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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 11 June 2003, vol. 18:37
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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11 June 2003 Stanford Vol. 18, No. 37
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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 11 JUNE 2003 TO 20 JUNE 2003
WEDNESDAY, 11 JUNE 2003
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
Stephen R. Du Mont
Cisco
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
THURSDAY, 12 JUNE 2003
12 noon RNI/Stanford Seminar on Theoretical Neuroscience
CISX 101, Allen Center for Integrated Systems (NOTE LOCATION)
"The Dynamical Brain"
Terrence Sejnowski
Salk Institute
http://www.rni.org/seminar.html
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Enabling Productivity with Large Displays"
Gary Starkweather
Microsoft Research
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
"Learning DFA from Simple Examples"
Rajesh Parekh
Blue Martini Software
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 13 JUNE 2003
12 noon Logic Seminar
Bldg. 380:383N (math corner)
"Computing Interpolants in Implicational Logics"
Makoto Kanazawa
University of Tokyo
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
SUNDAY, 15 JUNE 2003
9:30am Commencement
Stanford Stadium
Address by Alejandro Toledo, President, Peru
http://commencement.stanford.edu/
MONDAY, 16 JUNE 2003
3:30pm Berkeley Intel Research Seminar
Intel Research Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck, Ste. 1300
"Sensor Networks, Live Performance, and Media Production"
Jeff Burke
HyperMedia Studio, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 17 JUNE 2003
all day KAIST-Stanford Technology Forum Conference
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall
"EE/CS Education for the Future"
http://asia.stanford.edu/events/conf03/index.html
RSVP to conference organizers required
Information below
THURSDAY, 19 JUNE 2003
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Web Bloopers: Avoiding Common Design Mistakes"
Jeff Johnson
UI Wizards, Inc
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Stanford is finishing up the regular school year and graduation will
be this coming Sunday. Congratulations and best wishes to all
students graduating.
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RNI/STANFORD SEMINAR SERIES IN THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE
on Thursday, 12 June 2003, 12 noon - 1pm
CISX 101, 330 Serra Mall
http://www.rni.org/seminar.html
"The Dynamical Brain"
Terrence Sejnowski
Salk Institute
http://www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty/details.php?id=48
Even in the absence of sensory stimuli, neurons in the cortex are
spontaneously active and can fire coherently. Experiments and models
suggest that these coherent patterns are modulated by top-down
influences that allow us to expect, attend and flexibly respond.
About the Speaker: Terrence J. Sejnowski, professor and head of the
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, is a
pioneer in the field of computational neuroscience. He has a B.S. in
physics from Case Western and a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton
University. He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award for
1984-89, Fairchild Distinguished Scholar award in 1992-93, and Wright
Prize in 1996. Among other things, Sejnowski is interested in the
hippocampus, believed to play a major role in learning and memory; and
the cerebral cortex, which holds our knowledge of the world and how to
interact with it.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 12 June 2003, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Enabling Productivity with Large Displays"
Gary Starkweather
Microsoft Research
Over the past 30 or so years, the personal computer has developed in a
remarkable fashion. There have been massive increases in memory, disk
storage, CPU speed, etc. All of these developments have significantly
increased the value of the PC in out lives. What other opportunities
exist? One such opportunity that has occupied my time for several
years now is the display. We have seen many new technologies such as
the LCD and now OLED technologies and they represent real
improvements. However, I have been looking at the utility of large
displays. Such displays would have operating diagonal dimensions of 36
inches (about 1 meter) and larger.
One such display that was built as a prototype here at Microsoft
Research is a display named DSHARP. DSHARP is not a product prototype
but a technology evaluator. DSHARP has an 11 x 44 inch screen size
with a resolution of 3072 x 768 or TXGA (triple XGA). Extensive
experiments have been done to assess user productivity and interaction
experience on large displays. This talk will briefly review the DSHARP
display, discuss some of our findings on how users benefit from large
display areas and review what technologies might enable productizing
such large displays such as MEMS, miniature projection arrays etc.
