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C S L I C A L E N D A R O F P U B L I C E V E N T S
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28 September 1995 Stanford Vol. 11, No. 1
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A weekly publication of the Center for the Study of Language and
Information (CSLI), Stanford University, Ventura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4115
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CSLI ACTIVITIES DURING 27 SEPTEMBER -- 6 OCTOBER 1995
WEDNESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER
3:15 - Philosophy of Computation Seminar
Ventura Hall, Room 17
Brian Cantwell Smith
Xerox PARC and Stanford Philosophy
Course description below
THURSDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER
10:00 - STASS Seminar
Cordura Hall, Room 100
The Reflexive/Incremental Approach to Information,
Cognition, Language, and Action: Introduction
John Perry and David Israel
Stanford Philosophy and SRI International
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER
12:30 - HCI Seminar
Skilling Auditorium, SITN Channel E1
Applications of WWW in the Education of Engineering
Design Teams
Jack Hong, George Toye, and Larry J. Leifer,
Stanford Center for Design Research
Abstract below
MONDAY, 2 OCTOBER
2:00 - Semantics Workshop
Cordura Hall, Room 100
Branching Quantifiers and Cumulative Readings
Jan Tore Loenning
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER
3:15 - Philosophy of Computation Seminar
Ventura Hall, Room 17
Brian Cantwell Smith
Xerox PARC and Stanford Philosophy
Course description below
4:00 - Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, Room 100
Speaker and Title to be announced
THURSDAY, 5 OCTOBER
10:00 - STASS Seminar
Cordura Hall, Room 100
The Reflexive/Incremental Approach to Information, Cognition,
Language, and Action: Information Content
John Perry and David Israel
Stanford Philosophy and SRI International
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER
12:00 - Logic Lunch
Building 380, Room 383-N
Speaker and title to be announced
12:30 - HCI Seminar
Skilling Auditorium, SITN Channel E1
Speaker and title to be announced
3:15 - Philosophy Colloquium
Encina Hall, Room 423
Title to be announced
Gary Watson, UC Irvine Philosophy
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year. Announcements, abstracts, and other information to appear in the
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are available on the Internet at URL <http://www-csli.stanford.edu/>.
The Calendar is also posted each week to the <csli.bboard> newsgroup.
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PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTATION SEMINAR
on Wednesdays, 3:15 p.m.
Ventura Hall, Room 17
Brian Cantwell Smith
Xerox PARC
[bcsmith@parc.xerox.com]
[http://shr.stanford.edu/BCSmith/phil395a.html]
Can machines be conscious? How do we assess rape in cyberspace? Is it
ethical to give computers power over human life? Why do so many people think
computation is abstract (and on-line experience virtual)? What sort of
materiality underwrites the Web? How will computers affect the methodology of
science? What about quantum and DNA computers? Could there be a continuous
programming language?
Answering such questions requires knowing what computation is. This course
asks how well we understand the foundations of the information age. Not all
that well, it suggests (at least not yet). Come and find out why.
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STASS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 28 September
10:00 a.m., Cordura Hall, Room 100
The Reflexive/Incremental Approach to Information, Cognition,
Language, and Action: Introduction
John Perry and David Israel
Stanford Philosophy and SRI
[john@csli.stanford.edu,israel@ai.sri.com]
During the Fall Quarter STASS seminar at CSLI, David Israel and John Perry
will be giving six presentations on their recent paper on what they call the
reflexive/incremental approach to information, cognition, language, and
action.
The first meeting will be an introduction to this material. As background,
see John Perry's "Individuals in Informational and Intentional Content." In
_Information, Semantics and Epistemology_, edited by Enrique Villanueva,
172--89 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990). Reprinted in Perry, _The Problem of
the Essential Indexical and Other Essays_. New York: Oxford University Press,
1993. Also available on WWW at
[http://www-csli.stanford.edu/users/john/phil.html].
Students may sign up for Philosophy 380 and take a seminar based on these
presentations. For more information about that, attend this first meeting and
talk to John Perry.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursdays, 12:00 noon
Cordura Hall, Room 100
Theme: Consciousness
Guven Guzeldere
[guven@csli.stanford.edu]
In 1995-96, the traditional TINLunch (Topics in Natural Language Lunch) series
at CSLI will be expanded into a new noontime Cognitive Science series --
"CogLunch". We hope to cover a variety of topics that fall under the umbrella
term "cognitive science", a subset of which will be the traditional themes
pursued in the TINLunch series over the years.
We will try to run CogLunch talks on a specific theme per quarter, or even per
year (though we intend to be flexible about that). This year's designated
theme is *consciousness*. Throughout the year, we hope to approach problems
of consciousness from various perspectives, e.g., those of philosophy,
psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, biology, cognitive science, artificial
intelligence, and quantum mechanics, as well as the humanities. As a true
successor of TINLunch, CogLunch is intended to be an interdisciplinary forum
of ideas, exchanges, and debates. The current schedule for the Fall Quarter
tentatively includes the following speakers: Owen Flanagan, Ernest Hilgard,
John McCarthy, Brian Wandell, Fred Dretske, Bruce Mangan, David Spiegel, Henry
Stapp.
As usual, we hope to have informal but rigorous talks and lively discussions,
starting at 12:00 noon and going until 1:15 or so on Thursdays. Sandwiches
and drinks will be available for a nominal fee at the door. Please feel free
to bring your own lunch if you prefer.
I would also like to take this opportunity to ask everyone to send suggestions
(e-mail to <guven@csli.stanford.edu>) for speakers on consciousness. We have
been recruiting speakers from the larger Bay Area, but we will be happy to
accommodate visitors who happen to be in the area on a given Thursday as well.
