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CSLI Calendar, 28 October 1999, vol. 15:6
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 October 1999 Stanford Vol. 15, No. 6
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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 FROM 28 OCTOBER TO 5 NOVEMBER 1999
WEDNESDAY, 27 OCTOBER
2:00pm CS528: Broad Area Colloquium
Gates 104
GIB
Matt Ginsberg
CIRL, University of Oregon
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
Transistors:
From Molecules to Large Scale Circuits
Ananth Dodabalapur
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/contents.html
4:15pm CS528: Broad Area Colloquium
TCseq 201
AI Meets the Real World: Applying Weak Methods to
Practical Problems
Matt Ginsberg
CIRL, University of Oregon
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 28 OCTOBER
11:00am CCRMA Hearing Seminar
CCRMA Library
Why is Timbre so Difficult to Study?
David Huron
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Events/Events.html#hearing
Abstract below
3:15pm Experiments in Learning at Stanford
Press Warehouse, room 118
Learning with a Computer vs. Learning with a Person: A
Social Perspective
Clifford Nass
Department of Communication, Stanford University
http://sll.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox PARC
Extended static checking
Greg Nelson
Compaq Systems Research Center
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum
Abstract below
4:15pm Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation (SCLA)
Cordura 100
Efficient Read-Restricted Monotone CNF/DNF Dualization by
Learning with Membership Queries
Nina Mishra
HP Laboratories
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cll/scla.html
Abstract below
4:15pm US-Japan Technology Management Center
Skilling Engineering Auditorium
New opportunities versus old mistakes: foreign companies
in Japan's high-tech world
Dr. Gerhard Fasol
President & CEO, Eurotechnology Japan K.K.
http://www.stanford.edu/~viji/
7:30pm Stanford Phonology Workshop
Building 460, Room 126
Title TBA
Edward Flemming
Linguistics
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER
12 noon Logic Lunch
Room 380:383N
Dialectica Categories: a survey
Valeria de Paiva
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham UK
Visiting Xerox PARC
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
12:30pm Seminar on People, Computers, and Design
Gates B03 (NEC classroom)
How Human is Human-Computer Interaction?
Clifford Nass
Stanford Communications Dept. and CSLI
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm CS545: Infolab Seminar
188 tcSEQ (across from Gates)
Some Aspects of Multidimensional Data Modelling and OLAP
Alex Russakovskii
Hyperion
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/dbseminar.html
3:15pm Philosophy Colloquium
Building 90, Room 92Q
Mathematical Explanation: a new challenge for the
philosophy of mathematics?
Paolo Mancuso
UC Berkeley
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/
3:15pm FRISEM: Cognitive Psychology Seminar
Jordan 420:100
Pot luck
Ken Forbus
http://matia.stanford.edu/html/talks.html#frisem
3:15pm Experiments in Learning at Stanford
Press Warehouse, room 118
Human Centered Design
Joseph Koncelik
Center for Rehabilitation Technology, Georgia Tech
http://sll.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
3:30pm Stanford Linguistics Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
The Social Geography of Variation: connecting the local
and the global
Penelope Eckert
Stanford University
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/colloq.html
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 3 NOVEMBER
10:00am Knowledge on the Web Seminar
Gates 104
To be announced
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/KnOWS.html
12 noon Stanford Computer Industry Project (SCIP)
Littlefield room L107
To be announced
http://www.stanford.edu/group/scip/
12 noon Developmental Brownbag
Jordan Hall, 420:286
The Sociobiology of Early Self Development
Jeff Measelle
Stanford
http://matia.stanford.edu/html/talks.html
3:45pm Psychology Colloquium
Jordan Hall, 420:041
Quests for universal principles of cognition, of science,
and of ethics
Roger Shepard
Stanford
http://matia.stanford.edu/html/talks.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
Start-Up Incubation:
The Latest Form of Corporate Research and Development
Charles Wu
Panasonic
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/contents.html
Abstract below
4:15pm CS528: Broad Area Colloquium
TCseq 201
to be announced
Marc Levoy
Stanford
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
6:00pm Sociable Syntax Supper Group
Margaret Jacks Hall 126
Copula Absence Without Deletion and Non-Categorical
Constraints in Competence Grammar
Emily Bender
THURSDAY, 4 NOVEMBER
11:00am CCRMA Hearing Seminar
CCRMA Library
Binaural Synthesis
