Computing in the 21st Century

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Japan Event

Kanto
Date: November 4th,2009
Venue: Keio University, Hiyoshi Campus, Collaboration Complex Hall
Kansai
Date: November 6th,2009
Venue: Kyoto University, Yoshida Campus, Clock Tower Centennial Hall

Conference Overview

Since its inception eleven years ago, Microsoft Research Asia has been committed to advancing the state of art of computer science in the Asia Pacific region. As part of this effort, every Fall the research lab hosts a leading computer science luminaries, inc. Turing Award winners, industry gurus, and academic heavyweights, come to the event for keynote speeches and dialogues with attendees. Tackling an important area in computer science each year, the conference has become one of the most influential events of its kind in the Asia Pacific region. It plays a significant role in providing a forum for college students and faculty members in computer science to learn from the industry’s visionaries.

As the rise of Cloud Computing presents new challenges and opportunities for the industry, the theme of this year’s computing in the 21st Century conference is set to be “3 Screens and 1 Cloud: Rethinking Computing”. At the event, researchers and scientists will explore and explain how businesses and consumers leverage technologies with different form factors and how the world should rethink about computing.

The upcoming conference will be held in Japan, in a joint effort with the Japanese academia and research community. The two sessions (November 4th at Keio University; and November 6th at Kyoto University) are expected to attract large groups of professors and students of computer science and related disciplines. At the event, attendees will have an opportunity to hear from and interact with Turing Award winners, Kyoto Prize recipients, venerable researchers and scholars and academics from around the world.