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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 1 October 2003, vol. 19:5
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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1 October 2003 Stanford Vol. 19, No. 5
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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 1 OCTOBER 2003 TO 10 OCTOBER 2003
WEDNESDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2003
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"DNS Typosquatting: Method, Effects, Counteraction"
Paul Vixie
Internet Software Consortium
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Kunle Olukotun
EE, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Dan Jurafsky
Linguistics, University of Colorado
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:30pm Immanuel Kant Lectures
Bldg 260:113
Lecture 1: "Another I: Representing Conscious States"
Christopher Peacocke
New York University
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
THURSDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2003
12:15pm CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
"Intervention, correlation and causal learning:
Why children really ARE scientists"
Alison Gopnik
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Packard 202
"The Internet Architecture: Its Future and Why It Matters"
David Cheriton
Stanford University
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
Bill Davidon
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
4:00pm Biomedical Ethics Seminar
Lucille Packard Children's Hospital Auditorium
"What's Wrong with Improving Our Brains?"
Art Caplan, Ph.D
Director, Center of Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania
http://scbe.stanford.edu//events/grand_rounds.html
Abstract below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series
Enterprise Room, SRI International
"Adventures in Artificial Intelligence"
Nils Nilsson
Computer Science, Stanford
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Sonoluminescence: The Star in a Jar"
Seth Putterman
Physics Department, UCLA
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
"The difficulty of making a robot go straight"
Sebastian Thrun
Stanford
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/cis-seminar
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Lecture
Howison Library (UC Berkeley)
'context'
Jerry Fodor
Rutgers University
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/html/events/philatberkeley.html
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"How I Spent My Summer Internship (Part One)"
SSP Summer Interns, Summer 2003
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Information below
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience Seminar
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman B060
"Multimodal Feedback Integration in Sensorimotor Control and Learning"
Philip Sabes, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco, Physiology
Seminar Host: Krishna Shenoy (Department of Electrical Engineering)
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
5:30pm Immanuel Kant Lectures
Bldg 260:113
Lecture 2: "Another I: Representing Conscious States"
Christopher Peacocke
New York University
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
FRIDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2003
12 noon Diversity in Language Seminar
German Studies Library
"Can we reconcile diversity and generalization across (and
within) languages?"
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Asian Languages
http://dlcl.stanford.edu/research/workgroups/diversity.html
please register by emailing yoshikom[at]stanford.edu
See announcement below for more information on this series
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B01
"Designing Technology"
Bill Moggridge
Ideo
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Immanuel Kant Lectures
Bldg 260:113
Discussion: "Another I: Representing Conscious States"
Christopher Peacocke
New York University
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
~Variability and Cognition"
Ulrike Hahn
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#frisem
3:30pm Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"From Lexical to Constructional: Learning Constructional Meaning"
Adele Goldberg
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2003
All day Workshop on the History of Artificial Life
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/ALworkshop/
be warned, web page has too much dependence on flash
SUNDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2003
All day Workshop on the History of Artificial Life
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/ALworkshop/
be warned, web page has too much dependence on flash
MONDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2003
3:30pm Social Lab
Jordan Hall 420:050
"An Evaluation Of Contingent Valuation: Are Americans Capable
Of Forming And Expressing Informed And Specific Prescriptions
For Government Action On Controversial Policy Issues?"
