July 4, 2006 - July 7, 2006

PhD Summer School 2006

Location: Cambridge, UK

Wednesday, 5 July 2006

  • Socio-Digital Systems, Abigail Sellen (Microsoft Research)
  • How to Write a Great Research Paper, Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research)
  • How to Give a Great Research Talk, Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research)
  • Bayesian Ranking: From Xbox Live to Computer Go, Ralf Herbrich (Microsoft Research)
  • Introducing F#, Don Syme (Microsoft Research)

Thursday, 6 July 2006

  • Rough Guide to Being an Entrepreneur, Jack Lang (University of Cambridge)
  • What Is Information Ethics?, Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford)
  • Posters sessions

Friday, 7 July 2006

  • Verifying the Four Colour Theorem, Georges Gonthier (Microsoft Research)
  • Simulating Biological Systems in the Stochastic Pi-Calculus, Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research)
  • Robots Unlimited, Alexander Brändle (Microsoft Research)