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TomBall@60 Session 1
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09:00 - 10:05
TomBall@60 Session 1
Tom Ball @ Sixty
at
Meadows B
Chair(s):
Shuvendu K. Lahiri
Microsoft Research
09:00
15m
Talk
Welcome and logistics
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Satish Chandra
Meta Platforms, Inc.
,
Shuvendu K. Lahiri
Microsoft Research
,
Mayur Naik
University of Pennsylvania
,
Byron Cook
Amazon
,
Madan Musuvathi
Microsoft Research
09:15
25m
Talk
Recollections from SLAM-ming with Tom
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Sriram Rajamani
Microsoft Research Indua
File Attached
09:40
25m
Talk
Tom and the evolution of abstraction
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Kenneth L. McMillan
University of Texas at Austin
File Attached
10:05
5m
Talk
Reminiscences from Madison and Naperville
Tom Ball @ Sixty
Satish Chandra
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Kenneth L.
McMillan
University of Texas at Austin
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Fri 24 Jul 23:32