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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 28 May 2003, vol. 18:35
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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28 May 2003 Stanford Vol. 18, No. 35
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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 28 MAY 2003 TO 6 JUNE 2003
WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2003
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags
Bldg. 380:381U
Title to be announced
Lauren Barton
UC San Francisco
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
Pavni Diwanji
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, MailFrontier
Jon Oliver
Chief Spam Fighter, MailFrontier
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Aggression in the Two Sexes: A Developmental Perspective"
Eleanor Maccoby
Stanford
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"The Digital Management of Hydrocarbon Reserves"
John Ullo
Director, Schlumberger Austin Technology Center
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
7:00pm Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker Series
Bldg. 420:041
"Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Language Structure"
Ray Jackendoff
Linguistics, Brandeis University
http://symsys.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2003
4:00pm Personality Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
First year presentations
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#person_lab
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Beer: From [DEL: Grain :DEL] Brain To Glass"
Peter Bouckaert
Brewmaster, New Belgium Brewing, Co.
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series
EJ228, SRI International
"ANTS"
Charles L. Ortiz and Regis Vincent
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
POSTPONED
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
"Lessons and Challenges from Mining Retail E-Commerce Data"
Rajesh Parekh
Blue Martini Software
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Cross-Cultural Models of Hierarchy in Virtual Worlds:
Or Who needs a boss when you have a computer?"
Kent Griffin
MS Candidate, Symbolic Systems Program
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2003
12 noon Logical Methods in the Humanities
Bldg. 380:383N (math corner)
"Closure Algebras"
Guram Bezhanishvili
New Mexico State University
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B01
"System Administrators are Users Too"
Rob Barrett
IBM Almaden Research
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Title to be announced
Teenie Matlock
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#frisem
3:15pm CS545: Database Seminar
Braun Auditorium, Mudd Chemistry
"Model Organism Databases (and their Curation),
with a focus on the Saccharomyces Genome Database"
Michael Cherry
Genetics Department, Stanford University
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Language in the Era of the Genome"
Gary Marcus
New York University
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
MONDAY, 2 JUNE 2003
3:30pm Social Lab
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Academic Feedback Across The Racial Divide"
Jennifer Randall Crosby
Title to be announced
Sapna Cheryan
"Expectations And Success In Negotiations"
Nicholas Anderson
"University Contingencies Of Social Identity"
Mary Murphy
all speakers in the graduate program in Social Psychology, Stanford
(talks followed by pizza but you'll need to RSVP to the
Psychology department if you want pizza)
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#social_lab
4:15pm Broad Area Colloquium in AI,
Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Vision
TCSeq 201
Title to be announced
Vladimir Lifschitz
UTexas
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
4:15pm Biomechanical Engineering 2003 Distinguished Lecture
Fairchild Auditorium
"Bones have Ears"
Stephen C. Cowin
Chairman, Biomedical Engineering, City College, New York
http://www.stanford.edu/group/biomech/distinguished.html
Abstract below
4:30pm Comparative Literature Lecture
Bldg. 260:113 (Piggot Hall)
"Indigenous Knowledge Systems and their Transmission: Research
at the Oral-Literate Interface from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa"
Joan Conolly
Durban Institute of Technology, South Africa
(talk starts at 5pm)
http://cgi.stanford.edu/%7Ecspenner/cgi-bin/events_calendar/dlcl/index.cgi
TUESDAY, 3 JUNE 2003
2:45pm CS548: Internet and Distributed Systems Seminar
Gates B03
"Data Management in Internet Application Servers"
Dean Jacobs
BEA Systems
http://cs548.stanford.edu/schedule.shtml
Abstract below
4:15pm Logic Seminar
Bldg. 380:381T (math corner)
"On the intuitionistic strength of monotone inductive definitions"
S. Tupailo
Leeds
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
4:15pm SNRC Industry Seminar
Gates B01 (note unusual location)
"High Throughput Wireless Home Network Solutions"
Taekon Kim
Samsung
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
Abstract below
4:15pm Engineering 200: Research Universities: Stanford, A Case Study
Jordan 420:040
"Stanford and Society: Where Do We Go From Here"
John Hennessy
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/101.html
4:30pm SIG:Assessment
Wallenberg Hall Learning Theater (Bldg. 160)
"Evaluating Simulations"
Pat Youngblood
Cammy Huang
SUMMIT/Learning Tech, Stanford
http://summit.stanford.edu/research/virtuallabs_project.html
http://scil.stanford.edu/events/assessSIG3.html
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 4 JUNE 2003
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags
Bldg. 380:381U
"Isn't it ironic?: Young children's understanding of
situational and verbal irony in similar story contexts"
