ACM INDIA LAUNCH

8:00 AM onwards Registration

9:30-10:00: Welcome, introduction
Dr. Anand Deshpande. Co-Chair, ACM India
Prof Dame Wendy Hall, FRS. President, ACM
Dr. John White CEO, ACM

10:00-10:30: Invited Talk 1 : Dr. Rick Rashid (Senior VP, Microsoft)

10:30-11:00: Tea break

11:00-12:00 Invited Talk 2 : Prof Barbara Liskov (MIT), Turing Award, 2008 on 'The Power of Abstraction'

 
12:00-13:00: Invited Talk 3 : Sir Tony Hoare, FRS (Microsoft Research), Turing Award, 1980 on 'The International Verified Software Initiative'

 
13:00-14:30 PM: Lunch

 
14:30-15:30: Invited Talk 5 : Prof Raj Reddy (CMU), Turing Award, 1994 on 'To Err is Human. Computational Limits to Human Thinking : Implications for the Design of Human Centered Interfaces'

 
15:30-16:00: Tea break

 
16:00-17:15: Panel Discussion  : What's Holding up Computer Science Research in India?

Lead speakers:
Krithi Ramamritham (IIT, Mumbai), ACM Fellow
P Venkat Rangan (Amrita Univ), ACM Fellow
Rajeev Rastogi (Yahoo Research)
Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, I2IT Pune (ACM Fellow)
Panel Moderator: Dr Mathai Joseph. (Advisor, TCS), ACM Council

17:15-17:30 PM Closing Session
Announcements about future ACM India Events
Prof P.J. Narayanan. Co-Chair, ACM India

COMPUTE 2010 : DAY 1

8:00 am onwards Registration

9:15 am Welcome - ACM Bangalore
9.20 am Opening Remarks - Compute 2010 PC chair Prof. R K Shyamasundar

9.30 -10.25 am Conference Keynote : Prof Dame Wendy Hall, President ACM Worldwide, on "The Emerging Science of the Web and Why it is Important"

10.30 am Tea break

Followed by parallel Tutorial tracks in two halls

TRINITY I
10.45 - 1.15 pm Workshop on "Programming the cloud"
10.45 am Context Setting by Dr. T S. Mohan, Principal, E and R, Infosys, Workshop Chair
11:00 am Hadoop Deep Dive – Keynote Address: Chidambaram Kollengode, Director Cloud Computing, Yahoo  R&D
12 noon  Microsoft Azure Deep Dive

1:15 - 2 pm Lunch Break

2:00 - 3 pm Conference Keynote : Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director of IIIT Hyderabad, and founder-head of Language Technologies Research Centre, at IIIT, Hyderabad, on "Two-stage Constraint Parsing for Indian Languages"

3 pm Tea Break

3.15 - 5 pm Panel Discussion on Text Analytics
Speakers: Dr. Karin Murthy, Information Management Group, IBM Research. Dr Lokendra Shastri, Head of Centre for Knowledge Driven Information Systems, Infosys, Dr. Srinivasan H Sengamedu, Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore

5 pm Workshop Close

TRINITY II
10.45 -11.30 am Research Paper Session 1: Data Warehousing and Mining 

11.30 - 1 pm Research Paper Session 2: Mobility,Web 2.0, Cloud and Data Centers

1 – 2 pm Lunch Break

2 - 3 pm TRINITY I - Conference Keynote : Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director of IIIT Hyderabad, and founder-head of Language Technologies Research Centre, at IIIT, Hyderabad, on "Two-stage Constraint Parsing for Indian Languages"

3 pm Tea Break

3.15 - 5 pm Research Papers Session 3 : Text Processing and Mining

5 - 5.45 pm - Research Papers Session 4 : Image and Video Mining

COMPUTE 2010 : DAY 2

8:00 am onwards Registration

Followed by parallel tracks in two halls

TRINITY I
9 - 9.45 am Research Posters Session 1

9.45 – 10 am : Tea break

10 - 1 pm  Tutorial on Rich Internet Applications - Overview of the current RIA platforms, Building RIA using Adobe Flex 3, Speaker - Mrinal Wadhwa, Rich Internet Applications Consultant.

1 – 2 pm : Lunch break

2 – 3.30 pm : Rich Internet Applications [contd]

3.30 – 3.45 pm – Tea break

3.45 - 5 pm - Building social networking applications (Specifically Facebook Apps). Speaker - Prateek Dayal, Entrepreneur and Technologist.

5 – 6 pm – Applications of Social Networking in Business to Business scenarios. Speakers from Honeywell Technology Solutions Labs

TRINITY II
9 - 10.30 am Posters Session 2

10.30 – 10.45 am : Tea break

10.45 - 12 noon Tutorial on Widget Platforms 
Speaker: K S Balagopal, Nokia India speaking on Nokia WRT

12 noon - 1.30 pm Tutorial on Widget Platforms 
Speaker: Wolfgang Maehr, Opera speaking on the Opera desktop, mobile and TV widget platform

1.30 – 2.30 pm : Lunch break

2.30 - 6 pm ACM Bangalore Annual Computing Quiz