2008-11-03 - CONTENT NoE in the Open Research Day Telefonica R&D 2008

09:00 – 09:15

Opening Remarks “Research@Telefónica R&D” Fernando Fournon, CEO Telefónica R&D Carlos Domingo, Director Multimedia and Internet, Telefónica R&D

09:15 – 09:45 “On the Future of Supercomputers” Mateo Valero, Head of the Computer Architecture Department at UPC and Telefónica R&D Scientific Board Member

09:45 – 10:15 “The Challenges of Networking in the 21st century” Sandeep K. Singhal, Product Manager, Windows Network Team

10:15 – 10:45 “Designing Connections, People, Places & Information” Federico Casalegno, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BREAK

11:15 – 11:45 “Multimedia Information Access: Helping People find the Right Stuff Anytime and Anywhere” Nuria Oliver, Scientific Director Multimedia, Telefónica R&D

11:45 – 12:15 “Research Trends in Future Internet” Arturo Azcorra, Universidad Carlos III and IMDEA Networks

12:15 – 12:45 “Making Peace in the Internet” Pablo Rodriguez, Internet Scientific Director, Telefónica R&D

12:45 – 13:45 Panel: “Search, Recommendations and Personalization: text and beyond” Moderator: Nuria Oliver, Telefónica Research Panelists: Xavier Serra, Pompeu Fabra University Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research Alejandro Jaimes, Telefónica Research Marc Torrens, Strands Ferran Marques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Xavier Amatriain, Telefónica Research This panel's objective is to discuss opportunities and challenges in the increasingly important areas of search, recommendation and personalization of textual and multimedia information. The panel gathers an excellent team of experts in web search, music recommendations, image and video search, social recommendations, personalization and novel approaches to recommendations. Panelists will be asked to provide their view of challenges and opportunities in their respective areas of research.

13:45 – 15:00

POSTER & DEMO SESSION More information in http://investigacion.tid.es/opendaybcn2008/