MSRNE 10th Anniversary Symposium

October 11, 2018

MSRNE 10th Anniversary Symposium

9:00 AM–5:00 PM

Location: Cambridge, MA

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Time (PDT)	Session
8:00 AM–9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM–9:15 AM	Introduction, Different Disciplines, Shared Vision Christian Borgs, Deputy Managing Director Microsoft Research New England
9:15 AM–10:15 AM	Panel: The Usefulness of Long-Term Thinking (aka Theory) Moderator: Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of Institute for Advanced Study Panelists: Matt Jackson, Stanford University Yael Tauman Kalai, Microsoft Research New England Madhu Sudan, Harvard University Eva Tardos, Cornell University
10:15 AM–10:45 AM	Coffee Break
10:45 AM–11:45 AM	Panel: Frontiers of Machine Learning Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia Panelists: Anima Anandkumar, California Institute of Technology Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nicolo Fusi, Microsoft Research New England Lester Mackey, Microsoft Research New England
11:45 AM–1:15 PM	Lunch
1:15 PM–2:15 PM	Panel: Platform Society Moderator: Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media Panelists: Nancy Baym, Microsoft Research New England Guy Berger, LinkedIn Tarleton Gillespie, Microsoft Research New England Bridgit Mendler, MIT Media Lab
2:15 PM–3:15 PM	Panel: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics Moderator: Hanna Wallach, Microsoft Research New York City Panelists: Timnit Gebru, Stanford University Deborah Hellman, University of Virginia School of Law Adam Kalai, Microsoft Research New England Mira Lane, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group
3:15 PM–3:45 PM	Coffee Break
3:45 PM–4:45 PM	Panel: The Future Moderator: Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England Panelists: Debbie Chachra, Olin College George Dyson Butler Lampson, Microsoft Research New England Steven Pinker, Harvard University
4:45 PM–5:00 PM	Closing Remarks Jennifer Chayes, Technical Fellow and Managing Director of New England, New York City, and Montreal
5:00 PM–7:00 PM	Reception