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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 9 July 2003, vol. 18:41
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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9 July 2003 Stanford Vol. 18, No. 41
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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 9 JULY 2003 TO 18 JULY 2003
WEDNESDAY, 9 JULY 2003
2:00pm Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Components of the meaning of imperatives:
A case study in clause typing"
Paul Portner
Georgetown University
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
THURSDAY, 10 JULY 2003
10:00am EE Talk
Packard 101
"From Shannon To TCP: Solving Nonlinear Problems in
Communication Systems Using Geometric Programming and Dualities"
Mung Chiang
EE, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~chiangm/
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Modular Robotics"
Mark Yim
PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 11 JULY 2003
2:00pm UC Berkeley BISC Seminar
606 Soda Hall, Berkeley
"V-Lab @ - A Virtual Laboratory for Autonomous Agent"
Mo Jamshidi
Autonomous Control Engineering Center (ACE) and
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
SATURDAY, 12 JULY 2003
3:30pm Berkeley Intel Research Seminar
Intel Research Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck, Ste. 1300
"Talking Phones: A Cultural Account of an Information and
Communication Technologies"
Genevieve Bell
Intel Research
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
Abstract below
(The above more probably is on the Tuesday below but both dates are
listed on the Berkeley calendar)
TUESDAY, 15 JULY 2003
3:30pm Berkeley Intel Research Seminar
Intel Research Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck, Ste. 1300
"Talking Phones: A Cultural Account of an Information and
Communication Technologies"
Genevieve Bell
Intel Research
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 17 JULY 2003
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Did the great masters 'cheat' using optics?
On the mysterious rise in realism in early Renaissance painting"
David G. Stork
Chief Scientist, Ricoh Innovations
and
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
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EE TALK
on Thursday, 10 July 2003, 10:00am-10:50am
Packard 101
"From Shannon To TCP:
Solving Nonlinear Problems in Communication Systems
Using Geometric Programming and Dualities"
Mung Chiang
EE, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~chiangm/
We use the principles of Lagrange duality and Shannon duality, and a
special type of convex optimization called geometric program, to solve
several nonlinear problems in communication systems.
We show that the information theoretic limits of channel capacity and
rate distortion can be obtained through Lagrange dual problems, in the
form of geometric programs. Lagrange duality provides a rigorous
characterization of Shannon duality between transmission and
compression in the discrete memoryless case, and can be used to easily
generate bounds. We also consider a more sophisticated model of
transmission and compression with state. By putting the known answers
to eight special cases into a common form, we extend Shannon duality
to cases with state information. The common form also solves the more
general problems where state information at the sender and the
receiver are different but correlated.
We then turn to a network communication system, where limited
resources are allocated to competing user demands. We provide a
flexible form of generalized proportionally fair allocation, which can
be interpreted as the result of a relative entropy minimization. We
show how geometric programs can efficiently optimize such allocations
under various nonlinear Quality of Service constraints. This
methodology is applied to processor sharing, admission control, and a
suite of wireless network power control problems. Continuing to the
coupling effect between meeting user demands in transport layer and
regulating bandwidth supply in physical layer, we distributively solve
a geometric program that balances TCP congestion control with power
control to improve energy efficiency in wireless multihop networks.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 10 July 2003, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"TERMINATOR 0.001: Modular Robotics"
Mark Yim
and Modular Robotics Team
Palo Alto Research Center
Robots have been featured in a variety of movies, reflecting and
affecting the way people think about machines. Terminator 3, opening
on July 2, is the latest installment in a line of successful movies
about rampant machines. The latter two feature liquid metal robots
that can "morph", or change their shape.
There is a growing community of researchers working robots that can
morph also known as Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots. We will talk
about where these systems are today and how they compare to the
imaginings we see in the movies. We will explore the issues in
mechanical and electrical engineering, computer science, as well as
touch on societal issues of robots.
About the speaker: The modular robotics team consisting of Dave Duff,
Craig Eldershaw, Kimon Roufas, Mark Yim and Ying Zhang has been
working on modular self-reconfigurable systems for over five
years. They have demonstrated a variety of mobility, manipulation and
reconfigurability capabilities with several robot systems including
one called PolyBot. They have published dozens of research papers on
this topic and have had their robot systems featured in national and
international news media including BBC, ABC, CBS, USAtoday, NY Times,
etc.
