I had the chance to tag along with Carrie to the Microsoft Research Forum today. It is an exclusive event for the professors. Carrie and Tim Pan invited Daniel Ling (Corporate Vice-President for Research), Hsiao-Wuen Hon (Assistant Director of MSRA), Dr. Ovid JL Tzeng (Assistant Director of Academia Sinica, Taiwan; former head of the Department of Education), Dr. Chao-Han Liu (President of the University Systems of Taiwan), and  Wei-Tsun Jin (Producer of the Business Weekly) to a panel discussion with the academia. It was quite inspiring. I will try to post some messages I got from the forum along with some pictures later on (after I prepare for my seminar on Saturday).