Please keep an eye on the CSLI calendar for CogLunch announcements. We will
try to provide titles and abstracts, as well as information about the
speakers, two weeks ahead of time. If you want to get on the mailing list for
CSLI events, please send e-mail to <burke@csli.stanford.edu>.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
LINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOLOGY SEMINAR
on Thursdays, 1:15 -- 3:00
Building 420, Room 358
Language and Space
Stanley Peters and Barbara Tversky
[peters@prosit.stanford.edu, bt@psych.stanford.edu]
How does our perception of the world affect language, and language affect our
perception of the world? This seminar will examine the relations between
space and language, drawing primarily on psychology and linguistics for
resources. We will begin with objects, then consider spatial relations
between objects, then perspectives on scenes and in descriptions, and,
finally, motion in both perception and language. Students will be encouraged
to work together on an interdisciplinary project.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
DISCUSSION GROUP ON OBJECT THEORY
on Fridays, 10:00 a.m.
Cordura Hall, Room 104
The group meets to discuss the axiomatic theory of abstract objects and to
work through the manuscript linked into the URL
[http://mally.stanford.edu/theory.html].
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HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 29 September
12:30 p.m., Skilling Auditorium
Applications of WWW in the Education of Engineering Design Teams
Jack Hong, George Toye, Larry J. Leifer
Stanford Center for Design Research
[hong,toye,leifer@cdr.stanford.edu]
ME210: Mechatronic Systems Design, is a graduate-level engineering design
class offered by Stanford's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Every year,
ME210 provides an environment for 14+ three-person teams to tackle a wide
range of industry sponsored projects, each working with a $10,000 budget to
deliver functional hardware at year's end.
In Autumn 1994, ME210 took on the additional challenge of being offered
concurrently to both traditional on-campus students and off-campus Honors
Co-op students through Stanford's Instructional Television Network (SITN, now
known as the Stanford Center for Professional Development, SCPD). In this
distributed environment, paper-based communications no longer reached the
whole class in a timely fashion, and team members no longer had the benefit of
working with partners side-by-side. To compensate, a suite of Web-centered
services were deployed, and ME210 was moved to a completely Web-mediated
classroom infrastructure.
We will discuss our experiences in the first year of web-mediated distance
learning and teamwork, and demonstrate key technologies that have been
enhanced for the class of 95-96.
JACK HONG is a Ph.D. candidate in the Design Division of Mechanical
Engineering at Stanford University. He holds an M.S.in Product Design
Engineering from Stanford, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Honors) and a
B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston at University
Park. His current research interests are in collaborative design tools,
interdisciplinary design team dynamics and human-computer interaction.
GEORGE TOYE, Ph.D. has a background in mechatronics and redundant control
systems for complex computer-based systems. He is currently the associate
director of the Stanford Center for Design Research, and is centrally involved
in the center's study of engineering design activities, processes, and
interactive learning. His current research activities include the ARPA funded
project ("SHARE") to develop computer network based technology in support of
collaborative design and manufacturing activities via the Internet, and the
NSF's National Engineering Education Delivery System ("NEEDS") project, in
which courseware modules can be found and distributed via the Internet.
LARRY LEIFER, Ph.D. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford,
Director of the Stanford Center for Design Research, and instructor of ME210.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering (1962), a
Master of Science degree in Product Design (1963) and a Ph.D. in Biomedical
Engineering (1969), all from Stanford University. He has published in the
areas of diagnostic electrophysiology, functional assessment of voluntary
movement, human operator information processing, rehabilitation robotics,
design team protocol analysis, design knowledge capture and concurrent
engineering.
For more information, contact Jack Hong (hong@cdr.stanford.edu) or read more
about ME210 at <http://me210.stanford.edu/intro.html>
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SEMANTICS SEMINAR
on Monday, 2 October
2:00 p.m., Cordura Hall, Room 100
Branching Quantifiers and Cumulative Readings
Jan Tore Loenning
[loenning@csli.stanford.edu]
In the paper I bring together two traditions, the study of branching
quantification within the framework of generalized quantifiers and the study
of cumulative quantification within the tradition of collective readings of
plurals. Jon Barwise (1979) proposed a branched reading of generalized
quantifiers in sentences like 'Most linguists and most logicians respect each
other.' The interpretation presupposes the two quantifiers to be of the same
monotonicity type. I will propose a possible interpretation of quantifiers of
opposite monotonicity types and apply this interpretation to sentences like
'(At most) ten percent of the men own (at least) ninety percent of the
buildings.' I will then compare this proposal to other approaches to
branching quantification and cumulative readings and discuss whether it is
empirically adequate.
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SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Wednesday, 4 October
4:00 p.m., Cordura Hall, Room 100
Title to be announced
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STASS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 5 October
10:00 a.m., Cordura Hall, Room 100
The Reflexive/Incremental Approach to Information, Cognition,
Language, and Action: Information Content
John Perry and David Israel
Stanford Philosophy and SRI International
[john@csli.stanford.edu,israel@ai.sri.com]
During the Fall Quarter STASS seminar at CSLI, David Israel and John Perry
will be giving six presentations on their recent paper on what they call the
reflexive/incremental approach to information, cognition, language, and
action.
This meeting will be the first of two sessions on Information Content. As
background, see Israel and Perry, "What is Information?" In _Information,
Language and Cognition_, edited by Philip Hanson, Vancouver: University of
British Columbia Press, 1990: 1-19. Also available on WWW via
<http://www-csli.stanford.edu/users/john/phil.html>.
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LOGIC LUNCH
on Friday, 6 October
12:00 noon, Building 380, Room 383-N
Title to be announced
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HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 6 October
12:30 p.m., Skilling Auditorium
Title to be announced
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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 6 October
3:15 p.m., Encina Hall, Room 423
Title to be announced
Gary Watson
UC Irvine Philosophy
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