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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 8 October 2003, vol. 19:6
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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8 October 2003 Stanford Vol. 19, No. 6
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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 8 OCTOBER 2003 TO 17 OCTOBER 2003
WEDNESDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2003
12 noon Brain Lunch-Seminar
Bldg. 380:383N
"Example of a Universal Learning Neurocomputer"
Yakov Eliashberg
Stanford
http://math.stanford.edu/seminars.htm
Abstract below
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
Abstract below
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
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"The Endogeneity of Technological Change in 20th Century America"
Nathan Rosenberg
Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
"Dealing with Unreliable Labelers and Implications for
Labeling Strategies"
Chuck Lam
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
Abstract below
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
Abstract below
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 noon Diversity in Language Seminar
Bldg. 260:252 German Studies Library
"Can We Reconcile Diversity and Generalization Within (and
Across) Languages?"
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Asian Languages, Stanford University
http://dlcl.stanford.edu/research/workgroups/diversity.html
12 noon Ethics@Noon
Bldg. 100:101k
"Truth and Enhancement: Two Issues in Law, Ethics, and
Advances in Neuroscience"
Henry Greely
Stanford Law School
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/noon.htm
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/
MONDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2003
3:30pm Social Lab
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Affirmative Action And Rule Change: Taking The Real World
Back Into The Lab"
Faye J. Crosby
Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#social_lab
4:15pm CS528: Broad Area Colloquium in AI,
Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Vision
TCSeq 200
"A Variational Approach to Digital Geometry: from Isotropic
Smoothing to Thin-shell Simulation"
Mathieu Desbrun
USC
http://graphics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract below
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Richard Fikes
Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
David Dill
Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
TUESDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2003
12 noon Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
Title to be announced
Rob van der Sandt
University of Nijmegen
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
3:00pm CSLI Tea
Greenhouse room, Cordura
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar
Soda Hall 306 (UC Berkeley)
"Nonlinear dimensionality reduction by semidefinite programming"
Lawrence Saul
Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/cis-seminar
Abstract below
4:15pm SNRC Industry Seminar
Gates B03
"Securing the Web with the Next-Generation Public-Key Cryptosystem"
Vipul Gupta and Hans Eberle
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
Abstract below
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Chris Manning
Computer Science and Linguistics, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
David Cheriton
Computer Science, Stanford
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
7:00pm Emerging Technology Group
Cubberley Community Center, H-1, 4000 Middlefield, Palo Alto
"It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's .... XQuery"
Jason Hunter
XQuery
http://www.sdforum.org/
Abstract below
(there is a fee for non-SDForum members, see web page)
WEDNESDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2003
7:30am Stanford Breakfast Briefings
Stanford Faculty Club
(fee $48/$36 for Stanford staff/students/alumni)
"Winning on the World Series: Economics, Psychology and
Finance Meet Sports Betting"
Justin Wolfers
Graduate School of Business, Stanford
http://breakfastbriefings.stanford.edu/
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags
Bldg. 380:381U
"What do 12-month-olds know about other persons?"
