Wayve<\/h2>\n
Wayve \u2013 <\/strong>a messaging device based on the idea of a digital sticky note<\/strong> Lecture Room 1<\/strong><\/p>\n weConnect is an online service that enables mobile and desktop users to connect via exclusive and personal media channels. A person can easily create a media mix<\/em> using images, text, and animations and broadcast the content to another person though a dedicated channel. The recipient can view the content live and retrospectively on the mobile or desktop. Connected with other services such as Amazon.com, weConnect enables users to compile a list of items they may like to purchase or recommend to others. As a research platform, weConnect enabled us to explore the effects of rich media broadcast among individuals in close relationships and social circles.<\/p>\n Recital Room<\/strong><\/p>\n SecondLight \u2013 Bringing User Interfaces into the real world<\/strong><\/p>\n SecondLight is a new surface-computing technology that can project images and detect gestures \u201cin mid-air\u201d above the display, in addition to supporting multi-touch interactions on the surface.<\/p>\n It works by using an electrically switchable liquid-crystal diffuser as the rear projection display surface. This material is continually toggled between diffuse and clear states, so quickly that the switching is imperceptible. When it is diffuse, the system behaves like a regular surface computer, but when clear, it is possible to project into and image the area above the display surface. This enables magical new forms of interaction in which the user interface is no longer bound to the display surface, but becomes part of the real world.<\/p>\n Lecture Room 1<\/strong><\/p>\n TellTable: Creative Storytelling on an Interactive Tabletop<\/strong> The system was deployed in a primary school, and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. Teachers were particularly enthusiastic about its potential as an educational tool; to help children develop communication skills, and to create interactive tutorials for teaching foreign languages.<\/p>\n Lecture Room 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Dragonfly is a set of electronic building blocks that allows you to quickly invent, design and build small computing devices, such as digital cameras or MP3 players. Different building blocks \u2013 which include things like buttons, sensors, connectors and displays \u2013 can be easily combined and programmed using the C# programming language.<\/p>\n Lecture Room 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Time Card \u2013 <\/strong>providing a navigable digital record of the past that can be crafted into a lasting memorial or epitaph of our own or others\u2019 lives. Lecture Room 1<\/strong><\/p>\n If you have ever wanted to make your own video games, Microsoft\u00ae XNA\u2122 Game Studio is for you. Anybody can create and share great games with XNA Game Studio \u2013 and even play them on your Xbox 360!<\/p>\n Recital Room<\/strong><\/p>\n TrueSkill is a Bayesian rating and matchmaking system specifically designed to work in the world of online multi-player video games and Xbox Live. TrueSkill receives match outcomes of online games and estimates the skills of the players involved to enable skill based matchmaking for challenging and fair matches. The demo shows TrueSkill at work in the blockbuster title Halo 3 including game mode selection, skill display and histogram, matchmaking process, and game outcome. The demo is highly interactive and compelling because it demonstrates TrueSkill in the real world of online gaming and in conjunction with one of the most successful titles in history.<\/p>\n Recital Room<\/strong><\/p>\n The demo Codename Oxygen (oX) \u2013 is a mobile phone program to exchange pictures, videos, music, texts and files when phones pass nearby each other but don\u2019t always have a good or fast connection to the Internet. Ox uses awareness of your social network to intelligently exchange files that you or your friends are interested in whilst trying to balance downloading and uploading files in a timely fashion. Our example application is photo sharing within Facebook\u2122 but it is equally applicable to music sharing or blogging.<\/p>\n Recital Room<\/strong><\/p>\n Mix-ups involving units-of-measure can have disastrous consequences: ten years ago a NASA spacecraft crashed into the surface of the planet Mars because of a confusion between pounds and newtons. Microsoft\u2019s new programming language F# makes life easier by detecting unit errors before disaster strikes!<\/p>\n Recital Room<\/strong><\/p>\n Proving that programs eventually do something good Recital Room<\/strong><\/p>\n Connect with AI is an interactive demo that can autonomously play a game of Connect4 against a human opponent. At its heart is a vision (camera) processing algorithm to sense the state of the game and an Artificial Intelligence based reasoning engine (using alpha-beta pruning with multi-step look ahead) that decides on the next best move. Crucially, a 5-DOF robotic arm is programmed to implement the machine\u2019s moves, i.e., to reach for the piece and place it in the right slot as dictated by the AI. Come and try your mettle against it!