Jon Krosnick
Psychology and Political Science, Ohio State University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#social_lab
4:15pm CS528: Broad Area Colloquium in AI,
Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Vision
TCSeq 200
"Self-Configurable Robots"
Mark Yim
PARC
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs528/
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Seragim Batzoglou
Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Ron Fedkiw
Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
6:30pm AmBAR Talk and Panel Discussion
Bishop Auditorium, Graduate School of Business
Search, Google and beyond
Sergey Brin
President of Technology, Co-founder, Google
http://ambarclub.org/cevents.php
($10 with free AmBAR membership, $15 with registration
on-line, $20 at the door)
TUESDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2003
3:00pm CSLI Tea
Greenhouse room, Cordura Hall
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Tim Roughgarden
Computer Science, Cornell
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Balaji Prabhakar
EE and Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
WEDNESDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2003
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"The Voting Machine War
The Battle for Accountability in Election Systems"
David L. Dill
Computer Science, Stanford
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Leo Guibas
Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Terry Winograd
Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
THURSDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2003
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
George Hara
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"How I Spent My Summer Internship (Part Two)"
SSP Summer Interns, Summer 2003
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience Seminar
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman B060
"Dynamics of Image and Shape representation in Visual Cortex"
Bruno Olshausen
University of California at Davis, Center for Neuroscience
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Yoav Shoham
Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Daphne Koller
Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2003
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Seminar
Tolman 5101, Berkeley
"Rethinking the Role of 'Base Rates' in Probabilistic Reasoning"
Branden Fitelson
Philosophy, UC Berkeley
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B01
"The Million Book Digital Library Project"
Raj Reddy
Carnegie Mellon University
http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/LIT/Projects/1MBooks.html
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:00pm Logical Methods in the Humanities
Bldg. 90:92Q
Introductory meeting
http://shc.stanford.edu/shc/
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ANNOUNCEMENT
(from Peter Sells)
I would like to let you know of a new collaborative research group on
campus, funded and primarily organized through the Division of
Languages, Cultures and Literatures, on the topic of "Diversity in
Language". We will be having regular seminar meetings during the
year, and plan to host a conference in mid-May related to our
activities. The goal of the group is to investigate the theoretical
and pedagogical implications of "diversity" in a variety of contexts:
among different languages, between specific languages and a putative
universal model, within individual languages, and within the speech or
writing of individual speakers.
To get things started, the organizing group (Yoshiko Matsumoto and Rob
Robinson, with Peter Sells and Chaofen Sun) have planned four seminars
for this quarter; we will welcome and need active participation from
anyone interested in our topic in planning the meetings for Winter and
Spring. The format will generally be to read a paper in advance, have
a brief presentation by a designated facilitator, and then have 40
minutes or so of open forum. Our goal is to promote active discussion
among all students and faculty around the university who are
interested in thinking about Diversity in Language in ways that might
inform their education, research or teaching.
Meetings planned for this quarter are:
Friday, Oct. 3, noon, 260-252 (German Studies Library):
"Can we reconcile diversity and generalization across (and within)
languages?" (Yoshiko Matsumoto, Asian Languages)
Please send email to yoshikom[at]stanford.edu if you will be coming to
this meeting -- we'll be ordering a buffet lunch. In the future we
plan to have a mailing list.
Future seminars in Autumn quarter (tentative titles and dates):
Friday, Oct. 17 noon 260-252 (German Studies Library): Negatives of
Imperatives (Peter Sells, Linguistics)
Friday, Nov. 7, noon, 260-252 (German Studies Library): Causative
Constructions in Chinese (Chaofen Sun, Asian Languages)
Monday, Nov. 24, noon, 260-252 (German Studies Library): Universality
in Voice Systems? (William A. Croft, U. of Manchester, and CASBS)
Further details will follow shortly.
The group's website is:
http://dlcl.stanford.edu/research/workgroups/diversity.html
What follows is a slightly more detailed outline of what our plans are
and what general topics we will address:
At each meeting, there will be a short presentation followed by
discussion. The majority of the presenters will be from the Stanford
academic community, faculty and lecturers from DLCL and other
departments, including Linguistics. We aim to invite one outside
speaker each quarter. A presenter (especially Stanford internal
members) is viewed as an initiator or facilitator of a discussion. It
is an important part of the project that participants of a seminar
will be strongly encouraged to read the presenter's paper (and
possibly a few related papers) in advance and to take an active part
in a discussion on the given topic.
In Autumn, our focus will be on the diversity of languages of the
world. Topics should address issues based on linguistic phenomena of
specific languages either against the background of claimed universal
principles, or in contrast or comparison to similar phenomena in some
other languages. The phenomena that will be discussed can be on any
aspect of a language or languages, e.g., concerning linguistic
structure itself, principles of language use in context, or how
certain phenomena can be taught or acquired. We will direct our
discussions to the analysis of how our findings can contribute to our
knowledge of language systems and their use(s).