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#dev_brownbag
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Constructing a language"
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"A New Look at Cyber Defense: Blending Insight from Computer
Science, Health Science, and Operations Research"
Arthur Pyster
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Information Services
and Deputy Chief Information Officer, Federal Aviation Administration
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Hector Garcia-Molina
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Jennifer Widom
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
THURSDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2003
12:15pm CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
"How instance similarity influences rule application and in
the future"
Ulrike Hahn
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
Rajeswari Pingali
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
3:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Arrillaga Alumni Center
"Symposium of Undergraduate Research in Progress (SURP)"
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
[Note unusual time and location]
4:15pm Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences
Clark Center Auditorium
"From Oscillations to Neuronal Activity - The Neurophysiology
of Human Spatial Navigation"
Michael Kahana
Psychology, Brandeis
http://biox.stanford.edu/courses/459_announce.html
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience Seminar
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman B060
"The Function of Ocular Dominance Columns"
Jonathan Horton
Neuroscience, UC San Francisco
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
John Mitchell
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Alex Aiken
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
7:00pm Emerging Technology Group
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
"Disruptive Programming Language Technologies"
Todd Proebsting
Microsoft
http://www.sdforum.org/
Abstract below
(there is a fee and you must register, see web page)
FRIDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2003
12 noon Diversity in Language Seminar
Bldg. 260:252 German Studies Library
"Negatives of Imperatives"
Peter Sells
Linguistics
http://dlcl.stanford.edu/research/workgroups/diversity.html
12 noon UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Neural mechanisms of reading development"
Robert Dougherty
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/ucbso/oxyopia/oxy_current.html
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B01
"Making the World Wide Web Fit People: Traveling in Comfort on
the Information Superhighway"
Polle Zellweger
MacZell Consulting
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium
Bldg. 90:92Q
"A Relativist Semantics for 'S knows that P'"
John MacFarlane
University of California, Berkeley
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
4:15pm Computer Musings
Skilling Auditorium
"Notation"
Don Knuth
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/musings.html
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BRAIN-LUNCH SEMINAR
on Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 12 noon
Bldg. 380:383N
http://math.stanford.edu/seminars.htm
"Example of a Universal Learning Neurocomputer"
Yakov Eliashberg
Stanford
The Brain Lunch-Seminar will be devoted to the exploration of a new
kind of computational systems, called Universal Learning
Neurocomputers (ULNC), which were discovered and studied by Victor
Eliashberg. While having the universality of conventional computers,
neuro-computers have a massively parallel architecture and are
programmed by learning, as inspired by the human brain.
The first talk will be devoted to the simplest architecture of a ULNC
which is universal in the sense that it can be taught to mentally
perform any algorithm. In consequent seminars there will be a
discussion of how the architecture of a ULNC should be developed in
order to enable it to perform other brain-like functions, such as
associative memory, motor control, and pattern recognition. A separate
important topic of the seminar will be the problem of a possible
neuro-biological implementation of ULNC.
No neuro-biological or computational background is necessary and
everybody is welcome to attend the seminar.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"The Voting Machine War
The Battle for Accountability in Election Systems"
David L. Dill
Stanford University Computer Science
Touch-screen voting machines store records of cast votes in internal
memory, where the voter cannot check them. Because of our system of
secret ballots, once the voter leaves the polls there is no way anyone
can determine whether the vote captured was what the voter intended.
Why should voters trust these machines?
Last December, I drafted a "Resolution on Electronic Voting" stating
that every voting system should have a "voter verifiable audit trail,"
which is a permanent record of the vote that can be checked for
accuracy by the voter, and which is saved for a recount if it is
required. After many rewrites, I posted the page in January with
endorsements from many prominent computer scientists. At that point, I
became embroiled in a surprisingly fierce (and time consuming) battle
that continues today. (See http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ for the
resolution and much more information on electronic voting.)
We still don't have an answer for why we should trust electronic
voting machines, but a lot of evidence has emerged for why we should
NOT.
In this talk, I will discuss the basic technical issues with
electronic voting and describe some of the major events of the last 9
months.
About the speaker: David L. Dill is a Professor of Computer Science
and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He
has been on the faculty at Stanford since 1987, when he received a
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.
His primary research interests relate to the theory and application of
formal verification techniques to system designs, including hardware,
protocols, and software. He has also done research in asynchronous
circuit verification and synthesis, and in verification methods for
hard real-time systems. He was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001 for
his contributions to verification of circuits and systems.
Dr. Dill served on the Secretary of State of California's Ad Hoc Task
Force on Touch Screen Voting in 2003, which recommended that all new
election equipment be required to have a voter verifiable audit trail
after 2006. He is a member of the IEEE P1583 Voting Equipment
Standards Committee, and a member of the DRE Citizen's Oversight
Committee of Santa Clara County.
Dr. Dill is the founder of http://verifiedvoting.org/ , which is
dedicated to obtaining a requirement that all election equipment
provide a voter verifiable audit trail.