Jennifer Dyer
UC Santa Cruz
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
Tim Brown
CEO and President of IDEO
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
Title to be announced
Alex Rothman
University of Minnesota
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Computers versus Common Sense: An Engineering Approach to AI"
Doug Lenat
Cycorp
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 5 JUNE 2003
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"The Evolution of the Networking Industry"
Mike Volpi
Cisco Systems
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
Title to be announced
Eugene Nudelman
Stanford
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
Presentation of Senior Honors Theses
Symbolic Systems Senior Honors Candidates
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Information below
FRIDAY, 6 JUNE 2003
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Title to be announced
Nicolas Davidenko
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#frisem
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"The Digital Management of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs"
John Ullo
Schlumberger
The Digital Management of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs The new "Digital
Economy" is changing the complex workflow processes of the Exploration
and Production (E&P) sectors of the Oil and Gas industry in ways that
are as fundamental as core geotechnical advances. Assimilating these
new technologies into business activities will lead to market
advantages and enable the Oil & Gas industry to sustain and grow a
hydrocarbon-based economy efficiently and cleanly for many years to
come. This talk will describe some of these information-based trends
as well as future technologies that will enable a new working paradigm
for the E&P sector based on an emerging collaborative mindset.
About the speaker: Dr. Ullo is currently Vice President and General
Manager of the Schlumberger Austin Technology Center (ATC). In this
capacity he oversees several large product development groups which
are responsible for the development of computer software and hardware
systems that govern field data acquisition, data transport and use of
that data in decision driven workflows that are critical for managing
today's more complex oil and gas assets. His technical interests are
computer simulation of subsurface geophysical measurements and
sensors, computational physics for materials behavior and statistical
mechanics. Prior to Schlumberger Dr. Ullo received his B.S. in Physics
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and followed that with a Ph.D.
in Nuclear Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES
on Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 7:00pm
Bldg. 420:041
http://symsys.stanford.edu/
"Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Language Structure"
Ray Jackendoff
Professor of Linguistics, Brandeis University
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/faculty/jackendoff.html
There has been a great deal of recent discussion of the "neural
correlates of consciousness." This talk will address a related notion,
the "functional correlates of consciousness" -- the formal structures
in the mind that are relevant to awareness. I will look specifically
at verbal awareness and verbal imagery, in the context of a fleshed
out theory of linguistic structure -- the one mental domain where such
a theory exists. A number of striking conclusions emerge that (a) call
into question many of the popular theories of consciousness, (b)
clarify the role of working memory and attention in consciousness, and
(c) show how language enhances thought.
About the speaker: Ray Jackendoff is Professor of Linguistics at
Brandeis University, where he has taught since 1971. He has been a
Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in Stanford and the
Wissenschaftskolleg (Center for Advanced Study) in Berlin, and is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2003 he is
President of the Linguistic Society of America. His most recent book
is Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution. His
CD, "Romanian Music for Clarinet and Piano", will be issued by Albany
Records this spring.
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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Thursday, 29 May 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
"Lessons and Challenges from Mining Retail E-Commerce Data"
Rajesh Parekh
Blue Martini Software
http://www.bluemartini.com/bi/
The architecture of Blue Martini Software's e-commerce suite has
supported data collection, transformation, and data mining since its
inception. We will briefly review the system architecture and present
the key lessons we have learned and the important challenges we have
identified from our experience with mining retail e-commerce data. We
will present these lessons and challenges from the business and
technical viewpoints and across the data mining lifecycle stages of
data collection, data warehouse construction, business intelligence,
and deployment.
This is joint work with Ron Kohavi, Llew Mason, and Zijian Zheng.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 29 May 2003, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
"Cross-Cultural Models of Hierarchy in Virtual Worlds:
Or Who needs a boss when you have a computer?"
Kent Griffin
MS Candidate, Symbolic Systems Program
International businesses have always faced challenges, and
communication has always been one of the more important of these
challenges. Whether communicating locally or across nations, these
businesses face an uphill battle since different countries tend to
have different models for hierarchical communication and operation.
