This panel of distinguished researchers has focused on computer-mediated, collective action-systems where many people come together and interact through computers. Each has been researching and teaching network science in general and social network science in particular. This panel will focus on the concepts, methods, and Internet services that enable social networks have had an impact in their classrooms and research.
This session will provide an overview of the research agenda in computer science in some Latin American countries, and a brief background about the organization and infrastructure of existing regional cooperation programs. Universities in the Latin America and Caribbean region are well positioned to become strategic partners in national innovation systems and strongly contribute to economic and social development.
During this session, projects conducted by academic researchers in specific countries in Latin America will be discussed as examples of research success stories from this emerging region. Based on the Theories of Meaningful Learning and Education of Ausubel and Novak, we have developed software tools that allow users to collaborate in the construction of shared knowledge models based on concept maps.
These tools are used worldwide by users of all disciplines and ages, from elementary school students to NASA scientists. The increasingly global economy calls for continuous access to information in a flexible and robust way through services that come up as a new paradigm for programming and organizing operations. At the same time, the emergence of ubiquitous computing introduces wireless and portable technologies that democratize access to information and services and thereby opens new research challenges for querying techniques that can cope with this novel dynamic execution environment.
Research on query processing is still promising given the explosion of huge amounts of data largely distributed and produced by different means sensors, devices, networks, analysis processes , and the requirements to query them to have the right information, at the right place, at the right moment. This challenge implies composing services available in dynamic environments and integrating this notion into query processing techniques.
This talk will discuss the challenges of modern data and services intensive systems deployed on networks of heterogeneous devices, the so called ecosystem or dataspaces. How Can Microsoft Help Geneticists? Human geneticists face problems that require each time more robust computer support and science such as: building up genealogies with hundreds of members and linking them up using a friendly system; improving micro arrays analysis; organizing the gigantic amount of data that will be progressively generated by the human genome.
Some examples will be given during the talk opening the way for questions and suggestions. As the SensorMap RFP projects complete their work, we have invited a panel of researchers from some of these projects and others to discuss their experiences.
Presentation: Feng Zhao, Introduction. Presentation: Sebastian Michel, Environmental Monitoring 2. Over the past ten years, increased access to computing resources and expanded connectivity have contributed to greater opportunity for more people to participate in the information communication technology ICT ecosystem as users, creators, or both than ever before.
During this time, both open source software OSS communities and Microsoft have made significant contributions and experienced substantial growth. Sam Ramji leads a cross-disciplinary, cross-company community establishing practices to foster constructive and complementary relationships between Microsoft and OSS. He received his Ph. He has been an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, where he founded the Software Predictability Group until He has worked in a variety of roles, from individual contributor to strategist; at present the bulk of his time is devoted to Photosynth.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas has a broad background in computer science and applied math, and he has been writing software for more than 20 years, with special emphasis on scientific computing, data analysis, machine learning, and graphics. He graduated from Princeton University with a B. His advisor, Ingrid Daubechies, known as one of the inventors of wavelets, periodically asks when he plans to hand in the thesis. His experience includes independent research, consulting, and freelance software design in a variety of areas, including computational neuroscience, computational drug design, data compression, and others.
During , he was senior software engineer at Real-Time Geometry, which was purchased by MetaTools later Viewpoint. While at RTG and MetaTools, he authored patents on multiresolution 3D visualization and techniques for video compression and internet transmission using Trixels TM , as well as playing a leading role in developing streaming and multiresolution 2D and 3D technologies and contributing to the hardware and software design of a 3D laser scanner.
In , he received worldwide press coverage for his discovery, using computational methods, of the printing technology used by Johann Gutenberg, considered the inventor of printing from movable type in the West. Bora Beran is a postdoctoral researcher in the eScience group at Microsoft Research. He holds a Ph.
His research interests include Geographical Information Systems GIS , knowledge representation, data mining and their use in geosciences. Her current research focuses on distributed stream processing and sensor data management. Magda holds a Ph. His current research agenda is focused on situated natural language interactive systems.
More specifically, some of areas of interest are: conversational scene analysis and multi-modal sensor fusion, engagement models, mixed-initiative and multi-participant interaction, lifelong learning and adaptation.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Dan obtained his Ph. Alberto J. He co-Founded the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, in Pensacola, Florida, a research center dedicated to investigating human-centered computing and where he has led the development of CmapTools, a knowledge modeling and sharing program that is in use in hundreds of countries throughout the world.
He has published extensively and has been a guest speaker at conferences throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Bill received his Ph. At Stanford, he worked on light field modeling, appearance capture, and projector-camera systems.
