Lolan SONG is a Senior Director at Microsoft Research Asia responsible for academic collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region.
As Microsoft's fundamental research arm in the Asia Pacific region, building long-term and mutually beneficial relations with academia is vital to Microsoft Research. Lolan Song leads a regional team with members based in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan engaging universities, research institutes, and certain relevant government agencies. She establishes strategies and directions, identifies business opportunities; designs various programs and projects, and manages a multi-million dollar budget and operation. Her team works with students, researchers, faculty members, and university administrators to build strong partnership and also works closely with the groups at Microsoft Research Asia.
Lolan Song joined Microsoft in Redmond Washington in 1994 as a systems engineer. She worked in Tokyo for 5 years and in Redmond for 5 years before moving to Beijing China in 2004. Prior to her current role, Lolan Song worked in various positions at Microsoft ranging from systems engineer for business applications, IT manager for the Asia-Pacific region, senior program manager for a large-scale data mining system, to the business manager for a global technical online community program. Before joining Microsoft, Lolan Song worked on software development for small start-up companies and a large health insurance business in the United States.

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Innovate Together: Microsoft Research Asia University Relations
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Representing Microsoft Research Asia University Relations, Lolan Song will welcome attendees from the most influential research universities in the Asia-Pacific region. She will provide a high-level overview on academic collaborations in the last decade and their impact to Microsoft Research Asia and to academia. She also looks into the future and shares her direction and priority as academic collaborations continue move forward.

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Working Towards World-Class Universities

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In recent years, with the putting forward of the strategy on"Booming through science and education", China is increasing investment in education, especially in higher education.  As “The educational development during the 10th 5-Year Plan” shows, China has invested more than 4% of its GDP in education. In 2006, China graduated more than 1.5 million college students who majored in the fields of science and engineering. With a large number of highly trained technology graduates, China is transforming itself from a manufacturing center to one of the fastest growing innovation centers in the world.

Though many achievements have been made, there still remains a gap between Chinese universities and top quality universities. Chinese universities are working very hard towards becoming world-class universities. In order to reach their goal, the universities are quite open to collaborate with industry. More and more companies are also willing to put efforts to collaborate with universities to build a better R&D ecosystem.

Since being established in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia has built extensive and in-depth collaborations with universities, including research collaboration, academic exchange, curriculum innovation and talent fostering.

But what is a definition for a world-class university? What the challenges and opportunities Chinese universities are facing? What should be the role of industry during the development of universities?  This discussion may provide you with some interesting and helpful ideas.

Moderator   
Lolan SONG,, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Asia

Panel Members  
Prof. Nanjing Zheng, President, Xi’an Jiao Tong University,
Prof. Wei Li, President, Beihang University
Victor Zue, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Harry Shum, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia

Hsiao-Wuen HON is Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, located in Beijing, China. In this role, Dr. Hon oversees the lab's research activities and collaborations with universities in Asia Pacific.
An IEEE fellow, Dr. Hon is an internationally recognized expert in speech technology. He serves on the editorial board of the international journal of the Communication of the ACM. Dr. Hon has published more than 100 technical papers in international journals and at conferences. He co-authored a book, Spoken Language Processing, which is a graduate-level textbook in speech technology. Dr. Hon holds three dozen patents in several technical areas.
Dr. Hon has been with Microsoft for 13 years; he joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2004 as Deputy Managing Director, responsible for research in Internet search, speech & natural language, systems, wireless technologies and networking. In addition to this, he managed MSN Search product development in China.
Prior to joining Microsoft Research Asia, Dr. Hon was architect with the Natural Interaction Service Division at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA. He was responsible for architectural and other technical aspects of the award-winning Microsoft Speech Server products. Dr. Hon joined Microsoft Research as a senior researcher in 1995. He previously worked at Apple Computer, where he led research and development for Apple's' Chinese Dictation Kit.

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MSRA: The Past 10 Years and the Next 10 Years
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Since its founding in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia has pursued the goal of advancing the state of art in computer science in our selected areas of focus. We are pursuing fundamental research in 5 core research focus areas: natural user interface, multimedia, search and online ads, data intensive computing, and computer science fundamentals. Over the next decade, we foresee that computing will become an even more integrated part of our daily lives, with a large impact in commerce, health, and communication. With the onset of the era of software plus service, we believe that it will be even more important to conduct cross disciplinary research around our research areas to fully realize the potential of computing in our daily lives. In this talk, I will discuss the inter-disciplinary research that is taking place in MSR Asia.

