Microsoft Research India organized its third edition of Tech Vista -
- day full of outstanding talks from world’s leading computer scientists
- upcoming & promising researchers in India (mostly PhD students) showing off their work thru “poster presentations” and
- a very large number of students & faculty from dozens of Institutions (both Tier I and Tier II/III)
all assembled in Trade Center, Chennai.
The day-long festival had John Hopcroft of Cornell (NP-completeness fame), Shafi Goldwasser of MIT / Weizmann, Shree Nayar of Columbia, Rich Rashid & Rich Szeliski of Microsoft Research and our own Vijay Chandru of Strand Genomics giving in-depth talks on cutting edge technologies.
In all, it was a great event to quench one’s intellectual thirst.
Though I missed this event, select IIIT-B students had benefited fully; I could get some “gyan” today (Oct 3) during the day-long presentation to TAB (Technical Advisory Board) of which I am a Member. It was a great feeling to see the Bangalore Center managing to get so much intellectual output, thanks to Anandan & Kentaro who have built an outstanding team of 27 PhD qualified researchers in just 4 years!
- Technology for Emerging Markets
- Mobility
- Algorithms
- Rigorous software engineering
- Cryptography and
- Multi-lingual systems
are the key areas in whivh the researchers presented some exciting work.
All in all, MSR India is genuinely contributing to the research ecosystems in India
Tags: MSR India, Tech Vista