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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Thursday, 9 October 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
"Dealing with Unreliable Labelers and
Implications for Labeling Strategies"
Chuck Lam
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Machine learning and pattern recognition researchers have long studied
the effect of labeling noise. Most of those work have assumed that the
labeling process is fixed. However, in many situations, such as with
the Open Mind Initiative ( http://www.openmind.org ), the system
architect can specify a labeling strategy. For example, she can have
the labelers spend more of their effort cross-checking each others'
work, thus trading off the size of the dataset for quality. This talk
will examine such labeling strategy trade-offs from a couple
perspectives. The first is in labeling test data for classifier
evaluation. The second perspective is in the learning rate of an ideal
domain with labeling noise. In both cases we found the classifier's
achievable error rate to play a significant role in designing the
labeling strategy.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 9 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 Two)
SSP Summer Interns, Summer 2003
4:15 Becky Neil, "Pontevecchio: Bridging the Gap between Java applications
and Lisp Parsers" (supervisors: Ivan Sag and Dan Flickinger)
4:20 Ara Kim, "Testing the ERG on the British National Corpus"
(supervisors: Ivan Sag and Dan Flickinger)
4:25 Carina Koo, "Student Modeling for the SCoT-DC Tutoring System"
(supervisor: Stanley Peters)
4:30 Grace Leslie, "Ensemble Performance Over High-Latency Networks"
(supervisor: Chris Chafe)
4:35 Danilo Mirkovic, "In-Car, Dialog-Enabled MP3 Player" (supervisor:
Stanley Peters)
4:40 Adrian de la Mora (supervisor: Stanley Peters)
4:45 Brendan O'Connor, "A Program for Online Deliberation: Small Group,
Democratic Discussion, Collaboration, and Decision-Making for the Web"
(supervisor: Todd Davies)
4:50 Rebecca Regos, "The Paraphrase Project" (supervisors: Tom Wasow,
Joan Bresnan, and Annie Zaenen)
4:55 Mia Silverman and Helen Harris, "Examining Diagrammatic Elements"
(supervisor: Barbara Tversky)
5:00 Walter Talbott and Guy Isely, "Adding a Structured Knowledge Base
and a Plan Executor to the CSLI Dialogue Manager" (supervisors: Stanley
Peters and Lawrence Cavedon)
5:05 Matt Kaufman, "Teaching a Value-Based AI Architecture to Drive"
(supervisor: Pat Langley)
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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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CS528: BROAD AREA COLLOQUIUM FOR
AI-GEOMETRY-GRAPHICS-VISION-ROBOTICS
on Monday, 13 October 2003, 4:15pm
TCSeq 200
http://graphics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
"A Variational Approach to Digital Geometry:
from Isotropic Smoothing to Thin-shell Simulation"
Mathieu Desbrun
University of Southern California
Discrete geometry is a central and challenging issue from the modeling
and computational perspective in several sciences, including computer
graphics. In this talk, we will explain how our initial variational
approach to surface smoothing has led us to investigate a discrete
theory of differential forms and vector fields on piecewise linear
n-manifolds. We will show how some recent theoretical developments can
be directly used in important applications such as intrinsic
parameterization, isotropic and anisotropic smoothing and remeshing,
generalized barycentric coordinates, as well as thin-shell simulation.
About the Speaker: Mathieu Desbrun is an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Southern California, and a
Visiting Associate at Caltech. His research interests revolve around
geometry, and particularly, the study of discrete geometry. This vast
area includes animation and simulation of 3D objects, processing of
polygonal meshes (compression, curvature analysis, remeshing, etc),
haptics, as well as more theoretical work on the foundation of
computations on discrete manifolds (Discrete Exterior
Calculus). Mathieu received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 2001
and the SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2003.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Soda Hall 306 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/cis-seminar
"Nonlinear dimensionality reduction by semidefinite programming"
Lawrence Saul
Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Can we detect low dimensional structure in high dimensional data sets?
The problem of dimensionality reduction is fundamental to machine
learning, pattern recognition, and statistics. In this talk, I will
describe a new solution to this problem based on semidefinite
programming. The resulting algorithm can be used to analyze high
dimensional data that lies on or near a low dimensional manifold. The
algorithm overcomes various limitations of previous work in manifold
learning (e.g., Isomap, LLE, graph Laplacians). It also bridges two
recent developments in machine learning: semidefinite programming for
learning kernel matrices and spectral methods for nonlinear
dimensionality reduction.
Joint work with Kilian Weinberger (U Penn).