Craig MUNDIE is chief research and strategy officer (CRSO) of Microsoft Corporation, reporting to CEO Steve Ballmer. Named in his current position in June 2006, Mundie has assumed responsibility for Microsoft's research and technology incubation efforts, in anticipation of Chairman Bill Gates' departure from his day-to-day role in July 2008. As a member of Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team, Mundie shares responsibility with chief software architect Ray Ozzie for guiding the company's overall technical direction.
Mundie previously served as Microsoft's chief technical officer for advanced strategies and policy. In that role he worked with Gates to develop Microsoft's global strategies for technical, business and policy issues. As CRSO, he continues to work with government and business leaders around the world, addressing issues such as technology policy, security, privacy, telecommunications regulation, intellectual property and software-procurement standards.
Prior to joining Microsoft in 1992, Mundie was co-founder and subsequently chief executive officer of Alliant Computer Systems Corporation, which developed vector-parallel mini-supercomputers. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in information theory and computer science from Georgia Tech.

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Rethinking Computing
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Computing is undergoing a major paradigm shift. Radical new approaches to hardware and software will transform our online and offline lives, seamlessly combining the power of the internet with a world of devices. Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, will discuss the possibilities—and show how close we are to realizing them.

As senior vice president, Richard (Rick) F. RASHID oversees worldwide operations for Microsoft Research, an organization encompassing more than 800 researchers across six labs worldwide. Under Rashid's leadership, Microsoft Research conducts both basic and applied research across disciplines that include algorithms and theory; human-computer interaction; machine learning; multimedia and graphics; search; security; social computing; and systems, architecture, mobility and networking. His team collaborates with the world's foremost researchers in academia, industry and government on initiatives to advance the state-of-the-art of computing and to help ensure the future of Microsoft's products.
After joining Microsoft in September 1991, Rashid served as director and vice president of the Microsoft Research division and was promoted to his current role in 2000. In his earlier roles, Rashid led research efforts on operating systems, networking and multiprocessors, and authored patents in such areas as data compression, networking and operating systems. He managed projects that catalyzed the development of Microsoft's interactive TV system and also directed Microsoft's first e-commerce group. Rashid was the driving force behind the creation of the team that later developed into Microsoft's Digital Media Division.
Before joining Microsoft, Rashid was professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). As a faculty member, he directed the design and implementation of several influential network operating systems and published papers extensively on computer vision, operating systems, network protocols and communications security. During his tenure, Rashid developed the Mach multiprocessor operating system, which has been influential in the design of modern operating systems and remains at the core of several commercial systems.
Rashid's research interests have focused on artificial intelligence, operating systems, networking and multiprocessors. He has participated in the design and implementation of the University of Rochester's Rochester Intelligent Gateway operating system, the Rochester Virtual Terminal Management System, the CMU Distributed Sensor Network Testbed, and CMU's SPICE distributed personal computing environment. He also co-developed of one of the earliest networked computer games, "Alto Trek," during the mid-1970s.
Rashid was presented with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Emanuel R. Piore Award in 2008 and inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. He was also inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008. In addition, Rashid is a member of the National Science Foundation Computer Directorate Advisory Committee and a past member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency UNIX Steering Committee and the Computer Science Network Executive Committee. He was also a former chairman of the Computing Machinery Software System Awards Committee.
Rashid received his master degree on science (1977) and doctoral (1980) degrees on computer science from the University of Rochester. In addition, he graduated with honors in mathematics and comparative literature from Stanford University in 1974.

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Session title: "Working towards a world-class research lab"
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The Managing Directors of six Microsoft research labs in the world will gather at this summit to share with us their experiences of building world class research labs. It is hoped that this sharing will provide insight into critical success factors, challenges and learning. Each lab director represents a different geography with different social, economic, government and academic drivers. What works for one does not necessarily work for the others.