About the Speaker: Gary Starkweather has spent over 40 years in the
imaging sciences and holds more than 44 patents in the fields of
imaging, color and hardcopy devices. He worked for Bausch & Lomb and
Xerox in Rochester, NY. before transferring to the newly formed Xerox
research center in Palo Alto, CA. While at PARC, Gary invented the
laser printer which went to market as the Xerox 9700 in 1977. He has
received a number of awards for this work, including the Xerox
President's Achievement Award. In 1987, he received the Johann
Gutenberg Prize from the Society for Information Display and in 1991
he received the David Richardson medal from the Optical Society of
America. Gary was a PARC Senior Research Fellow when, in 1988, he left
to join Apple Computer as an Apple Fellow involved in Publishing and
Color Imaging products and research. In March of 1994 he received a
Technical Academy Award for his consulting work with Lucasfilm and
Pixar on color film scanning. In November of 2002, he was inducted
into the Technology Hall of Fame at COMDEX. Currently, he is part of
Microsoft Research as an Architect working on displays and information
processing.
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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Thursday, 12 June 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
"Learning DFA from Simple Examples"
Rajesh Parekh
Business Intelligence Group
Blue Martini Software
Efficient learning of DFA is a challenging research problem in
grammatical inference. It is known that both exact and approximate (in
the PAC sense) identifiability of DFA is hard. Pitt has posed the
following open research problem: Are DFA PAC-identifiable if examples
are drawn from the uniform distribution, or some other known simple
distribution?. I will discuss the learnability under the
Solomonoff-Levin universal distribution (m) of the class of DFA whose
canonical representations have logarithmic Kolmogorov complexity. I
will show that the class of DFA is efficiently learnable under the
PACS (PAC learning with simple examples) model wherein positive and
negative examples are sampled according to the universal distribution
conditional on a description of the target concept. Further, I will
address the relationship between models for learning in helpful
environments and explain how unnatural collusion between the teacher
and learner can potentially trivialize the task of learning in such
environments.
This is joint work with Vasant Honavar, Department of Computer
Science, Iowa State University.
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LOGIC SEMINAR
on Friday, 13 June 2003, 12 noon
Math Corner 380:383N
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Computing Interpolants in Implicational Logics"
Makoto Kanazawa
University of Tokyo
Motivated by a computational model of acquisition of word meanings
(Siskind 1996, Kanazawa 2001), I consider the following problem in the
simply typed lambda calculus: Given a normal term
T[x1,...,xm,y1,...,yn] with free variables x1,...,xm,y1,...,yn, find a
term S[x1,...,xm] and another term P[z,y1,...,yn] such that
P[S[x1,...,xm],y1,...,yn] beta-reduces to T[x1,...,xm,y1,...,yn].
There are always infinitely many solutions to this problem, but most
of them are unnecessarily complex. I focus on those solutions such
that the common type of S and z gives an interpolant to the `split
sequent' A1,...,Am; B1,...,Bn => C, where A1,...,Am are the types of
x1,...,xm, B1,...,Bn are the types of y1,...,yn, and C is the type of
T. Existing syntactical methods for proving the interpolation theorem
due to Maehara and Prawitz (adapted to implicational logics) find some
such solutions, but leave out other, arguably more interesting, ones.
In this talk, I present a new algorithm for computing interpolants in
the implicational intuitionistic logic and its substructural fragments
that, like Prawitz', works on natural deductions rather than sequent
derivations, and that, unlike existing methods, always finds a
`strongest' interpolant under a certain restricted but reasonable
notion of what counts as `interpolants'.
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BERKELEY INTEL RESEARCH SEMINAR
on Monday, 16 June 2003, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Intel Research Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck, Ste. 1300
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
"Sensor Networks, Live Performance, and Media Production"
Jeff Burke
HyperMedia Studio, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Art and entertainment experiences can serve as a unique and demanding
laboratory for 'ubiquitous computing' research; simultaneously, sensor
networks and other ubicomp platforms are a provocative catalyst for
creative expression. Significant work remains in articulating the
potential application domains and their requirements for robustness,
'perceived real-time' performance, and precise control over media
presentation, lighting, sound, and mechanical systems. Digital
technology has already revolutionized film post-production and
distribution and brought precise automated control of expansive
physical spaces to theater and themed entertainment. Yet, in cinema,
theater, and themed entertainment alike, storytelling still involves
real people interacting in physical space. Emerging ubicomp
technologies offer artists the capability to create highly distributed
systems that implement relationships between sensed events in the
physical world, digitally controlled elements of an experience, and
'virtual' components. This talk will present opportunities for
collaboration in the use of sensor networks in art and entertainment,
including large commercial markets such as feature film production, as
well as new multidisciplinary artworks that combine elements from
performance, installation art, and the internet. It will cover past
work at UCLAs HyperMedia Studio, emerging research projects and new
curriculum involving students and faculty from the arts, sciences, and
engineering. It will outline the common need for appropriate authoring
and middleware tools across these applications and highlight existing
research goals that are prerequisites for the envisioned art and
entertainment applications.