Veronique Larcher
Emu
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Events/Events.html#hearing
12 noon Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching
CERAS 204
Teaching As Learning:
The Process of Designing a New Course
Prof. Leonard Ortolano
Civil & Environmental Engineering
http://www-ctl.stanford.edu/teach/awt/awtmain.html
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox PARC
to be announced
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum
4:15pm Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation (SCLA)
Cordura 100
TBA
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cll/scla.html
4:15pm US-Japan Technology Management Center
Skilling Engineering Auditorium
New Movements of Japanese Science and Technology
Basic Science and Entrepreneurial Technology
Professor Noby Maeda
Kochi University of Technology
http://www.stanford.edu/~viji/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 5 NOVEMBER
12:30pm Seminar on People, Computers, and Design
Gates B03 (NEC classroom)
Recent Research at the NYU Media Research Lab
Ken Perlin
NYU
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm CS545: Infolab Seminar
188 tcSEQ (across from Gates)
To be announced
R.V. Guha
Epinions
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/dbseminar.html
3:15pm FRISEM: Cognitive Psychology Seminar
Jordan 420:100
Different strokes for different folks: individual
differences in representation
Keith Stenning
CSLI visitor
http://matia.stanford.edu/html/talks.html#frisem
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BROAD AREA COLLOQUIUM FOR
AI-GEOMETRY-GRAPHICS-ROBOTICS-VISION
on Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 2:00pm
Gates 104
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
GIB
Matt Ginsberg
CIRL, University of Oregon
This informal talk describes GIB, the first bridge-playing program to
approach the level of a human expert. (GIB finished twelfth in a
hand-picked field of thirty-four experts at an invitational event at
the 1998 World Bridge Championships.) We give a basic overview of the
algorithms used, describe their strengths and weaknesses, and present
the results of experiments comparing GIB to both human opponents and
other programs.
(This is the first of two talks that Prof. Ginsberg will be giving on
27 October.)
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BROAD AREA COLLOQUIUM FOR
AI-GEOMETRY-GRAPHICS-ROBOTICS-VISION
on Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 4:15pm
Science and Engineering Quad Teaching Center (TCseq201)
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
AI Meets the Real World:
Applying Weak Methods to Practical Problems
Matthew L. Ginsberg
CIRL, University of Oregon
The conventional wisdom in AI (even as taught at Stanford) is that
NP-complete problems are intractable in general.
In practice, however, this is simply wrong: NP-complete problems are
typically easy and almost always tractable. This suggests (correctly,
I would argue) that the computational problems of intelligence can
best be addressed by finding and solving NP-complete approximations of
them.
In this talk, I discuss this overall approach, describing leading
methods for solving satisfiability problems and considering the main
difficulty encountered by these methods: The NP-complete problems
associated with difficult realistic problems are awkwardly large. I
present a new technique that can reduce both the size of the problems
and the time needed to solve them by multiple orders of magnitude.
Biography: Matthew L. Ginsberg received his doctorate in mathematics
from Oxford in 1980 at the age of 24. He remained on the faculty in
Oxford until 1983, doing research in mathematical physics and computer
science; during this period, he wrote a program that was used
successfully to trade stock and stock options on Wall Street.
Ginsberg's continuing interest in artificial intelligence brought him
to Stanford in late 1983, where he remained for nine years. He then
went on to found CIRL, the computational intelligence research
laboratory at the University of Oregon, which he directed until 1996.
Ginsberg's present interests include constraint satisfaction,
planning, and computer bridge. He is the author of numerous
publications in these areas, the editor of "Readings in Nonmonotonic
Reasoning," and the author of "Essentials of Artificial Intelligence,"
both published by Morgan Kaufmann. He is also the author of the
bridge-playing program GIB, which recently made international news by
participating in the world bridge championships in Lille, France, and
the CEO of On Time Systems, Inc., CIRL's commercial scheduling
spinoff.
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 28 October 1999, 11:00am
CCRMA Library, The Knoll
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Events/Events.html
Why is Timbre so Difficult to Study?