Moderator
Rick RASHID, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research

Panel Members
Andrew HERBERT, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Hsiao-Wuen HON, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia
Jennifer CHAYES, Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England
P. ANANDAN, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
Rico MALVAR, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Redmond
Roy LEVIN, Director, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

Andrew HERBERT joined Microsoft Research in 2001 as an Assistant Director and in March 2003 he was promoted for the founding director, Roger Needham.
Andrew's research interests include computer networking, operating systems and distributed computing.
Prior to joining Microsoft Research in 2001 he was Director of Advanced Technology at Citrix Systems Inc., where he was instrumental in steering the company towards Internet thin-client technologies, initiating development of products for web-based application deployment and emerging Application Service Provider market.
Before joining CITRIX in 1998, Andrew found Digitivity Inc in 1996, aims to develop a product to enable for secure deployment of Java clients for business applications.
Digitivity was a spin off from APM Ltd, a research and consulting company Andrew founded in 1985. APM managed ANSA, an industry-sponsored program of research and advanced development to the use of distributed systems technology in supportting the applications integration in enterprise-wide systems. The ANSA's work included research on support for interactive multi-media services, object technology for World Wide Web applications, distributed systems management, mobile object systems and security for electronic commerce. Andrew led the ANSA technical programme, built up the ANSA team, created the ANSA architecture and made it known and respected in the industry. ANSA-based technology was used by many organizations ahead of the widespread availability of commercial, CORBA-based products. ANSA's notable successes included the NASA astrophysics data system (ADS), a European radio pager system and the online customer service system for a major UK utility. As part of the ANSA work, Andrew played an active role in many standards and consortia for distributed computing including TINA-C, ISO/ITU ODP, OSF DCE and OMG CORBA.
Before operating ANSA in 1985, Andrew was a faculty member in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he worked with Roger Needham and Maurice Wilkes on early seminal developments in Local Area Networks and Distributed Computing.
In 1975 he graduated from the University of Leeds, England with a B.Sc. in Computational Science and 1978 with a PhD from Cambridge University in Computer Science. In 1979 Andrew helped Wilkes and Needham edit "The Cambridge CAP Computer and Its Operating System," and in 1982 he co-authored "The Cambridge Distributed Computing System" with Needham. In 2003, Andrew co-edited a monograph of papers written in tribute to Needham, "Computer Systems: Theory, Technology and Applications," with Karen Spärck Jones.

Henrique "Rico" MALVAR became the managing director of the Microsoft Research Redmond lab in March 2007. Previously, Malvar had been one of the directors of the lab since the summer of 2004, and before that he was a senior researcher and manager of the Signal Processing Groupsince its inception in the fall of 1997; the group has since evolved into the current Communication and Collaboration Systems Knowledge Tools Group. Malvar's own technical interest is mostly in signal compression and enhancement, fast algorithms, multirate filter banks, and multiresolution transforms.
After earning his bachelor's degree at the University of Brasilia and a master's degree at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Malvar received a doctor degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1986. He was a visiting professor at MIT in the year 1986–87, and he was a member of the faculty of the Universidade de Brasília from 1979 to 1993. From 1993 to 1997 he was with PictureTel Corp as vice president of Research and Advanced Development.
Malvar has served in many academic roles, including associate editorship of the journals IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, and member of the technical committee for the ICASSP and DCC conferences. He is a member of the advisory committee for the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering of the National Science Foundation.
Malvar is alaso a fellow of the IEEE. He received the Young Scientist award from the Marconi International Fellowship and the Herman Goldman Foundation in 1981, the Best Paper Award in Image Processing from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1992, the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2002, and the Wavelet Pioneer Award from the SPIE in 2004. He has published over 140 technical papers in journals, conferences and standards groups, and is the inventor or a co-inventor of over 70 issued patents. At Microsoft Corp. his main technical contributions were the co-development of the Microsoft Windows Media Audio and HD Photo formats, and contributions to the Windows Media Video format, as well as the development of new signal analysis and synthesis tools that are used for audio identification, watermarking, noise reduction, and acoustic echo cancellation. He also likes to write code applies to Windows Vista, the Microsoft Office System, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Media, "Flight Simulator X," Xbox 360 and other Microsoft products.
Malvar was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. When he is not working with computers, he's playing with them — usually taking them apart and experimenting with all kinds of new hardware and software components. He enjoys playing soccer (rarely), is tricked into hiking by his wife, and is a motor racing fan.

