Faculty Summit 2017
July 17, 2017 – July 18, 2017

Faculty Summit 2017: The Edge of AI

Location: Redmond, WA

Sunday, July 16

Time (PDT) Session
4:00 PM–7:00 PM
Welcome Reception and Registration Desk Open

Monday, July 17

Time (PDT) Session Speaker
7:30 AM–8:30 AM
Breakfast
8:30 AM–8:40 AM
Welcome
Christopher Bishop, Microsoft
Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft
8:40 AM–9:10 AM
AI in the Open World
[Full Video]
Chair: Christopher Bishop, Microsoft
Speaker:
  • Eric Horvitz, Microsoft
9:10 AM–10:10 AM
Smart Enough to Work With Us? Foundations and Challenges for Teamwork-Enabled AI Systems
[Full Video]
Chair: Susan Dumais, Microsoft
Speaker:
  • Barbara Grosz, Harvard University
10:10 AM–10:40 AM
Technology Showcase – Lightning Round
 Chair: Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft
10:40 AM–11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM–12:30 PM
 Machine Reading Using Neural Machines
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Isabelle Augenstein, University College London
  • Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft
  • Percy Liang, Stanford University
  • Rangan Majumder, Microsoft
Integrative-AI
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Sean Andrist, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Dan Bohus, Microsoft
  • Ece Kamar, Microsoft
  • Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University
AI for Accessibility: Augmenting Sensory Capabilities with Intelligent Technology
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Shaun Kane, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Walter Lasecki, University of Michigan
12:30 PM–1:15 PM
Lunch
1:15 PM–3:15 PM
Technology Showcase
 Chair: Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft
3:15 PM–4:45 PM Conversational Systems in the Era of Deep Learning and Big Data
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Bill Dolan, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, McGill University
  • Michel Galley, Microsoft
  • Ian Lane, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Alan Ritter, Ohio State University
  • Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft
  • Jason Williams, Microsoft
From Visual Sensing to Visual Intelligence
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Gang Hua, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland
  • Katsu Ikeuchi, Microsoft
  • Song-Chun Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles
Learnings from Human Perception
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Olaf Blanke, Ecole Polytechnqiue de Lausanne
  • Mel Slater, University of Barcelona
  • Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Universidad Loyola Andalucía & University College London
5:00 PM–5:45 PM
 Fireside Chat
[Full Video]
Chair: Sandy Blyth, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Christopher Bishop, Microsoft
  • Harry Shum, Microsoft
5:45 PM–6:30 PM
 Travel to Dinner
 
6:30 PM–9:00 PM Dinner at The Golf Club at Newcastle
 

Tuesday, July 18

Time (PDT) Session Speaker
7:30 AM–8:30 AM
Breakfast
8:30 AM–9:30 AM The Interplay of Agent and Market Design
[Full Video]
Chair: Kori Inkpen, Microsoft
Speaker:
  • Amy Greenwald, Brown University
9:45 AM–11:15 AM
 Provable Algorithms for ML/AI Problems
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Prateek Jain, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Sham Kakade, University of Washington
  • Ravi Kannan, Microsoft
  • Santosh Vempala, Georgia Institute of Technology
Private AI
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Rich Caruana, Microsoft
  • JungHee Cheon, Seoul National University
  • Kristin Lauter, Microsoft
AI for Earth
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Lucas Joppa, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Carla Gomes, Cornell University
  • Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
11:30 AM–1:00 PM Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) for Deep Learning
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Chris Basoglu, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Sayan Pathak, Microsoft
  • Yanmin Qian, Shanghai Jiaotong University
  • Cha Zhang, Microsoft
AI and Security
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: David Molnar, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley
  • Michael Walker, Microsoft
Social and Emotional Intelligence in AI and Agents
[Full Video]
Moderator: Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft
Panelists:
  • Justine Cassell, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
  • Daniel McDuff, Microsoft
  • Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM–3:30 PM Transforming Machine Learning and Optimization through Quantum Computing
[Video Abstract | Full Video]
Chair: Krysta Svore, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Helmut Katzgraber, Texas A&M
  • Matthias Troyer, Microsoft
  • Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft
Challenges and Opportunities in Human-Machine Partnership
[Full Video]
Chair: Ece Kamar, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Eric Horvitz, Microsoft
  • Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University
  • Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
Towards Socio-Culturally Aware AI
[Video Abstract]
Chair: Kalika Bali, Microsoft
Speakers:
  • Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cornell University
  • Daniel McDuff, Microsoft
  • Christopher Potts, Stanford University
3:45 PM–4:45 PM AI, People, and Society
[Full Video]
Moderator: Eric Horvitz, Microsoft
Panelists:
  • Solon Barocas, Microsoft
  • Carla Gomes, Cornell University
  • Percy Liang, Stanford University
  • Gireeja Ranade, Microsoft
4:45 PM–5:45 PM Model-Based Machine Learning
[Full Video]
Chair: Eric Horvitz, Microsoft
Speaker:
  • Christopher Bishop, Microsoft
5:45 PM–6:00 PM Closing Remarks
Speakers:
  • Christopher Bishop, Microsoft
  • Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft
  • Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft