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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 31 May 2000, vol. 15:33
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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31 May 2000 Stanford Vol. 15, No. 33
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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 31 MAY TO 9 JUNE 2000
WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2000
12:45pm CS548: Distributed Systems Research Seminar
McCullough 150
The Post-PC Era:
It's About the Services-Enabled New Internet
Randy Katz
UC Berkeley
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs548/
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
Reverse Engineering the Brain
Lloyd Watts, Ph.D.
Interval Research Corporation
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/contents.html
Abstract below
4:15pm Broad Area Colloquium in AI,
Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Vision
TCseq201, Lecture Hall B
Automated Model Capture in Extended Urban Environments
Seth Teller
MIT Computer Graphics Group
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract below
4:15pm Biomedical Computation: Challenges and Opportunities
Bldg. 300:300W (near Memorial Church)
Simulation-based Learning in Surgery and Anatomy
Tom Krummel and Parvati Dev,
http://calendus.stanford.edu/bioeng/
Contact: Scott Delp (delp@leland.stanford.edu)
(I'm not sure this is open to the general public, check)
THURSDAY, 1 JUNE 2000
12:00pm CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
Intellectual Property and Stanford Policies
Luis Mejia
Office of Technology and Licensing
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
(not a regular CogLunch, CSLI researchers are
strongly encouraged to attend)
Information below
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at Xerox PARC
Internet Security and Insecurity
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren
House of Representatives, 16th California District
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum/
THURSDAY, 8 June 2000
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at Xerox PARC
Interaction Design for Ubiquitous Computing
Terry Winograd
Stanford University
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum/
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Since the school year is winding down, this will be the last regular
Calendar of this academic year. Regular Calendars will start again in
late September or early October.
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CS548: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS RESEARCH SEMINAR
on Wednesday, 31 May 2000, 12:45pm
McCullough 150
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs548/
The Post-PC Era: It's About the Services-Enabled New Internet
Randy Katz
UC Berkeley
The Post-PC Era is often viewed as driven by the proliferation of new
kinds of information appliances. We take a different viewpoint: the
Post-PC Era will be shaped by the ability to manage computation and
storage deep inside the network, connected by application-specific
overlay networks, all on behalf of end user applications. This is what
we call "services." Examples include web caches, content delivery
redistribution, and transformational proxies. The result is a dramatic
shift from traditional network research, on topics such as Quality of
Service routing, to new distributed computing opportunities, such as
network performance-aware service placement.
Biography: Randy Howard Katz received his undergraduate degree from
Cornell University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty at Berkeley in 1983,
where he is now the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished
Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a
Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and was recently elected to the
National Academy of Engineering. He was won numerous awards, including
seven best paper awards, one "test of time" paper award, three best
presentation awards, the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Berkeley
Academic Senate, the ASEE Frederic Terman Award, and the ACM Karl V.
Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. With colleagues at Berkeley, he
developed Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), an $18 billion
per year industry sector today. While on leave for government service
in 1993-1994, he established whitehouse.gov and connecting the White
House to the Internet. His current research interests are Internet
Services Architecture, Mobile Computing, and Computer-Telephony
Integration.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 31 May 2000, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/contents.html
Reverse Engineering the Brain
Lloyd Watts, Ph.D.
Interval Research Corporation
By 2010, computers will have memory and processing capacity comparable
to lower mammals. This means that real-time stereo vision, hearing,
locomotion, etc. in real-world environments will be possible,
computationally. But will we have the algorithms to do the
computations as robustly and effectively as animals and humans do?
I am working on literally reverse-engineering the brain, beginning
with the auditory pathway. I will show real-time demonstrations
(movies) of the various representations of speech and music that are
computed in the cochlea, cochlear nucleus, superior olive, and
inferior colliculus, synchronized with the input sounds. I will also
demonstrate the world's first real-time high-resolution 240-tap,
10-octave, 44 kHz-sampling cochlear model, implemented on a multi-FPGA
board in a PC. I will also demonstrate work by an Interval colleague,
Dr. John Woodfill, of real-time high-resolution stereo vision.
Biography: Lloyd Watts holds a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from
Queen's University, an M.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Simon
Fraser University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the
California Institute of Technology, where he studied with professor
Carver Mead. He has worked at Microtel Pacific Research in Burnaby,
B.C., Synaptics in San Jose, Arithmos in Santa Clara, and currently is
employed at Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto. His research
has concentrated on understanding the computations of the human
auditory pathway, and implementing and visualizing those computations
in real-time in the least expensive medium he can find that will get
the job done. For more information, see his website.
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BROAD AREA COLLOQUIUM FOR
AI-GEOMETRY-GRAPHICS-ROBOTICS-VISION
on Wednesday, 31 May 2000, 4:15pm
TCseq201 (across from Gates)
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Automated Model Capture in Extended Urban Environments
Seth Teller
MIT Computer Graphics Group
Environment capture, or "geometric modeling" -- acquiring a
representation of an object in a form useful for computer
simulation -- is an essential first step in visualization, simulation,
and computer-aided design. Researchers have developed automated and
semi-automated techniques for extracting geometric and appearance
information from photographs. None of these have been applied to
large, general image sets, or to spatially extended environments.
We describe the development of fully automated computer vision
techniques for capturing textured 3D CAD models of urban areas
directly from near-ground photographs. The scale and generality of the
input image data in this problem imposes significant constraints on
any proposed system design. We discuss these constraints and their
implications, then present a model capture system. The system includes
a novel sensor which acquires high-resolution, spherical,
geo-referenced images, and accompanying algorithms which extract
textured geometric models of the environment observed by the sensor.
Eliminating the human in the loop is a significant challenge from both
engineering and research standpoints, and the effort has led to some
powerful new techniques. The tradeoff is that achieving automation and
scaling requires specialized sensor instrumentation, large numbers
(typically thousands) of image observations, and significant
computational resources. In contrast to the prevailing view that human
intervention always improves quality, we give examples of situations
in which our automated system outperforms a human operator. We
describe the current status of the project and show some preliminary
results.
Biography: Seth Teller obtained a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1992,
focusing on accelerated rendering of complex architectural
environments. After post-doctoral research at the Computer Science
Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Computer
Science, and Princeton University's Computer Science Department, he
joined MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department,
and MIT's Lab for Computer Science in 1994.
Prof. Teller now co-heads the MIT Computer Graphics Group, pursuing
capture, exploration, design and simulation of human-scale objects and
environments. Recent research efforts include: a project to capture a
three-dimensional map of the entire MIT campus, outside and in; the
acquisition of a three-dimensional "time-lapse" movie of the
demolition of MIT's Building 20 and the construction of the Stata
Center designed by Frank Gehry; and the Educational Fusion system for
authoring, deploying, and teaching computer science concepts.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 1 June 2000, 12:00pm
Cordura 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Luis Mejia of the Office of Technology Licensing at Stanford will give
a talk to the CSLI community about "Intellectual Property and Stanford
Policies".
Do you know what the policies are? If you develop the next yahoo,
does Stanford own it or do you? If you write a textbook for a
Stanford class, do you own the copyright or does Stanford? What is
the royalty split on Stanford owned patents?
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