Microsoft Research Summit

Agenda del evento del Martes 12 al Viernes 15 de Mayo - "Microsoft Research Latin American Faculty Summit 2009".
Sofitel Hotel – La Reserva Cardales, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“Innovación creativa a través de la investigación y el desarrollo, como promotores del progreso, social, económico y científico de nuestros países”.

Miércoles, 13 de Mayo
10:15 - 10:30... Palabras de bienvenida... Bernardo Houssay I
Sandra Yachelini • Gerente General• Microsoft Argentina & Uruguay
10:30 - 11:30... Presentación Keynote.. Bernardo Houssay I
“Investigación intensiva de datos: El Cuarto Paradigma”
Tony Hey • VicePresidente Corporativo • External Research • Microsoft Research
11:30 - 12:00... Break..
12:00 - 12:45... Ceremonia de Apertura..Bernardo Houssay I
Evento de Apertura, Presentación:
H.E. Daniel Scioli • Gobernador • Provincia de Bs As • Argentina
Tony Hey • VicePresidente Corporativo • External Research • Microsoft Research
Sandra Yachelini • Gerente General • Microsoft Argentina
H. E. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner • Presidente • Argentina
13:15 - 14:30... Conferencia de prensa (Brunch)................................................................................ Luis Leloir III
Participan:
Sandra Yachelini • Gerente General • Microsoft Argentina
Tony Hey • VicePresidente Corporativo • External Research • Microsoft Research
Jaime Puente • Senior Research Program Manager • External Research • Microsoft Research
14:30 - 15:30... Keynote Panel.................................................................................................. Bernardo Houssay I
Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación como impulso al desarrollo social y economic en la Argentina y en América Latina
Panel de Discusión:
Facilitador:
Daron Green • Director Senior • External Research – Microsoft Research
Panelistas Speakers:
· Alejandro Ceccatto • Vice Ministro de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación• Argentina
· Marta Rovira • Presidente • Consejo Nacional para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICET) • Argentina
· Jorge Aliaga • Dean • Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales • Universidad de Buenos Aires • Argentina
· Flora Montealegre Painter • Jefa, División de Ciencia y Tecnología • Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo • USA
· Clovis Baptista • Director de Ciencia y Tecnología • Organización de Estados Americanos • USA
15:30 - 16:30... Segundo Keynote Presentación....................................................................... Bernardo Houssay I
“Segundo Keynote Presentación”
Lino Barañao, Ph.D. • Ministro de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación • Argentina (TBC)
16:30 - 17:00... Break................................................................................................ Foyer Bernardo Houssay I & II
17:00 - 18:00....... Disertación....................................................................................................... Bernardo Houssay I
“Seguridad Informática: Del Arte a la Ciencia”
Martin Abadi • Investigador Principal • Microsoft Research
18:00 - 19:00....... Disertación....................................................................................................... Bernardo Houssay I
“Investigación sobre Visualización en Microsoft”
George Robertson • Investigador Principal • Microsoft Research
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Jueves 14 de Mayo
9:00 - 13:30..... Sesiones Paralelas..........................................................................................................................