David Huron
Ohio State
Apart from a few minor excitements, the 20th century has witnessed
little progress in our understanding of timbre. Some fine work by
researchers such as Gray and Kendall notwithstanding, the promise of
multi-dimensional scaling has largely fizzled. Compared with our
understanding of pitch, loudness, localization, speech, scene
analysis, and other areas of audition, timbre research remains
rudimentary and in disarray.
In this talk, I propose a new approach to the study of timbre. The
approach has two components. The first component builds on the modest
results in ecological acoustics. I will suggest that the "dimensions"
of timbre relate to specific evolutionary adaptations in the auditory
system. Plausible adaptive "timbre modules" might include "gender
identification" (ala Li, Logan & Pastore), "size estimation" (Hogg &
Huron), dominance-submissiveness (ala Ohala), food consumption (ala
Arnold), energetics (e.g. Warren & Verbrugge), fear detection, and
others. The second component is a generalized learning "module" whose
role is the opportunistic assembling of cues that help in identifying
individual sounds ("that's the fridge," "that's mom's voice," etc.).
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EXPERIMENTS IN LEARNING
on Thursday, 28 October 1999, 3:15pm
Stanford Press Warehouse, room 118
http://sll.stanford.edu/
Learning with a Computer vs. Learning with a Person:
A Social Perspective
Clifford Nass
Communication, Stanford
In this talk, I'll describe a series of studies grounded in the idea
that individuals' interactions with interactive media are
fundamentally social. I will discuss the results of experiments that
examine effects of a wide variety of interface manipulations,
including adaptation, text-to-speech, consistency between modalities,
interface personality, character appearance, and number of characters
on performance and attitudes. I will also discuss implications for the
design of systems that support teaching and learning.
Biography: Clifford Nass is an associate professor of communication at
Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Science,
Technology, and Society, Sociology, and Symbolic System. He is
co-director of the Interface Lab at the Center for the Study of
Language and Information at Stanford University. Nass is co-author of
"The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New
Media Like Real People and Places" and over 40 articles on
human-technology interaction and statistical methodology. He has
consulted on the design of over 100 media products, for companies such
as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, General Magic, Netsage, British Cable
and Wireless, and OMRON.
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XEROX PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 28 October 1999, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum/
Extended Static Checking
Greg Nelson
Compaq Systems Research Center
The talk describes a system for detecting automatically at compile
time certain errors that are normally not detected until run time, and
sometimes not even then. For example, array bounds errors, NIL
dereferences, and race conditions and deadlocks in multi-threaded
programs. The system has been implemented both for Modula-3 and for
Java. The system requires the programmer to annotate procedure and
method declarations with simple preconditions and postconditions.
These annotations are much less onerous than the annotations that
would be required for a full program correctness proof. Loop
invariants are not required. The checking is totally automatic. The
checker reports errors by line number. The system handles essentially
all the features of Modula-3 and of Java 1.0, including concurrency
and object references with inheritance. About fifty thousand lines of
code have been checked with the two versions of the system, and a
number of errors have been found. The talk will include a
demonstration of the Java version of the system.
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SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION (SCLA)
on Thursday, 28 October 1999, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cll/scla.html
Efficient Read-Restricted Monotone CNF/DNF Dualization
by Learning with Membership Queries
Nina Mishra
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
The monotone CNF/DNF dualization problem is the problem of computing a
CNF expression given a monotone DNF expression. The dualization
problem naturally arises in many disciplines. For example, in the
context of finding association rules in data mining, it is equivalent
to the common subproblem of computing antecedents with sufficiently
high support. In the context of graph theory, it is equivalent to
generating all maximal independent sets of a hypergraph. In the
context of machine learning, it is equivalent to learning a monotone
CNF and DNF formula with membership queries.
We give an efficient monotone CNF/DNF learning algorithm when the
formula is read-k, i.e., when each variable appears at most some
constant k times. More specifically, let f be a boolean function
expressible as a read-k monotone CNF formula. We give an incremental
output polynomial time algorithm for exact learning both the read-k
CNF and the (not necessarily read restricted) DNF descriptions of f.
