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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 19 April 2000, vol. 15:27
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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19 April 2000 Stanford Vol. 15, No. 27
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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 19 APRIL TO 28 APRIL 2000
WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2000
4:15pm Broad Area Colloquium in AI,
Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Vision
TCseq201, Lecture Hall B
NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions
Michael Zyda
Chair, MOVES Academic Group
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
Fantasma's Ultrawideband Wireless Technology
Roberto Aiello
CEO, Fantasma Networks
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 20 APRIL 2000
12:00pm CSLI Coglunch
Cordura 100
The Sonas System
Dr. Sean O Nuallain
Dublin City University, Nous Research
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
2:30pm Stanford Libraries Symposium
Bender Room, Green Library
Lexicography and Linguistics in the Digital Age:
A Symposium in honor of the Oxford English Dictionary
Online Edition
John Simpson, Editor-in-chief of the Oxford English Dictionary
Beth Levin, Linguistics, Stanford
Chris Manning, Computer Science and Linguistics, Stanford
Anna Morpurgo Davies, Linguistics, Oxford University
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/oed-announce.html
4:15pm US-Japan Technology Management Center
Skilling Auditorium
Optical Switching Comes to Market
Peter J. Farmer
Strategies Unlimited
http://fuji.Stanford.edu/seminars/spring00/
FRIDAY, 21 APRIL 2000
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B03
The Task Gallery: A 3D Window Manager
Dan Robbins
Microsoft Research
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium
Bldg. 90:92Q
The Incredible Truth
Elijah Millgram
University of Utah
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:15pm Infolab Seminar
201 tcSEQ (across from Gates)
Preliminary Topic: Structure of the Web
Sridhar Rajagopalan
IBM Almaden
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/dbseminar.html
3:30pm Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
Discourse Structure
Kai von Fintel
MIT
http://calendus.stanford.edu/semantics/
6:00pm Berkeley Cognitive Science Students Association
2050 Valley Life Sciences Bldg., UC Berkeley campus
I'm a guy; you're a guy; he's a guy, but is she one?
We are guys; you guys are guys; she sure would like to be one.
Douglas Hofstadter
Indiana University
http://transbay.net/~cssa/events/
Abstract below
MONDAY, 24 APRIL 2000
4:10pm Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium
182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
Inferential Reasoning in Language
Theo Janssen
Free University of Amsterdam
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/Colloquia/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 26 APRIL 2000
4:15pm Broad Area Colloquium in AI,
Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Vision
TCseq201, Lecture Hall B
The Statistical Natural Language Processing Revolution
Eugene Charniak
Brown University
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
Gates B1 (Hewlett-Packard Auditorium)
Cognitive agents, what they are and what they can do
for you the road to standards
Francis G. McCabe
Fujitsu Labs of America
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/contents.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 27 APRIL 2000
12:00pm CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
A Plausible, Incremental Strong AI Account
of the Origin and Evolution of Language
Jerry R. Hobbs
SRI International
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
12:15pm Graphics Lunches
Gates B03
Gaze-corrected Videoconferencing
Jim Gemmel
Microsoft Research
http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/glunches/
Abstract below
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at Xerox PARC
Combat Aircraft Research and Development
Brian L. Hunt
Northrop Grumman
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum/
FRIDAY, 28 APRIL 2000
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B03
The Making of 'GUI Bloopers'
Jeff Johnson
UI Wizards, Inc.
