Tuesday, 8 July 2008
- Research career – Industry vs. academia, Andrew Herbert (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)
Presentations of past students
- Towards a peer-to-peer file backup system, Alessandro Duminuco (Institut Eurécom)
- Generalizing the discrete analyses of genetic networks using constraints, Fabien Corblin (Université Joseph Fourier)
- Why breaking other kids’ toys (in time) is an achievement in computer science, Georg Weißenbacher (ETH Zurich)
- Computational prediction of three-dimensional protein structure from NMR chemical shifts, Kai Kohlhoff (University of Cambridge)
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
- Giving a good presentation, Ken Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques)
- Mind-reading machines, Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge)
- Posters sessions
Thursday, 10 July 2008
- Rough guide to being an entrepreneur, Jack Lang (University of Cambridge)
- Grand challenges in computer science, Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research)
- How does the Internet work?, Richard Black (Microsoft Research)
- How to apply for funding? In search of the holy grail, Wouter Spek (European Science Foundation)
Friday, 11 July 2008
- Take control or how to manage your supervisor, Tristram Hooley (vitae)
- Write off-loading: Practical power management for enterprise storage, Dushyanth Narayanan (Microsoft Research)
- Surface computing: the post-PC experience, Steve Hodges (Microsoft Research)
- Enzymatic computing, Klaus Peter Zauner (University of Southampton)