In Virtual Earth, Bill is currently working on semi-automatic techniques for camera calibration and modeling, and novel input devices for navigation. Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in communities. Specifically, his research team is developing and testing theories and methods of network science to map, understand and enable more effective networks in a wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, science and engineering communities, disaster response teams, public health networks, digital media and learning networks, and in virtual worlds, such as Second Life.
His research program has been funded continuously for over a decade by major grants from the U. National Science Foundation with additional funding from the U. Professor Contractor holds a Ph. He was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for twenty years prior to joining Northwestern in Her focus at ER is the assessment of learning in post-secondary classrooms in which computer science and computational sciences play a key role.
A specialist in higher education her Ph. Dirks holds an M. Preservation Resources , Dirks held a variety of roles at Microsoft since joining the company in , namely as the corporate archivist, then corporate librarian, and as a senior manager in the corporate market research organization. Dirks was presented with the Microsoft Marketing Excellence Award for his work on a marketing and engineering partnership around a breakthrough market opportunity analysis process, which is now a standard operating procedure across Microsoft.
His research interests lie in the areas of semantic data integration, Web services, and multiagent decision making. His research is supported by grants from NIH, Microsoft as well as internal seed grants, and outcomes of his research have appeared in several prestigious conferences and journals. Joe Duffy is the development lead for the Parallel Extensions to the. In addition to leading a team of developers, he spends a sizeable chunk of his time on long-term vision and strategy.
Some specific pet projects include type system support for concurrency safety and abstractions for programming GPUs and SIMD-style processors. Prior to Microsoft, he had 7 years of professional programming experience, including 4 years at Massachusetts-based EMC. He just finished his second book, Concurrent Programming on Windows Addison-Wesley , which will be available in late-Summer While not indulging in geeky excursions, Joe spends his time playing guitar, studying music theory, and listening to and writing music of all kinds.
Edward W. His research interests include computer security and privacy, especially relating to media and consumer products; and technology law and policy. He has published about eighty papers in the research literature, and two books. His research on topics such as Web security, copyright and copy protection, and electronic voting has been covered extensively in the popular press.
His Weblog, at freedom-to-tinker. He was the lead computer science expert witness for the Department of Justice in the Microsoft antitrust case, and he has testified in other important lawsuits.
He has testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on digital television technology and regulation, and before the House Administration Committee on electronic voting. In , Scientific American magazine named him to its list of fifty worldwide science and technology leaders. He is also science director for the Indiana Pervasive Technology Labs. From to , he was on the faculty at Purdue University.
His research interests include software tools for high performance parallel and distributed systems and problem solving environments for scientific computation. His current work includes the design of software component architectures for multi-core and distributed systems and web service architectures for e-Science Grid Portals. Lise Getoor received her Ph. She is co-editor of the book, An Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning, and has published many articles in machine learning, data mining, reasoning under uncertainty, databases and information visualization.
Her current research interests include statistical and visual analysis of graph and network data. Paul Ginsparg received a B. He has authored papers in quantum field theory, string theory, conformal field theory, and quantum gravity. In , he started the e-print archives now arXiv. He has served on many committees, including the U. In , he received the P. He went on to do post doctoral research in simulation of polymer and protein folding , UCD.
This naturally led to application porting and optimization for large-scale parallel and distributed computing in a range of application domains including computational chemistry molecular dynamics and quantum mechanical codes , radiography, CFD and FE.
Research Councils and U. Defense clients, he also led detailed investigations into the maturity and adoption for European HPC Software tools published. From there Dr. As well as this, as Director for Global Sector propositions he led the strategy and business design activities across a range of business areas including healthcare, security, public sector engagement, energy management, and sustainability published.
Previously, he was a senior researcher at the Intel Research Lab in Berkeley. Carlos received his M. His research interests are in learning sciences and technologies especially computer-supported collaborative learning and computing education research. He is the developer of the Media Computation approach to introductory computing, and with his collaborator, Barbara Ericson, he has written three textbooks supporting the approach.
Guzdial has a joint Ph. Before starting his Ph. He is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is the first computer scientist to serve on the board of reviewing editors for Science. Eric Horvitz is a principal researcher and research area manager at Microsoft Research. His interests span challenges in machine reasoning and learning, search and information retrieval, and human-computer interaction.
