas at Austin \| slides Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \| slides Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research \| slides Benjamin Van Durme, Johns Hopkins University \| slides	Kodiak
	What Can We Solve with a Quantum Computer?	Chair: Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Edward Farhi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \| slides Matthias Troyer, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich \| slides Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft Research \| slides	Cascade
	Research Challenges in Internet Governance	Chair: Carolyn Nguyen, Microsoft \| video Speakers: Susan Aaronson, George Washington University Laura DeNardis, American University Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico Brenden Kuerbis, Syracuse University	Rainier
	Programmability at Cloud Scale	Chair: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \| slides Philip Bernstein, Microsoft Research \| slides Sergey Bykov, Microsoft \| slides	St. Helens
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 2:30	Vision to Language	Chair: Larry Zitnick, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign \| slides Margaret Mitchell, Microsoft Research \| slides Richard Zemel, University of Toronto \| slides	Kodiak
	Computing for Global Development and Resource Constraint	Chair: Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research \| video \| slides Speakers: Elizabeth Belding, University of California-Santa Barbara Andrew Cross, Microsoft Research \| slides Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi \| slides	Cascade
	Universal Design: How to Attract More Diverse Researchers	Chair: Kristin Tolle, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Lili Cheng, Microsoft Research \| slides Ann Quiroz Gates, University of Texas at El Paso \| slides Charles Isbell, Georgia Institute of Technology \| slides Ed Lazowska, University of Washington \| slides	Rainier
	Design Verification: Treating Networks Like Programs or Chips	Chairs: Nikolaj Bjorner and Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research \| video \| slides Speakers: Nate Foster, Cornell University \| slides Sharad Malik, Princeton University \| slides George Varghese, Microsoft Research \| slides Geoffrey Xie, Naval Postgraduate School \| slides	St. Helens
2:30 – 3:00	Break
3:00 – 4:30	Question Answering	Chair: Matthew Richardson, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Yan Ke, Microsoft \| slides Benjamin Van Durme, Johns Hopkins University \| slides Scott Wen-tau Yih, Microsoft Research \| slides Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington \| slides	Kodiak
	Digital Ink and Touch on NextGen Devices	Chairs: Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research; Jeff Han, Microsoft Speakers: Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland \| slides Steven Feiner, Columbia University \| slides Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University Andries van Dam, Brown University \| slides	Cascade
	Computer Vision and Intelligent Services	Chairs: Baining Guo, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon University \| slides Tao Mei, Microsoft Research \| slides Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research \| slides	Rainier
	5G: Opportunities and Challenges	Chair: Aakanksha Chowdhery, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Sharon Gillett, Microsoft Research \| slides Sundeep Rangan, New York University \| slides Xinyu Zhang, University of Wisconsin Madison \| slides Heather Zheng, University of California Santa Barbara \| slides	St. Helens
4:30 – 5:15	Fireside Chat	Chair: Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington Speaker: Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology and Research, Microsoft	Kodiak
5:15 – 6:00	Travel to Seattle
6:00 – 9:00	Dinner at Chihuly Garden and Glass at the Seattle Center

Thursday, July 9

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
8:00 – 9:00	Breakfast		Hood/Baker
9:00 – 9:45	Keynote A Revolution Against Big-Brother Social Networks	Speaker: Monica Lam, Professor, Stanford University \| video	Kodiak
9:45 – 1:00	Research Showcase		McKinley
11:45 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 2:30	Integrative AI	Chair: Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research \| slides Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University Larry Zitnick, Microsoft Research \| slides	Kodiak
	Privacy in Context	Chair: Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Jaeyeon Jung, Microsoft Research \| slides Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University	Rainier
	Programming Models for Estimates, Approximation, and Probabilistic Reasoning	Chair: Kathryn S. McKinley, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Michael Carbin, Microsoft Research \| slides Noah Goodman, Stanford University \| slides Dan Grossman, University of Washington \| slides Todd Mytkowicz, Microsoft Research \| slides	St. Helens
2:30 – 3:00	Break
3:00 – 4:30	Integrative AI: Panel	Chair: Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research \| video Panelists: Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research Charles Rich, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research Larry Zitnick, Microsoft Research	Kodiak
	The Holoscene: Virtual and Mixed Reality	Chair: Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research Speakers: Mark Bolas, University of Southern California \| slides Steven Feiner, Columbia University \| slides Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina \| slides Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Ken Perlin, New York University	Cascade
	Semantics and Knowledge Bases for Next-Generation Scholarly Discovery	Chairs: Alex Wade and Yang Song, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University \| slides Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence \| slides Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China \| slides Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research \| slides	Rainier
	Industry Embraces Open Source—What This Means for Academia	Chair: Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research \| video Speakers: Ross Gardler, Microsoft Phil Haack, GitHub \| slides Carlos Jensen, Oregon State University \| slides Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research \| slides	St. Helens
4:30 – 5:30	A Better Way to Deliver Innovation?	Speaker: Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research \| video \| slides	Kodiak
5:30 – 7:00	Reception		Hood/Baker
7:00	Summit Closes