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SUMMARY:IC Monday Seminar : A Glimpse at the Future of Computing
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Rico Malvar - Microsoft Research\, Invited by Prof. Martin
  Vetterli\nAbstract Computing\, information\, and entertainment technologi
 es evolve and change at an increasingly rapid pace. In this talk we presen
 t an overview of some of the technologies developed at Microsoft Research 
 that push the limits of computing. Those include visualization techniques 
 for petabytes of data\, touch interfaces and body computing\, speech trans
 lation\, augmented reality\, user sentiment analysis\, streaming data proc
 essing\, new wireless networking interfaces\, and new tools for design and
  test of large-scale software. Biography Rico Malvar is a Microsoft Distin
 guished Engineer and the Chief Scientist for Microsoft Research (MSR). He 
 holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 
 Before Joining Microsoft in 1997\, he was a Vice President of Research and
  Advanced Development at PictureTel\, and prior to that he was with the fa
 culty of University of Brasilia. At MSR he leads strategic projects across
  the worldwide labs\; previously he was the Managing Director for the MSR 
 Lab in Redmond\, WA\, where he oversaw over 300 researchers and engineers 
 working in many areas related to computers science. His technical interest
 s include multimedia signal compression and enhancement\, fast algorithms\
 , multi-rate filter banks\, and multi-resolution and wavelet transforms. H
 e has over 150 publications and over 100 issued patents in those areas. He
  contributed to the design of well-known media formats\, such as WMA\, G.7
 22.1\, and H.264\, and is the main architect of JPEG XR. He has contribute
 d to Microsoft products such as Windows\, Office\, Bing\, Hyper-V\, Xbox\,
  Kinect\, and others. Dr. Malvar is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the 
 Young Scientist Award from the Marconi International Fellowship in 1981\, 
 the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in
  2002\, and the Wavelet Pioneer Award from the SPIE in 2004.
LOCATION:INM 202
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