Roy LEVIN joined Microsoft in August, 2001, to found the Silicon Valley Research lab.
From 1996 until he joined Microsoft, Roy was Director of the Compaq's Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California. Previously, he was a senior researcher in the Center since its founding in 1984 by Digital Equipment Corporation. During those years, he was a primary contributor and project leader for the Topaz programming environment and its Micro-Kernel Operating System, the first is to provide high-performance, light-weight process scheduling and inter-process communication on a multiprocessor workstation. He was also a project leader and a primary contributor for Vesta, a software configuration management system embodying novel technology and tools for source control, version management, and building of large software systems.
Before joining Digital, Roy was a Principal Scientist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He was a project co-leader and a principal developer of Cedar, an experimental programming environment for high-performance workstations. Cedar seted the standard (c. 1982) for integrated programming environments for algol-tradition languages, incorporating significant advances in language technology, file systems, network communication (rpc), and user interfaces. In addition, Roy also was a co-developer of Grapevine, a landmark electronic mail system.
Roy received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University and his B.S. in Mathematics from Yale University. He is a member of the ACM, and a former chair of ACM SIGOPS.

Jeannette M. WING is the President's Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1979 and her PhD degree in Computer Science in 1983, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004-2007, she was Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon. Currently on leave from CMU, she is the Assistant Director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Professor Wing's general research interests are in the areas of specification and verification, concurrent and distributed systems, programming languages, and software engineering. Her current focus is on the foundations of trustworthy computing.
Professor Winghas has been on the editorial board of eleven journals all of these years She has been a member of many advisory boards, including: the Networking and Information Technology (NITRD) Technical Advisory Group to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the National Academies of Sciences Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, ACM Council, the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Board, NSF's CISE Advisory Committee, Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, and the Intel Research Pittsburgh's Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Sloan Research Fellowships Program Committee. She is also a member of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. Professor Wing is an AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow.

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Encouraging Basic Research
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Encouraging Basic Research and Education in the Sciences and Engineering” is the same mission of both the National Science Foundation of the United States and the National Nature Science Foundation of China. In the past few decades, the two Foundations have initiated and supported scientific and engineering research and programs to advance the frontiers of knowledge, build the nation's research capability and support excellence in science and engineering research and education.
Dr. Jeannette WING and Dr. Zhaotian ZHANG from the two Foundations are invited to give a joint presentation to introduce the strategy and tactics of the Foundation and the approaches and program they take to encourage the basic research.

Zhaotian ZHANG is the Vice Director of the Department of Information Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in Applied Mathematics at Inner Mongolia University, China in 1987 and his PhD degree in Image processing at the Automation Institute of Chinese Academy Science in 2006. He was a visiting scholar of Manchester University, UK in 2004.
Dr. Zhang's general research interests are in the areas of Inverse Problem, Computed Tomography and Image processing.
Dr. Zhang won Best Science and Technology Progress Prizes from the Chinese Ministry of Electronics and the Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the Chinese Electronics Industry Ministry in 1995. He joined NSFC in 1998 by taking the position of Vice Director of Division of Electronics and Information Systems of the Department of Information Science and then took the responsibility of the director of the division from 2001 to 2006. Dr. Zhang has been the vice director of Department of Information Science, NSFC since 2006.

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Encouraging Basic Research
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Encouraging Basic Research and Education in the Sciences and Engineering” is the same mission of both the National Science Foundation of the United States and the National Nature Science Foundation of China. In the past few decades, the two Foundations have initiated and supported scientific and engineering research and programs to advance the frontiers of knowledge, build the nation's research capability and support excellence in science and engineering research and education.
Dr. Jeannette WING and Dr. Zhaotian ZHANG from the two Foundations are invited to give a joint presentation to introduce the strategy and tactics of the Foundation and the approaches and program they take to encourage the basic research.

Baining GUO is Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, where he also serves as head of the graphics research lab. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Guo was a senior staff researcher with the Microcomputer Research Labs of Intel Corporation, located in Santa Clara, CA.
Dr. Guo has published papers extensively in the modeling and rendering areas of computer graphics and visualization, focusing on topics such as texture and appearance modeling, real-time rendering, and geometric modeling. He is currently an associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He is also on the editorial boards of Computer and Graphics and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. He served as a member of international program committees of most major graphics conferences including ACM Siggraph, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, Pacific Graphics, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, and ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling. He holds more than 40 granted or pending US patents.
Dr. Guo earned a B.S. from Peking University, and M.S. and PhD from Cornell University.