About the Speaker: Jeff Burke is a Visiting Assistant Professor and
Assistant Researcher in the UCLA Department of Film, Television and
Digital Media. Previously, he was on the faculty of the graduate
industrial design program at the Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, and
focuses on the application of emerging technologies to theater, film
and television production. He has designed interactive systems that
combine sensing with media control for numerous artistic installations
exhibited internationally and worked in technical production in
community, academic, and professional theater. Recent work at UCLA
includes development of the NSF-funded performance and technology
research effort The Iliad Project (2001-2003) and the co-development
of collaborative projects like this one that bring together faculty
and students from Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and the
performance and media arts.
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THIRD KAIST-STANFORD TECHNOLOGY FORUM CONFERENCE
on Tuesday, 17 June 2003, all day
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall
http://asia.stanford.edu/events/conf03/index.html
RSVP required: Please email Viji Jagannathan at viji@stanford.edu
"EE/CS Education for the Future"
8:45AM Opening Remarks
Professor James Plummer, Dean, Engineering, Stanford
Professor Myung Jin Chung, Dean, Information Technology, KAIST
Morning Session Theme: "Getting to the frontier"
Challenges to EE/CS curricula as a result of continuing technology
advancement. How can EE & CS departments prepare students to reach the
leading edge of technologies, when that leading edge keeps moving
farther and farther away from the basic-level curriculum? These
sessions will also address the teaching of skills versus theory and
also the teaching of underlying scientific background and tools, i.e.
math and physics.
9:15AM Keynote 1: "Future directions of undergraduate education in EE
at Stanford"
Professor Bruce Wooley, Chair, EE Department, Stanford
9:45AM Keynote 2: "ECE Education"
Professor Hyun Wook Park, EECS Dept., KAIST
10:15AM Break
10:30AM Panel Discussion on "Skills & Theory" How to Keep Up
Professor Jin Hyung Kim, CS, KAIST
Professor Byung Kook Kim, EE, KAIST
Professor Mark Horowitz, EE & CS, Stanford
Professor Hector Garcia-Molina, Chair, CS Department, Stanford
12:00PM Lunch
Afternoon Session Theme: "Well-rounded curricula for EE & CS"
The role of "other" subjects in EE & CS curricula, industry
participation and work experiences, entrepreneurship education.
1:15PM Keynote 1: "Building an undergraduate curriculum through
university-industry partnerships"
Professor Steve Kang, Dean of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
1:45PM Keynote 2: "Entrepreneurship education for Engineers"
Professor Tom Byers, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford
2:15PM Keynote 3: "Interdisciplinary education to combine EECS and
Biological Science"
Professor Soo-Young Lee, Chair, Department of Bio Systems, KAIST
2:45PM Break
3:00PM Panel and General Discussion with the Audience on
"The importance of a well-rounded educational experience"
Including topics such as biology and other sciences,
experiences outside the classroom, entrepreneurship and other
topics.
Professor Hyun Seung Yang, EE & CS, KAIST
John Howard, C.I.S Fellow & former President, Panasonic
Semiconductor Development Company
Professor Steve Kang, Dean of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Professor Soo-Young Lee, Chair, Department of Bio Systems, KAIST
Moderated by Richard Dasher, Director, US-Asia Technology
Management Center
5:00PM End
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 19 June 2003, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Web Bloopers: Avoiding Common Design Mistakes"
Jeff Johnson
UI Wizards, Inc.
This talk is based on the presenter's new book: Web Bloopers: 60
Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Morgan Kaufmann).
The book explains how to avoid common Web design errors, illustrated
with examples from actual websites. The talk asserts that the Web is
not commercial product quality, largely due to poor usability. It
describes a few bloopers in each category, and explains how to avoid
them. The talk is illustrated with many examples of bloopers in
commercially-available websites.
About the speaker: 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, and Sun Microsystems. He has published numerous
articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in Human-Computer
Interaction and the impact of technology on society. He is also the
author of a previous book, GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Dos for Software
Developers and Web Designers (Morgan Kaufmann).
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