| Tuesday, May 13 (Gamboa Rainforest Resort) |
| 11:00 to 7:00pm |
Welcome and Registration - Lobby |
| 3:00 to 6:30pm |
Advisory Board Meeting of the LACCIR
(by invitation only) - Las Garzas |
| 8:00 to 10:00pm |
Group Dinner (Los Guayacanes) |
| Wednesday, May 14 (City of Knowledge) |
| 09:00 to 10:00am |
PRESS CONFERENCE (By invitation only)
Room 102 |
| 09:45 to 10:15am |
ARRIVAL OF ATTENDEES TO CITY OF KNOWLEDGE |
| 10:30 to 11:00am |
OPENING CEREMONY
Event Opening Keynote Presentation:
Martín Torrijos Espino • President • Panamá
Room 108 & 109 |
| 11:00 to 12:00pm |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
“10 Years into the Future”
Rick Rashid • Senior Vice President • Microsoft Research
Room 108 & 109 |
| 12:00 to 01:00pm |
KEYNOTE PANEL SESSION
Science, Technology and Innovation as drivers for social and economical development in Panamá and Latin America
Panel Discussion:
Facilitator:
Sailesh Chutani • Senior Director • External Research & Programs – Microsoft Research
Panelist Speakers:
• Julio Escobar • National Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT) • Panamá
• Carlos Gonzalo Rivas • Chief Division of Science and Technology • Inter American Development Bank • USA
• Dario Solis • Research Director • Technological University of Panama • Panama
• Harold Stolberg • Regional Coordinator • Office of International Science and Engineering • National Science Foundation • USA
Room 108 & 109 |
| 01:00 to 01:30pm |
GROUP PHOTO |
| 01:30 to 03:00pm |
LUNCH
Holiday Inn@City of Knowledge & Room 102 |
| 03:00 to 04:00pm |
SECOND KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
“Research and Development”
Julio Escobar V., Ph.D. • National Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation • Panamá
Room 108 & 109 |
| 04:00 to 05:00pm |
RESEARCH TALK
"Surface Computing and Beyond"
Andy Wilson • Researcher • Microsoft Research
Room 108 & 109 |
| 05:00 to 05:30pm |
REFRESHMENT BREAK
Pre Function Area |
| 05:30 to 06:15pm |
RESEARCH TALK
“Web Information Management: Past, Present and Future” Héctor García-Molina • Professor • Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering • Stanford University
Room 108 & 109 |
| 06:15 to 07:00pm |
RESEARCH TALK
“Software Productivity Tools: Past, Present and Future” Sriram Rajamani • Principal Researcher • Microsoft Research India
Room 108 & 109 |
| 08:00 to 11:00pm |
Welcome Reception & Dinner
Gamboa Grand Ballroom |
| Thursday, May 15 (Gamboa Rainforest Resort) |
| 09:00 to 12:30pm |
PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS |
| Time |
Research Track
Gamboa Grand Ballroom |
Curriculum Innovation Track Los Guayacanes |
e-Science Track
Camino de Cruces |
9:00 to 9:45am |
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
“Porsimples: Simplification of Portuguese texts for digital inclusion and accessibility”
Thiago Pardo • Professor • University of São Paulo (São Carlos) |
“Experiences teaching CS1 with Personal Robots (Help, my robots gone crazy!)”
Jay Summet • Post-Doctoral Fellow • Georgia Institute of Technology • Institute for Personal Robots in Education
(IPRE) |
“e-Science - opportunities for applied computing”
Dan Fay • Director Technical Computing Initiative • Microsoft Research
Roger Barga • Principal Architect • External Research • Microsoft Research
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9:45 to 10:30am |
“Cyberware Engineering: Interfacing Directly with Human Physiological Signals”
Desney Tan • Researcher • Microsoft Research |
“USC GamePipe Laboratory Research Directions in Games”
Michael Zyda • Director of the Game Pipe Laboratory • University of Southern California |
“Barcelona Supercomputing Center: Mission, Research Lines and Microsoft Collaboration”
Mateo Valero • Director • Barcelona Supercomputing Center |
10:30 to 11:00am |
REFRESHMENT BREAK |
11:00 to 11:45am |
“Human Computation”
Luis Von Ahn • Assistant Professor • Carnegie Mellon University |
“Collaborative Technologies for International Education”
Richard Anderson • Professor • University of Washington |
“Eco-informatics –
can a few sizes fit all?”