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With the increasing trend of globalization, the preservation of national cultural identity has become an important issue. However, cultural heritages are vulnerable to time, weather, natural disasters or over-developed tourism. Advanced computing technologies have some potential to preserve culture, history, heritages and pass them to next generation. In this session, Baining Guo will give an overview of the eHeritage research initiative and cover some of the Microsoft Research efforts and the collaboration with academia about applying the latest computing technologies to aid preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of cultural and natural heritage. Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi, who has been working on digitally archiving cultural objects for over 10 years, will summarize the technological evolution coming from such projects and share his insights on the importance and the technical challenges in the future.

Katsushi IKEUCHI is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. He received a PhD degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1978. After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI Lab for two years, the Electrotechnical Lab in Japan for five years, and at Carnegie Mellon University for ten years, he joined the University of Tokyo in 1996. His research interests span computer vision, robotics, and computer graphics. He has received several awards, including the David Marr Prize in computational vision, and IEEE R K-S Fu memorial best transaction paper award. He has served as the program and general chairman of many international conferences, including 1995 IEEE-IROS, 1996 IEEE-CVPR, and 2003 IEEE-ICCV. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision. He is a distinguished speaker of the IEEE CS society this year. He has been a fellow of IEEE since 1998.

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eScience: Supporting Data-Centric Research with Client + Cloud
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Microsoft External Research builds bridges between academia, industry, and government to advance computer science, education, and scientific research. There is a huge change happening in academic research - a transformation caused by a data deluge that is affecting all disciplines.
Modern science increasingly relies on integrated information technologies and computation to collect, process, and analyze complex data. Data-centric science is the "Fourth Paradigm." Tools, technologies, and platforms must seamlessly integrate into standard scientific methodologies and processes. Microsoft External Research is committed to open access, open tools, and interoperability in the heterogeneous world of academic research. This talk will illustrate the far-reaching changes that this new paradigm will have on scientific discovery.

As Corporate Vice President of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research, Tony HEY is responsible for the worldwide external research and technical computing strategy across Microsoft Corporation. He leads the company's efforts to build long-term public-private partnerships with global scientific and engineering communities, spanning broad reach and in-depth engagements with academic and research institutions, related government agencies and industry partners. His responsibilities also include working with internal Microsoft groups to build future technologies and products that will transform computing for scientific and engineering research. Hey also oversees Microsoft Research's efforts to enhance the quality of higher education around the world.
Before joining Microsoft, Hey served as the director of the U.K.'s e-Science Initiative, managing the government's efforts to provide scientists and researchers with access to key computing technologies. Before leading this initiative, Hey worked as head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, where he helped build the department into one of the pre-eminent computer science research institutions in England.
Hey is a fellow of the U.K.'s Royal Academy of Engineering and a member of the European Union's Information Society Technology Advisory Group. He also has served at several national committees in the U.K., including committees of the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry and the Office of Science and Technology.
For his contributions to science, Hey received the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2005 U.K. New Year's Honours List.
Hey is a graduate from Oxford University, with both an undergraduate degree in physics and a doctorate in theoretical physics.

Session title: eScience, Semantic Computing and the Cloud: Towards a Smart Cyberinfrastructure for eScience
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In the future, frontier research in many fields will increasingly require the collaboration of globally distributed groups of researchers needing access to distributed computing, data resources and support for remote access to expensive, multi-national specialized facilities such as telescopes and accelerators or specialist data archives. There is also a general belief that an important road to innovation will be provided by multi-disciplinary and collaborative research – from bio-informatics and earth systems science to social science and archaeology. There will also be an explosion in the amount of research data collected in the next decade – 100's of Terabytes will be common in many fields. These future research requirements constitute the 'eScience' agenda. Powerful software services will be widely deployed on top of the academic research networks to form the necessary 'Cyberinfrastructure' to provide a collaborative research environment for the global academic community.

The difficulties in combining data and information from distributed sources, the multi-disciplinary nature of research and collaboration, and the need to move to present researchers with tooling that enable them to express what they want to do rather than how to do it highlight the need for an ecosystem of Semantic Computing technologies. Such technologies will further facilitate information sharing and discovery, will enable reasoning over information, and will allow us to start thinking about knowledge and how it can be handled by computers.

This talk will review the elements of this vision and explain the need for semantic-oriented computing by exploring eScience projects that have successfully applied relevant technologies. It will also suggest that a software + service model with scientific services delivered from the Cloud will become an increasingly accepted model for research.