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Infolab Seminar
201 tcSEQ (across from Gates)
Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/dbseminar.html
Abstract below
3:30pm Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
Syntactic vs. Pragmatic Context in Semantic Change
Andrew Garrett
Berkeley
http://calendus.stanford.edu/semantics/
Abstract below
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BROAD AREA COLLOQUIUM IN AI,
GEOMETRY, GRAPHICS, ROBOTICS, AND VISION
on Wednesday, 19 April 2000, 4:15pm to 5:15pm
TCseq201, Lecture Hall B
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions
Michael Zyda
Chair, MOVES Academic Group
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
The National Research Council report entitled "Modeling and Simulation
- Linking Entertainment and Defense described a basic and applied
research agenda for both defense and entertainment, with foci on
technologies for immersion, networked simulation, computer-generated
autonomy, and tools for creating synthetic environments. In the
presentation, we examine the future of networked entertainment and its
obvious implications for defense modeling and simulation. We look at
the research that must be done to get there and the types of
researchers and research organization that must be involved. We then
look at the Naval Postgraduate School's Modeling, Virtual Environments
and Simulation (MOVES) Academic Group's research efforts and how that
organization is fulfilling the NRC's proposed research agenda.
About the Speaker:
Michael Zyda is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at
the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Professor Zyda is
also the Chair of the NPS Modeling, Virtual Environments and
Simulation Academic Group. Since 1986, he has been the Director of the
NPSNET Research Group. Professor Zyda's research interests include
computer graphics, large-scale, networked 3D virtual environments,
computer-generated characters, video production, entertainment/defense
collaboration, and modeling and simulation. He is known for his work
on software architectures for networked virtual environments.
Professor Zyda was a member of the National Research Council's
Committee on "Virtual Reality Research and Development". Professor
Zyda was the chair of the National Research Council's Computer Science
and Telecommunications Board Committee on "Modeling and Simulation:
Linking Entertainment & Defense". From that report, for the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, Professor
Zyda drafted the operating plan and research agenda for the USC
Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). Professor Zyda is a member
of the National Research Council Committee on Advanced Engineering
Environments. Professor Zyda is also a Senior Editor for Virtual
Environments for the MIT Press quarterly PRESENCE, the journal of
teleoperation and virtual environments. He is a member of the
Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Computers & Graphics.
Professor Zyda is a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the
Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics, Providence, Rhode
Island.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 19 April 2000, 4:15pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/
Fantasma's Ultrawideband Wireless Technology
Roberto Aiello
CEO, Fantasma Networks
http://www.fantasma.net/
Fantasma Networks Inc. is dedicated to the development and commercial
integration of products that enable new media experience for
consumers. The Company, spun out from Interval Research, a research
company funded by Paul Allen, closed its first round of financing in
January 2000, drawing investment from venture capital firms and
corporate strategic partners. Fantasma's new wireless technology is
based on ultra-wideband radio (UWB) signals and provide better
integration of home entertainment systems and Internet
access. Fantasma's strenghts are its innovative system designs and
high levels of integration. In this talk I'll discuss Fantasma
technology's characteristics and its advantages with respect to
conventional technologies. I'll explain why it is a good idea to use
more bandwidth rather than less and how Fantasma will fit in the
emerging wireless consumer market.
About the speaker: Roberto joined Interval Research in 1996 to work on
advanced wireless technologies. Under his leadership, the project he
coordinated built the first Ultra Wideband (UWB) network that connects
consumer devices and his group grew from a research project to
Fantasma Networks. Prior to joining Interval, Roberto was with the
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and at the Superconducting Super
Collider Laboratory in Texas. He previously was Visiting Professor at
the Arcetri Astrophysics Observatory, and worked at Elettra in Italy.
Roberto has several patents pending on wireless communication
technologies. He received his doctorate in Physics from the University
of Trieste. He is a member of APS, IEEE and AAAS.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 20 April 2000, 12:00pm
Cordura 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
The Sonas System
Dr. Sean O Nuallain
Dublin City University, Nous Research
This talk describes a project currently being undertaken at Nous
Research which focuses on the visual interpretation of scene
descriptions. This system accepts verbal scene descriptions and
re-constructs a three-dimensional display of the virtual model of the
world that it builds up in the process of interpreting the input.
Gestural input is also catered to.
We are working towards a system in which multi -user - and multi-
modal input are possible. We intend to use the system as a test bed.
