Program

Professor Patrick Baudisch

Bio
Patrick Baudisch is a professor in Computer Science at Hasso Plattner Institute. His research focuses on the miniaturization of mobile devices, touch input, interactive floors, and, most recently, interactive fabrication. Previously, he spent a decade at Microsoft Research and Xerox PARC.

Abstract
One-year olds can use touch screens-youtube has proof of that. But why-what makes certain interactive devices so "natural" that any child can just pick them up and use them? The key seems to be user interface hardware that only allows for the one thing even 1-year olds can do-point. No windows, no mice, no touch pads, and certainly no fisheyes and other tricks. Just space. The resulting systems tend to be wonderful to use, but they also tend to be limited, as we have essentially thrown out most of the advances in user interface research of the past 40 years. In this keynote, I will discuss this evolution and I will show how to reintroduce some of the lost qualities-in the form of custom hardware devices. I will show a series of prototypes I have built over the past decade, at PARC, at Microsoft Research, and at Hasso Plattner Institute, all of which elaborate on the topic of naturalness. A hardware/devices perspective.

http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/baudisch/projects.html

How Taiwan's mobile companies have achieved impressive success in the international marketplace and are continuing to adapt to this fast-changing and fast-growing mobile market?

Panelist – Dr. Yucheun Kevin Jou (MediaTek, CTO)

Bio

Kevin Jou is a Corporate Vice President and the Chief Technology Officer at MediaTek Inc (Taiwan's leading provider of wireless communications and digital multimedia ICs with 2012 revenue of US$3B). He oversees the company's advanced research and development in various areas related to smart communication devices and provides guidance to its technology and business strategies. Before joining MediaTek in 2011, Dr. Jou spent nearly 22 years at Qualcomm Incorporated. He was involved in the design and development of the original CDMA prototype system, the IS-95 standard, and early CDMA modem chips. He was a key contributor to the design and standardization of the third generation (3G) cellular systems, including leading the development of CDMA2000 1X and CDMA2000 1X-EV-DO standards for voice and packet data services. He was also involved in the design of the Globalstar LEO satellite communication system. Dr. Jou played a major role in Qualcomm's technical and business activities in the Greater China area. He served as Qualcomm China's Chief Technology Officer from 2003 to 2005. Dr. Jou holds approximately 80 U. S. patents, many of which are used in all CDMA-based 3G cellular systems. Dr. Jou received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1982 and Master of Science and Ph. D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Southern California in 1985 and 1989, respectively.

Panelist – Dr. Edward Chang (HTC, Vice President of Technology)

Bio

Edward Chang is the Vice President of Technology at HTC (Taiwan's leading provider of Android and Windows smartphones with 2012 revenue of US$8B), heading software and hardware future technology research and development. Prior to his HTC post, he was a director of Google Research for 6.5 years, in charge of research and development in several areas including indoor positioning, big data mining, social networking and search integration, and Web search (spam fighting). His team's milestone work on indoor positioning and associated sensor-calibration patents are now being deployed in the world by several companies. His pioneer contributions in parallel machine learning algorithms and big-data mining are widely recognized via several keynote invitations. The open-source, big-data mining codes developed by his team have been collectively downloaded over 10,000 times. The Google Q&A system developed by his team was launched in 60+ countries including China, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, 17 Arabic, and 40 Africa nations. His team also devoted in developing algorithms and components for Web search, Google+, Chrome, and PicasaWeb. Prior to Google, Ed was a full professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He joined UCSB in 1999 after received his PhD from Stanford University, and was tenured in 2003 and promoted to full professor in 2006. Ed received his MS in Computer Science and PhD in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.