1. Academic Research Collaboration with Microsoft Pusheng Zhang Microsoft Virtual Earth/Local Search pzhang@microsoft.com

2.  External Fund Opportunity at MS  http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps  Virtual Earth Academic RFP (World Wide)  Virtual Earth http://maps.live.comhttp://maps.live.com  VE Interactive SDK http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/  Sensor Network - SensorMap  Joint Research Project with Microsoft Research  under a consulting agreement  or in an open research collaboration  New Faculty Fellowship Program  http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff/ http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff/

3.  Local search  “Italian restaurants” + “Boston”  Relevance Ranking  UI for desktop and mobile devices  Indexing and Retrieving  Location-based Advertisement  Geo-tagged photos  Organizing, browsing, retrieving  VR Automatic Reconstruction  GPS tracks  Social network  Privacy Issues