Tsinghua-Cornell Workshop on Information Science and Technology

November 17th, 2005

主楼接待厅，9:30开始

l        Vice President Gong, Tsinghua University

l       President Rawlings, Cornell University: Global Universities in the Information Age.

l        Bill Chang: NSF Investment in Science and Engineering and its China Cooperative activities.

l        Chuang Lin: Computer Science & Technology at Tsinghua.

l        Kent Fuchs: Information Technology at Cornell.

l        Andrew Yao (Turing Award Winner): Theoretical CS at Tsinghua

l        John Hopcroft (Turing Award Winner): A Time of Change

FIT 多功能厅（FIT2－201），14：00开始

       Natural Language Processing and AI

l        Bart Selman: The Next Generation of Automated Reasoning Methods

l        Qiang Zhou: Chinese Text Parsing

l        Claire Cardie: New Directions in Information Extraction

Networking

l        Mingwei Xu: Providing IP Multicast in Mobile Networks

l        Paul Francis: Controlling Network Connectivity in a Fully Connected World

l        Wei Chen: Can we bring P2P systems into the next level?

November 18th, 2005

FIT 多功能厅（FIT2－201），9：30开始

       Communications and Networking

l        Lang Tong: Cross Layer Design for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

l        Shidong Zhou: Emerging Techniques Improving Beyond 3G Downlink Multiple Access Capacity.

Multimedia and Distributed Systems

l        Sheila S. Hemami: From Neurons to Bits:  Efficient Representations of Visual Information

l        Yuanchun Shi: Smart Environment for Multi-user Interactive Collaboration