Research Track
Bernardo Houssay I
Curriculum Innovation Track
Luis Leloir I
e-Science Track
Luis Leloir III
9:00 to 10:00
FAPESP-MSR Institute for ICT Research Institute Presentations
“E-Farms, a two-way road for small farms to the networked world”
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros • Professor • Institute of Computing • Universidade Estadual de Campinas
“JAM Session – A Descentralized Architecture for Specialized Virtual Worlds and the Web 3.0”
Flavio Soares Correa da Silva • Professor • Universidade de São Paulo
”Introducing Computing with Personal Robots”
Keith O’Hara • PhD Candidate • School of Interactive Computing • Georgia Institute of Technology
Affiliated also with the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE)
“From Galaxies to Sensor Networks: Science in an Exponential World”
Alex Szalay • Professor • Department of Physics & Astronomy and Department of Computer Science • John Hopkins University
10:00 to 11:00
“New Tools for Enabling Collaborative Web Search”
Merrie Ringel Morris • Researcher • Microsoft Research
More information about Merrie here
“The Gaming and Computer Science: A Successfully Experiment”
John Nordlinger • Senior Research Program Manager • External Research • Microsoft Research
“Games and XNA in the RIT Game Design and Development Curriculum”
Andrew Phelps • Director, Game Design & Development • College of Computing & Information Sciences • Rochester Institute of Technology
“The Health and Wellbeing Initiative in Microsoft External Research”
Simon Mercer • Director of Health and Wellbeing • External Research • Microsoft Research
“.NET-based Clients and Services in the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG) ”
Marty Humphrey • Associate Professor • Department of Computer Science • University of Virginia
11:00 to 11:30
REFRESHMENT BREAK (Pre Function Area)
11:30 to 12:30
“Partial Behaviour Modelling of Software Intensive Systems”
Sebastian Uchitel • Assistant Professor • University of Buenos Aires
“Active Learning Using Tablet PCs”
Joseph Tront • Professor • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering • Virgnia Tech
“Tools and Services for Data Intensive Research”
Roger Barga • Principal Architect • External Research • Microsoft Research
Christophe Poulain • Senior Research Software Developer • External Research • Microsoft Research
12:30 to 13:30
“Tools for Researchers: The Scholarly Communication Lifecycle”
Alex Wade • Director, Scholarly Communication • External Research • Microsoft Research
“15 Years of Research in Technology for the Classroom”
Miguel Nussbaum • Professor • Department of Computer Science • Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
“Enhance Astronomincal Research and Science Education with World Wide Telescope”
Yan Xu • Senior Research Program Manager & Jonathan Fay • Principal Research Software Developer • External Research • Microsoft Research
Guillermo Bosch • Researcher • School of Astronomy and Geophysics • University of La Plata • Argentina
13:30 - 15:00....... Lunch.............................................................................................. La Butaca/Bernardo Houssay II
15:00 - 16:00....... Disertación........................................................................................................ Bernardo Houssay I
“Una Mirada al future de Microsoft Research”
Alex Acero • Gerente de Area de Investigación • Microsoft Research
16:00 - 17:00... Presentación “Futuro”..................................................................................... Bernardo Houssay I
“Los Usos de las Computadoras”
Butler W. Lampson • Technical Fellow • Microsoft Research
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Viernes, 15 de Mayo
8:30 - 11:30......... DEMOFEST (20 demos) Proyectos que promueven la investigación, la ciencia y la tecnología Luis Leloir I & II & III
10:30 - 11:00....... Break..................................................................................................... Foyer Luis Leloir I & II & III
12:00 - 13:30....... Panel de cierre................................................................................................. Bernardo Houssay I
Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research Federation (LACCIR)
Topic Introduction:
Jaime Puente • Senior Research Program Manager • External Research • Microsoft Research
Presentation:
· Ignacio Casas • Executive Director • LACCIR
· Sergio Ochoa • Executive Board Member • LACCIR
Principal Investigators (New Awarded Projects)
· Javier Baliosian • Adjunct Professor • Computer Science Department • Engineering School • Universiy of La Republica, Uruguay: “Domestic Environment Monitoring with Oportunistic Sensor Networks (DEMOS)”
· Rosa Alarcon • Professor Department of Computer Science • Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile: “TimeSaver Decentralized Virtual Words for the Provision and Integration of Public Services in Latin America”
· Claudia Pons • Professor • National University of La Plata, Argentina: “Low Cost Computer Based System for Quality Evaluation and Preservation of Grains Stored in Polymer Bags”
· Genoveva Vargas-Solar • Researcher • Department of Computer Science • University of Las Americas at Puebla, Mexico: “ECLOUDSS: Building E-government Clouds using Distributed Semantic Services”
· Alvaro Soto • Associate Professor • Department of Computer Science • Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile: “A Real Time System Based on Computer Vision Techniques To Supervise and Allocate Cash Registers at Grocery Stores”
13:30 - 15:00....... Lunch ............................................................................................. La Butaca/Bernardo Houssay II
15:00.................. Fin del evento.