Annual Meeting : 2008 Plenary Meeting

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Location: Fisher Conference Center, Arrillaga Alumni Center

8:00am - 8:30am	Check-In & Breakfast
8:30am - 8:45am	Welcome & Introductions
8:45am - 12:15pm	Morning Session: Social Networking
8:45am - 9:15am	David Pennock, Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Virtual Currencies
9:15am - 9:45am	Professor Amin Saberi, MS&E, Stanford Epidemics in Social Networks
9:45am - 10:00am	Break
10:00am - 10:30am	Professor Ashish Goel, MS&E, Stanford Algorithms and Incentives for Social Robustness
10:30am - 11:00am	John Carnahan, Chief Scientist, Fox Interactive Media/MySpace
11:00am - 11:45pm	Professor Vladlen Koltun, CS, Stanford Virtual Worlds
11:45am - 12:15pm	Discussion / Q&A - Professor Hector Garcia-Molina, CS/EE, Stanford, Moderator
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Luncheon Reid Hoffman, Chairman & President, LinkedIn Networks and Reputation: The Future of Professional Identity, Representation, and Collaboration	McCaw Hall
2:15pm - 5:00pm	Afternoon Session: Faculty Talks
2:15pm - 2:45pm	Professor Balaji Prabhakar, EE/CS, Stanford Counter Braids: A Novel Counter Architecture
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Professor Benjamin Van Roy, MS&E/EE, Stanford Information Technology and Financial Markets
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Professor John Pauly, EE, Stanford Minimally Invasive Image Guided Surgery
3:45pm - 4:00pm	Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Professors Eric Roberts and Mehran Sahami, CS, Stanford Expanding the Pipeline of Students in Computer Science
5:00pm - 7:00pm	Poster Session & Reception	McCaw Hall & Dwight Family Living Room, Alumni Center