About the speaker: Lawrence Saul is an assistant professor in the
Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of
Pennsylvania. Before joining the faculty at Penn, he worked for
several years as a researcher at AT&T Labs. He received his PhD in
physics from MIT. He is currently a member of the editorial board for
the Journal of Machine Learning Research, as well as the Program Chair
for the 2003 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
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SNRC INDUSTRY SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 4:15pm
Gates B03
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
"Securing the Web with the Next-Generation Public-Key Cryptosystem"
Vipul Gupta and Hans Eberle
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Internet security standards such as SSL and IPsec rely on public-key
cryptosystems for scalable key management. Elliptic Curve Cryptography
(ECC) is a public-key cryptosystem newly standardized by the US
Government. Compared to its traditional counterparts (RSA, DSA and
Diffie-Hellman), ECC offers equivalent security using smaller keys and
fewer resources. Not only does it lower the capability threshold for
constrained devices to perform strong cryptography, it also increases
the capacity of more capable devices, like servers, to handle secure
connections. Most importantly, the performance advantage of ECC over
competing technologies increases as security requirements increase.
In this talk we will discuss our efforts to promote the adoption and
deployment of ECC technology by promoting its standardization within
SSL, the dominant security protocol used on the Internet, and
integrating support for ECC into OpenSSL and NSS/Mozilla, the two most
popular open source cryptographic libraries. We will share initial
results comparing the performance of secure web servers using ECC and
RSA cipher suites.
We will further present a prototype crypto coprocessor for
accelerating RSA, DH as well as ECC. We will describe its architecture
and what performance improvements it achieves over a software
implementation.
More information on our research can be found at
www.research.sun.com/projects/crypto
About the Speakers: Vipul Gupta is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories, where his research interests include secure
networking protocols and mobile computing. Prior to joining Sun, he
was an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York where
he taught courses in computer networking, parallel processing, and
operating systems and conducted research funded by the National
Science Foundation and industry sponsors that included IBM and NEC.
He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
Hans Eberle is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems
Laboratories in Mountain View, California, where he works in the areas
of networks and security. From 1993 until 1998 he was an Assistant
Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, teaching
classes for EE and CS students and conducting research on switched
system area networks. >From 1988 until 1993 he was a Principal
Engineer at the Systems Research Center of the Digital Equipment
Corporation in Palo Alto, California, working on multiprocessors, ATM
networks, and high-speed DES encryption. He received a diploma in
Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Technical Sciences from ETH Zurich
in 1984 and 1987, respectively.
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY GROUP
on Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 7:00pm
Cubberley Community Center, H-1, 4000 Middlefield, Palo Alto
http://www.sdforum.org/
(there is a fee for non-SDForum members, see web page)
"It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's .... XQuery"
Jason Hunter
XQuery, if it lives up to expectations, may be the most important
thing to happen in server-side programming this year. XQuery is a W3C
specification for querying XML or anything that can have an XML facade
such as a relational database. It has the backing of all the big
players including Oracle, IBM, BEA, and Microsoft, and has several
open source implementations as well. XQuery makes possible the
exciting possibility of a single query that combines an incoming
purchase order in XML format, an archive of catalog data also in XML
format, and an inventory system held in a relational database. In this
talk you'll learn how to use XQuery, when to use XQuery, and which
implementations to trust.
About the Speaker: Jason Hunter is the author of Java Servlet
Programming, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly) and co-author of Java Enterprise
Best Practices (O'Reilly). He's an Apache Member and as Apache's
representative to the Java Community Process Executive Committee he
established a landmark agreement for open source Java. He's also
publisher of XQuery.com, an original contributer to Apache Tomcat, and
a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet, JSP, JAXP, and
XQJ (XQuery API for Java) development. He co-created the open source
JDOM library to enable optimized Java and XML integration. He's been
doing contract development with XQuery since August 2002.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"A New Look at Cyber Defense: Blending Insights
from Computer Science, Health Science, and Operations Research"
Arthur Pyster
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Early approaches to information systems security, such as that
articulated in Presidential Decision Directive 63, encouraged agencies
to protect their networks primarily by hardening individual network
nodes. Over the past few years, cyber threats have grown enormously.
