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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 15 October 2003, vol. 19:7
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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15 October 2003 Stanford Vol. 19, No. 7
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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 15 OCTOBER 2003 TO 25 OCTOBER 2003
WEDNESDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2003
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
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Packard 202
"Terra: A Virtual Machine-Based Platform for Trusted Computing"
Tal Garfinkel
Stanford University
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
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]
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Panther vs. Pershing: a short comparison of German and US
Tank design in late WWII"
Jacques M. Littlefield
founder of Military Vehicle Technology Foundation
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
"An Interactive Environment for Scientific Model Construction"
Pat Langley
CSLI
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
Abstract below
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)
7:30pm Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch, Berkeley
"Teknolust"
Lynn Hershman Leeson (U.S., 2001)
Lynn Hershman Leeson and Josh Kornbluth in Person!!
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
Information below
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 Ethics@Noon
Bldg. 100:101K
"Deliberative Democracy -- Theory and Practice"
James Fishkin
Communication, Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/noon.htm
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
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Intonational Boundaries, Production, and Comprehension"
Duane Watson
University of Rochester
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
4:15pm Computer Musings
Skilling Auditorium
"Notation"
Don Knuth
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/musings.html
MONDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2003
3:30pm Social Lab
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Meaning Systems And Social Judgment"
Carol Dweck
William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology, Columbia 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
"Convexity and prediction problems"
Peter Bartlett
Berkeley
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs528/
Abstract below
4:15pm CS531: SCCM Seminar Series
Herrin T195
"On active contours, Edge Detection and Image Segmentation"
Ron Kimmel
Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
http://www-sccm.stanford.edu/seminar-f2003/
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Pat Hanrahan
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
TUESDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2003
3:00pm CSLI Tea
Cordura Greenhouse
WEDNESDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2003
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags
Bldg. 380:381U
"What's acquired in syntactic development: evidence from
crosslinguistic studies of word order"
Ulrike Hahn
Cardiff University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#dev_brownbag
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
Title to be announced
Carol Dweck
Columbia University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Wireless Communication in a Post-Spectral World"
Andy Rappaport
August Capital
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Leo Guibas
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Ron Fedkiw
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
THURSDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2003
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Packard 202
"Apocrypha: Making P2P Overlays Network-aware"
Prasanna Ganesan
Stanford University
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
3:30pm Carlos McClatchy Memorial Colloquium
McClatchy Hall, S-64 (screening room in sub-basement)
"Online Discussion and Democracy: The Electronic Dialogue Project"
Vincent Price
http://communication.stanford.edu/
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Ultra Wideband - the coming wave"
Rajeev Krishnamoorthy
TZero Technologies
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
Title to be announced
Junling Hu
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Conversational Intelligence"
Stanley Peters
Linguistics, Stanford
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
4:15pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Monica Lam
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:00pm CS300: Departmental Lecture Series
Gates B12
Armando Fox
http://forum.stanford.edu/students/cs300.php
5:30pm Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop/Phonology Workshop
Place to be announced
"The curious case of girl-swimming: morphology, lexical
semantics and the interpretation of compound"
Rochelle Lieber
University of New Hampshire
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
6:00pm SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
"Ubiquitous Open Source: What it means for the software industry"
Mitch Kapor
Founder Lotus Development Corporation,
Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Open Source Application Foundation
http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=1175&mo=10&yr=2003
(there is a fee for non-SDForum members, see web page)
7:00pm Global Mobility: Media and Minority Culture
A Stanford Humanities Center Conference
Kresge Auditorium
"Harnessing the Hive: How Social Software Transforms Global Media"
J.C. Herz
Journalist and Author of Joystick Nation and Surfing the Internet
http://shc.stanford.edu/global
FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2003
all day Global Mobility: Media and Minority Culture
A Stanford Humanities Center Conference
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
http://shc.stanford.edu/global
12 noon Diversity in Language Seminar
Bldg. 260:252 German Studies Library
Papers for discussion:
Anna Wierzbicka, Preface to the second edition of
"Cross-Cultural Pragmatics"
Nick J. Enfield, "The theory of cultural logic: how
individuals combine social intelligence with semiotics to
create and maintain cultural meaning".
http://dlcl.stanford.edu/research/workgroups/diversity.html
RSVP to davidyo[at]stanford.edu
Information below
12 noon UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"What are the inputs to motion-selective striate-cortex cells?"
