Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2014
Watch the 2014 Faculty Summit online sessions on demand
If you missed any of the online broadcasted keynote presentations or the Research in Focus interview segments, you will be able to watch them here. We will also make the in-person breakout sessions available. Please check back for updates.
July 14, 2014, live broadcast agenda
| Time (PDT) | Session | Speaker |
| 9:00–10:15 | Opening Keynote | Harry Shum, Microsoft executive vice president, Technology and Research |
| 10:30–11:30 |
Hot Topics Chair: Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research |
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Back to the Future: The Second Age of Computing Is Ending |
Doug Burger, director, Microsoft Research | |
| Crowds Are People Too! | Mary L. Gray, senior researcher, Microsoft Research | |
| "Mobilizing" Healthcare | Desney Tan, principal researcher, Microsoft Research | |
| Quantum Leaps in Computing | Krysta Svore, researcher, Microsoft Research | |
| 11:35–1:00 |
Opening Keynote** (rebroadcast) |
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| 1:05–1:20 |
Research in Focus: Fingerprinting in the Wild |
Tanya Berger-Wolf, associate professor, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 1:25–1:40 |
Research in Focus: New Hope for Paraplegic Independent Living |
Arjmand Samuel, senior research PM, Microsoft Research |
| 1:40–1:55 |
Research in Focus: Does Social Networking Make Us More Social? |
Keith Hampton, associate professor, Rutgers University |
| 2:00–2:15 |
Research in Focus: Meet Office Mix—Microsoft's Bet on Blended Learning |
Anoop Gupta, distinguished scientist, Microsoft Research |
| 2:15–3:00 |
Hot Topics** (rebroadcast) |
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| 3:00–3:15 |
Research in Focus: Can Mind Readers Improve Your Performance? |
Andrew Begel, senior researcher, Microsoft Research Erin Solovey, assistant professor, Drexel University |
| 3:15–3:30 |
Research in Focus: Building a Better Digital Assistant |
Larry Heck, distinguished engineer, Microsoft Research Mike Calcagno, Microsoft |
| 3:30–3:45 |
Research in Focus: Impossibly Small Devices |
Desney Tan, principal researcher, Microsoft Research Chris Harrison, assistant professor, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 3:45–4:10 | DemoFest | |
| 4:15–4:30 |
Research in Focus Role of Research at Microsoft |
Peter Lee, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research |
| 4:30–5:30 |
Plenary Thinking Before Coding |
Leslie Lamport, Turing Award winner, Microsoft Research |
*Schedule subject to change
**Pre-recorded
