July, 2005

Today and tomorrow we’re hosting the MSR Faculty Summit 2005 where I’m handling the eScience sessions.  These include the following sessions:

• Machine Learning and HIV Vaccine Design
  David Heckerman, Microsoft Research; Nebojsa Jojic, Microsoft Research
• Web Services: Using Microsoft Indigo Services as Building Blocks to Build Robust Distributed Systems
  Furrukh Khan, Ohio State University; Steve Swartz, Microsoft
• Datamining in Science: Mining Patterns in Protein Structures—Algorithms and Applications
  Jamie MacLennan, Microsoft; Zhaohui Tang, Microsoft; Wei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Smart Clients in Action
  Rob Barker, Microsoft; Patrick Hogan, NASA; Greg Quinn, University of California at San Diego
• Future of Scientific Computing Panel
  Fran Berman, University of California at San Diego; Jay Boisseau, University of Texas at Austin; Dave Lifka, Cornell Theory Center; Marvin Theimer, Microsoft

A couple of exciting announcements that came out today:

• We’ve changed our group name from University Relations Group to External Research & Programs – this is to reflect more closely our activities.
• Announced three Request for Proposals (RFPs)
• Trustworthy Computing Curriculum 2005
• Smart Clients for eScience
• Digital Memories (Memex)