The literature in business management tells us how different cultures
have different models for interactions. For example, American systems
tend to be more vertical. On the other hand, Japanese managers tend
to be liked more by their employees than do American managers. The
question in international relations and business management has always
been, "How can we operate one company or group to satisfy two
different models?" Now, with the continual onslaught of new
technologies, methods of communication can change drastically. Thus,
a new question arises: "How does a new medium affect and/or represent
the hierarchical forms of communication in various cultures?" For
example, if we change the setting from a company's conference room to
a virtual conference room, would this have an effect on the
interaction? What if we changed someone's boss to be nothing more
than an agent? Would he/she still treat the agent like a boss? And,
of course, how do these questions differ by country?
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 30 May 2003, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"System Administrators are Users Too"
Rob Barrett
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://alme1.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/barrett/
Most human-computer interaction work has focused on end users of
computing systems. Another important class of computer users, however,
is the cohort of administrators who design, build, maintain and
troubleshoot computer systems. These highly-expert users are vital for
the operation of our "e-everything" world, yet little effort has gone
into studying their work and developing tools that help them be
effective. This is especially important because the labor associated
with operating large computational systems is increasingly
outstripping the cost of the technology itself.
Our research group is performing a series of ethnographic studies of
system administrators in their work environments. This presentation
will include results from these studies, as well as information
developed at a CHI2003 workshop on system administration as users;
this workshop brought together researchers, developers, and
practitioners from industria and academia.
From this group and from our own work, a consistent set of paradoxes
is beginning to emerge. First, tremendous effort has gone into the
design of powerful GUI tools for system administration. Many tools
have been developed and validated with established user-centered
design methodologies. Yet field studies repeatedly find system
administrators ignoring these tools and falling back on the standard
command shell and least-common denominator tools such as 'grep' and
'vi'. Second, system administration is a highly collaborative
activity, with a heavy dependence on instant messaging, email,
telephone, and face-to-face interaction. Yet system administration
tools rarely include collaboration aids, instead seemingly assuming
that these workers toil away silently and alone. Third, effective
operation and problem resolution requires an accurate mental model of
how the system functions. "Situation awareness" theory dictates that
a model starts with sensory input, develops with mental comprehension,
and results in predictions of system behavior. Yet large-scale systems
have few and unintegrated sensing mechanisms, and are too complex for
any single person to comprehend, resulting in unpredictable behavior.
This presentation will illustrate each of the three paradoxes with
examples from field experience, and offer suggestions for how the HCI
community can move forward to resolve them.
About the speaker: Rob Barrett is a Research Staff Member at the IBM
Almaden Research Center in California where he works in the Services
Research group that aims to bring value from HCI to the IBM Global
Services organization. His current work focuses on the user experience
of system administration and human aspects of autonomic computing.
Previous work includes an intermediary approach to designing web
applications, optimization of pointing devices, track-following servo
systems for tape data storage, and atomic-scale imaging. He holds a
Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University and has earned
masters and bachelors degrees in physics, electrical engineering and
theology. He has over 40 refereed publications and 16 patents in
fields ranging from applied math to physics and computer science..
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 30 May 2003, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"Language in the Era of the Genome"
Gary Marcus
New York University
Two of the most central questions in understanding the nature of the
uniquely human talent for language are the extent to which the
underlying neural machinery is "innate" (or "built-in"), and the
extent to which that machinery is specialized for language as opposed
to other cognitive functions. In this talk, I show how recent
research in genetics and developmental neuroscience suggests new ways
of thinking about these questions.
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BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING 2003 DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
on Monday, 2 June 2003, 4:15pm
(poster session starts at 1:00pm)
Fairchild Auditorium
http://www.stanford.edu/group/biomech/distinguished.html
registration required but the event is free
"Bones have Ears"
Stephen C. Cowin
Chairman, Biomedical Engineering, City College, New York
Living bones adapt their structure to meet the requirements of their
mechanical environment. These adaptations require a cell-based
mechanosensing system with a sensor cell that perceives the mechanical
deformation of the mineralized matrix in which the cell resides, a
cell-based mechanosensing system not unlike that in the ear.
One of the most perplexing features of this mechanosensory system in
bone is the very low strain level that a whole bone experiences in
vivo compared to that needed to produce a response in cells. The
amplitudes of the in vivo strains generally fall in the range 0.04 to
0.3 percent for animal locomotion and seldom exceed 0.1 percent. These
strains are nearly two orders of magnitude less than those needed (1%
to 10%) to elicit biochemical signals necessary for communication of
the sensing cells with the cells that deposit and resorb bone tissue.
There is a paradox in the bone mechanosensing system in that the
strains that activate the bone cells are at least an order of
magnitude larger than the strains to which the whole bone organ is
subjected.