The algorithm's only method of obtaining information about f is
through membership queries, i.e., by inquiring about the value f(x)
for points x. The algorithm yields an incremental output polynomial
time solution to the (read-k) monotone CNF/DNF dualization problem.
Joint work with Carlos Domingo and Leonard Pitt.
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LOGIC LUNCH
on Friday, 29 October 1999, 12 noon
Math Corner 380:383N
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Dialectica Categories: a survey
Valeria de Paiva
University of Birmingham UK
In this talk I will start by explaining briefly how dialectica
categories get their name, from Goedel's dialectica interpretation.
Then I present two kinds of dialectica categories in the literature
and show that they are categorical models of, respectively
intuitionistic and classical Linear Logic. I also describe how they
compare with Chu Spaces. Finally I shall present a mild generalization
of the construction and suggest some further work.
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SEMINAR ON PEOPLE, COMPUTER, AND DESIGN
on Friday, 29 October 1999, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Classroom)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
How Human is Human-Computer Interaction?
Anthropomorphic Interfaces and Social Responses to Computers
Clifford Nass
Communication, Stanford
In a series of studies summarized in The Media Equation (1996), my
colleagues and I demonstrated that many responses to text-based
interfaces were consistent with the social-psychological
literature. That is, users applied the same rules and expectations
toward text-based computers that they applied toward people. In the
present talk, I will discuss our extensions of the research in three
ways: 1) comparison of HCI to CMC rather than the psych. literature;
2) use of voice and character interfaces rather than text; 3) richer
behavioral responses. I will discuss recent research concerning humor,
self-disclosure, text-to-speech and personality, ethnicity, character
appearance, reciprocity, adaptation, and emotion.
Biography: Clifford Nass is an associate professor of communication at
Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Science,
Technology, and Society, Sociology, and Symbolic System. He is
co-director of the Interface Lab at the Center for the Study of
Language and Information at Stanford University. Nass is co-author of
The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New
Media Like Real People and Places and over 40 articles on
human-technology interaction and statistical methodology. He has
consulted on the design of over 100 media products, for companies such
as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, General Magic, Netsage, British Cable
and Wireless, and OMRON.
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EXPERIMENTS IN LEARNING
on Friday, 29 October 1999, 3:15pm
Stanford Press Warehouse, room 118
http://sll.stanford.edu/
Human Centered Design
Joseph Koncelik
Director, Center for Rehabilitation Technology,
Interim Director of the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory and
Professor of Industrial Design, College of Architecture,
Georgia Institute of Technology
The focus of this talk is a look ahead at the role of designers -
regardless of specific professional discipline - in a changing world
of human need and capability. Demographic trends, specifically the
aging or "graying" of world populations is a significant shift
occurring in the 20th century that will continue to have impact upon
the development of technologies in the 21st. With aging, the world
will experience ever higher proportions of disability that will be an
important design issue for the new workplace, educational
institutions, recreational facilities and in the home. The talk will
explore the development of a new body of knowledge in human factors
the development of supportive or "assistive" technologies for
individuals with disabilities - and changing opportunities for design
and product development.
