Venue: Tsinghua University
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The thirteenth Computing in the 21st Century Conference (21CCC), jointly hosted by Microsoft Research Asia and Tsinghua University, will be held on October 26th, 2011. Nearly two thousand professors and university students from Beijing, Tianjin and nearby areas will gather at Tsinghua University for this grand event. As 2011 also observes the 100th anniversary of Tsinghua University, the thirteenth 21st CCC will be a very special academic event which will celebrate Tsinghua’s centennial anniversary, providing a great platform for leading worldwide experts to share recent achievements in computing science research with Chinese students and scholars. The conference aims to promote the development of computing research in China and across Asia.
With the theme of “Fundamental Research – Computing in the 21st Century,” 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, Senior Vice President 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.
Over the past 13 years, Microsoft Research Asia has been committed to strong collaboration with academia to cultivate talents 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 biggest and most influential conferences in computing science education and research field in the region. 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 the top minds from China and other parts of Asia. It 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 the academic circle.