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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 10 September 2003, vol. 19:2
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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10 September 2003 Stanford Vol. 19, No. 2
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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 10 SEPTEMBER 2003 TO 19 SEPTEMBER 2003
THURSDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2003
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Following the Path of Christopher Columbus"
Mauro Calvi
http://www.parc.com/forum/
FRIDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2003
12 noon Berkeley Oxyopia lecture
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Sensory integration during motion planning"
Flip Sabes
UCSF Physiology
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/ucbso/oxyopia/oxy_current.html
MONDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2003
11:00am UC Berkeley Lecture
Sibley Auditorium Bechtel Engineering Center (Berkeley)
"Speculations on the Impact of Information Technology on the
University"
William Wulf
President, National Academy of Engineering
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
4:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Department Colloquium
182 Dwinelle (Berkeley)
"English Object Alternations Revisited"
Beth Levin
Stanford University
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/Current/events.html
4:00pm UC Berkeley Center for Document Engineering
South Hall 202 (Berkeley)
"Delivering on the Promise of XML"
Eve Maler
Sun Microsystems
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
WEDNESDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2003
7:00pm Berkeley Cognitive Science Students' Association
2050 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. (UC Berkeley)
"Presti + Buddha = Enlightenment"
David Presti
http://www.OCF.Berkeley.EDU/~cssa/
THURSDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2003
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Nanometer-class Structural Actuators--an Oxymoron?"
Alson E. Hatheway
Alson E. Hatheway Inc.
http://www.parc.com/forum/
FRIDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2003
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series
EJ228, SRI International
"Designing End User Information Environments Built On
Semistructured Data Designing End User Information
Environments Built On Semistructured Data Models"
Dennis Quan (MIT)
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
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UC BERKELEY OXYOPIA LECTURE
on Friday, 12 September 2003, 12 noon
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/ucbso/oxyopia/oxy_current.html
"Sensory Integration during Motor Planning"
Philip Sabes
Physiology and the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, UC San Francisco
Host: Marty Banks
The spatial properties of external stimuli are often conveyed by
multiple sensory modalities. It would seem that perception ultimately
results in a single, integrated, representation of these spatial
variables. Indeed, statistically optimal sensory integration
algorithms appear to account for psychophysical measurements of
visual-haptic, visual-auditory, and visual-visual integration.
However, the best representation of a spatial variable should depend
on what it is used for, and so the rules for sensory integration are
likely to vary depending on the behavioral context. We explore this
possibility by studying sensory integration in motor planning.
Specifically, we have characterized the integration of visual and
proprioceptive feedback from the arm during visually guided reaching.
We found that the brain weights vision and proprioception differently
depending on how the information will be used. These results
are discussed in terms of statistical models of sensory integration.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Friday, 19 September 2003, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Designing End User Information Environments
Built On Semistructured Data Models"
Dennis Quan
MIT
Information overload is becoming an artifact of daily life, negatively
affecting our productive use of e-mail, the Web, and desktop
computers. One fundamental problem is that computers force users to
organize information using rigid tools such as folder hierarchies--the
information age analog of the filing cabinet. Many in the information
retrieval and human-computer interaction communities have begun to
examine this problem in earnest by allowing users to associate
information with objects such as timelines, tasks, and keywords. We
have opted to generalize these approaches by permitting freeform
associations between arbitrary objects, which better matches the
organizational styles of some users while also supporting those who
require a more structured framework for organization. We have
developed an information management tool called Haystack that allows
users to manage information encoded in semantic networks, a
generalized knowledge representation scheme. Haystack takes advantage
of this flexibility to integrate information currently dispersed
amongst multiple separate applications, such as e-mail, contact lists,
calendars, documents, bookmark collections, and notes, and presents a
unified environment that allows users to browse and aggregate items of
importance in whatever way is most natural to them. Haystack also
allows custom information types and modes of presentation to be
incorporated into the system. Furthermore, by raising the level of
expressiveness for recording information, Haystack provides a basis
for users to take advantage of sophisticated approaches to information
retrieval, agent-based negotiation, and collaboration envisioned by
researchers in the Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web, and CSCW
communities. The talk will begin with a brief demonstration of the
system, after which I will discuss the underlying technologies and
talk about applications to personal information management and
bioinformatics. ( http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/)
About the Speaker: Dennis Quan is a research staff member at IBM
Watson Research, where he works on XML and Semantic Web metadata
technologies and applications thereof to bioinformatics. He received
his Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT based on research into
Haystack. Previously he worked on Sash
( http://sash.alphaworks.ibm.com/ ), creating the Sash integrated
development environment and many of the user interface components of
the system. He also holds S.B. degrees in Mathematics and Chemistry
from MIT.
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