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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 7 May 2003, vol. 18:32
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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7 May 2003 Stanford Vol. 18, No. 32
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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
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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ACTIVITIES FROM 7 MAY 2003 TO 16 MAY 2003
WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2003
3:30pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
Vinton G. Cerf
Sr. Vice President for Architecture and Technology, WorldCom
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
Abstract below
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Affirmative Action is Dead; Long Live Affirmative Action"
Faye Crosby
UC Santa Cruz
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:00pm UC Berkeley Psychology Colloquium (SPEAKER CHANGE)
5101 Tolman (UC Berkeley)
"Early Environmental Regulation of Adult Endocrine
and Behavioral Responses to Stress: Mother Nature
Meets Mother Nurture"
Darlene Francis
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Emory University
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/admin/colloquia.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Natural Language Processing Systems"
Christopher Manning
Stanford University
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2003
12 noon - 5 pm
Our Language Regeneration Program
370 Dwinelle Hall (UC Berkeley)
"The hunt for the Circle of Life"
Leonard Little Finger
Lakota Studies Department, Loneman School, South Dakota
and
"Multi-media Technology & Language Revitalization"
Wil Meya
University of Indiana
RSVP to Diane Pearson <jdp@uclink.berkeley.edu>
http://www.lakotalanguage.org
12:15pm CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
"A Value-Driven Architecture for Intelligent Behavior"
Pat Langley
Computational Learning Laboratory, CSLI
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
1:15pm Logic Seminar (SPECIAL TIME)
Bldg. 380:383P (math corner) (SPECIAL LOCATION)
"Epsilon Substitution Method in Ackermann's Dissertation"
Patrick Girard and Darko Sarenac
Stanford
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
4:00pm Personality Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Title to be announced
Jutta Joorman
Stanford
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#person_lab
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"FBI's Silicon Valley Computer Forensic Laboratory"
Chris Beeson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Grammar Induction: Learning the Structure of Language"
Christopher Manning
Computer Science and Linguistics
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
4:15pm US-Asia Technology Management Seminar
Terman Auditorium
"Optical Interconnect: How far will it go?"
Ravindra Athale
Microsystems Technology Office, DARPA
RSVP to viji@stanford.edu
http://asia.stanford.edu/events/Spring03/index.html
9:00pm Symbolic Systems CoHo Night
Coffee House at Tressider Union
"Mindful Conversation About Mind"
Symbolic Systems Advising Fellows
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Free refreshments
FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2003
9:00am Special University Oral Examination
Packard 204
"A Distributed Data Flow Model
for Composing Software Services"
David Wanqian Liu
Electrical Engineering
Refreshments served at 8:40am
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN
"Lessons Learned: Interacting with the PLATO System"
Brian Dear
Founder, eBay Design Labs
http://www.platopeople.com/
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
2:15pm NLP Reading Group
Wallenberg Hall, Room 323 (NEW LOCATION)
"Open Source Text Mining"
Hinrich Schuetze
Enkata Technologies
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/nlp/nlpgroup.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Hermeneutics and Theories of Meaning"
Robert Brandom
University of Pittsburgh/Stanford CASBS
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"The Logical Structure of OT Constraints"
K. P. Mohanan & Tara Mohanan
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
4:00pm Bioinformatics Seminar
310 Soda Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Several (Useful) Kernels for Computational Biology"
Jean-Philippe Vert
Ecole des Mines de Paris
Details available from Michael Jordan <jordan@cs.berkeley.edu>
MONDAY, 12 MAY 2003
9:30am Special University Oral Examination
CISX Auditorium
"A Wideband, Time-Interleaved CMOS A/D Converter Using
Photoconductive Sampling Switches"
Lalitkumar Y. Nathawad
Electrical Engineering
Refreshments served at 9:15am
4:00pm Berkeley Linguistics Department Colloquium
182 Dwinelle Hall (UC Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Arto Anttila
NYU
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/Current/events.html
4:15pm Broad Area Colloquium in AI,
Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Vision
TCSeq 201
"Machine Learning of Natural Languages
via Translingual Projection"
David Yarowsky
Johns Hopkins
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2003
2:45pm CS548: Internet and Distributed Systems Seminar
Gates B03
"Palimpsest: Soft-Capacity Storage for Planetary-Scale Services"
Timothy Roscoe
Intel Research Berkeley
http://cs548.stanford.edu/schedule.shtml
3:45pm Smart Items Business Forum
Suite 250, Stanford Barn, 700 Welch Road, Palo Alto
"Challenges and Rewards of Driving Innovation:
Taking the Thought Leadership Approach"
Lutz Heuser
SAP Corporate Research, SAP AG
RSVP to Claire Kahrobaie <kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com>
650-462-9800
4:15pm Engineering 200: Research Universities: Stanford, A Case Study
Jordan 420:040
"Collaboration across Campus Drive"
Philip Pizzo
