Another Day in the Antz Farm

Last week, Microsoft Research celebrated the opening of it’s newest lab – Microsoft Research New England with a day-long symposium at MIT on the intersection of computer science and the social sciences. You can now review the symposium individual sessions online.

There were some excellent content presented at the event including:

• Computer Science Is Everywhere
  - Erik Demaine, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
• Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena in a Web 2.0 Era
  - Danah Boyd, Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
• Designing Experience/The Experience of Design
  - Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
• The Changing Role of Research Universities and Industrial and National Laboratories in the 21st Century
  - Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Related links:

• Microsoft Research Lab Opens Quietly Next to MIT, Director Says Area’s Intellectual Climate Like “Dry Timber” Ready to Ignite (Xconomy) (With a list of its founding members)
• Doors Open at Microsoft Research New England (Xconomy)