More information can be found here. Prior to joining Microsoft Corporation, Harold served as director and general manager in divisions of Acrowood Corporation, and he worked in research groups in Systems Control, Inc. He earned his B. His research interests are centered around interactive machine learning and computer vision with applications in user modeling and human-computer interaction scenarios. His current research is focused on systems that often involve humans in the loop and have the ability to adapt and learn over long periods of time.
His previous work focused on building new multi-modal machine learning algorithms for affect recognition in real life settings. A significant part of the research involved automatic analysis of non-verbal behavior and physiological responses and contributed to building an automatic learning companion that could recognize affective states of interest and boredom in users and respond appropriately.
Stephen T. Kerr is a professor of education in the College of Education at the University of Washington; his appointments are in the Program in Educational Communication and Technology and the Program in Learning Sciences. He received his A. He also chaired university committees dealing with educational technology and distance education. His research focuses on the ways new technologies shape and support the professional activity of teachers and other educators.
He edited the NSSE yearbook on Technology and the Future of Schooling , and has written widely on educational technology, human-computer interaction, instructional design, and the emergence of a new technologically enhanced educational system in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Joseph A. Konstan is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research addresses a variety of human-computer interaction issues, including personalization particularly through recommender systems , eliciting participation in on-line communities, and designing computer systems to improve public health. He is probably best known for his work in collaborative filtering recommenders the GroupLens project , and for his work in online HIV prevention.
Konstan received his Ph. Konstan is an active consultant who has worked for more than 15 companies on issues related to human-computer interaction, personalization, and general software issues. He has traveled and lectured extensively, giving over talks in more than 25 countries worldwide.
Elizabeth Lane Lawley is the director of the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she is also an associate professor of information technology.
Her current teaching and research interests focus on social computing technologies such as weblogs, wikis, virtual worlds, and collaborative information retrieval. She also conducts research and speaks on the topic of gender imbalances in technology and education.
In the early s, she worked as a Government and Law Bibliographer at the Library of Congress and then as manager of customer support for Congressional Information Service. She received her doctorate in Information Science from the University of Alabama in During the academic year, Professor Lawley took a one-year sabbatical from R.
An active blogger, Liz maintains a personal blog at mamamusings. Mark Lewin is a program manager in the External Research group of Microsoft Research, focusing on programming languages, compilers, virtual machines, operating systems, and scalable manycore computing. Mark is working with the Singularity and Bartok research teams to support academic research in these areas, and with the Common Language Runtime team on adding special runtime support for dynamic languages targeting the CLR.
She is now the director of the CG group of the Animation school. Two years ago at a Microsoft Research Asia gaming and graphics event, she demonstrated a new concept for games animating Chinese paintings.
Professor Sun Li has won many awards for game design and film. Her research interests are focused on wireless sensor networks, distributed embedded systems, and disruption tolerant networks. She got her Ph. Michel is part of the Swiss Experiment initiative , a collaboration of environmental science and technology research projects.
His research is focused on various aspects in distributed data management and information retrieval, in particular on Peer-to-Peer information systems, sensor networks, and Web 2.
He published a variety of papers on Peer-to-Peer information retrieval, distributed top-k aggregation queries, similarity search in high dimensions, semantic overlay networks, distributed ranking and statistics computation, and social search and other aspects of Web 2.
He regularly serves as reviewer for international journals and conferences. See here for more information about ongoing research and projects. Natasa Milic-Frayling is a researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, working on technology development and prototype design of advanced information management systems. Most of her recent work has been in information persistence, organization, and access in the Web environment.
There she served as Director of Research. Natasa has published and presented her work in Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, and Web related conferences.
In collaboration with her fellow researchers, she has organized a number of Workshops that attracted experts in text mining, information retrieval, natural language processing, and related areas of research. Her published and on-going work spans a range of topics from algorithm design to complete prototype system development and usability studies, reflecting her versatile interest. Natasa obtained her B. His research has ranged widely within artificial intelligence, natural-language processing, and computational linguistics.
His current work focuses on applications of machine learning and statistical modeling to natural-language processing, particularly in the context of machine translation. Moore received his Ph. Peter Murray-Rust is a contemporary chemist born in Guildford in He was educated at Bootham School and Balliol College. After obtaining a D. Phil, he became lecturer in chemistry at the new University of Stirling and was first warden of Andrew Stewart Hall of Residence.
His interests have involved the automated analysis of data in scientific publications, creation of virtual communities e. With Henry Rzepa, he has extended this to chemistry through the development of Markup languages, especially Chemical Markup Language. John got his start with computers earning money to pay for his philosophy degree at Northeastern University.
