eek! Exciting news, this is so cool. Watch the videos from the opening symposium. The focus of the lab? An interdisciplinary approach in an age of networks (www, social networks, biology, etc.).

MSR Opening

Peek inside the lab by viewing JT Chayes video:

MSR Opening

Here is a list of videos available at the site - worthy time sink :)

  • Welcoming Remarks from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (video)
    Rafael Reif, Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Microsoft Research Overview (video)
    Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research
  • Microsoft Research New England Overview (video)
    Jennifer Chayes, Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England
  • Interdisciplinary Research Panel Discussion (video)
    David Campbell, Provost, Boston University
    Jennifer Chayes, Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England
    Steve Hyman, Provost, Harvard University
    Subra Suresh, Dean of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Jeannette Wing, Assistant Director Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation
  • (Theoretical) Computer Science Is Everywhere (video)
    Erik Demaine, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Market Design in Theory and Practice: Auctions for Sponsored Links in Online Search (video)
    Susan Athey, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
  • Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena in a Web2.0 Era (video)
    danah boyd, Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
  • Designing Experience/The Experience of Design (video)
    Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
  • The Changing Role of Research Universities and Industrial and National Laboratories in the 21st Century (video)
    Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

I see Bill Buxton was there, he's a fun interviewee. 

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