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Recent research on statistical machine translation has lead to the rapid development of syntax-based translation models, which exploit syntactic information to direct translation.

With P2P live video streaming, peers viewing videos also assist the server in streaming the videos, thereby significantly reducing server infrastructure cost.

BUFFALO: Bloom Filter Forwarding Architecture for Large Organizations; Minlan Yu In enterprise and data center networks, the scalability of the data plane becomes increasingly challenging as

Most programmers assume an interleaved semantics when reasoning about shared-memory concurrent programs.

In this talk, we present our ongoing research on developing an annotated Korean learner corpus and the automatic analysis of learner errors.

With the establishment of the multi-core processors and distributed applications, concurrency has become commonplace in application software.

In this talk, I will present a summary of our recent research in understanding how disks fail and how file and storage systems handle such failures.

In this talk, IΓÇÖll talk automatic facial expression analysis including neutral face detection, action unit recognition and basic facial expression recognition.

Entering the search term ``Rome'' on Flickr.com returns more than two million photos.

Synthetic Biology is an emerging discipline that is providing a conceptual framework for engineering biological devices based on the principles of standardisation, modularity and abstraction.

9:00 Welcome, Jim Larus, Dennis Gannon (MSR), Tony Hey (MSR) ***Visual Computing*** 9:30 Parallel Computer Vision Algorithms, Rick Szeliski (MSR) 10:00 Video Event Detection/Hand Tracking, Dennis

Breaking news, fresh gossip, tiny scandals, trumped up crisesΓÇöevery day we are distracted by a culture that rings our doorbell and then runs away.

The past decade has seen tremendous interest in mining of time series and shape datasets, as such data can be found in domains as diverse as entertainment, finance, medicine and astronomy.

This talk is about a book in progress with Richard Brent (ANU, Canberra, Australia). Modern

In this talk, accessible to everyone, I will present ongoing research projects from the Northwestern Networks Group.

Computer systems in large enterprises and in the outsourcing industry are difficult to manage manually.

TALK 1 - Structured Prediction Models in Computer Vision Abstract: I'll present a summary of our recent work on using modern machine learning methods to solve computer vision problems.

***Human-machine Interaction*** 1:30 Computational challenges of open-world intelligence, Eric Horvitz (MSR) 2:00 Dynamic Virtual Environments, John Hart (UIUC) 2:30 Parallelizing the Web Browser

Motivated by applications like elections, network measurements, web-page ranking, revenue maximization etc., we consider the question of inferring popular rankings given constrained data.

***Human-machine Interaction*** 10:30 Personalized Medicine from Medical Imaging and Advanced Computation, Tony Keaveny (UCB) 11:00 Design for User Experience Applications, Gad Sheaffer (Intel)

Computer vision has been able to use images to reason about scenes.

The Internet's TCP/IP stack was not designed with the vagaries of the wireless channel and mobility in mind and is showing signs of age today.

Explicitly or implicitly, programming languages mirror domains. The best languages weave the concerns of a domain through a compatible computational model to offer programmers the best of both worlds.

In an empirical study of 3241 Red Hat packages, we show that software vulnerabilities correlate with dependencies between packages.

The Debian Project is widely considered one of the most successful and influential open source projects in the world: over 1,000 volunteer programmers are currently involved in Debian development

2:00 Content Based Image Retrieval, Bryan Catanzaro (UCB) ***Social Interaction*** 2:30 Intel's Immersive Connected Experience Research, Jim Held (Intel Fellow, Tera-scale computing) 3:00

We give a survey on old and new results on relations between geometric invariants of principally polarized supersingular abelian varieties and arithmetic invariants of quaternion hermitian forms

Working in secrecy to solve highly classified problems for the Department of Defense, CIA, and NSA is an elite group of scientific advisors who provide the government with analyses on defense and

***Speech and Audio*** 9:00 The Breadth of Applications for Music, Eric Battenberg (UCB) 9:30 Parallelizing speech recognition, and making it better, Nelson Morgan (UCB)

Knowledge is power: but most knowledge is tied up in text.