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CSLI Calendar, 14 January 1998, vol. 13:16
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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14 January 1998 Stanford Vol. 13, No. 16
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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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ACTIVITIES DURING 14 JANUARY TO 23 JANUARY 1998
WEDNESDAY, 14 JANUARY
10:00am CSLI Seminar
Ventura 17
Discussion of "Information Flow: The Logic of Distributed
Systems" by Barwise and Seligman
Discussion led by David Israel
THURSDAY, 15 JANUARY
12 noon CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
Planning, Learning, and Acting by Autonomous Agents
Nils Nilsson
Stanford, Computer Science
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox PARC
DocuShare to Market: Putting People on the Same Page
Tayloe Stansbury
Vice President, Document Management Systems (DMS), Xerox
Production Systems Group
Harry Wheelis and Kurt Hanselman
Employment Development Department, State of California
Abstract below
4:15pm Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation (SCLA)
Gates 100
Data Mining and Machine Learning in Finance: the
Application of Exchange Rate Forecasting
Folke Axel Rauscher
DaimlerBenz, Ulm, Germany.
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 16 JANUARY
12:30pm Seminar on People, Computers, and Design
Gates B01 (HP classroom)
WBI: Intermediaries for Manipulating Web Content
Rob Barrett
IBM Almaden Research
Abstract below
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:146
The ach/ich Alternation and the Representation of German
Palatals
Orrin W. Robinson
Stanford University
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 20 JANUARY
4:15pm Computer Musings
Gates B01
Efficient Input/Output with Many Disks
Don Knuth
7:00pm Symbolic Systems Film Series
Margaret Jacks Hall, 460:146
"Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires,"
Part II
Description below
WEDNESDAY, 21 JANUARY
10:00am CSLI Seminar
Ventura 17
Discussion of "Information Flow: The Logic of Distributed
Systems" by Barwise and Seligman
Discussion led by David Israel
THURSDAY, 22 JANUARY
12 noon CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
On Brain-Behavior Correspondence
Bob Zajonc
Stanford, Psychology
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox PARC
REAL TIME, Preparing for the Age of the Never Satisfied
Customer
Regis Mckenna
The Mckenna Group
4:15pm Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation (SCLA)
Gates 100
David Moriarty
ISI, USC
FRIDAY, 23 JANUARY
12:30pm Seminar on People, Computers, and Design
Gates B01 (HP classroom)
Interaction Design
Dag Svanaes
University of Trondheim, Norway.
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium
Bldg. 90:92Q
Frege's Conception of Logic
Warren Goldfarb
Harvard University
SATURDAY, 24 JANUARY
10:00am Asian Language Workshop
Bldg. 50:52H
Principles of Performance-Based Foreign Language
Instruction
Prof. Ho-Min Sohn
Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa
You must contact Sungdai Cho
[mailto:sundy@leland.stanford.edu]
by January 20 to attend
(there may be attendance restrictions)
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XEROX PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 15 January 1998, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox
[http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum/]
DocuShare to Market: Putting People on the Same Page
Tayloe Stansbury
Vice President, Document Management Systems (DMS),
Xerox Production Systems Group
Harry Wheelis and Kurt Hanselman
Employment Development Department, State of California
[http://www.xerox.com/products/docushare/index.html]
DocuShare is an affordable web-based solution for managing and sharing
information across organizational and system boundaries. It allows
users to store, retrieve, and update documents in many file formats
and enables cross-platform access to shared documents. In this
presentation, Mr. Stansbury will explore the extraordinary
collaboration between Xerox research and product teams that brought
DocuShare from research lab prototype to shipped, marketed, sold, and
supported product in six months.
To illustrate the strength of their product, Mr. Stansbury has invited
a guest to discuss the successful implementation of DocuShare on their
Intranet. The Employment Development Department of the State of
California loaded DocuShare on a development server on July 2, 1997.
Approximately one month later DocuShare was loaded on a production
Intranet server. The service has been successful as a tool to expand
the concept of the utility of the Intranet, as well as a practical
tool for involving non-technical internal customers in the building of
the Intranet information structure. Some 75 authors have already
loaded 900 data files on the server ranging in size from one printed
page to major operational manuals.
Biography: Tayloe Stansbury is vice president, Document Management
Systems (DMS), in the Xerox Production Systems Group. DMS products
include DocuShare, InterDoc, Visual Recall, and GlobalView. Prior to
his tenure with DMS, Tayloe was an engineering manager at Borland
International, a team leader and architect at Sun Microsystems, and a
researcher at Xerox PARC.
Harry Wheelis holds degrees in bacteriology and theater arts. He has
a varied background ranging from commercial radio and television
production to programmer and IT analyst with the Employment
Development Department. During his 19 years with the EDD, he has
developed desktop applications and systems across all computing
platforms within the EDD. He is currently involved in identifying and
implementing the IT architecture(s) that will further this
development.
Kurt Hanselman has an advanced degree in social anthropology and has
been working for the Employment Development Department for two
decades. He has held a variety of positions in the areas of economic
research and IT. He was one of the designers of the EDD's first
modern statewide, automated service and a member of the team that
created the EDD's Information Center in 1982. He has been working on
customer/user driven IT services since.
