Adrian's Day Number 6 - Keynote, NIER, SRC and Microsoft

Like Wednesday, we started Thursday with a fantastic presentation on design. I enjoyed the talk as it focused on an interesting subject: big picture thinking. I think Bill Dresselhaus made many good points about how we should change our approach to solving problems and how to be more creative and inventive using prototypes.

I had the chance not only to talk to one but two MSR researchers, see the two videos with Nachi Naggappan and Nikolai Tillmann:

If you listened to Nikolai Tillmann's message you might have heard about two things Pex and TouchStudio, below I included a video demoing TouchStudio, have fun.

One other thing MSR is announcing the winner of the Pex4Fun competition on Friday by the end of the conference: don't miss it!

We also had some amazing NIER posters that were presented about various new ideas among them Irwin Kwan and Christoph Treude together with Ohad Barzilay. You should definetly check out the NIER program if you haven't done so already. Well on another note, the winners of the Student Research Comaptions have been announces. I'd like to get a drumroll please... *drumroll*

Graduate category (will advance to the ACM grand finals):

1. Shauvik Roy Choudhary
2. Sai Zhang
3. Sandeep Kumap

Undergraduate category (will advance to the ACM grand finals):

1. Julius Davies
2. Vanessa Pena

And the special award for "Best project representing an innovative use of Microsoft technology" goes to:

• Xusheng Xiao

Well congratulations to everyone, not only to those that won prizes but to everyone that participated, I loved your poster session too; you all did an amazing job!

-- Adrian