September 15, 2019 –
September 17, 2019
Microsoft Research AI Breakthroughs 2019
Location: Redmond, Washington, USA
Sunday, September 15
| Time (PDT) | Session |
| 6:00 PM–8:00 PM | Dinner Reception at the W Hotel Bellevue |
Monday, September 16
| Time (PDT) | Session |
| 8:30 AM–9:30 AM | Breakfast + meet your nominator |
| 9:30 AM–10:00 AM | Opening – Eric Horvitz |
| 10:00 AM–10:25 AM | Deep Learning at MSR-AI – Jianfeng Gao |
| 10:25 AM–10:50 AM | Principled Approaches to Robust Machine Learning – Jerry Li |
| 10:50 AM–11:15 AM | Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction – Saleema Amershi |
| 11:15 AM–11:40 AM | Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning and Procedural AI – Alex Polozov |
| 11:40 AM–12:05 PM | Multi-Device Digital Assistance – Rob Sim, Adam Fourney, and Elnaz Nouri (opens in new tab) |
| 12:05 PM–1:00 PM | Lunch provided |
| 1:00 PM–1:25 PM | New Frontiers in Reinforcement Learning – Patrick MacAlpine |
| 1:25 PM–1:50 PM | Foundations for Situated Integrative AI – Sean Andrist |
| 1:50 PM–2:15 PM | Information and Data Sciences at MSR-AI – Paul Bennett |
| 2:15 PM–2:40 PM | Language and Information Technologies at MSR-AI – Ahmed Awadallah |
| 2:40 PM–3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 PM–5:00 PM | Poster Session |
| 6:00 PM–9:00 PM | Space Needle Dinner |
Tuesday, September 17
| Time (PDT) | Session |
| 9:00 AM–2:00 PM | Group Sessions |
*Agenda subject to change