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/101.html
7:00pm Stanford Phonology Workshop (SPECIAL DAY AND TIME)
Margaret Jacks 460:301 (SPECIAL LOCATION)
"The invention of Greek: Phonology, morphology,
and sociolinguistics"
Andrew Garrett
UC Berkeley
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
7:00pm Emerging Technology Group
Cubberley Community Center, H-1, 4000 Middlefield, Palo Alto
"Towards a Universal Application Platform"
Jeff Dill
Isomorphic Software
http://www.sdforum.org/
(there is a fee for non-SDForum members, see web page)
WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2003
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags
Bldg. 380:381U
"The language-specific nature of grammatical development:
Evidence from bilingual learners"
Virginia Marchman
UT Dallas
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#dev_brownbag
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
Megan J. Smith
PlanetOut Partners, San Francisco
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Finding needles in a terabyte haystack:
How Google searches the web"
Urs H\"olzle
Fellow, Google
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2003
12 noon RNI/Stanford Seminar on Theoretical Neuroscience
CISX 101, Allen Center for Integrated Systems (NEW LOCATION)
"Contrastive Backpropagation and the Brain"
Geoffrey Hinton
Computer Science, University of Toronto
http://www.rni.org/seminar.html
2:00pm Ph.D. Oral Defense
Packard 101
"Mixtures of Inverse Covariances
with Applications to Automatic Speech Recognition"
Vincent Vanhoucke
Information Systems Laboratory
Electrical Engineering
4:00pm Personality Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Title to be announced
Per Gjerde
UC Santa Cruz
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#person_lab
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Fluid Content, Fixed Form: Symbolic Representations of Music
as Intellectual Property"
Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Music Department
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2003
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN
"Peephole Displays: Pen Interaction
on Spatially Aware Handheld Computers"
Ka-Ping Yee
Computer Science, UC Berkeley
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
1:00pm Stanford Algorithms Seminar (AFLB)
Gates 463a (Theory Lounge)
"Multicommodity Demand Flow in a Tree Subtext: When
are Packing Problems "easy" to Approximate?"
Chandra Chekuri
http://theory.stanford.edu/~aflb/
3:30pm Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Not confirmed, see web site below for update and location
"Natural conversation with embodied agents: the role
of computational semantics in dialogue systems"
Johan Bos
University of Edinburgh
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
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REUTERS FOUNDATION DIGITAL VISION PROGRAM SEMINAR
on Wednesday, 7 May 2003, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
Vinton G. Cerf
Sr. Vice President for Architecture and Technology, WorldCom
www.wcom.com/cerfsup
Vinton G. Cerf is senior vice president of Architecture and Technology
for WorldCom. Cerf's team of architects and engineers design advanced
networking frameworks including Internet-based solutions for
delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video
services for business and consumer use.
Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the
co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the
Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the
U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert
E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet.
Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice
president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led
the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be
connected to the Internet.
During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role
leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet
and security technologies.
Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Cerf served as founding
president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a
term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman
of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding
introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf has served as a
member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory
Committee (PITAC) since 1997 and serves on several national, state and
industry committees focused on cyber-security. Cerf is a principal
for the Global Internet Project (GIP), and he sits on the Board of
Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger
Shakespeare Library, Gallaudet University, the MarcoPolo Foundation,
Nuance Corporation, CoSine Corporation, 2BNatural Corporation and the
Hynomics Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the
Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection
with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship,
Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the
Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander
Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association
for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver
Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE
Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM
Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and
Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, the Yuri
Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network
World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the
Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third
Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the
J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on
Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial
Living Legend medal.
In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that
year's "25 Most Intriguing People."
