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CSLI Calendar, 21 January 1998, vol. 13:17
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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21 January 1998 Stanford Vol. 13, No. 17
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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 21 JANUARY TO 30 JANUARY 1998
WEDNESDAY, 21 JANUARY
EE380: Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
The Chip that Wouldn't Die: A 20-Year Retrospective
John Wharton, Stanford University
[http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/lect03.html]
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
Abstract below
4:15pm Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation (SCLA)
Gates 100
Automobile Traffic Management through Intelligent Lane
Selection: A Distributed, Machine Learning Approach
David Moriarty
ISI, USC
Abstract below
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
On Dummett's Proof-Theoretic Justifications of
Logical Laws
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)
Abstract below
MONDAY, 26 JANUARY
4:30pm Stanford Digital Libraries Seminar
Gates B08
Pesto: A web browser-based portable GUI for
object-relational DBs
Jan Jannink
Stanford
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 28 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, 29 JANUARY
4:15pm Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation (SCLA)
Gates 100
Learning Comprehensible Predictive Models from Data
Mike Pazzani
Department of Information and Computer
Abstract below
7:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:146
Day one of a three day series
The Optimal Story about Second Position: The Morphosyntax
of Clitics and Related Phenomena
Stephen Anderson
Yale University
FRIDAY, 30 JANUARY
12:30pm Seminar on People, Computers, and Design
Gates B01 (HP classroom)
The Apple University Design Project
Harry Saddler
Apple ATG (formerly).
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:146
Day two of a three day series
The Optimal Story about Second Position: The Morphosyntax
of Clitics and Related Phenomena
Stephen Anderson
Yale University
SATURDAY, 31 JANUARY
7:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:146
Day three of a three day series
The Optimal Story about Second Position: The Morphosyntax
of Clitics and Related Phenomena
Stephen Anderson
Yale University
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XEROX PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 22 January 1998, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox
[http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum/]
REAL TIME, Preparing for the Age of Never Satisfied Customer
Regis McKenna
Chairman, The McKenna Group
[http://www.mckenna-group.com/]
[http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/frames/groups/press/books/realtime/]
Technology is transforming business and the marketplace in profound
ways, and the pace of change is speeding up, not slowing down. Almost
all technology today is focused on compressing to zero the time it
takes to acquire and use information, to learn, to make decisions, to
initiate action, to deploy resources, to interact with customers and
to innovate. As such, consumer attitudes, perceptions, and
expectations for service are being altered. From banking at the
grocery store to home cholesterol monitoring, people expect immediate
and customized responses to their needs.
The successful business of the future will have to adopt new business
models in response to new technology and changing consumer attitudes.
Traditional processes must be supplanted with fast, efficient,
knowledgeable and responsive systems. Understanding will be necessary
to create a real-time sensing organization that is constantly
monitoring, feeding, querying, adjusting, initiating, and
responding--prepared for the eventuality of anything. The task of
management will be to understand the driving forces shaping the new
real-time competitive marketplace. In the emerging high velocity
business environment, managers must have a foot in each
world--technology and the market--and take an active role in shaping
the response systems for building real-time customer satisfaction.
Biography: Regis McKenna is Chairman of The McKenna Group, a
management and marketing consulting firm specializing in the
application of information and telecommunications technologies to
business strategies. The firm's expertise is focused on emerging
technologies and markets. McKenna, 58, helped launch some of the most
important technological innovations of the last twenty five years,
including the first microprocessor (Intel Corporation), the first
personal computer (Apple Computer), the first recombinant-DNA,
genetically engineered product (Genentech, Inc.), and the first retail
computer store (The Byte Shop).
In 1985, McKenna wrote the first book devoted to the marketing of high
technology companies - "The Regis Touch". Now translated into nine
languages, the book elucidates McKenna's marketing theories and
strategies. Since then he has authored three more books, including
"Who's Afraid of Big Blue?" in 1989, and "Relationship Marketing" in
1992. His new book, "Real Time, Preparing For The Age of the Never
Satisfied Customer" was published by Harvard Business School Press in
September 1997.
McKenna is on the advisory board to Stanford's Graduate School of
Business and a trustee at Santa Clara University. He is a venture
partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
and serves on the boards of various Silicon Valley companies, projects
and public foundations. Currently, McKenna lectures and conducts
seminars on technology marketing and competitiveness issues throughout
the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Related reading:
Regis Mckenna, "Real Time, Preparing For The Age of the Never
Satisfied Customer"
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SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION (SCLA)
on Thursday, 22 January 1998, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates 100
[http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cll/scla.html]
Automobile Traffic Management through Intelligent Lane Selection:
A Distributed, Machine Learning Approach
David Moriarty
ISI
mailto:moriarty@isi.edu
In this talk, I will present a novel approach to traffic management
through coordinating driver behaviors. Current traffic management
systems do not consider lane organization of the cars and only affect
traffic flows by controlling traffic signals or ramp meters. However,
drivers can increase traffic throughput and more consistently maintain
desired speeds by selecting lanes intelligently. I pose the problem of
intelligent lane selection as a challenging and potentially rewarding
problem for artificial intelligence, and I propose a methodology that
uses supervised and reinforcement learning to form distributed control
strategies. Initial results are quite promising and demonstrate that
intelligent lane selection can achieve higher traffic throughput,
maximize desired speeds, and reduce the total number of lane changes.
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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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STANFORD DIGITAL LIBRARIES SEMINAR
on Monday, 26 January 1998, 4:30pm
Gates Building, B08
[http://diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/seminars/seminars.html]
Pesto:
A web browser-based portable GUI for object-relational DBs
Jan Jannink
Stanford University
Pesto is designed as a generic front-end to object-relational database
systems, as part of the Garlic project at IBM Almaden Research Center.
A session with Pesto consists of a series of browsing and querying
operations that reveal the portions of interest of a database. The
state of the browser at any time is a mirror of the database resources
active in the session. Pesto also provides basic display and method
invocation capabilities to objects in a database. These capabilities
allow the exploration of complex object hierarchies and are extensible
to support multimedia types such as graphical objects. Pesto is
written in Java using just over 30,000 lines of code, and runs in web
browsers with Java support.
Biography: Jan Jannink is a PhD candidate at Stanford University in
the Database group, and is working on frameworks to allow
interoperation of systems with semantically heterogeneous data. Jan
re-implemented Pesto in Java at Almaden in 1997.
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SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION (SCLA)
on Thursday, 29 January 1998, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates 100
[http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cll/scla.html]
Learning Comprehensible Predictive Models from Data
Mike Pazzani
Department of Information and Computer Science
University of California
Irvine, CA
Knowledge discovery in databases is a field whose goal is to turn data
into information. For example, by analyzing a database of credit card
customers we can determine what types of customers are most likely to
be profitable for the company. By "mining" databases of medical
records, new cost-effective procedures for screening for diseases may
be uncovered. Several decades of research in statistics, neural
networks and artificial intelligence have identified a variety of
approaches that produce accurate descriptive or predictive models.
However, experts are unwilling to accept the results of these
techniques when they don't make sense. Here, we focus on producing
models of data that do not unnecessarily violate the existing
knowledge of a domain, and show that the results of such a system are
more understandable by human experts.
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