Large public lecture room, Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB 2009-03-10 14:00: Visual systems biology: design, understand, organize (Lorenzo Dematté, CoSBi) 2009-06-02 14:00: Progress on development of a microfluidic robot scientist (Prof. Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London) 2009-06-02 15:10: Visual search and mining of large scale image collections (Prof. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford) 2009-06-02 16:20: Informed matter: The confluence of information processes and material science (Dr Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton) 2009-06-02 17:10: From microscopic to macroscopic descriptions of cell migration on growing domains (Dr Ruth Baker, University of Oxford) 2009-06-30 09:30: How to write a great research paper (Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)) 2009-06-30 11:00: How to give a great research talk (Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)) 2009-06-30 13:30: New kinds of software for new kinds of science (Alexander Brändle (Microsoft Research)) 2009-06-30 15:00: Hybrids of generative and discriminative models (Julia Lasserre (University of Cambridge/Max Planck Institute)) 2009-06-30 15:20: Scalable display architectures (Alban Rrustemi (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-30 15:40: Generative face models for image understanding (Brian Amberg (University of Basel)) 2009-06-30 16:00: Interactive matting (Christoph Rhemann (Vienna University of Technology)) 2009-06-30 16:20: Challenges in refactoring (Mathieu Verbaere (University of Oxford)) 2009-06-30 17:00: EU opportunities for young researchers (Carlos Morais-Pires (European Commission, DG INFSO)) 2009-07-01 09:30: Rough guide to being an entrepreneur (Jack Lang (University of Cambridge)) 2009-07-01 11:00: Hitchhikers guide to machine learning (Christopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)) 2009-07-01 13:30: Principles and applications of refinement types (Andy Gordon (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-01 15:00: Tools and services for data intensive research (Roger Barga (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-01 16:15: WorldWide Telescope - A computational science innovation (Yan Xu (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-01 16:40: Scientific computing on .NET (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge)) 2009-07-02 09:30: How to manage your supervisor (Tennie Videler (Vitae)) 2009-07-02 11:00: New hardware enabling new user experiences (James Scott (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-02 13:30: Forza, Halo, Xbox Live: The magic of research in products (Ralf Herbrich (Microsoft Research Ltd.)) 2009-07-02 15:00: Introduction to intellectual property (John Mulgrew (Microsoft)) 2009-07-02 16:15: Internships uncovered... (Peter Key (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-03 09:30: Giving a good presentation (Ken Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques)) 2009-07-03 11:00: Sustainable energy without the hot air (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2010-06-29 11:00: How to write a great research paper (Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-30 09:30: Presentation skills (Ken Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques)) 2010-06-30 11:00: How to give a great research talk (Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-30 14:00: Rough guide to being an entrepreneur (Jack Lang (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-30 15:15: Simulating global carbon-climate feedback (Drew Purves (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-30 16:45: Infer.NET and probabilistic programming (John Winn (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-01 09:30: From data to knowledge (Sydney Brenner (Salk Institute)) 2010-07-01 11:00: Fun with F#: Solving complex problems with simple code (Anton Schwaighofer (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-01 14:00: From driving to trafficking: the developing view of the user in computer systems design (Richard Harper (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-01 15:15: From program analysis research to industrial programming language development (Andy Maule (Microsoft)) 2010-07-01 15:35: Static contract checking for Haskell (Dana N. Xu (INRIA)) 2010-07-01 15:55: Communications, Travel and Social Networks since 1840: A Study Using Agent-based Models (Lynne Hamill (University of Surrey)) 2010-07-01 16:45: Tracking and localisation for speech and robotics (Maurice Fallon (MIT)) 2010-07-01 17:05: Acquiring syntactic and semantic transformations in question answering (Michael Kaisser (Microsoft)) 2010-07-01 17:25: To infinity and beyond with nonparametric Bayesian methods (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge)) 2010-07-02 09:30: Cloud computing for research (Fabrizio Gagliardi (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-02 11:00: Computer science (Cancelled) (Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research)) 2022-01-18 16:00: Internal UIS test - title change (Speaker to be confirmed)