The 13th Computing in the 21st Century Conference (21CCC), jointly hosted by Microsoft Research Asia and Tsinghua University, will be held on October 26th, 2011. The year 2011 marks both the 100th anniversary of Tsinghua University and the 20th anniversary of Microsoft Research. We are pleased to celebrate these important milestones together and to provide a forum for leading worldwide experts to share recent achievements in computing science research with Chinese students and scholars. In addition to promoting the development of computing research in China and across Asia, the conference will showcase how basic research is critical to building an infrastructure for sustainable innovation. Over two thousand faculty and university students from Beijing and Tianjin will gather at Tsinghua University for this event.
With the theme of “Back to Basics: Fundamental Research Fuels innovation,” this year’s Conference will explore the important and fundamental role of research in the 21st century. Distinguished speakers will include Turing award winners, Professor Edmund M. Clarke, Professor Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Professor Emmanuel Candes, and Professor Joseph Halpern. Speakers will also include Dr. Rick Rashid, Chief Research Officer of Microsoft Corporation and Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. Dr. Peter Lee, Managing Director of Microsoft Research in Redmond will moderate a panel discussion among world-renowned research leaders who will talk about the challenges and opportunities that fundamental research brings to China. Distinguished panelists will include Professor John Hopcroft (Cornell University), Professor Victor Zue (MIT), Professor Jianping Wu (Tsinghua University), Professor Xi Chen (Columbia University), and Professor Qian Zhang (HKUST).
Over the past 13 years, Microsoft Research Asia has been committed to strong collaboration with academia to cultivate talent for IT and related industries. Computing in the 21st Century is an academic conference organized by Microsoft Research Asia and has become one of the region’s biggest and most influential conferences in computing science education and research. The previous 12 sessions have been great successes and welcomed Turing Award winners, Microsoft scientists, and well-known scholars from all over the world to give keynote speeches and exchange ideas with top minds from China and other parts of Asia. 21CCC attracts particular attention from Chinese and Asia-Pacific academics and is honored by the media as the “ Most Significant Academic Exchange in the Chinese Computing Science Research Area.” Attendance has reached a total of more than 32,000 over the past 12 years. This conference explores new horizons in the computing science field, demonstrates the influence of Microsoft Research Asia in international computing research, and promotes communication and collaboration between Microsoft and academia.
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