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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 16 July 2003, vol. 18:42
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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16 July 2003 Stanford Vol. 18, No. 42
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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 16 JULY 2003 TO 25 JULY 2003
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/
THURSDAY, 24 JULY 2003
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Internet Search: Past, Present and Future"
Jan Pedersen
Chief Scientist, AltaVista
http://www.parc.com/forum/
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Biomedical Computation at Stanford 2003 (BCATS 2003)
Saturday, 25 October 2003
Stanford University
http://bcats.stanford.edu/
We are pleased to announce that on Saturday, October 25, 2003,
Stanford University will host the Fourth Annual BCATS (Biomedical
Computation at Stanford) Symposium. It will provide an open and
interdisciplinary forum for Stanford Students, post-docs and
researchers to disseminate and share their latest research in widely
ranging fields involving biomedical computation. The symposium is
designed to expose the participants to up and coming researchers and
their ideas. The agenda will include two keynote addresses from
leaders in biomedical computation: Sean Eddy of Washington University,
and Peter Hunter of University of Auckland.
Another speaker to be announced shortly at http://bcats.stanford.edu/
Last year's symposium (BCATS 2002) was a huge success, thanks in large
part to the participation of the students and post-docs who made oral
and poster presentations. To ensure similar success, we would like to
encourage any Stanford students or post-docs whose research involves
biomedical computation to consider submitting abstracts of their
research for inclusion in the BCATS 2003 symposium and receive
feedback from the Stanford community and participants. As an
additional incentive we will continue the tradition of awarding prizes
for the best presentation and the best poster.
Technical Content will include:
* Informatics, Data Modeling and Biostatistics
* Biomechanical simulation and Modeling
* Structural Biology - Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
* Biomedical Image Acquisition and Processing
* Computer Assisted Interventions and Robotics
* Network and Computing Technology in Education
For more details, please visit http://bcats.stanford.edu.
Date abstract submission opens: September 1, 2003
Date abstract submission closes: September 22, 2003
Date registration opens: September 1, 2003
Please note that registration is free for Stanford affiliates.
In the meanwhile, mark your calendars, and we look forward to seeing you at
BCATS!
If you have any questions, please email us at bcats2003@email.com
Thank You,
The BCATS2003 Committee
Samuel Ieong
Alberto Figueroa
Brian Naughton
Kevin Pan
Serge Saxonov
Jessica Shapiro
Jing Shi
Rong Xu
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 17 July 2003, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"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
Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
In 2001, the celebrated contemporary artist David Hockney proposed
that as early as 1420 Renaissance painters used optical devices such
as concave mirrors to project images onto canvases which they then
traced or painted over. In this way, the theory seeks to explain the
newfound heightened realism in the works of van Eyck, Campin, Memling,
and others. This talk presents the first independent optical analyses
of this controversial theory ( http://www.artandoptics.com/ ). You
may never see Renaissance paintings the same way again.
About the speaker: Dr. David G. Stork is Chief Scientist at Ricoh
Innovations as well as Consulting Associate Professor of both
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. A
graduate of MIT (BS) and the University of Maryland (PhD), he has been
on the faculties of Wellesley College, Swarthmore College, Clark
University, Boston University and Stanford University. Dr. Stork holds
over fifteen patents and has published numerous peer-reviewed papers
and book chapters. His deepest interests are in adaptive pattern
recognition by machines and humans and novel uses of the internet. He
initiated and still leads a project to develop computer speechreading
(lipreading) systems. He is coauthor of 5 books, including "The
Physics of Sound, Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography,
Color, Vision and Holography", and "Pattern Classification".
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