Professor Emeritus Chan-Mo PARK is currently serving as the Special Advisor to the President of Korea for Science & Technology. He has been the 4th term President of Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) from September, 2003 to August, 2007. Prof. Park's association with POSTECH began in December of 1989, when he joined as a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering. He has also served the University as a Department Chairman, Dean of the Graduate School for Information Technology, Director of the Center for Advanced Software Technology, Director of the Virtual Reality Laboratory, Dean of the Graduate School and Acting President.
Prof. Park received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University and M.S. and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Maryland University College in 2001 in recognition of his scholarly achievements and distinguished service. In 1995, he was also elected as a Fellow by the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology.
Dr. Park's experience includes professorships in the Computer Science Departments at the University of Maryland, College Park; KAIST, Korea and Professor and Chairman at The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. He has also taught for the Boston University Overseas Program in Germany and the University of Maryland Asian Division in Japan. His major research interests are Digital Image Processing, Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, and System Simulation. For the past several years, he has been involved in research activities concerning information technology (IT) development in DPRK (North Korea) and carried out a joint research on virtual reality with Pyongyang Informatics Center (PIC) in Pyongyang, DPRK. He has authored more than 160 journal and conference papers and has been an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition as well as an international journal of Computer Languages.
Dr. Chan-Mo Park has served as a president of several professional societies including Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association in America, Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America, the Korea Information Science Society, the Korea Simulation Society, and the Korea Computer Graphics Society. For the past several years, he has been the National Representative to TC3 for the IFIP, president of Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea and the Chairperson of the Association of East Asian Research Universities. He has also served in various advisory committees for the Ministry of Information and Communication and the Ministry of Science and Technology in Korea. Dr. Park was decorated by the Republic of Korea with the National Order of Camellia in 1986 for his contributions to the advancement of science and technology in Korea and received the Teacher of the Year Award from The Catholic University of America in 1987 for his excellence in teaching. In June 2005 he was decorated by the Republic of Korea with the Blue Stripes Order of Service Merit for his contributions on information technology development in Korea and collaborations with DPRK.

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Fostering Global Technical Talents: Personal Experience
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The 21st Century is characterized as an era of knowledge-based, globalized and ubiquitous society. In a ubiquitous society Information Technology (IT) is incorporated into everything around us. Therefore, the international competitiveness of a nation is directly related to the nation's IT capabilities, and fostering technical talents in the IT field is very important to cope with core technologies supporting a ubiquitous society. Talents for IT-based convergence technology are also needed to produce new technologies, new products and new services arising from the convergence of technologies. These talents should be equipped not only with hard skills but also soft skills. In addition they should possess a global mindset in order to be global leaders.

In this talk general aspects of nurturing global technical talents such as paradigm shifts in education, hard skills and soft skills and necessary applications of IT for more effective and efficient education will be presented before my personal experiences in a secondary school and universities in Korea and USA. Finally the efforts we made to produce top-notch professionals at POSTECH will be introduced in the presentation.

Steve HOWARD has worked in many areas of HCI, including usability engineering, use-centered innovation, and "post-usability" interpretations of user experience. Steve's current primary focuses on "IT in the wild" - mostly mobile and pervasive computing applied to problems of real social need. Much of his research involves collaboration with industry partners.

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Trends of Industry-Academia Cooperation
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Industry-academia collaboration has always been a subject of great interest to both sides. A variety of programs are in evidence worldwide in the existing forms of industry-academia collaboration on both basic research and talent development instead of general joint lab and curriculum innovation in the early stages. 6 professors representing a different geographical location will share their insights on high-quality collaboration, challenges and learning. It's hoped that this sharing will also explore collaboration trends for the upcoming years.

Moderator
Steve HOWARD, Head, Department of Information Systems, the University of Melbourne, Australia

Panel Members
Jin Hyung KIM, Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Osamu WATANABE, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Paul CHEUNG, Professor, University of Hong Kong
Tat-Seng CHUA, Professor, National University of Singapore
Wen-Lian HSU, Distinguished research fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Xiaofei XU, Head of the school of computer science and technology, Harbin Institute of Technology,

Jin Hyung KIM received a B.S. degree from Seoul National University, M.S. and PhD degrees University of California, Los Angeles. He worked at the Systems Engineering Research Institute, Korea, Hughes Research Laboratories, California before he joined the faculty of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1985. There he produced 30+ PhD and 70+ M.S. graduates. He also founded the Center for AI Research and headed the Computer Sciece Department.
On leave from KAIST, he became a visiting scientist at IBM Watson Research Center, the President of KORDIC - a government information center, and an advisor at Samsung SDS.
He serves, as the president of Korean Institute of Information Scientist and Engineers, and the president of the Korean Cognitive Science Society,