Biography: Joseph A. Koncelik, Director, Center for Rehabilitation
Technology, Interim Director of the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory
and Professor of Industrial Design, College of Architecture, Georgia
Institute of Technology; Koncelik is also Professor Emeritus,
Department of Industrial Design, The Ohio State University. He is
author of over 70 publications including two books: Designing the Open
Nursing Home in 1976 and Aging and the Product Environment in 1983;
listed in Who's Who in America since 1989; presented the Industrial
Designers Society of America Education Award in 1994. Koncelik has
been a design consultant for a number of major corporations and design
organizations, including: Burlington Industries, Hil-Rom Corporation,
RCA Corporation, Richardson/Smith Design, and White/Westinghouse
Corporation
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 29 October 1999, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/colloq.html
The Social Geography of Variation:
connecting the local and the global
Penny Eckert
Stanford University
The study of the social significance of linguistic variation has
focused on the patterning of use of variants within communities,
whether through large-scale survey studies or through more localized
ethnographic studies. While such studies tell us something about the
local meaning of variables, they do not explain how these local
meanings connect to the larger social order, nor do they explain how
these meanings play out across communities. Without this piece, we
have no coherent explanation of the systematic social nature of the
spread of linguistic influence and change. Based on a series of
ethnographic studies of variation in adolescent communities across an
urban-suburban continuum, this talk will bring together patterns of
variation across this continuum and within each local community. By
showing the connections among the age of a variable, its geographic
distribution, and its role in local sociolinguistic practice, I will
show how social meaning in variation is constructed in the
intersection between the local social order and the broader
socio-geographic context.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 3 November 1999, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/contents.html
START-UP INCUBATION:
The latest form of corporate Research and Development
Charles C. Wu
Panasonic Digital Concepts Center
Charles C. Wu, Managing Director of Panasonic Digital Concepts Center
(PDCC), will be focusing on "START-UP INCUBATION: The latest form of
corporate Research and Development". The Panasonic Digital Concepts
Center was started in November 1998 with financial backing from
Matsushita Electric Inc. (MEI), one of the top five product companies
in the world. PDCC was formed to act as a window into Silicon Valley
trends and startup companies for Matsushita. It provides services to
startup companies ranging from pre-seed incubation services to
mezzanine-stage direct investments. Our goal is to accelerate the
development of technologies into society by combining the innovation
and entrepreneurial strengths of Silicon Valley with the manufacturing
and distribution strengths of Matsushita. To further strengthen the
PDCC team, the Panasonic Internet Incubator has created an Internet
Advisory Board of savvy Silicon Valley insiders to provide
entrepreneurial wisdom and strategic advice to successfully accelerate
the growth of these startup businesses.
Mission
PDCC's critical mission is to develop and invest in emerging
technologies, best-of breed business processes and value-add software
services and applications that drive toward connecting consumer
electronic devices to each other and to the Internet.
Organization
The Panasonic Digital Concepts Center offers the first technology
business incubator directly linked to a corporate venture fund. PDCC
will utilize its team's experience in Silicon Valley and Matsushita's
global resources to identify strategic investment and partnership
opportunities to complement MEI's core business of consumer
electronics. To accomplish its goal, the PDCC possesses the following
core resources:
-Panasonic Internet Incubator
-Panasonic Ventures
-Panasonic Global Network
About the speaker:
Charles C. Wu, Managing Director
An industry veteran with more than 15 years of tech sector financial
experience, including investments, acquisitions, IPOs, corporate
sales, and MBOs, Wu combines his investing acumen, network of contacts
and the backing of Matsushita to help tech start-ups deliver exciting
new products and services.
With direct involvement in 33 tech investments throughout his career
-- acting as principal on 20 -- Wu has helped companies whose
activities range from networking to operating systems and from online
gaming to LCD flat-panel displays.
Before joining PDCC, Wu was a vice president at Vertex Management, a
global venture capital operation with offices in California,
Singapore, and Israel. Vertex is funded by Southeast Asian financial
and corporate institutions. A lead investor, Wu was also responsible
for Vertex Management's marketing message to the US investment
community. The combination of investing and marketing allowed him to
develop relationships with leading venture-oriented investment, legal,
recruiting, consulting, banking, and accounting organizations.
Before joining Vertex Management, Wu was a project manager at RSA Data
Security, the world's leading provider of encryption solutions. He
previously worked in investment banking in the technology group at CS
First Boston, where he was involved in more than $2 billion of West
Coast technology M&A activity. Wu has additional experience as a
software engineer, engineering project manager, and in business
development at Raytheon E-Systems.
Wu holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business
Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Charles Wu is the centerpiece of the PDCC team and he brings an
extensive amount of experience and expertise to the PDCC.
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US-JAPAN TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT CENTER
on Thursday, 4 November 1999, 4:15pm
Skilling Engineering Auditorium
http://www.stanford.edu/~viji/
New Movements of Japanese Science and Technology:
Basic Science and Entrepreneurial Technology
Professor Noby Maeda
According to the IMD World Competitiveness Report, Japan is dropping
down to 16th position from the No.1 position several years ago. In
this report, however, Science and Technology of Japan is still ranked
as number 2.
