Wednesday, May 13 – Friday, May 15, 2009.
Sofitel Hotel - La Reserva Cardales.
Cardales, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 |
Throughout the day |
Arrival of International Attendees and Speakers |
11:00 - 19:00 |
Welcome and Registration |
Lobby |
16:00 - 19:00 |
LACCIR Joint Steering Committee Meeting (By invitation only) | Louis Pasteur |
20:00 - 22:00 |
Group Dinner | La Butaca |
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - Research Track |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Welcoming words
Welcoming Words
Sandra Yacheline • General Manager • Microsoft Argentina |
Bernardo Houssay I |
10:30 - 11:30 |
KEYNOTE
PRESENTATION
“Data Intensive Research: The Fourth
Paradigm”
Tony
Hey
- Corporate Vicepresident - External
Research - Microsoft Research |
Bernardo Houssay I |
11:30 - 12:00 |
REFRESHMENT BREAK
(Transition time before the arrival of government authorities) | Foyer Bernardo
Houssay I & II |
12:00 - 12:45 |
opening ceremony
Event Opening Presentations:
H.E. Daniel Scioli • Governor • Province of Buenos Aires • Argentina
Tony Hey • Corporate Vice President • External Research • Microsoft Research
Sandra Yachelini • General Manager • Microsoft Argentina
H. E. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner • President • Argentina
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Bernardo Houssay I |
12:45 - 13:15 |
Group Photo |
Pool Area |
13:15 - 14:30 |
Lunch |
La Butaca / Bernabé |
14:30 - 15:30 |
Keynote Panel Session
"Science, Technology and Innovation as drivers for social and economical development in Argentina and Latin America"
Panel Discussion:
Facilitator:
Daron Green • Senior Director • External Research – Microsoft Research
Panelist Speakers:
• Alejandro Ceccatto • Vice Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation • Argentina (TBC)
• Faustino Siñeriz • Vice President of Technical Affairs • National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) • Argentina
• Jorge Aliaga • Dean • Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences • University of Buenos Aires • Argentina
• Flora Montealegre Painter • Chief, Division of Science and Technology • Inter American Development Bank • USA (TBC)
• Clovis Baptista • Director of Science and Technology • Organization of American States • USA |
Bernardo Houssay I |
15:30 - 16:30 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
“Innovation Policies in the Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation”
Lino Barañao, Ph.D • Minister of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation • Argentina
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Bernardo Houssay I |
16:30 - 17:00 |
Refreshment break |
Foyer Bernardo
Houssay I & II |
17:00 - 18:00 |
RESEARCH TALK
“Computer Security: From Art to Science (and Back)”
Martin Abadi – Principal Researcher – Microsoft Research
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Bernardo Houssay I |
18:00 - 19:00 |
RESEARCH TALK
“Visualization Research at Microsoft”
George Robertson • Principal Researcher • Microsoft Research
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Bernardo Houssay I |
21:00 - 21:30 |
Reception |
Foyer Bernardo
Houssay I & II |
21:30 - 23:00 |
DinnER/SHOW |
Bernardo Houssay I & II |
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Thursday, 14 May, 2009 |
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Parallel Track Sessions |
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Research Track |
Curriculum Innovation Track |
e-Science Track |
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Bernardo Houssay I
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Luis Leloir I |
Luis Leloir III
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9:00 - 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 (UNICAMP) • Brazil
"JAM Session – A Descentralized Architecture for Specialized Virtual Worlds and the Web 3.0"
Flavio Soares Correa da Silva • Professor • Universidade de São Paulo • Brazil
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"Introducing Computing with Personal Robots"
Keith O’Hara • PhD Candidate • School of Interactive Computing • Georgia Institute of Technology • USA
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 • USA |
10:00 - 11:00 |
"New Tools for Enabling Collaborative Web Search"
Merrie Ringel Morris • Researcher • Microsoft Research
More information about Merrie here
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"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"
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"The Health and Wellbeing Initiative in Microsoft External Research"
Daron Green • Senior Director • 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 - 11:30 |
Refreshment Break (Pre Function Area) |
11:30 - 12:30 |
"Partial Behaviour Modelling of Software Intensive Systems”"
Sebastian Uchitel • Assistant Professor • University of Buenos Aires • Argentina |
"Active Learning Using Tablet PCs"
Joseph Tront • Professor • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering • Virginia Tech • USA
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"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
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12:30 - 13:30 |
"Tools for Researchers: The Scholarly Communication Lifecycle"
Alex Wade • Senior Research Program Manager • 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 • 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
“WWT and the Argentinean Virtual Observatory”
Guillermo Bosch • Researcher • School of Astronomy and Geophysics • University of La Plata • Argentina |
13:30 - 15:00 |
Lunch |
La Butaca / Bernabé |
15:00 - 16:00 |
RESEARCH TALK
"Ensuring Microsoft’s future: An overview of Microsoft Research”
Alex Acero • Research Area Manager • Microsoft Research |
Bernardo Houssay I |
16:00 - 17:00 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
“The Uses of Computers: What is Past is Merely Prologue”
Butler W. Lampson • Technical Fellow • Microsoft Research
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Bernardo Houssay I |
17:00 - 18:00 |
Free Time |
18:00 - 18.30 |
ASSEMBLE FOR DEPARTURE TO THE SOCIAL EVENT | Hotel Lobby |
18:30 - 23.00 |
SOCIAL EVENT & DINNER SHOW | La Rural - Tango Palace |
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Friday, 15 May, 2009 - DemoFest and Closing Talks
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8:30 – 11:30 |
DEMOFEST (ONSITE RESEARCH DEMOS) |
Luis Leloir I & II & III |
10:30 - 11.00
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Refreshment Break |
Foyer Luis Leloir I & II & III |
12:00 - 13:30 |
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION
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 • Professor • 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" |
Bernardo Houssay I |
13:30 - 15:00 |
Farewell Lunch & Closing Ceremony |
La Butaca / Bernabé |
15:00 |
THE EVENT ENDS |
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