In addition to his work on behalf of WorldCom and the Internet, Cerf
has served as a technical advisor to production for "Gene
Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict.," He also made a special guest
appearance in May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television programs
NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with
Alexander Haig and Casper Weinberger. Cerf also holds an appointment
as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 7 May 2003, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Natural Language Processing Systems"
Christopher Manning
Stanford University
manning@cs.stanford.edu
In science fiction movies people can always talk with computers (and
aliens speaking different languages). What kinds of things can one do
in reality? Recent data-driven probabilistic approaches to natural
language processing (NLP) have led to programs that can do many parts
of the problem very well. It is still hard to completely understand
human languages, but why should we settle for doing nothing at all?
In this talk I particularly want to develop the idea that now that we
have gigahertz of processing power and hundreds of gig of disk, there
are lots of places where "systems programs" could use a little
embedded NLP. The 'file' command could do with some NLP. Ghostscript
(ps2ascii) could definitely do with some NLP. Getting control of
one's email back really needs NLP.
About the speaker: Christopher Manning is an assistant professor of
computer science and linguistics at Stanford University. Previously,
he has held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the
University of Sydney. His research interests include probabilistic
natural language processing, syntax, information extraction, and
computational lexicography. He is the author of three books,
including Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (MIT
Press, 1999, with Hinrich Schuetze).
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 8 May 2003, 12:15pm-1:30pm
Cordura Hall, Room 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"A Value-Driven Architecture for Intelligent Behavior"
Pat Langley
Computational Learning Laboratory, CSLI
http://cll.stanford.edu/~langley/
In this talk, I describe Icarus, an integrated cognitive architecture
for intelligent agents in which affective values play a central role.
The framework incorporates long-term and short-term memories for
concepts and skills, and it includes mechanisms for recognizing
concepts, calculating reward, nominating and selecting skills based on
expected values, executing those skills in a reactive manner,
repairing these skills when they fail, and abandoning them when they
promise poor returns. I illustrate these processes with examples from
the domain of highway driving. Icarus differs from earlier cognitive
architectures like ACT and Soar by giving categorization and execution
primacy over problem solving and by giving affective values a central
role in determining agent behavior.
This talk describes joint work with Daniel Shapiro, Meg Aycinena, and
Michael Siliski.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 8 May 2003, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
"Grammar Induction: Learning the Structure of Language"
Christopher Manning
Computer Science and Linguistics
manning@cs.stanford.edu
nlp.stanford.edu/~manning
Grammar induction is the task of learning the grammar of a language
based on seeing a large body of utterances of the language. Doing
this (if in a somewhat informal, non-computational manner) was the
basis of the proposed 'discovery procedures' argued for by structural
linguists, and which were for a while generally seen as discredited by
the work of Chomsky. But we know a lot more about learning now.
Surely grammar induction should be possible? In this talk I will
focus on the so-called logical problem of language acquisition, why it
is apparently quite difficult, whether it is reasonable to expect
success, how engineering approaches to NLP route around the problem,
and what the implications are for linguistic theory. I will then
outline joint work with Dan Klein which develops a promising new angle
on grammar induction, by defining a generative distributional model
which explicitly models constituent yields and contexts. Parameter
search with EM produces higher quality analyses than previously
exhibited by unsupervised systems, giving the best published
unsupervised parsing results on the ATIS corpus. Experiments on Penn
treebank sentences of comparable length show an even higher F1 of 71%
on non-trivial brackets.
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NLP READING GROUP
on Friday, 9 May 2003, 2:15pm - 3:30pm
Wallenberg Hall, Room 323 (NEW LOCATION)
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/nlp/nlpgroup.html
"Open Source Text Mining"
Hinrich Schuetze
Enkata Technologies
One obstacle to the widespread adoption of text mining is the cost of
building text mining systems. In addition to the core engineering
effort, the creation of knowledge resources is expensive. There are
many industrial and research projects in progress that partially
overlap and duplicate each others' efforts. This suggests that text
mining would be a prime area for open source development. Indeed,
there are a number of open source text mining packages available.
The challenge is that most open source projects concern themselves
with software only. For text mining, we also need knowledge resources
such as dictionaries and rule books. Another difference is that most
open source software is designed to work out of the box. Text mining
often requires customization of knowledge resources.
In this talk, I will speculate how we can adapt the open source
paradigm to our purposes and accelerate text mining research and
commercialization.
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