<\/p>\n Recital Room<\/strong><\/p>\n The carbon emissions that humans have already emitted, have already affected global climate. But to head off dangerous future climate change, we need to predict future global CO2 concentrations under different \u2018scenarios\u2019 (e.g. business-as-usual, where humans carry on regardless), then predict the impact of these CO2 levels on future climate. At Microsoft Research Cambridge, we have just built a new simulation model that makes these kinds of predictions. Come and see the model, and hear about how we built it.<\/p>\n Recital Room<\/strong><\/p>\n Learn some clever conjuring tricks and try to work out how they are done. Then discover how the same techniques that make the \u2018magic\u2019 work are responsible for some of the most interesting computer science applications around.<\/p>\n Recital Room<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n 09.15 Registration Please note: <\/strong>The Think Computer Science conference starts promptly at 9.45, any late arrivals will be granted access to the concert hall at the discretion of the conference organisers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n West Road has cloakroom facilities to store coats. However, we advise that Microsoft Research Cambridge and West Road Concert Hall cannot accept responsibility for any lost or stolen personal possessions and ask that no valuables are left unattended at any time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There is no onsite parking at West Road Concert Hall. There are parking spaces near the venue. A parking voucher system is in operation. Please contact the event organiser for more details or to confirm your space. <\/p>\n Click here (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> for directions to West Road, based on different types of transportation<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No photos to be taken.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please complete your attendee form with the final names of your entire group and return to i-sarah@microsoft.com<\/a> by Monday 23rd November.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please complete your photographic release form and return to i-sarah@microsoft.com<\/a> by Monday 23rd November. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Casual<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Managing Director <\/strong><\/p>\n Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n Andrew Herbert is a distinguished engineer and managing director of Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Initially joining Microsoft Research in 2001, as an assistant director, in March 2003 he succeeded the founding director, Roger Needham. Herbert\u2019s research interests include networks, operating systems, programming languages and distributed information sharing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chief Research Scientist<\/strong><\/p>\n Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n Chris Bishop is Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where he helps with the strategic direction and planning for the lab and jointly leads the Machine Learning and Perception Group. His research interests include probabilistic approaches to machine learning, as well as their application to fields such as biomedical sciences and healthcare.He is also a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Researcher<\/strong><\/p>\n Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n Si\u00e2n is a post-doc researcher in the Socio-Digital Systems group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. She has a background in the fields of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction, and is interested in exploring the ways in which people use and wish to use technology. More specifically, she has undertaken fieldwork to examine the ways in which prototypes, including new communication devices and cameras, are used and appropriated in everyday life, with the aim of better understanding how technology can be designed to support expression, creativity and reflection.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n IPAB, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n Sethu Vijayakumar is the Director of the Institute for Perception, Action and Behavior (IPAB) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Since August 2007, he holds a Senior Research Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, co-funded by Microsoft Research in Learning Robotics. He also holds additional appointments as an Adjunct Faculty of the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles and as a Visiting Research Scientist at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan. His research interest spans a broad interdisciplinary curriculum involving basic research in the fields of statistical machine learning, robotics, human motor control, Bayesian inference techniques and computational neuroscience. Prof. Vijayakumar has pioneered the use of large scale machine learning techniques for adaptation and learning control of large degree of freedom anthropomorphic robotic systems including the SARCOS humanoid, ASIMO, KUKA robot arm and Nao mini-humanoids.