October 11, 2018
MSRNE 10th Anniversary Symposium
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Location: Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 11, 2018
| Time (PDT) | Session |
| 8:00 AM–9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM–9:15 AM | Introduction, Different Disciplines, Shared Vision Christian Borgs, Deputy Managing Director Microsoft Research New England |
| 9:15 AM–10:15 AM | Panel: The Usefulness of Long-Term Thinking (aka Theory)
Moderator: Robbert Dijkgraaf (opens in new tab), Director of Institute for Advanced Study
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| 10:15 AM–10:45 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 AM–11:45 AM | Panel: Frontiers of Machine Learning
Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown (opens in new tab), University of British Columbia
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| 11:45 AM–1:15 PM | Lunch |
| 1:15 PM–2:15 PM | Panel: Platform Society
Moderator: Ethan Zuckerman (opens in new tab), Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media
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| 2:15 PM–3:15 PM | Panel: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics
Moderator: Hanna Wallach, Microsoft Research New York City
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| 3:15 PM–3:45 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:45 PM–4:45 PM | Panel: The Future
Moderator: Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England
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| 4:45 PM–5:00 PM | Closing Remarks Jennifer Chayes, Technical Fellow and Managing Director of New England, New York City, and Montreal |
| 5:00 PM–7:00 PM | Reception |