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UC BERKELEY BISC SEMINAR
on Friday, 11 July 2003, 11:00am
Soda Hall 606 (Berkeley)
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
"V-Lab @ - A Virtual Laboratory for Autonomous Agent"
Mo Jamshidi
Autonomous Control Engineering Center (ACE) &
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico
http://vlab.unm.edu/
In this seminar, the lecturer will we present a virtual laboratory
(called V-LAB) for multi-physics distributed modeling and simulation
of robotic agents. The elements of V-LAB from bottom to top are
computer networks, middleware like CORBA (Common Object Request Broker
Architecture), sockets, etc., I-DEVS (Intelligent Discrete Event
Systems Specifications), and soft computing approaches such as fuzzy
logic (approximate reasoning), neurocomputing (learning), evolutionary
computations (optimization), SLA - Stochastic learning automaton
(statistical learning). In this seminar, the elements of V-LAB will be
first presented and then some current results on the use of I-DEVS in
mutli-agent robotics are given. Simulation results will be given for
a multi-agent rovers performing a recognizance and monitoring task in
an urban rovers will also be given. Some movies will be shown on the
status of V-Lab .
About the Speaker: Mo Jamshidi (Fellow IEEE, Fellow ASME, Fellow AAAS)
received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971. Currently, he is
the Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
founding Director of Center for Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE)
at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. With NASA support the
ACE Center has graduated 20 PhD's and 65 masters students among US
Ethnic Minorities since 1995. He is an Advisor to NASA Headquarters
Code K on minority business utilization. He is a Senior Research
Advisor at US Air Force Research Laboratory, KAFB, NM. He is also a
consultant with US Department of Energy Office of Industrial
Technologies as the assessment industrial robotics study lead on
energy efficiency effects in 10 US Industries Of the Future. He was
and currently is serving on the USA National Academy of Sciences NRC's
boards on various scholarly panels. He has worked in various academic
and industrial positions at various national and international
locations including with IBM and GM Corporations. In summer of 1999,
he was a NATO Distinguished Professor in Portugal conducting lectures
on intelligent systems and control. He has over 500 technical
publications including 12 textbooks and 38 research monographs and
conference proceedings books and edited volumes. Six of his textbooks
have been translated into at least one foreign language. He is the
Founding Editor or co-founding editor or currently Editor-in-Chief of
5 journals. He is the founding General Chair of the World Automation
Congress (WAC - http://wacong.com ) with next meeting scheduled in
June 2004 in Seville, Spain. Dr. Jamshidi is a Fellow of the IEEE, a
Fellow of the ASME, a Fellow of the AAAS - the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. He is also a Fellow or member of four
other academies of science and engineering worldwide. He is the
recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal and IEEE Control Systems
Society Distinguished Member Award and the IEEE CSS Millennium
Award. He is currently on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Society
on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.
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BERKELEY INTEL RESEARCH SEMINAR
on Saturday, 12 July 2003, 3:30pm-5:00pm
OR
on Tuesday, 15 July 2003, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Intel Research Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck, Ste. 1300
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
"Talking Phones:
A Cultural Account of an Information and Communication Technologies"
Genevieve Bell
Intel Research
In June of 2002, Malaysian newsstands carried the latest issue of
"Mobile Stuff" -- a magazine geared toward Malaysia's growing
population of mobile phone subscribers. On the cover, two young Malay
men in clothing that suggests more LA hood and less KL suburbs, hold
out their mobile phones to the camera beneath the banner headline
"Real Men Uses SMS." Six months later, billboards in Shanghai carried
the image of a woman's shapely calves and ankles, bound with black
patent leather ankle straps; positioned beneath one strap is her
mobile phone. Beyond their utility as a technology of information
exchange, mobile phones it appears have inserted themselves into the
cultural fabric of societies across the world. Using comparative cases
from Asia, this talk explores how mobile phones, and their various
accouterments, have become key symbolic markers of identities. I argue
that mobile phones, rather than facilitating an idealized universal
communication, actually contribute to the re-inscription of local
particularity and cultural difference as dimensions of a larger
political economy of value. Making sense of the different ways that
cell phones are articulating with daily life provides an important
perspective on the ways in which cultural patterns affect technology
use.
About the speaker: Genevieve Bell is a Senior Researcher within Intel
Research. There she is responsible for a 2 year comparative
ethnographic project focused on gaining a better understanding of the
daily life of Asias urban middle classes, paying particular attention
to the role of new technologies. Bell is particularly interested in
issues of cultural difference as they are expressed around technology
adoption and use. Bell is a member of an interdisciplinary team of
research social scientists and designers. Since joining Intel, Bell
has conducted ethnographic research in a variety of consumer spaces,
including malls, retail districts, and museums, as well as within a
range of different American households. Bell has also conducted
significant research beyond the US, including a five-country,
strategically situated, ethnographic study of European domestic spaces
for several Intel product groups, and a study of the emerging middle
classes in China and India. Prior to joining Intel in 1998, Bell
taught anthropology and Native American Studies at Stanford
University. Bell received her BA/MA in anthropology from Bryn Mawr
College in Pennsylvania in 1991. She earned a PhD in cultural
anthropology from Stanford University in 1998
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