Vulnerabilities are being exploited ever more rapidly. New
technologies to defend networks are being delivered by the commercial
marketplace daily. New approaches that recognize this dynamic
environment are needed. With two million passengers daily depending on
FAA network operations for safe flight, the FAA has developed a
sophisticated approach to secure its network from cyber attack. That
approach integrates architecture simplification, element hardening,
boundary protection, systemic monitoring, orderly quarantine, and
informed recovery. The talk will provide insight into that approach
and the challenges that the FAA faces in navigating the rapidly
changing landscape of cyber security.
About the speaker: Dr. Arthur Pyster is the Deputy Assistant
Administrator for Information Services and Deputy Chief Information
Officer for the Federal Aviation Administration. The CIO office
oversees information technology and Information Systems Security (ISS)
for the FAA. A more comprehensive biography is at
http://www1.faa.gov/aio/common/biographies/index.htm#.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 16 October 2003, 12:15pm-1:30pm
Cordura Hall, Room 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"How Instance Similarity Influences Rule Application"
Ulrike Hahn
The talk reports experimental evidence to suggest that the application
even of simple, perfectly predictive classification rules is
influenced by the similarity of the present items to previously
encountered instances. Reasons for why this is a more adaptive
strategy than simply checking rule features in a context-free manner
are drawn from experience in cognitive psychology, artificial
intelligence, and law.
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY GROUP
on Thursday, 16 October 2003, 6:00pm (talk at 7:00pm)
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.sdforum.org/
(there is a fee and registration, see web page)
http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=1199&mo=10&yr=2003
"Disruptive Programming Language Technologies"
Todd Proebsting
Microsoft
For the past few decades, programming language design and
implementation research has concentrated heavily in a few notable
areas: type theory, functional programming, object- oriented
programming, and, of course, optimization techniques. Yet the recent
commercially successful languages (e.g., Perl, Python, Visual Basic,
Java) are not particularly interesting when judged in these
domains. What happened? Each represented a "disruptive technology"
that allowed it to capture programmer mindshare while everybody else
was looking. In this talk, I will present what I think makes a
programming language technology disruptive, and I will propose
possible future disruptive programming language technologies.
About the Speaker: Todd Proebsting manages the Programming Language
Systems research group at Microsoft Research. His research focuses on
programming language design and implementation, and he is particularly
interested in languages and tools that increase programmer
productivity. Prior to joining Microsoft, he lead research efforts at
The University of Arizona that resulted in a very early Java bytecode
decompiler, a Java-to-C translator, and a novel implementation of the
Icon programming language www.cs.arizona.edu/icon that targeted the
Java Virtual Machine. Since joining Microsoft, he's kicked the Java
habit.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 17 October 2003, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Making the World Wide Web Fit People:
Traveling in Comfort on the Information Superhighway"
Polle Zellweger
MacZell Consulting
The World Wide Web represents significant progress toward Douglas
Englebart's vision of augmented human intellect from the 1960's.
People can now accomplish a wide range of information tasks online,
ranging from searching and browsing to reading, annotating,
collecting, organizing, and authoring. Unfortunately, current
information tools are often clumsy, making information tasks
unnecessarily laborious and reducing the quality of their results.
To fully realize the promise of the Information Revolution,
information tools should fit people well.
They should be useful, fitting smoothly into people's work
practices. They should be easy to use, streamlining tasks and
reducing interruptions, and they should be comfortable, matching
and exploiting human capabilities.
This talk presents examples of information tool design that
illustrate the value of a central focus on these three elements of
good fit. These examples also provide a direction for further
research and development of this kind, aimed at making our
'information surround' a useful, easy, and comfortable place for
people to live, work, and play.
About the Speaker: Polle Zellweger received her PhD in computer
science from the University of California at Berkeley, focusing on
interactive source-level debugging for optimized programs. She was a
member of the research staff at Xerox PARC from 1984 to 2001, where
she explored topics that included hypertext, multimedia, electronic
books, user interfaces and collaborative work. In 2000-2001, she was a
visiting professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. She has
served on the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Information
Systems and as program chair of the ACM Multimedia95 Conference. She
is known for her work on hypertext paths, active multimedia documents,
automatic temporal formatting, and Fluid Documents.
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