A hierarchical model ranging over length scales that differ by 9
orders of magnitude, from the subcellular level to the whole bone
level, is used to resolve this paradox. Using this extended
poroelasticity-based model, it is possible to explain how the fluid
flow around a bone cell process can lead to strains on the cell
process structure that are two orders of magnitude greater than the
mineralized matrix in which the cell resides. This mechanosensory
system has many features in common with the auditory system.
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CS548: INTERNET AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 2:45pm - 4:00pm
Gates B03
http://cs548.stanford.edu/schedule.shtml
"Data Management in Internet Application Servers"
Dean Jacobs
BEA Systems
This talk surveys data management techniques used in clustered
Application Servers. The first section presents an overview of
Application Servers and their evolution from TP Monitors. The second
section focuses on read-mostly data that is replicated across servers
in the cluster. The third section focuses on read-modify-write data
that is partitioned across servers in the cluster.
About the speaker: Dean Jacobs received his Ph.D. in Computer Science
from Cornell University in 1985. He has served on the faculty of the
Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California
(USC). He has been instrumental in the development of several
commercially-available distributed systems, including BEA WebLogic
Server. Currently, Dr. Jacobs is an Architect at BEA Systems.
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LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 4:15pm-5:30pm
Math Corner 380:381T
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"On the intuitionistic strength of monotone inductive definitions"
S. Tupailo
Leeds
In his 2002 Ph.D. thesis M. Moellerfeld has shown that the
second-order $\mu$-calculus, a theory axiomatizing least fixed points
of positively defined monotone operators, when based on classical
logic, has the strength of $\Pi^1_2$ comprehension axiom, which is the
current limit of ordinal analysis. His methods are based on
Generalized Recursion Theory, and as such are not amenable to
intuitionistic reasoning. However, the $\mu$-calculus presented very
little problems for the Goedel-Gentzen-Kolmogorov double-negation
translation, so we prove that the intuitionistic theory is
proof-theoretically equally strong.
Further interpretation of the intuitionistic $\mu$-calculus in the
system $T_0^i+UMID$ of Explicit Mathematics provides a first
breakthrough into intuitionistic strength of monotone inductive
definitions in those theories, showing that one should expect that
this strength is as big as the classical one. This question was posed
by S. Feferman in 1982, but up to now virtually nothing was known in
this area. On the classical side, it came as a surprise when
M. Rathjen proved in a series of papers of 1996--2002 that the
strength is essentially that of $\Pi^1_2$-CA. Our work determines the
exact strength of the intuitionistic $T_0^i(restr.)+UMID_N$.
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SNRC INDUSTRY SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 4:15pm
Gates B01
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
"High Throughput Wireless Home Network Solutions"
Taekon Kim
Samsung
Home network system using wireless technologies seems to be the
dominant feature in home entertainment system in the near
future. However, the existing wireless LAN or PAN solutions such as
802.11 b/g/a, Hiperlan 2 and Bluetooth do not have enough capacity to
deal with audio/video data, particularly a plurality of HDTV
streams. The development of high throughput solutions such as MIMO
(multiple-input-multiple-output) and UWB (ultra wideband) techniques
is strongly expected. This includes not only high throughput MAC and
PHY development but appropriate high layer protocols development for
multimedia applications.
About the speaker: Taekon Kim is a senior engineer of Digital Media
R&D Center of Samsung Electronics in South Korea. His lab focuses on
developing high throughput wireless solutions for both home network
and next generation network systems. Previously, he was a research
engineer of Technology & Research Labs of Intel Corporation in
Arizona, USA. He has the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the
Pennsylvania State University in PA.
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SIG: ASSESSMENT
on Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 4:30pm
Wallenberg Hall Learning Theater (Bldg. 160)
http://scil.stanford.edu/events/assessSIG3.html
"Evaluating Simulation-Based Learning"
Pat Youngblood and Cammy Huang
SUMMIT/Learning Tech
http://summit.stanford.edu/research/virtuallabs_project.html
How can educators effectively evaluate simulation-based learning
technologies? Pat Youngblood, Education Consultant, and Cammy Huang,
Virtual Labs Project Director at SUMMIT/Learning Tech in the Stanford
University School of Medicine will discuss the challenges, strategies,
and protocols behind moving educational technology materials from "lab
to learner" and into the curriculum. The speakers will begin with the
evaluation framework used for SUMMIT projects from concept to
implementation and the describe two case scenarios: the Virtual Labs
Project and Virtual Training in Laparoscopic Surgery; the former
designed to train higher-level cognitive skills and the latter to
develop the technical skills necessary to perform surgery. Attendees
are encouraged to visit the Virtual Labs Project (
http://chococat.stanford.edu/test/ )before the session to get a sense
of the scope of the SUMMIT endeavor.