In Winter quarter, our focus will turn to diversity within a specific
language. Based on presentations of how diverse forms and styles of a
language are used in a language, we attempt to identify factors that
influence the variations, e.g., the textual and sociocultural contexts,
regions, user's (writer's/speaker's) socioeconomic backgrounds, age,
gender identity, intention, etc. We will discuss how such diversity is
an exploitation as well as a reflection of the contexts in which a
language is used and how it should or should not be the target of
language teaching.
In Spring, the seminars will focus on the implications of diversity in
language that we found in Autumn and Winter quarters. We will consider
the academic benefits of studying diverse linguistic phenomena found
in various specific languages rather than only focusing on phenomena
that are found universally, and will consider the future direction of
research pertaining to diversity within a language -- would there be
any pattern that can lead to a claim of language-specific properties
and tendencies or can such distinctions between languages not be
claimed without resorting to essentialistic description of a language?
We will conclude the 03-04 year's project by presenting papers based
on the findings from the last two quarters and addressing the issues
mentioned just above in a conference with a few invited speakers who
have worked on various languages and diversity issues.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
SIAM STUDENT CHAPTER
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Stanford
Student Chapter (SSC) invites you to be our member!
Our desire is to create a community of Stanford students who share the
excitement of scientific computation, applied and engineering
mathematics.
The last year has seen the successful start of the SIAM Stanford
Student Chapter. We held several well-attended seminars and presented
awards for academic, research and teaching excellence. You can learn
more about our coming activities at our Chapter website:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/siam
To be our member or to hear from SIAM SSC for our coming events, just
email majordomo@lists.Stanford.EDU with body
subscribe siam-members
(No membership fees is required. We are a registered volunteer student
association with Stanford University.)
(I've added a link at
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/bayarea.shtml )
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"DNS Typosquatting: Methods, Effects, and Counteraction
What Verisign's Sitefinder Means for the Internet Domain System"
Paul Vixie
Internet Software Consortium
On September 15 2003, VeriSign added a DNS wildcard to the COM and NET
zones. On September 17, ISC released a patch to BIND that allows our
users to filter out the effects of these wildcards. In this
extemporaneous talk, Paul Vixie of ISC will explain what happened,
who's upset about it, and why.
About the speaker: Paul Vixie was the last maintainer of BIND4, the
main author of BIND8, and an architect of BIND9. After cofounding MAPS
(an anti-spam company) and having some some excellent adventures in
DotBombLand, he returned to ISC in May 2002 as its full time
president. Paul holds the record for "most CERT advisories due to a
single author", and no longer writes code that other people will see.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 2 October 2003, 12:15pm-1:30pm
Cordura Hall, Room 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
with burritos at 12 for $3
"Intervention, correlation and causal learning:
Why children really ARE scientists"
Alison Gopnik
Children, like scientists, face the difficult problem of inferring the
causal structure of the world from patterns of evidence. Scientists
classically learn about causal structure by looking at patterns of
correlation (in observational studies) or at the outcomes of
interventions ( in experiments) or, most commonly, at combinations of
interventions and correlations. Recent advances in statistics,
computer science, and philosophy provide a normative account of such
inferences. The causal Bayes net formalism provides a unified
mathematical account of causation, correlation and intervention, and
shows that given a few general assumptions, a wide range of accurate
causal inferences can be made. We propose that even very young
children use similar assumptions and inferences implicitly in their
everyday causal learning. In several experiments we show that
preschoolers can draw accurate causal inferences from patterns of
interventions and correlations even when there are no spatio-temporal,
mechanistic, or associative cues to causal relations.
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BIOMEDICAL ETHICS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 2 October 2003, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Freidenrich Auditorium, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital
http://scbe.stanford.edu//events/noon_seminars.html
"What's Wrong With Improving Our Brains?"
Art Caplan, Ph.D.
Art Caplan, Ph.D., is Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics,
Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and the Director of the
Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia.
Caplan is the author or editor of twenty-five books and over 500
papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy,
bioethics and health policy. He writes a regular column on bioethics
for MSNBC.com. He is a frequent guest and commentator on National
Public Radio, Nightline, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, CBS, the New York Times,
Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and many other media outlets.