Osamu WATANABE, Dr. of Engineering, the director of Global Scientific Information and Computing Center in Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech).
During his assistant professor period in Tokyo Tech. Osamu visited the Department of Mathematics in University of California Santa Barbara as a Key Fan Visiting Assistant Professor in 1987. He soon became an associate professor of the School of Engineering in Tokyo Tech for 7 years from 1990. From 1997 Osamu has been working as a professor in Tokyo Tech.
Osamu's research achievements in computation theory include computational complexity theory, design and analysis of algorithms and randomness in computation etc.

Paul CHEUNG is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and concurrently the Director of Technology Transfer of the University of Hong Kong. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 1980 and was Dean of Engineering from 1994-2000.
Professor Cheung received his B.Sc.(Eng) and PhD degrees both in Electrical Engineering from the Imperial College London, in 1973 and 1978 respectively. His research interests and experience include computer architecture and applications, signal processing & pattern recognition and biomedical engineering. He was IEEE Board of Director from 1995-96, IEEE Secretary in 1997, and is currently the Chair of the IEEE Awards Board.
In his spare time, Paul is a keen diver, an occasional cyclist and skier, a regular jogger, and also pretends to be a music and golf enthusiast. In 2008, he led a team of over 2,100 runners from HKU to run the Hong Kong Marathon and tries his best to keep up three sessions at the gym every week.

Tat-Seng CHUA received his B.S. and PhD degrees from the University of Leeds, UK, in 1979 and 1983, respectively. He then joined the National University of Singapore, where he is now a full professor at the School of Computing. He was the Acting and Founding Dean of the School of Computing between 1998 and 2000. He spent three years as a research staff member at the Institute of Systems Science (now I2R) in the late 1980's. Dr. Chua's main research interests are in multimedia information processing, in particular, on the extraction, retrieval and question-answering (QA) of text and video information. He focuses on the use of relations between entities and external information & knowledge sources to enhance information processing. He is currently working on several multi-million-dollar projects: interactive media search, local contextual search, and event detection in movies. His group participates regularly in TREC-QA and TRECVID news video retrieval evaluations.
Dr. Chua is active in the international research community. He has organized and served as program committee member of numerous international conferences in the areas of computer graphics, multimedia and text processing. He is the conference co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2005, CIVR (Conference on Image and Video Retrieval) 2005, and ACM SIGIR 2008. He serves on the editorial boards of: ACM Transactions of Information Systems (ACM), The Visual Computer (Springer Verlag), and Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer). He is the member of the steering committee of CIVR, Computer Graphics International, and Multimedia Modeling conference series; and as member of International Review Panels of two large-scale research projects in Europe.

Wen-Lian HSU is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica. He received a B.S. from the Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University in 1973 and a PhD degree in operations research from Cornell University in 1980. He then joined Northwestern University, and was promoted to tenured associate professor in 1986. In 1989, he joined the Institute of Information Science as a research fellow.
His earlier work was on theoretical graph algorithms. In 1993, he invented a Chinese natural input method which has revolutionized the phonetic input for Chinese in Taiwan since then. Later, his research interests shifted to question answering, and bioinformatics. He is currently the Director of the International Graduate Program in Bioinformatics in Academia Sinica.
Dr. Hsu has received many awards including the Distinguished Research Fellow award of the National Science Council, K. T. Li breakthrough award, IEEE Fellow, and Teco Technology award. From 2001 to 2002, he was the President of the Artificial Intelligence Society in Taiwan.

Xiaofei XU is the doctoral supervisor, dean of School of Computer Science and Technology, dean of School of Software at HIT, Commissioner of China Association of Science and Technology, standing member of Council of China Computer Federation, deputy director of National Standard Technical Committee of Industrial Automation System and Integration, deputy director of China ERP Technique Association, guest doctoral supervisor of Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland and Conjoint research fellow of Hong Kong University. His research fields include computer integrated manufacturing systems, databases, management and decision information systems and knowledge management. Prof. Xu has implemented over 20 projects from Key Projects for the National 863 Hi-Tech Program, the National Natural Science Foundation, the Ministry/Province Science Foundation, the Province Outstanding Youth Foundation Project and international cooperative projects. He has won one First Prize, one Second Prize, and three Third Prize awards of Science and Technology of the Ministry/Province. In addition, he has published more than 200 technical papers and 3 books.