Drawing on his experience in India, John helped foster the new Microsoft Research lab in Banglore, India and now focuses on CS curriculum enhancement including using gaming themes and technologies.
John also works with Kent Foster on the annual Academic Days with Gaming and the related call for papers. John has presented internationally US, Holland, Mexico, Chile, and China for the last few years on the potential of gaming to enhance CS and the ethics of game design. Eyal is also an affiliated member of the Visual Computing Group. Before joining Microsoft, Eyal was a member of many start-up companies including 2 companies founded by him.
His last position was managing the software R D at 3DV Systems LTD, developing real time depth cameras and their applications for areas such as TV broadcasting, special effects, and 3D environment reconstruction. His research interests are mainly in Computer vision, IBR, and rendering areas. He held a visiting lecture position at the school of computer science, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia, Israel.
Eyal received his Ph. Eyal has also a background as a book cover illustrator and a comics strip artist. Savas Parastatidis is an architect in Microsoft Research. He investigates the use of technology in eResearch and is particularly interested in Cloud Computing, knowledge representation and management, and social networking. Savas enjoys blogging here. His research interests include graphics, animation, user interfaces, science education, and multimedia. He has also been a featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Perlin received his Ph. Prior to that he was the system architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. He received a doctoral degree from Freie University Berlin, Germany, in and a habilitation degree from Humboldt University Berlin in , both in computer science.
His habilitation thesis investigates Predictable Computing in Multicomputer-Systems. At HPI, his current teaching activities focus on architectures of operating systems, on component-based middleware, as well as on predictable distributed computing. Polze organizes the Net. Andreas Polze has co- authored more than 50 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings.
He has contributed to five books. Polze has acted as work component leader and member of scientific board in the 6th framework European Integration project Adaptive Services Grid.
Before joining Microsoft in , she was a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia for 11 years. She also spent two years as a program manager at National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education.
His favorite subjects to teach were Computer Networking and Microprocessors. While it was difficult to leave academia to join the Industry, Jaime feels that he is still involved with the academic world through his work in External Research.
He works closely with faculty and graduate students to create greater opportunities for them to pursue research. In addition, Jaime spent five years at various managing-level positions in the banking industry in Ecuador as Telecommunications and Information Technology Manager. This work kept him engaged with leading technology on a very personal level creating greater integration for the banks and the customers. Jaime Puente was a Fulbright Scholar for his early engagement with Academia.
It was during his time as a Fulbright Scholar that he started to lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields exploring how academia and industry needs intersect. Jaime is currently pursuing a Ph. Sam Ramji directs the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft doing primary research on various open source projects, and driving interoperability between Microsoft and key open source technologies. Sam has led engineering teams building large-scale applications on Open Source software at Ofoto.
Prior to his current role at Microsoft, Sam was a director of Emerging Business working on the Silicon Valley Campus where he managed relationships with Venture Capitalists and entrepreneurs. Daniel A. He recently chaired a review of the federal networking and IT research portfolio, and he is chair of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association. He was also one of the founding principal investigators and the chief architect for the NSF TeraGrid.
Prior to joining Microsoft in , Arkady served for a decade as a researcher, faculty member and Professor in several universities, mostly in the U. He taught and researched a variety of subjects in computing and engineering. Arkady established and directed the Virtual Construction Simulation Research group at the University of Strathclyde, pioneering research in advanced visualization and VR.
He holds a D. In , Lucy was awarded the Bell Labs Fellow Award, the highest technical accomplishment bestowed at the company, and she has six patents in the communications technology area. Lucy received her B. She received her Ph. Her research interests are in operating systems, mobile computing, and sensor networks.
She is married with a grown-up son and two dogs. Alexander Schmidt studied computer science at the Chemnitz University of Technology where he graduated and received his diploma.
His main research focus on the area of monitoring applications in the operating system context as well as operating system support for fault- tolerant distributed applications. He contributes to the Windows Monitoring Kernel, an efficient event-logging infrastructure for monitoring arbitrary applications based on Windows systems, and he created the KStruct OS kernel inspection framework, which focuses on consistently accessing arbitrary kernel data structures while the OS is running.
Howard A. Schmidt has had a long distinguished career in defense, law enforcement and corporate security spanning almost 40 years. He retired from the White House after 31 years of public service in local and federal government. He assumed the role as the Chair in January until his retirement in May Before Microsoft, Mr.
While there, he established the first dedicated computer forensic lab in the government. He is recognized as one of the pioneers in the field of computer forensics and computer evidence collection. Before working at the FBI, Mr. Schmidt was a city police officer from to for the Chandler Police Department in Arizona. Schmidt served with the U. Air Force in various roles from to , both in active duty and in the civil service.
