The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit will be live streamed from Redmond, Washington on Monday, July 17 and Tuesday, July 18. This free online event offers keynotes and selected presentations from the Faculty Summit on artificial intelligence research, “The Edge of AI.”

Panels on both days will cover a range of AI topics, including machine learning; human language technologies; perception and sensing; AI and society; systems, tools and platforms; Integrative intelligence; cyber-physical systems and robotics; human/AI collaboration; and decision making.

Speakers will include:

• former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Eric Horvitz, Head of Microsoft Research Labs;
• Computing Research Symposium Keynote speaker Carla Gomes, Cornell University;
• CCC Big Data, Data Science, and Civil Rights white paper author Solon Barocas, Cornell University;
• AI for Social Good workshop speaker Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois, and AI for Social Good report authors Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, and Amy Greenwald, Brown University;
• Human Computation workshop participant Jeff Bingham, Carnegie Mellon University;
• Inclusive Access workshop report author Shaun Kane, University of Colorado;
• and Video Analysis for Body-worn Cameras in Law Enforcement white paper author Louis Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University.

Sessions on both days will begin at 7:30 AM PDT (10:30 AM EDT) and run until 6 PM PDT (9 PM EDT).
See the agenda to learn more.