Nanning ZHENG was born in 1952 in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 1975, and received his M.S. Degree in Information and Control Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1981. In 1985, he graduated from Keio University in Japan with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Currently, he is a professor and director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at Xi'an Jiaotong University. Professor Zheng is the President of Xi'an Jiaotong University (August 2003~); Member of Academic Degree Commission of the State Council, China (1997~); Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (1999~); China's representative, Governing Board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (2000~); Member of Experts Advisory Committee of Microsoft Research Asia (2001~); IEEE Fellow (2006~).
Professor Zheng has been engaged in the researches on both the fundamental theory and the practical application in pattern recognition, machine vision and image processing for many years. He has led a number of R&D projects both for industry and supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China. He has received several awards, including two 2nd prizes for the National Science and Technology Progress, and a 2nd prize for the National Technology Invention; the Prize for Outstanding Young Chinese Scientists; the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress. He also holds nineteen authorized Chinese invention patents.

Wei LI, a native of Beijing, was born on June 8, 1943. Dr. Li currently serves as a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Aeronautics and Astroautics (BUAA) and holds several distinguished directorships and titles such as Director of the State Laboratory for Software Development, Member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Director of the Computer Division of the Education Supervision Committee (Ministry of Education), and Member of the 10th National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference. In addition, he was selected to be an Academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997 and, in January 2002, began his post as President of BUAA.
Dr. Li graduated with a degree in mathematics from Peking University in 1966 and achieved his PhD degree in computer science from Edinburgh University in 1983. Dr. Li is a renowned scientist that has been well recognized for his research and achievements in the field of computer science. His research has covered computer science theory, software technology as well as Internet applications. In 1995, Dr. Li won second place in the National Awards for Natural Sciences for his research in programming theory and methodology. In 1996, he achieved first prize honors in the Ministry of Aviation for Progress in Science and Technology Awards for his leadership in the development of inference workstations. In the field of mathematical logic, he pioneered the Theory of Sequences and Limits of Formal Systems, receiving the Guanghua Award and the HE Liang-HE Li Award for Progress in Science and Technology for his achievements. In network computing, Dr. Li serves as the Chief Scientist for the Critical Fundamental Research Project on Massive Internet Data Storage and Management Systems. Dr. Li has published a book as well as more than one hundred technical papers. In addition, he has taught 8 postdoctoral students, over 50 PhD and over 100 MSC.

Victor ZUE received his ScD from MIT in 1976, and has been at MIT ever since. He is the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In the early part of his career, Victor conducted research in acoustic-phonetic and phonological analyses of American English. Subsequently, his research interest shifted to the development of spoken language interfaces to make human-computer interactions easier and more natural. Between 1989 and 2001, he headed the Spoken Language Systems Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, which has pioneered the development of many systems that enable a user to interact with computers using spoken language.
Outside of MIT, Vivctor has served on many planning, advisory, and review committees for the U.S. federal government and for many multinational corporations. From 1996-1998, he chaired the Information Science and Technology Study Group for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, helping the DoD formulate new directions for information technology research. In 1999, he received the DARPA Sustained Excellence Award. Victor is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He is also an Academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

Former managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, Harry SHUM, now a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, has taken the new role of leading the Core Search Development of Microsoft.
Dr. Shum is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow and an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision, and is a Program Chair of the International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) 2007. Dr. Shum has published more than 100 papers in computer vision, computer graphics, pattern recognition, statistical learning, and robotics. He holds more than 50 U.S. patents.
Dr. Shum joined Microsoft Research in 1996 when he worked in Redmond, WA as a researcher on computer vision and computer graphics. In 1999, Shum moved to Beijing to help start Microsoft Research China (later renamed Microsoft Research Asia). His tenure there began as a research manager and subsequently moved up to Assistant Managing Director, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, Distinguished Engineer, and Corporate Vice President. In 2007, Shum became Microsoft Corporate Vice President, and was lauded for his leadership in technology and management.
Dr. Shum received a doctorate in robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. In his spare time, he enjoys playing basketball, rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and spending quality time with his family.