As a country with relatively few natural resources, the Japanese
Government, has for more than a century, encouraged enhancement of
Science and Technology. "Science and Technology Based Nation Building"
is a common key word among the Japanese. Development of Science and
Technology Policy is a key concern, and in 1995 Science and technology
Basic Law was set, and in 1996 Science and technology Basic Plan was
decided on at the Cabinet level. In the five years starting from 1996
to 2000, 17 trillion yen (about $160 billion) was earmarked for
science and technology.
A new tide of Globalization, Deregulation and Information Technology
Revolution is arriving all at once. The traditional Japanese
(successful) business model, the so called "Catch Up Model", is no
longer effective in the Information Technology Age of today. And the
Japanese establishment seems at crossroads in the face of such rapid
changes.
On the other hand, it looks like the U.S. is very determined to take
the new value of "E-Business" with the dynamism of the "Silicon Valley
Business Model". Companies are enjoying high profit ratios, with
drastic corporate restructuring, such as concentration of business
domain, huge scale of lay offs and M&A.
Europe, in the meantime is facing the challenges of the common
currency "Euro", which is triggering a drastic restructuring of all
kind of business and business culture. The impact of the new common
currency looks much bigger than the expectations of many people.
No doubt that both "E-Business" and "Euro" will continue to be strong
engines for both US and Europe in next 30-50 years.
In order to re-vitalize the Japanese economy in the coming decades, we
need to find out what Japan's new engine to replace the Catch-up
model can be. This presentation will be based on a Policy Study by
Noby Maeda for NISTEP called "Transformation of Japanese Enterprises'
Strength through New Business Model Creation - A Scenario to realize
Science & Technology based Nation Building"
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SEMINAR ON PEOPLE, COMPUTER, AND DESIGN
on Friday, 5 November 1999, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Classroom)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Recent Research at the NYU Media Research Lab
Ken Perlin
NYU Media Research Lab
I'll be showing a very diverse set of our research projects, including
various experiments in interactive improvisational animation, which
will feature synthesis of emotive facial and body expression, and a
view of a live theatrical performance first presented in the
SIGGRAPH98 Electronic Theatre, in which all the actors are virtual
agents.
I will also show new work in zooming user interfaces, including some
"100% Java Applet" zoomable componentware for Web Browsers. Also
research in true autostereoscopic displays, four dimensional
visualization, very low inertia robotic links, interactive "painterly"
rendering, rapid text entry for PDAs, interactive procedurally
textured planets implemented in Java (a "Webwide World"), and a new
approach for foveated displays approaching human eye resolution.
Biography: Ken Perlin is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science and the director of the Media Research Laboratory at
the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
He is also the director of the NYU Center of Advanced Technology,
sponsored by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation.
He completed his Ph.D. in 1986 from the New York University Department
of Computer Science. His dissertation received the Janet Fabri award
for outstanding Doctoral Dissertation. He received his B.A. in
theoretical mathematics at Harvard University in 1979. His research
interests include graphics, animation, and multimedia. In 1991 he was
a recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the
National Science Foundation. In 1997 he was a recipient of a Technical
Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which
are widely used in feature films and television.
Dr. Perlin was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates
in New York, NY from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that, from 1979 to
1984, he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at
Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY. TRON was the
first movie for which his name got onto the credits. He has served on
the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH, has
been a member of ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH, and has been a senior reviewer
for a number of technical conferences.
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CSLI IAP CONFERENCE
ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
November 10-12, 1999
Cordura Hall, Room 100
Stanford University
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/Tutorials/schedule.shtml
The latest research on how humans and computers interact will be the
subject of a conference November 10 to 12, sponsored by the Stanford
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Planned for
businesses and other organizations concerned with this topic, the
conference is free and open to the public; however, space is limited
so registration is required by October 27, 1999.
Sessions will run from 9am to 12:30pm and 1:30pm to 5pm on November 10
and 11 in Room 100 of Cordura Hall, at the corner of Panama Street and
Campus Drive West. On November 12, the conference will be in the same
location but finish by 2:30pm. Between speakers, demonstrations of
research prototypes in progress will be offered.
To register or for further information, go to the web page
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/Tutorials/schedule.shtml
or contact
Michele King
Industrial Affiliates Program
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Ventura Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-4115
Tel:(650) 723-3084
Fax:(650) 723-0758
Email: mking@csli.stanford.edu
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