On the one hand, we appear interested in developing innovative
software products. However, we also retain our interest in
ontological and epistemological issues. Consequently, we - as it were
-"hide" research in various parts of the Sonas system. For example,
the merging of the multi-modal input stream may require use of a
blackboard architecture, the inspiration for Baars' "Global Workspace"
(GW) theory of consciousness. However, would a cortical columnar
automata system be more neurally realistic? Similarly, a host of
situated cognition issues arise with respect to the use of any such
system . At the most trivial level, we now have a new way of doing
semantics of natural language processing. We can simply scan visually
on the realized scene to determine issues like relevance, or whether
it the input ticket is ill-formed et al. We have developed a number
of variations of the system, and a video of them will be shown.
About the Speaker:
Sean O Nuallain holds an M.Sc in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Computer
Science from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He is an associate
professor at Dublin City University, where he initiated and directed
the B.Sc. in Applied Computational Linguistics. He is the author of a
book on the foundations of Cognitive Science "The Search for Mind"
(1995) and the co-editor of "Two sciences of Mind"(1997). Intellect
(England) is to publish a second edition of "The Search for Mind" and
a follow-up "Being Human" later this year. John Benjamins is to
publish, also in 2000, "Spatial Cognition" and "Language, Vision and
Music", proceedings of recent conferences Sean chaired and organized
in his capacity as CEO of Nous Research.
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SEMINAR ON PEOPLE, COMPUTER, AND DESIGN
on Friday, 21 April 2000, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Classroom)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
The Task Gallery: A 3D Window Manager
Dan Robbins, Microsoft Research
mailto:dcr@microsoft.com
http://research.microsoft.com/~dcr/
Over the last several years our research group has been working on
ways of letting users easily view, access, and manage large amounts of
information. Dan will present the current state of the group's
research as embodied by the Task Gallery, a 3D window manager. This
interface attempts to take advantage of user's natural spatial
abilities. Dan will focus on the design process, trade-offs made, then
discuss the ongoing evaluation stage.
Biography: Daniel C. Robbins is a 3D User Interface Designer working
at Microsoft Research. His current projects include visual
presentation of large information spaces and scenarios for intelligent
environments. Prior to that, Dan helped develop the pioneering 3D UI
work from the Brown University Computer Graphics Group. Dan's degree
is in fine art. In his copious free time Dan enjoys hiking, throwing
dinner parties, and making sculpture from aerospace castoffs. More
info at: http://research.microsoft.com/~dcr/
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BERKELEY COGNITIVE SCIENCE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
on Friday, 21 April 2000, 6:00-8:00pm
2050 VLSB, UC Berkeley campus
(The Chan Shun Auditorium in the Valley Life Sciences Building)
http://transbay.net/~cssa/events/
I'm a guy; you're a guy; he's a guy, but is she one?
We are guys; you guys are guys; she sure would like to be one.
Douglas Hofstadter
Director, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
Indiana University, Bloomington
In contemporary American spoken English, a widespread phenomenon is
for people of both sexes to address small groups of either sex (or
mixed sexes) as "you guys", or sometimes just "guys". An analogous
trend in Dutch involves the word "jongens" (literally, "boys"), used
to address boys, girls, men, women, or any kind of group. There is
even a similar usage in contemporary Mandarin Chinese. Perhaps more
surprising is the fact that many if not most American feminists,
despite their long-standing abhorrence of the false generics "man",
"he", and so forth, warmly welcome the use of "guys" in addressing
females as well as males. What in the world is going on?
One claim would be that the noun "guy" has lost any connection it once
had with masculinity. This is an extraordinary claim, however, since
American society is permeated with the "guys/girls" dichotomy and
related ones, such as "guys/gals", "guys/dolls", even sometimes weird
ones like "guys/guyettes". (In restaurants, one will see occasionally
see the women's room labeled "gals" and the men's room labeled
"guys". No female native speaker of American English would ever dream
of going into the "guys' room".) In short, the claim that "guys" today
has no trace left of the masculine is utterly untenable, and yet it is
the explanation most often proposed by native speakers of American
English, even ones who are linguistically highly sophisticated, to
whom the matter is raised.
