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  Microsoft Corporation MINDSWAP
Monday - Tuesday, May 14 – 15, 2012
                
 
 

Microsoft:                                

Moshe Babaioff, Christian Borgs, Ece Kamar, Ian Kash, Peter Key, Peter Lee, Ying Li, Tie-Yan Liu, Brendan Lucier, Ishai Menache (tentative), Markus Mobius, Paul Oka, Nikhil Devanur Rangarajan, Mohit Singh, Moshe Tennenholtz

   
Carnegie Mellon: 

Daniel Jenkins, Associate Director, Corporate and Institutional Partnerships; mobile: 607-342-1588

 

Mindswap Agenda (See also the MSR-CMU Review)

Location: Gates-Hillman Center (GHC) – Room 6115

MSR-CMU Center for Computational Thinking Mindswap

 


Monday, May 14th

1:00 – 1:15 p.m.
MSR/CMU MindSwap on Interface between CS and Economics
Introductory remarks
Jennifer Chayes (MSR) & Avrim Blum (CMU)
1:15 – 3:00 p.m. MindSwap Session 1
Short getting-to-know-you presentations by groups/individuals involved
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 – 5:30 p.m. MindSwap Session 2
Presentation of several Microsoft-relevant problems for discussion
6:00 – 8:30 p.m. MSR hosted gathering:
Pizza or other food (includes graduate students)

Tuesday, May 15th

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast [headcount??]
Location GHC – Room 6121   (tentative)
Location Gates-Hillman Center (GHC) – Room 6115
(all session unless otherwise indicated)
 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.  MindSwap Session 3
Breakout groups for problems discussed Monday
Locations GHC – Rooms 6115; 6121; 6501; 7101
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 – 12:30 p.m. MindSwap Session 4
Summaries for each breakout group and discussion
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch [How many? Who?]
Location GHC – Room 6115
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. MindSwap Session 5
General discussion, crazy ideas, anything goes, and concluding thoughts

See also the MSR-CMU Review


Mindswap Poster

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