May 13, 2009 - May 15, 2009

Latin American Faculty Summit 2009

Location: Cardales, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tuesday, May 12

Time	Session
11:00–19:00	Welcome and Registration
16:00–19:00	LACCIR (opens in new tab) Joint Steering Committee Meeting (By invitation only)
20:00–22:00	Group Dinner

Wednesday, May 13

Time	Session
10:15–10:30	Welcoming Words Sandra Yacheline – General Manager, Microsoft Argentina
10:30–11:30	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Data Intensive Research: The Fourth Paradigm Tony Hey – Corporate Vice President, External Research, Microsoft
11:30–12:00	Refreshment Break (Transition time before the arrival of government authorities)
12:00–12:45	OPENING CEREMONY Event Opening Presentations: H.E. Daniel Scioli – Governor, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina Tony Hey – Corporate Vice President, External Research, Microsoft Sandra Yachelini – General Manager, Microsoft Argentina H. E. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner – President, Argentina
12:45–13:15	Group Photo
13:15–14:30	Lunch
14:30–15:30	KEYNOTE PANEL SESSION Science, Technology and Innovation as drivers for social and economical development in Argentina and Latin America Panel Discussion Facilitator: Daron Green – Senior Director, External Research, Microsoft Panelist Speakers: Alejandro Ceccatto – Vice Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation; Argentina (TBC) Jorge Aliaga – Dean, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences. University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Flora Montealegre Painter – Chief, Division of Science and Technology, Inter American Development Bank, United States (TBC) Clovis Baptista – Director of Science and Technology, Organization of American States, United States
15:30–16:30	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Innovation Policies in the Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation Lino Barañao, Ph.D – Minister of Science, Technology, and Productive Innovation; Argentina
16:30–17:00	Refreshment Break
17:00–18:00	RESEARCH TALK Computer Security: From Art to Science (and Back) Martin Abadi – Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
18:00–19:00	RESEARCH TALK Visualization Research at Microsoft George Robertson – Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
21:00–21:30	Reception
21:30–23:00	Dinner/Show

Thursday, May 14

Time	Session
9:00–13:30	PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS
9:00–10:00	Research Track FAPESP-MSR Institute for ICT Research Institute Presentations E-Farms, a two-way road for small farms to the networked world Claudia Bauzer Medeiros – Professor, Institute of Computing, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil JAM Session – A Descentralized Architecture for Specialized Virtual Worlds and the Web 3.0 Flavio Soares Correa da Silva – Professor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
	Curriculum Innovation Track Introducing Computing with Personal Robots Keith O’Hara – PhD Candidate,School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States; Affiliated also with the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE (opens in new tab))
	e-Science Track From Galaxies to Sensor Networks: Science in an Exponential World Alex Szalay – Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Department of Computer Science, John Hopkins University, United States
10:00–11:00	Research Track New Tools for Enabling Collaborative Web Search Merrie Ringel Morris – Researcher, Microsoft Research
	Curriculum Innovation Track The Gaming and Computer Science: A Successful Experiment John Nordlinger – Senior Research Program Manager, External Research, Microsoft Games and XNA in the RIT Game Design and Development Curriculum
	e-Science Track The Health and Wellbeing Initiative in Microsoft External Research Daron Green – Senior Director, External Research, Microsoft .NET-based Clients and Services in the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG) Marty Humphrey – Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, United States
11:00–11:30	Refreshment Break
11:30–12:30	Research Track Partial Behaviour Modelling of Software Intensive Systems Sebastian Uchitel – Assistant Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Curriculum Innovation Track Active Learning Using Tablet PCs Joseph Tront – Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, United States
	e-Science Track Tools and Services for Data Intensive Research Roger Barga – Principal Architect, External Research, Microsoft Christophe Poulain – Senior Research Software Developer, External Research, Microsoft
12:30–13:30	Research Track Tools for Researchers: The Scholarly Communication Lifecycle Alex Wade – Senior Research Program Manager, External Research, Microsoft Research
	Curriculum Innovation Track 15 Years of Research in Technology for the Classroom Miguel Nussbaum – Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile
	e-Science Track Enhance Astronomincal Research and Science Education with World Wide Telescope Yan Xu – Senior Research Program Manager Jonathan Fay – Principal Research Software Developer, External Research, Microsoft WWT and the Argentinean Virtual Observatory Guillermo Bosch – Researcher, School of Astronomy and Geophysics, University of La Plata, Argentina
13:30–15:00	Lunch
15:00–16:00	RESEARCH TALK Ensuring Microsoft’s Future: An Overview of Microsoft Research Alex Acero – Research Area Manager, Microsoft Research
16:00–17:00	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION The Uses of Computers: What is Past is Merely Prologue Butler W. Lampson – Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research
17:00–18:00	Free Time
18:00–18:30	Assemble for Departure to the Social Event
18:30–23:00	Social Event and Dinner Show

Friday, May 15

Time	Session
8:30–11:30	DemoFest (Onsite Research Demos)
10:30–10:00	Refreshment Break
12:00–13:30	CLOSING PLENARY SESSION Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research Federation (LACCIR) Topic Introduction: Jaime Puente – Senior Research Program Manager, External Research, Microsoft Research Presentation: Ignacio Casas – Executive Director, LACCIR Sergio Ochoa – Executive Board Member, LACCIR Principal Investigators (New Awarded Projects) Javier Baliosian – Professor, Universiy of La Republica, Uruguay: “Domestic Environment Monitoring with Oportunistic Sensor Networks (DEMOS)” Rosa Alarcon – Professor Department of Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile: “TimeSaver Decentralized Virtual Words for the Provision and Integration of Public Services in Latin America” Claudia Pons – Professor, National University of La Plata, Argentina: “Low Cost Computer Based System for Quality Evaluation and Preservation of Grains Stored in Polymer Bags” Genoveva Vargas-Solar – Researcher, Department of Computer Science, University of Las Americas at Puebla, Mexico: “ECLOUDSS: Building E-government Clouds using Distributed Semantic Services” Alvaro Soto – Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile: “A Real Time System Based on Computer Vision Techniques To Supervise and Allocate Cash Registers at Grocery Stores”
13:30–15:00	Farewell Lunch and Closing Ceremony
15:00	The Event Ends