Venue: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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The Twelfth Computing in the 21st Century Conference, jointly hosted by Microsoft Research Asia and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, will be held on October 20th, 2010. Nearly two thousand professors and students from colleges in Shanghai, Hangzhou and adjacent areas will gather at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for this grand event. Leading experts in computer research throughout the country and from around the world will have the opportunity to meet face to face with Chinese students and scholars, delivering keynote speeches and sharing their achievements in computer science research.
Under the theme of “People, Computing, and the Physical World”, this year’s Computing in the 21st Century Conference will explore the connections between people and computing and the blurring of the physical and cyber worlds; it will also examine the impact of mobile and cloud computing as well as sensor and social networks on people’s lives in the future. The speakers, including Turing and other award recipients, are Dr. Chuck Thacker, Prof. Barbara Liskov, Prof. John Hopcroft, Prof. David Culler, Prof. Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President of Microsoft Corporation and Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. Dr. Feng Zhao, the Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, will be the chair of this year’s conference.
During the past twelve years, Microsoft Research Asia has always been committed to strong collaboration with academia to cultivate talent for the IT and related industries. Computing in the 21st Century is an academic conference organized by Microsoft Research Asia. The conference is one of the biggest and most influential conferences in computer science education and research in the region. It explores new horizons in the computing field, demonstrates the influence of Microsoft Research Asia in international computer research, and promotes communication and collaboration between Microsoft and academia.
Beginning in 1999, the Computing in the 21st Century Conference has been successfully held for eleven years and has welcomed Turing Award recipients, Microsoft scientists, and well-known scholars from all over the world to give keynote speeches and exchange ideas with the top minds from China and Asia. The conference attracts strong attention from Chinese and Asia Pacific academia and is honored by the media as “the Most Significant Academic Exchanges in Chinese Computer Science Research Area”. The number of attendees has totaled 30,000 over the past eleven years.