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Researcher<\/strong><\/p>\n Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n In October 2002 Antonio Criminisi joined the Machine Learning and Perception group (MLP) at Microsoft Research in Cambridge as a Researcher. Antonio\u2019s current research interests include; image-based modelling of spaces, image and video analysis and editing; one-to-one teleconferencing; 3D reconstruction from images with application to virtual reality; forensic science; image-based rendering and history of art.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Research Scientist<\/strong><\/p>\n Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n Drew Purves is a permanent research scientist in the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group (CEES), a part of the Computational Science Lab at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Within CEES, he leads the Plant Ecology research unit and leads some of the work in the Spatial Ecology and Biogeography research unit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\nWayve supports creative and playful messaging amongst users ranging from young children to grandparents. Messages can be created by typing, scribbling, or taking photos. These can be sent to mobile phones, PCs, or other Wayves. In a field trial of UK households, Wayve\u00ad-to-Wayve messaging was found to dominate use, with remote family members connecting with one another by scribbling on photos, playing simple games and drawing each other pictures.<\/p>\n
\nweConnect<\/h2>\n
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\n<\/div>\nTellTable<\/h2>\n
\nTellTable builds on Microsoft Surface to provide an interactive storytelling experience, similar to how children tell stories using physical toys. Children can create any digital characters and scenarios they think of, by taking photos of real world objects, people, and environments, or by finger painting. Using multi-touch gestures to manipulate these, children can act, narrate, and record imaginative stories together, and replay the stories later to share with their friends.<\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\nDragonfly<\/h2>\n
\n<\/div>\nTime Card<\/h2>\n
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\nTime Card is a device for the home designed to display a digital record, akin to a time line, of a single person\u2019s activities, that incorporates digital media of a variety of types and which puts that record in an appropriate context. The data stream can be navigated and sorted in various ways that highlight different renderings of a person\u2019s past. Time Cards are network enabled devices, the size of smart-phones, designed to be a \u2018mantle-piece\u2019 device and are interacted with through touch sensitive screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\nThe X Factor: building games for the Xbox 360
\nwith XNA?<\/h2>\n
\n<\/div>\nTrueSkill in Halo 3<\/h2>\n
\n<\/div>\nMobile Content Casting and Social Exchange: Codename Oxygen (oX)<\/h2>\n
\n<\/div>\nCheck your units!<\/h2>\n
\n<\/div>\nProving that programs eventually do something good<\/h2>\n
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\nWe will demo two tools that automatically check that software cannot hang or crash: SLAyer proves memory safety of programs that manually manipulate pointers over data structures like cyclic doubly linked lists; TERMINATOR is a termination checker.
\nThese tools are advanced prototypes and are intended to be run on industrial software components (like Windows device drivers) of 10,000s of lines of code.<\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\nConnect with AI<\/h2>\n
\n<\/div>\nA new model of the global carbon-climate system<\/h2>\n
\n<\/div>\nThe magic of computer science<\/h2>\n
Important Dates<\/h2>\n
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Agenda<\/h2>\n
\n09.45 Welcome & Introduction \u2013 Andrew Herbert
\n10.05 Presentation 1 \u2013 Chris Bishop
\n10.45 Presentation 2 \u2013 Sian Lindley
\n11.15 Break
\n11.45 Presentation 3 \u2013 Sethu Vijayakumar
\n12.15 Presentation 4 \u2013 Antonio Criminisi
\n12:45 Presentation 5 \u2013 Drew Purves
\n13.15 Lunch (Buffet)\/Demos\/Competition
\n14.45 Panel Q&A \u2013 Hosted by Andrew Herbert
\n15.15 Closing Comments \u2013 Andrew Herbert
\n15.30 Competition Winner \u2013 Presented by Andrew Herbert
\n15.45 Ends<\/p>\nPersonal Possessions<\/h2>\n
Parking Arrangements<\/h2>\n
\nPlease note: <\/strong>All vehicles are parked at their owners\u2019 risk. <\/strong><\/p>\nDirections<\/h2>\n
Photography<\/h2>\n
Attendee Forms<\/h2>\n
Photographic Release Forms<\/h2>\n
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Dress Code<\/h2>\n
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