He has testified as an expert witness in federal and military courts in the areas of computer crime, computer forensics and Internet crime. He is a former executive board member of the International Organization of Computer Evidence, and served as the co-chairman of the Federal Computer Investigations Committee.
He is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists. He has testified before congressional committees on computer security and cyber crime, and has been instrumental in the creation of public and private partnerships and information-sharing initiatives. He is regularly featured on cable, broadcast and international media talking about cyber-security and critical infrastructure protection.
He also holds an Honorary Doctorate degree in Humane Letters. He received his B. He is best known for his work on directed automated random testing and concolic testing. He received the C. Liu Award in for exceptional research promise, the C. Kuck Outstanding Ph. Marc Smith is a senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. He is the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace Routledge , a collection of essays exploring the ways identity; interaction and social order develop in online groups.
This research offers a means to gather historical data on the development of social cyberspaces and can be used to highlight the ways these groups differ from, or are similar to, face-to-face groups.
Smith is applying this work to the development of a generalized community platform for Microsoft, providing a web based system for groups of all sizes to discuss and publish their material to the Web. Smith received a B. Devika Subramanian obtained her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, and her Ph.
She is presently a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Rice University, where she has been on the faculty since Her research interests are in the design of statistical machine learning algorithms with probabilistic performance guarantees. Her approach is experimental; she designs new algorithms in the context of large-scale applications in science and engineering. Her work has appeared in premier conferences and journals in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer systems, compilers, networking, computational biology, protein crystallography, robotics, mechanical engineering design, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and political science.
She has won teaching awards at Stanford, Cornell and at Rice. Steven L. Tanimoto is a professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, having joined the faculty in In image processing, his research has concentrated on pyramidal data structures and the languages, parallel architectures, and algorithms that work with them. Other projects are or have been concerned with the use of pictures and diagrams to program and use computers and with the use of image processing in mathematics education.
He is currently investigating new ways in which computer technology can be applied to educational assessment, and to collaborative design activities. From to he served on the faculty of the University of Connecticut. During the academic year Tanimoto was a visiting professor at the Institut de Programmation, University of Paris, and a visiting scientist at the Dept. In he was a visiting scientist and the University of Rome, and in he was a guest professor at the Center for Image Analysis, Uppsala University.
He served as treasurer of the International Association for Pattern Recognition from to Common Lisp editions were published in and Before joining Microsoft in , he spent 13 years in the telecommunications industry in software research and development, focusing on technology transfer.
Stewart has a Ph. He has published a variety of papers on robotics for education, artificial intelligence and network management, several patents, and has co-authored a book on software engineering for artificial intelligence applications so long ago that he should really write a new one.
In , she obtained her first Ph. Her research interests in Computer Science concern distributed and heterogeneous databases, reflexive systems and service based database systems.
Her research interests in Literature concern middle age Literature, myth-critics, and myth-analysis applied to different myths of origins. She has coordinated several research projects in Europe and Latin America financed by governments and industrial partners. Vargas-Solar actively promotes the scientific cooperation in Computer Science between Latin America and Europe, particularly between France and Mexico. Prior to her present role, Evelyne has been working as a technical lead, and program manager at Microsoft delivering Natural Language Processing components to projects for MSN, Office, and Windows.
Before Microsoft, and after completing her Ph. Her current research interests include approaches and experiences to make the Web more intelligent and safer with a focus on finding information, sitting at the desktop or while on the move. Paul is taking a hiatus from research to dive into the incredibly hard problems that arise from Internet search. There he is building a team of Applied Researchers and Developers that will build tools for document processing, query processing, and ranking.
Before moving to Search, Paul and his team worked on numerous efforts to use machine learning in the analysis of documents, emails, and Web pages. In collaboration with the Live Toolbar team , we built the technology behind smart menus. The Tablet PC team uses our technology to extract the structure in handwritten ink notes. East Asian Office is using his technology to extract contact information from incoming emails. Live Search uses similar technology to classify and extract information from documents and queries.
An earlier paper on medical image processing received an honorable mention for the Marr prize in He received an honorable mention for best paper at AAAI While at M. Michael P. Wellman is professor and associate chair of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan.
He received a Ph. Her research interests currently focus on software fault prediction, software testing, and software metrics and measurement.
