Keynote Speakers
Hsiao-Wuen Hon (opens in new tab)
- Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia
- Fellow of IEEE
Topic: Transforming the Impossible to the Natural
Rick Rashid (opens in new tab)
- Chief Research Officer, Microsoft Corporation
- Members of NAE and AAAS
Topic: Microsoft Research and the Evolution of Computing
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John Hopcroft (opens in new tab)
- IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Computer Science Department, Cornell University
- 1986 Turing Award Recipient
Topic: New Directions on Computer Science
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Daniela Rus (opens in new tab)
- Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, MIT
- Fellows of AAAI and IEEE
Topic: Computation Challenges for Creating Autonomous Systems
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Michael I. Jordan (opens in new tab)
- Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Statistics, California University, Berkeley
- Members of NAS, NAE and AAAS
Topic: Divide-and-Conquer and Statistical Inference for Big Data
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Jeannette M. Wing (opens in new tab)
- President’s Professor and Head, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
- Fellows of ACM and IEEE
Topic: Towards a Theory of Trust in Networks of Humans and Computers
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- Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research Redmond
- Fellow of ACM
Topic: The Pipeline from Computing Research to Surprising Inventions