July 9, 2007 - July 14, 2007

PhD Summer School 2007

Location: Cambridge, UK

Tuesday, 10 July 2007

  • Session on being an entrepreneur provided by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (opens in new tab) at the Judge Business School (opens in new tab)
      • How to define a business model, Hermann Hauser (Amadeus Capital Partners)
      • Workshops:
        1. Partnering with established organisations, Mike Carr (British Telecom)
        2. Intellectual property, Isla Furlong (Venner Shipley)
  • Keynote talk, Rick Rashid (Microsoft Research)
  • Giving a good presentation, Ken Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques)

Wednesday, 11 July 2007

  • Productising research, John Miller (Microsoft Research)
  • Autostereoscopic 3D displays: stereoscopic perception without the special glasses, Neil Dodgson (University of Cambridge)
  • Applying for research funding, John Hand (EPSRC)

Thursday, 12 July 2007

  • Mind-reading machines, Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge)
  • Posters sessions

Friday, 13 July 2007

  • How to write a great research paper, Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research)
  • Programming biology, Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research)
  • Peer-to-peer networking, Ant Rowstron (Microsoft Research)
  • Autonomous monitoring of vulnerable habitats, Robin Freeman (Microsoft Research)
  • Machine learning applied to games, Phillip Trelford (Microsoft Research)