Microsoft Research New York City 5th Anniversary Celebration
May 10, 2017

Microsoft Research New York City 5th Anniversary Celebration

Location: New York, NY, USA

Wednesday, May 10

Time Session Speaker
8:45–9:30
Registration and Breakfast
9:30–10:00
Opening Remarks
Jennifer Chayes and Jeannette M. Wing, Microsoft
Session 1: Intelligent Machines
10:00–10:25
Paths to AI
Yann LeCun, Facebook
10:25–11:15
Panel
Moderator: David Blei, Columbia University
Panelists:
  • Emma Brunskill, Stanford University
  • John Langford, Microsoft
  • Yann LeCun, Facebook
11:15–11:45 Break
 
Session 2: Ethical Machines: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
11:45–12:10 Fair Algorithms for Machine Learning Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
12:10–1:00 Panel
Moderator: Kate Crawford, Microsoft
Panelists:
  • Solon Barocas, Microsoft
  • danah boyd, Microsoft
  • Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University
  • Hanna Wallach, Microsoft
1:00–2:00 Lunch
 
Session 3: Computational Social Science
 
2:00–2:25
Virtual Labs
Dan Goldstein, Microsoft
2:25–3:15
Panel
Moderator: Duncan Watts, Microsoft
Panelists:
  • Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
  • David Lazer, Northeastern University
3:15–3:45 Break
 
Session 4: The Digital Economy
 
3:45–4:10 The Role of Human Computation in AI
Jenn Wortman Vaughan, Microsoft
4:10–5:00 Panel
Moderator: Glen Weyl, Microsoft
Panelists:
  • Suresh Naidu, Columbia University
  • Ariel Procaccia, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Matt Taddy, Microsoft
  • Eva Tardos, Cornell University
5:00–5:15 Closing Remarks & Discussion
 
5:30–10:00 Reception & Dinner