May 23, 2012 - May 25, 2012

Latin American Faculty Summit 2012

Location: Riviera Maya, Mexico

Wednesday, May 23

Time	Event/Topic	Location
12:00–12:30	Opening Ceremony	Grand Velas 7-12
12:30–1:30	Opening Keynote Presentation Microsoft Research: from Basic Research to Technological Innovations \| slides Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research, United States
1:30–1:45	Group Photo
1:45–3:00	Lunch	Azul Restaurant/ Chaká
3:00–4:00	Keynote Presentation Strengthening Mexico’s Participation in Global Research Networks \| slides \| video Sergio Carrera, Executive Director, INFOTEC, Mexico	Grand Velas 7-12
4:00–4:45	Plenary Session Information Management via CrowdSourcing \| slides \| video Hector Garcia-Molina, Professor, Stanford University, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
4:45–5:15	Refreshment Break	Foyer Grand Velas
5:15–6:00	Plenary Session Putting the Cloud in the Palm of Your Hand \| slides Victor Bahl, Director Mobile Computer Research Center, Microsoft Research, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
6:00–7:00	Keynote Presentation Bringing Theories to Life: Computer Science at Microsoft Research \| slides \| video Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research Connections, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
8:30–11:00	Welcome Reception and Dinner	Zen Grand Garden

Thursday, May 24

Time	Event/Topic	Location
8:30–1:00	Parallel Track Sessions
8:30–9:30	Computer Science Research Track #1 Why Software Engineering is the Best Job in 2012 \| slides \| video Judith Bishop, Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
	Computer Science Research Track #2 Kinect for Windows—an Update for Researchers \| slides Stewart Tansley, Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States	Grand Velas 13
	Computing in eScience Research Track #3 eResearch: Surveying the State of the Art \| slides Lee Dirks, Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States	Grand Velas 14
	CONACYT Thematic Networks Research Track #4 Teaching a Robot How to Perform New Tasks \| slides Eduardo F. Morales, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica, y Electronica (INAOE), Mexico	Grand Velas 15
9:30–10:30	Computer Science Research Track #1 Future of Software Engineering on Mobile Devices \| slides \| video Nikolai Tillmann, Principal RSDE, Microsoft Research, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
	Computer Science Research Track #2 The World of Multi-Mouse \| slides \| video Miguel Nussbaum, Professor, Catholic University of Chile, Chile E-CLOUDSS: Building e-Government Clouds Using Distributed Semantic Services \| slides Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Universidad de Las Americas Puebla, Mexico	Grand Velas 13
	Computing in eScience Research Track #3 Rethinking Computer Architecture: Research at BSC-Microsoft Research Centre \| slides Osman Unsal, Senior Researcher, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain	Grand Velas 14
	CONACYT Thematic Networks Research Track #4 Data Mining and Its Importance in the 21st Century \| slides Christopher R. Stephens, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico The Discrete Compactness and Its Applications \| slides Ernesto Bribiesca, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	Grand Velas 15
10:30–11:00	Refreshment Break	Foyer Grand Velas
11:00–12:00	Computer Science Research Track #1 Engineering Methods for Ensuring Program Correctness \| slides \| video Rustan Leino, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
	Computer Science Research Track #2 Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse – Architecture Overview \| slides \| video José Blakeley, Partner Architect, Microsoft, United States	Grand Velas 13
	Computing in eScience Research Track #3 LACCIR Projects \| video Chair: Ignacio Casas, Executive Director, LACCIR LiveANDES: A Software Platform to Share and Analyze Information for Wildlife Conservation \| slides Cristián Bonacic, Professor, Ecosystems and Environment Department, Catholic University of Chile (PUC-Chile), Chile Andrés Neyem, Professor, Computer Science Department, Catholic University of Chile (PUC-Chile), Chile Using Sensor Networks to Classify Frogs Based on Their Calls \| slides Eduardo Freire Nakamura, Assistant Professor, Research and Technological Innovation Center (FUCAPI), Brazil	Grand Velas 14
	CONACYT Thematic Networks Research Track #4 Probabilistic Graphical Models: Applications in Biomedicine \| slides \| video Enrique Sucar, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica, y Electronica (INAOE), Mexico	Grand Velas 15
12:00–1:00	Computer Science Research Track #1 Experiences in Software Engineering \| slides \| video Derick Campbell, Director of Engineering, Microsoft Research Connections, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
	Computer Science Research Track #2 Specialized Machine Translation Using the Microsoft Translator Hub – Customized Models for Language Preservation and Domain Specific Deployment \| slides \| video Kristin Tolle, Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States	Grand Velas 13
	Computing in eScience Research Track #3 Big Data and the Cloud Phenomenon \| slides \| video Pedro Celis, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft, United States	Grand Velas 14
	CONACYT Thematic Networks Research Track #4 The Golem Project: a Laboratory for the Construction of Service Robots \| slides \| video Luis Pineda Cortés, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	Grand Velas 15
1:00–2:30	Lunch	Azul Restaurant/ Chaká
1:15–2:15	Panel Session (lunch) Moving the Needle and Growing Women in Computing in Latin America \| slides \| video Juliana Salles, Microsoft Research José Tiberio Hernandez, University of Los Andes Lorena Gómez, Tec of Monterrey	Azul Restaurant
2:30–3:15	Research Talk Deep Neural Networks for Speech and Image Processing \| slides \| video Alex Acero, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
3:15–4:00	Research Talk Using Computer Vision for Graphics \| slides \| video Sing Bing Kang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
4:00–4:30	Refreshment Break	Foyer Grand Velas
4:30–5:15	Plenary Session Advancing Environmental Understanding: the Role of eScience \| slides \| video Dan Fay, Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
5:15–6:00	Keynote Presentation Driving Innovation Through the Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Labs Rico Malvar, Chief Scientist/Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Research, United States	Grand Velas 7-12
6:00–6:15	Assemble for Departure to Social Event	Hotel Lobby
7:00–10:00	Social Event and Dinner Show

Friday, May 25

Time	Event/Topic	Location
8:30–10:00	Closing Plenary Sessions Chair: Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Connections, United States Data-Intensive Discoveries in Science: the Fourth Paradigm \| slides Alex Szalay, Alumni Centennial Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, United States LACCIR: Results, Thoughts, and Opportunities Ignacio Casas, Executive Director, Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research Federation (LACCIR) Sergio Ochoa, Deputy Director, LACCIR	Grand Velas 7-12
10:00–1:00	DemoFest (Onsite Research Demos)	Grand Velas 1-6
11:00–11:30	Refreshment Break (During Demofest)	Foyer Grand Velas
1:00–3:00	Farewell Lunch	Azul Restaurant
3:00	Event Ends