He has served on a number of national and international committees
including as the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations
on Human Cloning, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the
Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and
Availability, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf
War Illnesses, the special advisory committee to the International
Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy, the American Chemistry
Council and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of
Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 2 October 2003, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Enterprise Room, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Adventures in Artificial Intelligence"
Nils Nilsson
Robotics Lab., Computer Science, Stanford University
I'll reveal details about my three most exciting scientific-technical
amorous adventures over the last forty years. Minos, a neural network
at SRI, was my first date. Shakey the Robot was a more serious affair,
and many prominent progeny resulted. My current infatuation is with
Teleo-Reactive programs. This talk is a repeat of my lecture at the
2003 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence---given
on the occasion of my receiving the IJCAI "Research Excellence award.
About the Speaker: Nils J. Nilsson, Kumagai Professor of Engineering
(Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford
University, received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford in 1958. He spent twenty-three years at the Artificial
Intelligence Center of SRI International working on statistical and
neural-network approaches to pattern recognition, co-inventing the A*
heuristic search algorithm and the STRIPS automatic planning system,
directing work on the integrated mobile robot, SHAKEY, and
collaborating in the development of the PROSPECTOR expert system. He
has published five textbooks on artificial intelligence. Professor
Nilsson returned to Stanford in 1985 as the Chairman of the Department
of Computer Science, a position he held until August 1990. Besides
teaching courses on artificial intelligence and on machine learning,
he has conducted research on flexible robots that are able to react to
dynamic worlds, plan courses of action, and learn from experience.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 2 October 2003, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/cis-seminar
"The difficulty of making a robot go straight"
Sebastian Thrun
Computer Science, Stanford University
On May 30, 2003, a team of researchers sent an autonomous mobile robot
into an abandoned coal mine near Pittsburgh, PA. The robot's task was
simply to acquire a 3-D map of a mile-long supply corridor of the
mine, autonomously, outside the communication range of the control
station. This talk will report our experiences with this and a number
of related subterranean expeditions. The speaker will discuss Gaussian
Markov random field techniques for robotic mapping and exploration,
presenting algorithms and theorems. He will show how these techniques
work in subterranean worlds, where robots face all sorts of
challenges.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 2 October 2003, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
How I Spent My Summer Internship (Part One)
SSP Summer Interns, Summer 2003
4:15 Tyrone Anderson and Vikrum Fagoora, "Event Perception and Cognition"
(supervisor: Barbara Tversky)
4:20 Trevor Austin (supervisor: Herb Clark)
4:25 Simon Berring and Dana Ung, "Intelligent Models for Environmental
Decision-Making" (supervisor: John Kunz)
4:30 Jean Bogart (supervisor: Stanley Peters)
4:35 Ben Davidson, "Openproof Project" (supervisors: John Etchemendy and
Dave Barker-Plummer)
4:40 Emmy Davis, "The Judgement of Learning" (supervisor: John Gabrieli)
4:45 Matthew Falkenhagen, "Openproof Project" (supervisors: John
Etchemendy and Dave Barker-Plummer)
4:50 Jamie Fitzgerald, "An Interactive Environment for Scientific
Modeling" (supervisor: Pat Langley)
4:55 Michael Frank, "How Do Presentation and Context Influence
Representation for Functional Fixedness Tasks?" (supervisor:
Michael Ramscar)
5:00 Aria Haghighi, "Computational Word Learning" (supervisors: Stanley
Peters and Dominic Widdows)
Refreshments will be served afterward
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 3 October 2003, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Designing Interactions"
Bill Moggridge
IDEO
Bill Moggridge is working on a book titled "Designing Interactions",
to be published by MIT Press in the fall of 2005. In preparation he
has been interviewing some of the Interaction Designers who are
pioneers in the field, and help us to form the way we understand and
practice Interaction Design. He has recorded the interviews on video,
and will show samples from his tapes, with some comments.
