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Harry Shum
Managing Director;
Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia
Harry Shum received his Ph.D. in robotics from the School of Computer
Science, Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. He worked as a researcher
for three years in the vision technology group at Microsoft Research
Redmond. In 1999, he moved to Microsoft Research Asia where he is
currently the Managing Director. His research interests include
computer vision, computer graphics, human computer interaction,
pattern recognition, statistical learning and robotics. He is on
the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (PAMI), International Journal of Computer Vision
(IJCV), and Graphical Models. He is the General Co-Chair of Tenth
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005 Beijing).
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Data-Centric Computing: Controlling Your Information
The past ten years have brought about an explosion
in the amount of digital data in the world. The Internet has grown
from a few million to hundreds of billions of documents. Average
PC hard drives have increased from a few megabytes to hundreds of
gigabytes. Even small devices like key chains, watches, and phones
have now become rich data stores that we depend on daily and because
of the effectiveness of Internet Search, user expectations for accessing,
organizing, understanding, and easily working with all this data
has never been greater. In this talk, learn about Microsoft Research
Asia¡¯s vision for data-centric computing and see the technology
we are creating to put you in control of the information you depend
on.
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