The truth is that this is a very deep and cognitively complex matter,
having everything to do with the unconscious aura surrounding the word
"guy" in the collective mind implicit in American popular culture,
imbuing the word with a sense of palsiness, easy-going-ness, and the
perks* of growing up male in a sexually deeply imbalanced society. In
other words, the claim of this talk is that despite first impressions,
this word is perhaps the most deeply sexist term in the entire English
language, and the irony is that it is precisely because it seems so
innocent that it is so insidious and such a trap, even for
sophisticates.
In my talk, I will describe the usage itself, giving many examples,
will speculate about the reasons underlying its tremendous popularity
and unconscious appeal in America, will try to give a sense of how
deep a problem it represents cognitively to probe this issue, and how
subtle the whole matter is. I cannot think of a single word that so
epitomizes the complex relationship between language and thought as
this one word in American English.
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*perquisites; advantages; incidental bonuses
Biography: Douglas Hofstadter is College Professor of cognitive
science and computer science, director of the Center for Research on
Concepts and Cognition, and adjunct professor of philosophy,
psychology, history and philosophy of science, and comparative
literature. His Pulitzer-prize-winning book Godel, Escher, Bach: an
Eternal Golden Braid (1979) has had considerable impact on people in
many disciplines, ranging from philosophy to mathematics to artificial
intelligence to music, and beyond. He has written several other books
and many articles, and for a number of years wrote a column for
Scientific American.
Hofstadter's research is driven by a long-standing interest in
creativity and consciousness. To study these abstract ideas in a
concrete manner, he has focused on designing and implementing, in
collaboration with his graduate students, computer models of
high-level perception and analogical thought in carefully-designed
idealized domains.
Hofstadter also studies and writes about cognitive phenomena in a
number of other areas. Some of these are: the relationship between
words and concepts;the mechanisms underlying human error-making,
especially in language; the nature of sexist language and default
imagery; the mechanisms underlying discovery and invention in
mathematics, especially geometry; the process of creative literary
translation, especially of poetry; the challenge of sorting the wheat
from the chaff in AI and cognitive science; and the philosophy of
mind, consciousness, and the sense of self.
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BERKELEY LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
on Monday, 24 April 2000, 4:10pm
182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/Colloquia/
Inferential Reasoning in Language
Theo Janssen
University of Amsterdam
One of the most intriguing issues of anyone who is interested in the
communicative aspects of language is the question: What has the
speaker explicitly stated in his or her utterance and what has he or
she implied? How can one decide that some part of the information may
or must be ascribed to the lexical material and another part to common
sense? Such questions are not only the linguists' concern. Common
language users are often aware of such problems, particularly when
they have to deal with laws, contracts, manuals, regulations, policy
documents, religious texts, or when they are involved in situations
such as discussions, arguments or word-catching quibbles. In my talk I
would like to address the division of labor between linguistic
knowledge and world knowledge by examining the Dutch modal verb moeten
and its English and German counterparts must and moessen. These verbs
share the possibility to be used both epistemically and
nonepistemically. I will go into the question of how to explain the
fact that they share such different types of use. Is it necessary to
assume a polysemous structure of meaning or is in each case one single
meaning possible? If we take the monosemous approach to be the
methodologically favorite point of departure, how then can we explain
the various ways in which verbs such as must are used? I will consider
some views on the semantics of modal verbs. In particular, I will go
into the excellent description of modal verbs by Anna Papafragou,
'Inference and word meaning: The case of the modal auxiliaries',
Lingua 105 (1998), 1-47.