* Desktop and Mouse: Stu Card
* Designing: Bill Verplank
* Playing: Will Wright and Brenda Laurel
* Simply Palm: Rob Haitani
* Searching: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
For more details, see
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/abstracts/03-04/031003-moggridge.html
About the Speaker: Bill Moggridge is a founder of IDEO, a consulting
firm dedicated to the user-centered design of products, services and
environments. Bill helps the people of IDEO to develop new ways of
working, studying examples of projects around the company that involve
innovative processes, and communicating the most interesting and
instructive results both within IDEO and outside. He is most
interested in the 'people' part of the design; who are the users, what
do they want from the experience, what will give them satisfaction and
enjoyment.
Bill founded his design firm in London in 1969, expanding throughout
the seventies with clients world wide. In 1979 he added a second
office in San Francisco to help Silicon Valley companies, as the
electronics industry moved from chips to products. In 1980 he designed
the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass. During the next few years
he pioneered user interface design as a discipline to be an integrated
part of product development, and coined the name Interaction
Design. He merged his company with David Kelley and Mike Nuttall to
form IDEO in 1991. The company now has around 350 employees in eight
locations around the world..
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 3 October 2003, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"From Lexical to Constructional: Learning Constructional Meaning"
Adele Goldberg
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
General correlations between form and meaning at the level of argument
structure patterns have often been assumed to be innate. Claims of
innateness typically rest on the idea that the input is not rich
enough for general learning strategies to yield the required
representations. The present work demonstrates that the semantics
associated with argument structure generalizations can indeed by
learned, given the nature of the input and an understanding of general
categorization strategies. It is well-established that
(non-linguistic) categorization is driven by a functional demand for
prediction and is sensitive to frequency effects. Experimental results
are reported that demonstrate that the same elements can account for
how semantic generalizations about argument structure constructions
can be learned from the input.
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UC BERKELEY ICBS SEMINAR
on Friday, 10 October 2003, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
"Rethinking the Role of 'Base Rates' in Probabilistic Reasoning"
Branden Fitelson
Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
There has been much controversy over the past 30+ years in both the
psychological and philosophical literature over the role of "base
rates" in probabilistic reasoning. I will discuss this controversy
from several perspectives, both normative and descriptive. I will
focus on the presentation and discussion of Gigerenzer et al. who
claim to have an "ecological" explanation (and justification?) of
various "base rates" phenomena. Other authors in the philosophical
literature will also be discussed. In the end, I will propose some
alternative ways of reconstructing "base rate" behavior in terms of
recent accounts (both psychological and philosophical) of evidential
support and causal strength.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 10 October 2003, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"The Million Book Digital Library Project"
Raj Reddy
Carnegie Mellon University
Increases in storage densities and falling costs make it possible to
envision a future when all the publicly available human knowledge is
made available to anyone, anywhere at anytime. In spite of determined
praiseworthy efforts for two decades, projects such as Gutenberg have
only been able capture a few thousand books accessible online. At a
rate of under a thousand books per year, the estimated 100 million
books ever published in the world will take 100,000 years to
digitize. And we may never be able to catch up with the ever
increasing new publications. Capturing born-digital publications at
the time of creation (by requiring publishers to submit a digital copy
as well the currently mandated physical copy) and scanning all the
older publications at a rate of million books per year is one of the
solutions being explored at this time to resolve this conundrum.
Digitizing a million books a year requires finding, scanning,
processing, and storing in a web accessible form about 5000 books
every day. The million book project is an attempt to understand and
solve the technical, economic and social policy issues of providing
online access to all creative works of the human race. This talk will
provide a status report on the Million Books Project.
About the Speaker: Dr. Raj Reddy is the Herbert A. Simon University
Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer
Science at Carnegie Mellon University and the Director of Carnegie
Mellon West. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at
Stanford in 1966. He has been a member of the Carnegie Mellon faculty
since 1969. He served as the founding Director of the Robotics
Institute from 1979 to 1991 and the Dean of School of Computer Science
from 1991 to 1999. Dr. Reddy's research interests include the study of
human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. His current
research projects include spoken language systems; gigabit networks;
universal digital libraries; and distance learning on demand.He is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences. He was president of the American Association for
Artificial Intelligence from 1987 to 89. Dr. Reddy was awarded the
Legion of Honor by President Mitterand of France in 1984. He was
awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1994. He served as co-chair of the
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from
1999 to 2001.
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