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SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION (SCLA)
on Thursday, 15 January 1998, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates 100
[http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cll/scla.html]
Data Mining and Machine Learning in Finance:
the Application of Exchange Rate Forecasting
Folke A. Rauscher
Daimler-Benz Research & Technology
Ulm, Germany
Within the research fields of Machine Learning and Data Mining the
development of intelligent and adaptive methods have, among others,
led to most exciting applications in finance. These methods for the
intelligent analysis of large data sets have emerged from several
historically disjoint fields, such as applied statistics, information
systems, machine learning, data engineering, artificial intelligence
and knowledge discovery in databases. Within the quantitative
financial research these emerging technologies become amenable to
data-driven modeling as large sets of financial data become available,
and therefore "mine-able". In this talk, I first briefly describe the
Data Mining and Machine Learning activities at Daimler-Benz Research &
Technology in Germany in general. Then I describe the more specific
application of intelligent and adaptive methods for exchange rate
forecasting in an corporate business environment. Here I discuss
neural networks, multi-task learning aspects, decision and regressions
trees in the context of, and as applied to, quantitative financial
research. Finally, I raise some future research aspects which I would
be happy to collaboratively address during my visit at Stanford
through March.
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SEMINAR ON PEOPLE, COMPUTER, AND DESIGN
on Friday, 16 January 1998, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01 (HP Classroom)
[http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/seminar/]
(SITN Channel E2)
WBI: Intermediaries for Manipulating Web Content
Robert C. Barrett
IBM Almaden Research Center
mailto:barrett@almaden.ibm.com
The current architecture of the web gives the server sole
responsibility for determining the content that results from a
browser's request. Because of the well-defined information stream
between browser and server, this architecture is easily extended to
allow multiple entities to cooperate in producing the final delivered
content. Applications can then be built as intermediary components
which live along the information stream. WBI defines intermediaries
which can observe, produce, and edit web content anywhere between
browser and server. WBI provides a place for applications to
manipulate web content. These applications can be used for
personalization, protocol extensions, collaboration, advising, and
dynamic content generation. The same concepts can be applied to
non-web information streams, such as mouse/keyboard input, information
push, and e-mail.
Biography: Dr. Barrett is a Research Staff Member of the User
Ergonomics Research department in the Computer Science function at the
Almaden Research Center. He received B.S. degrees in physics and
electrical engineering and a M.S. degree in physics from Washington
University (St. Louis) in 1987, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied
physics from Stanford University in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He
subsequently joined IBM at the Almaden Research Center, where he has
worked on magnetic storage, scanned probe storage, computer pointing
devices, information retrieval technologies, and web-based
intermediaries.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 16 January 1998, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 460:146
[http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/colloq.html]
The ach/ich Alternation and the Representation of German Palatals
Orrin W. Robinson
Stanford University
In the most recent descriptions of the ach/ich alternation in Modern
Standard German, the distribution of [*] and [x] is seen to follow
from two rules, one the assimilation of an underspecified dorsal
fricative to a preceding (back) vowel, the other a default rule
filling in the feature [-back] (or [+front]) on all remaining dorsal
fricatives. Both the assimilation rule and the default rule make the
by-now-standard assumption that the feature [back] (or [front]) is
dependent on the Dorsal node, and thus that both [*] and [x] are
[Dorsal] consonants.
On the basis of certain well-known "substandard" varieties of German
spoken in the Central German area, it is argued in this talk that both
the directionality of this analysis, with [*] as the default and [x]
as the conditioned variant, and the feature geometry outlined above,
are inadequate to capture the naturalness of the relationship between
the standard and the substandard. Indeed, the regularities found in
the substandard are not even describable within such a system.
I suggest an analysis of both speech varieties in which the variant
[x] may be seen as the default, and in which the palatal [*], in line
with a number of recent analyses of palatals in other languages, is
viewed as a complex segment with associations to both the Coronal and
Dorsal nodes. Within such a system, I argue, not only are the
regularities within each speech variety clearly captured, the
relationship between them is also made comprehensible.
Please note [*] above represents a voiceless palatal fricative.
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FILM SERIES
On Tuesday, 20 January 1998, 7:00pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 460:146
[http://www.stanford.edu/dept/symbol/film.html]
Robert Cringely's
Triumph of the Nerds:
The Rise of Accidental Empires
"Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" explores the
diverse and colorful characters who stumbled on the computer
revolution that changed the world. It features interviews with
prominent figures from IBM, Xerox PARC, Apple, and Microsoft.
The film will be shown in three 1-hour segments, each at 7:00 PM in
Building 460 (Margaret Jacks Hall), room 146:
Part I: Tuesday, Jan. 13,
Part II: Tuesday, Jan. 20,
Part III: Tuesday, Feb. 3 (note the skipped week!)
After the final showing, at 8:00 on Feb. 3, there will be a discussion
of the film led by John Perry, director of the Center for the Study of
Language and Information and professor of Philosophy.
Refreshments will be provided.
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ASIAN LANGUAGES WORKSHOP
On Saturday, 24 January 1998, 10:00am
Bldg. 50:52H
Principles of Performance-Based Foreign Language Instruction
Prof. Ho-Min Sohn
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Professor Sohn is Chairman at the Department of East Asian Languages
and Literature at the University of Hawaii and Professor in Korean
language and instruction. His major research area is all fields of
Korean linguistics, Korean language pedagogy and general, oceanic
linguistics. He is currently working as a principal investigator of
Six Year International Collaborative Korean Language Textbook Project
funded by the Korea Foundation for developing 14 textbooks and a
dictionary until the year 2000.
He presented and published more than 100 articles and (co-)authored 17
books, one of which was released from Routledge 1994 and another will
be out from Cambridge University Press this year, on Korean Language.
His talk next Saturday will be about how to develop language
textbooks, not only of East Asian Languages, but also of other
languages.
For those who are interested in participating from the Asian Languages
Department, please sign up on the lunch box sheet at the department,
and for everybody else, please let Sungdai Cho (650-723-3820,
mailto:sundy@leland.stanford.edu) know your presence, both by next
Tuesday (1/20).
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