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BROAD AREA COLLOQUIUM IN AI,
GEOMETRY, GRAPHICS, ROBOTICS, AND VISION
on Wednesday, 26 April 2000, 4:15pm to 5:15pm
TCseq201, Lecture Hall B
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
The Statistical Natural Language Processing Revolution
Eugene Charniak
Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Brown University
Over the last ten years or so the field of natural language processing
(NLP) has become increasingly dominated by corpus-based methods and
statistical techniques. In this research, problems are attacked by
collecting statistics from a corpus (sometimes marked with correct
answers, sometimes not) and then applying the statistics to new
instances of the task. In this talk we give an overview of statistical
techniques in a few areas of NLP such as: parsing (finding the correct
phrase structure for a sentence), lexical semantics (learning meanings
and other properties of words and phrases from text), and anaphora
resolution (determining the intended antecedent of pronouns, and noun
phrases in general). As a general rule, corpus-based, and particularly
statistical techniques outperform hand-crafted systems, and the rate
of progress in the field is quite high.
Biography: Eugene Charniak is Professor of Computer Science and
Cognitive Science at Brown University and past chair of the Department
of Computer Science. He received his A.B. degree in Physics from
University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. He
has published four books: Computational Semantics, with Yorick Wilks
(1976) Artificial Intelligence Programming with Chris Riesbeck, Drew
McDermott, and James Meehan (1980, 1987), Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence with Drew McDermott (1985) and Statistical Language
Learning (1993). He is a Fellow of the American Association of
Artificial Intelligence and was previously a Councilor of the
organization. His research has always been in the area of language
understanding or technologies which relate to it. Over the last few
years he has been interested in statistical techniques for language
processing. In this area he has worked in the sub-areas of lexicalized
parsing, pronoun-reference, and lexical resource acquisition, all
through statistical means.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 26 April 2000, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/contents.html
Cognitive agents, what they are and what they can do for you
the road to standards
Francis G. McCabe
Fujitsu Labs of America
Standardization is often seen as a dry, highly political process.
However, that has not been my experience of either FIPA or OMG. In
fact these venues seem to be almost as much about collaborative
research as the dry writing down of specifications of APIs.
There have been as many definitions of agents as workers in the field
(more perhaps). However, defining the term has been a central focus
for a variety of standardization efforts - including FIPA and OMG.
In this talk, I will start with our perspective of what intelligent
agents are, as the two communities of FIPA and OMG have converged on.
I will also introduce some of the key abstractions and specifications
that FIPA in particular has developed over the last few years.
A part of this process is the identification of potential applications
- the intuition is that there should be many applications of agent
technology but this hasn't happened to the same extent as object
oriented technology.
However, the future of business is more cooperative than the past,
more integrated than the past and probably more formal also. All of
these bode well for the future of Intelligent Agents in business.
Biography: Francis McCabe is a Senior Researcher at Fujitsu Labs of
America. He is vice president of FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent
Physical Agents) and an active member of the Agents Working Group
(within OMG).
He has been working on computational formalisms for implementing
distributed intelligent agents since he participated in the ESPRIT
project Imagine. This has involved the design of an agent oriented
communications framework (ICM) and an agent oriented programming
language (April).
Recently, work has started on a new logic programming language that
aims to `do for logic programming what Java did to C++'.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 27 April 2000, 12:00pm
Cordura 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
A Plausible, Incremental Strong AI Account
of the Origin and Evolution of Language
Jerry R. Hobbs
Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International
I assume an abductive account of interpretation in general, in which
to interpret a situation is to find the best explanation for the
observables. I also assume an abductive account of discourse
interpretation, in which to interpret a sentence is to find the best
proof of its logical form, allowing assumptions, with respect to a
knowledge base consisting of Horn clause axioms. Increases in
knowledge of language, whether in learning, development, or evolution,
are seen as results of incremental modifications on the axioms,
axiomatizations of common proofs, and the employment of theories
motivated independently of language. Within this framework, I
describe how two of the principal features of language could have
evolved -- Gricean nonnatural meaning and syntactic structure. The
development of Gricean meaning is seen as the employment of
increasingly complex folk theories in the interpretation of utterances
as actions. The development of syntactic structure is seen as
increasingly specific constraints on the interpretation of the
adjacency and proximity of strings of words as expressing
predicate-argument relations. One of the principal difficulties in
understanding the origin and evolution of language is in imagining
plausible, incremental, intermediate steps. This talk seeks to begin
to remedy this situation.
