Keynote Speakers
Klara Nahrstedt (opens in new tab)
Associate Head of Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
IEEE and ACM Fellow
Topic: From QoS to QoE: Towards Experience-Centric Evaluations of Tele – Immersive Environments
Harry Shum (opens in new tab)
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
IEEE and ACM Fellow
Topic: The Future of Internet Search: Intent, Knowledge and Interaction
Rosalind W. Picard (opens in new tab)
Director and the Founder of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab
IEEE Fellow
Topic: Surprising Discoveries from Affective Computing
Joseph Sifakis (opens in new tab)
Professor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
2007 Turing Award Recipient
Topic: From Programs to Systems – Building a Smarter World
Rick Rashid (opens in new tab)
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
Founder of Microsoft Research
NAE and AAAS Member
Topic: The Role of Basic Research in Innovation – A look back and a look forward
Jeannette Wing (opens in new tab)
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research
IEEE and ACM Fellow
Topic: The Impact of Computer Science Research on Science, Technology, and Society