SCIL sponsors SIG:Assessment to bring together faculty, researchers,
and students on campus and throughout the Bay Area who work on
practical ways to evaluate new instructional methods. The
SIG:Assessment is directed by Daniel Schwartz, Professor, Stanford
School of Education.These meetings are open to the public; new members
are welcome.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 4 June 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Computers versus Common Sense
An Engineering Approach to AI"
Doug Lenat
Cycorp, Inc.
Computers today are idiot-savants. They may manage bits flawlessly and
furiously, but they have no understanding of what those bits signify.
And they have poor models of themselves and of the human beings they
serve and represent. To break that "brittleness bottleneck," we need a
new software layer that contains the millions of things the average
person knows about the world. Some of this is factual, such as how
often a U.S. Presidential election is held, or even ephemeral, such as
the name of the current President; but most of the needed content is
more like rules of thumb, such as why one should carry a glass of
water open-end up. In terms of a newspaper or book, we are talking
about codifying the white space - the things the authors don't need to
bother saying (e.g., the White House is in Washington, D.C.; tables
have flat horizontal tops; appliances stop working when turned off.)
Since 1984, my team has spent the seven person-centuries necessary to
build that artifact. In this talk, I'll describe what we did, and why,
and some of the lessons we learned about representing commonsense
knowledge, and doing reasoning in huge knowledge-based systems. In
particular, I'll explain why we took an empirical, engineering
approach to the problem, rather than a theoretical, scientific
approach. I'll also discuss some current and future commercial
applications of our technology (CYC).
About the speaker: Douglas B. Lenat received hi Ph.D. in Computer
Science at Stanford in 1976; his thesis was a heuristic program called
AM that made hundreds of small creative discoveries in mathematics --
a theorem proposer, rather than a theorem prover -- for which he was
awarded the biannual IJCAI Computers & Thought Award in
1977. Dr. Lenat was named one of the original Fellows of the AAAI
(American Association for Artificial Intelligence). A prolific author,
he has been a professor at CMU and Stanford, a founder of Teknowledge,
and the only individual ever to serve on the technical advisory boards
of both Apple and Microsoft. His interest and experience in national
security has led him to regularly consult for several U.S. agencies
and the White House. From 1984 through 1994, Dr. Lenat directed the
Cyc common sense knowledge base and reasoning project for MCC, the
USA's first high-technology research consortium. He is the President
of Cycorp, the company he founded in 1994 to carry on the development
and commercialization of the Cyc technology.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 5 June 2003, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Presentations of Senior Honors Projects
SSP Honors Students, Class of '03
4:15pm Micah Boster,
"Market Liberalization and Global Cellular Phone Propagation"
(Advisor: David Abernethy, Political Science)
4:25pm Rory Berry,
"The Effects of Multiple Instructors and Presentation Modality
on Learning, Perceived Learning, and User Satisfaction in E-Learning"
(Advisor: Cliff Nass, Communication)
4:35pm Jed Rose,
"VSG's and the Deaf: A novel visual symbol game to help the
deaf learn to read complex English sentences"
(Advisor: Daniel Schwartz, Education)
4:45pm Ash Brown,
"Persuasive CALL: Using Persuasion to Make Computer Assissted
Language Learning More Effective"
(Advisor: B.J. Fogg, Computer Science)
4:55pm Kiely Martinez,
"Animal play: biological and philosophical perspectives"
(Advisor: Stuart Thompson, Biological Sciences)
5:05pm Bayle Shanks,
"Collaborative encyclopaedias covering neuroscience and A.I research"
(Advisor: John Gabrieli, Psychology)
5:15pm Sara Wampler,
"A Network Analysis of the 20 July 1944 Conspiracy"
(Advisor: Elizabeth Bernhardt, German Studies)
5:25pm Alexis Battle,
"The Probabilistic Discovery of Overlapping Gene Modules and
Their Regulation"
(Advisor: Daphne Koller, Computer Science)
5:35pm Hilary Spencer,
"Visualization and Graph-Drawing Techniques for
Protein-Protein Interaction Networks"
(Advisor: Patrick Hanrahan, Computer Science)
Refreshments will be served afterward.
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