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GRAPHICS LUNCHES
on Thursday, 27 April 2000, 12:15pm
Gates B03
http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/glunches/
Gaze-corrected Videoconferencing
Jim Gemmel
Microsoft Research
Many desktop videoconferencing systems are ineffective due to
deficiencies in gaze awareness and sense of spatial relationship.
Previous work to correct this has employed special hardware. At
Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, we have been working on a
software-only approach. Heads and eyes in the video are tracked using
computer-vision techniques, and the tracking information is
transmitted along with the video stream. Receivers take the tracking
information corresponding to the video to place the head and eyes in a
virtual 3D space such that gaze awareness and a sense of space is
provided.
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SEMINAR ON PEOPLE, COMPUTER, AND DESIGN
on Friday, 28 April 2000, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Classroom)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
The Making of 'GUI Bloopers'
Jeff Johnson
UI Wizards, Inc.
mailto:jjohnson@uiwizards.com
http://www.uiwizards.com/
Jeff Johnson, user-interface consultant and author of the new book GUI
Bloopers: DON'Ts and DOs for Software Developers and Web Designers
(Morgan-Kaufmann), describes why he began collecting GUI design
bloopers several years ago, why he decided to publish them in a book,
how the bloopers are organized and presented, and how the book was
usability tested. His talk is illustrated with many examples of
bloopers.
Biography: Jeff Johnson is President and Principal Consultant at UI
Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm. He has worked in
the field of Human-Computer Interaction since 1978. After earning
B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and Stanford Universities, he worked
as a user-interface designer and implementer, engineer manager,
usability tester, and researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US West,
Hewlett-Packard Labs, Sun/FirstPerson (the predecessor of JavaSoft),
and SunSoft. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on a
variety of topics in Human-Computer Interaction and the impact of
technology on society.
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CS545: INFOLAB SEMINAR
on Friday, 28 April 2000, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
201 tcSEQ (across from Gates)
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/dbseminar.html
Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
mailto:jai@cs.wisc.edu
XML is rapidly emerging as a standard for exchanging business data on
the World Wide Web. For the foreseeable future, however, most business
data will continue to be stored in relational database systems.
Consequently, if XML is to fulfill its potential, some mechanism is
needed to publish relational data as XML documents. A major challenge
here is finding a way to efficiently structure and tag data from one
or more tables as a hierarchical XML document. Different alternatives
are possible depending on when this processing takes place and how
much of it is done inside the relational engine. This talk will
characterize and compare the performance of these alternatives.
Biography: Jayavel Shanmugasundaram is a Ph.D. candidate in the
Computer Sciences department at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He is also currently working on XML-related issues
at the IBM Almaden Research Center. His research interests include
Internet databases, data mining, OLAP and transaction processing in
non-standard architectures.
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 28 April 2000, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Syntactic vs. Pragmatic Context in Semantic Change
Andrew Garrett
University of California, Berkeley
I will consider two opposing views as to the nature of the "context"
in context-based reinterpetations, and I will argue that syntactic
context ("permutation") plays a greater role in semantic change than
is nowadays usually held while pragmatic context (e.g. "invited
inference") plays a smaller role. Case studies will include a new
account of the origin of the English "go" future.
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news://nntp.stanford.edu/su.events
Information about CSLI's research program is available at
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
For maps to the Stanford University campus see
http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/maps.html
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