Catharine Van Ingen • Researcher • Microsoft Research |
11:45 to 12:30pm |
“Machine Translation and Natural Language Understanding”
Alex Acero • Research Area Manager • Microsoft Research |
“Cmaptools: From Meaningful Learning to a Worldwide Collaboration Network of Knowledge Builders”
Alberto Cañas • Associate Director • Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
(IHMC) |
“Microsoft Research Technical Computing in Latin America”
Fabrizio Gagliardi • EMEA & LATAM Director • Technical Computing Initiative • Microsoft Research
“High Performance Computing and Bioinformatics Networking:
Chile Reach Out”
David Holmes • Director
• Center for
Bioinformatics and Genome
Biology • Fundación
Ciencia para la Vida
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| 12:30 to 02:00pm |
LUNCH - Garden House |
| 02:00 to 03:00pm |
RESEARCH TALK - Gamboa Grand Ballroom
“Ensuring Microsoft’s future: An overview of Microsoft Research”
Rico Malvar • Distinguished Engineer and Managing Director • Microsoft Research Redmond |
| 03:00 to 04:00pm |
PLENARY PANEL SESSION -
Gamboa Grand Ballroom
Grand Challenges in Computer Science in Latin America
Panel Discussion:
Facilitator:
•
Jose Carlos Maldonado • President • Brazilian Computing Society • Brazil
Panelist Speakers:
• Benjamin Barán • President • Latin American Center of Studies in Informatics (CLEI) • Paraguay
• Virgilio Almeida • Professor • Federal University of Minas Gerais • Brazil
• Alfredo Sánchez • Professor • Universidad de las Américas Puebla • México
• Francisco W. Molina • Professor • Instituto Universitario Aeronáutico • Argentina |
| 04:00 to 4:15pm |
PLENARY TALK - Gamboa Grand Ballroom
“Brief overview about the City of Knowledge”
Jorge Arosemena • Executive Director • City of Knowledge Foundation |
| 05:00 to 10:00pm |
SOCIAL EVENT & DINNER - Panamá Canal – Miraflores Locks |
| Friday, May 16 (Gamboa Rainforest Resort) |
| 08:30 to 11:30am |
DEMOFEST (20 ONSITE RESEARCH DEMOS) -
Los Guayacanes |
| 11:30 to 12:00pm |
REFRESHMENT BREAK - Pre Function Area |
| 12:00 to 01:30pm |
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION -
Gamboa Grand Ballroom
Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research Federation (LACCIR)
Topic Introduction:
Jaime Puente • Senior Research Program Manager, External Research & Programs, Microsoft Research
Presentation:
• Ignacio Casas • Executive Director • LACCIR
• Tom Healy • Director • External Research & Programs, Microsoft Research
Principal Investigators (Winning Proposals)
• Luis A. Guerrero • Professor • Universidad de Chile, Chile: “A Digital Workbook Tool to Support Asynchronous Communication”
• Regina Motz • Professor • Universidad de La República, Uruguay: “JARDIN: Just and Assistant foR instructional DesIgN”
• Domingo Mery • Chair Department Computer Science • Catholic University of Chile, Chile: “Low Cost Computer Vision Systems for Quality Evaluation of Food Products in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)”
• Marcos Borges • Professor • Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : “Collaborating in Disaster Relief Efforts”
• Jesus Favela • Professor • Ensenada Center for Higher Education Scientific Research (CICESE), Mexico: “Smart Phones and Ambient Displays to Support Collaboration in Hospital Work” |
| 01:30 to 03:00pm |
FAREWELL LUNCH & CLOSING CEREMONY -
Las Tortugas Activity Center |
| 03:00pm |
THE EVENT ENDS |