Whitney has 20 years experience in semiconductor and telecommunications industries. Whitney received her Ph. Telle weaves her professional life with her personal passions. She is runner, and loves to hike, including occasionally in the Himalayas. She and her husband Bill live in the Los Gatos Mountains. She creates her own jewelry, in her not so spare time. Jeannette M. She received her S. Her current focus is on the foundations of trustworthy computing.
Professor Wing was or is on the editorial board of eleven journals. Prior to this role, she worked as a senior software architect for several startup software companies and served as a principle member of W3C XML Protocol working group. She has a Ph. Mayana has been actively involved in ethical and political issues regarding the Human Genome and more recently stem cells, particularly the recent approval of a bill allowing researches of embryonic stem cells in Brazil.
His research interests include 3D computer vision, vision and graphics, dynamic scene analysis, audio signal processing, multi-sensory technology, and human-computer interaction. His current research focuses on networked embedded systems, such as sensor networks, power and resource management in distributed systems, and mobility.
He has also done work on parallel processing, fast N-body algorithms, machine recognition, qualitative reasoning, and diagnostics. Ilya Rosenberg and Ken Perlin present the UnMousePad, a paper thin, flexible multi-touch device about size of a mouse pad.
The UnMousePad not only continuously detects a multitude of touches, it also senses varying levels of pressure at a resolution high enough to distinguish multiple fingertips and even the tip of a pen or pencil. Because of its form-factor, it can be used for simple mouse input, for multi-touch gestures, or for a wide variety of interactive applications, such as games, 3D sculpting, 6DOF object manipulation, musical instruments, and interactive control of synthesized human voice.
Steve Feiner and Sean White of Columbia University demonstrate prototype mobile augmented reality applications. The goal is to merge virtual information with the real world, leveraging our skill in interacting with physical objects to interact with virtual ones. Demos include hand-held games, user interfaces for an electronic field guide for plants, and visualizations of site data for urban designers.
Joseph LaViola and Paul Varcholik of the University of Central Florida demonstrate a series of simple video games that utilize concepts from 3D user interfaces and virtual reality. The demos let users play music with virtual instruments, battle Boba Fett, dance, and play 3D Pacman. The key feature of the framework is that it provides a set of software components that are essential to supporting spatial 3D interaction, such as stereoscopic rendering, 6DOF optical head tracking, Wiimote 3D motion controller support, and an extensible 3D gesture recognizer.
Ken Perlin and Ilya Rosenberg demonstrate the iBird project, which is a physically engaging and responsive bird flight simulation game. In this joint work with Global Foundation Services, we are studying the cost and the energy efficiency of data-center designs.
For example, will dividing a traditional collocation into smaller compartments be more energy efficient? Each compartment is self-contained with cooling and ventilation.
With a dense wireless sensor array, we gather data from a prototype design built in a Microsoft data center. We compare the heat distribution and the power consumption between the new design and traditional collocations. We further investigate ways of saving hardware costs and scheduling server workload in the compartment environment.
We demonstrate sensors designed for Microsoft data centers and data-collection mechanisms. Research questions to answer include: Do we need individual fans in the servers, or is a set of larger, more efficient fans on the rack sufficient? How should we control the air-conditioning unit in a densely sensed environment? And how should a workload be distributed over servers to save cooling energy most effectively?
Our initial effort is targeted at CS to provide curricula, hardware and software for an exciting new approach to introductory computer science. We use Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio and other technologies. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio is an industrial strength product set to enable academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics and other applications demanding concurrency and distribution across a wide variety of hardware. The prototype shares a photo-of-the-day from your digital photos and items from your calendar each day using Windows Live Spaces.
We are studying the effect of frequently sharing small amounts of information on the relationship between extended family members. LucidTouch is a new type of touch screen device. Sphere is a multi-user, multi-touch-sensitive spherical display that uses an infrared camera for touch sensing and shares the same optical path with the projector used for the display.
This novel configuration permits: 1 the enclosure of both the projection and the sensing mechanism in the base of the device, and 2 easy degree access for multiple users, with a high degree of interactivity without shadowing or occlusion. Design Expo from Microsoft provides a forum for exceptional design thinking about the future of computing and interactions. Ron Kikinis B. John W. William T. Alle anzeigen. Artikel Zitiert von Koautoren. Proceedings of the IEEE computer society conference on computer vision … , International journal of computer vision 57 2 , , International journal of computer vision 4 , 4 , International Journal of Computer Vision 63 2 , , International Journal of Computer Vision 56 1 , , Advances in neural information processing systems 18, , Advances in Neural Information Processing System 14 , Advances in neural information processing systems, ,
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