Russell DeValois, PhD
Psychology, and Optometry-Vision Science Programs, Berkeley.
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/ucbso/oxyopia/oxy_current.html
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B01
"Smart Mobs: Mobile Communication, Pervasive Computing, and
Collective Action"
Howard Rheingold
http://www.rheingold.com/
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Title to be announced
Daniel Richarson
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#frisem
SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2003
all day Global Mobility: Media and Minority Culture
A Stanford Humanities Center Conference
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
http://shc.stanford.edu/global
all day Biomedical Computation at Stanford 2003 (BCATS 2003)
TCSEQ
http://bcats.stanford.edu/
Information below
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shortage of O-, A+, and AB-. For an appointment:
http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831. It only takes
an hour of your time.
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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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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Thursday, 16 October 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
"An Interactive Environment for Scientific Model Construction"
Pat Langley
CSLI
http://cll.stanford.edu/~langley/
Most AI research on scientific model construction aims to automate
this process using discovery techniques. In contrast, I describe an
interactive environment for model construction that lets the user
construct, edit, and visualize scientific models, use them to make
predictions, and call on discovery methods to revise them in ways that
better fit the available data. The environment relies on a new
formalism that embeds mathematical equations, which are familiar to
many scientists, within distinct processes, which can encode
background knowledge used to constrain model revision. I report
initial studies on ecosystem modeling that suggest this environment is
more effective than earlier approaches and more transparent to users.
In closing, I discuss related work on modeling environments and model
revision, then suggest directions for future research.
This talk describes work done jointly with Kevin Arrigo, Stephen Bay,
Jaime Fitzgerald, Steve Klooster, Chris Potter, Javier Sanchez, and
Dan Shapiro.
Note: This is a practice run for an upcoming talk at the Knowledge
Capture Conference, so it will be less polished and shorter than most
presentations in this seminar.
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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 http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon that targeted
the Java Virtual Machine. Since joining Microsoft, he's kicked the
Java habit.
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PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE THEATER
on Thursday, 16 October 2003, 7:30pm
2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch, Berkeley
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
"Teknolust"
Lynn Hershman Leeson (U.S., 2001)
Lynn Hershman Leeson and Josh Kornbluth in Person!!
http://www.teknolustthemovie.com/
Loneliness breeds strange bedfellows. Rosetta Stone (played to a
timorous "t" by Tilda Swinton), a bashful biogeneticist, downloads her
own DNA into an experimental A.I. program, creating a trio of
Self-Replicating Automatons (SRAs). Olive, Marine, and Ruby (Swinton3)
live in seclusion in a color-coordinated condo where they spend their
time Web-surfing, mainlining protein, and being inundated by
motivational tapes that shape their sense of the "human." Ensconced
like priestesses in shimmering robes, the sisters SRA oscillate
between machine superiority-"We're self-replicating"-and
devolution-"When you are defensive and regressive you seem completely
human." Beyond their jacked-in consciousness, they yearn for
attachments, but not the e-mail kind. Hershman Leeson (Conceiving Ada)
has modified the gene for humor, creating a franken-farce wired for
witticisms. Designed with sleek graphical interfaces, Teknolust bodes
of a future when we will rise through "flesh, spirit" to "soul, icon."
Yet the film is also about something more fundamentally human-the
impulse to fill the world with progeny as a gesture of existence.
* Written by Hershman Leeson. Photographed by Hiro Narita. Music by
Klaus Badelt. Edited by Lisa Fruchtman. With Tilda Swinton, Jeremy
Davies, John O'Keefe, Josh Kornbluth, Karen Black. (82 mins, Color,
35mm, From the artist)
Preceded by short:
Copy Shop (Virgil Widrich, Austria, 2001). Using the latest in copy
technology, an anonymous man fills the world with his duplicate.
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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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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 17 October 2003, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"Intonational Boundaries, Production, and Comprehension"
Duane Watson
University of Rochester
In this talk I will discuss the relationship between intonational
phrasing and syntactic structure and argue that intonational phrasing
preferences in language comprehension and production are related due
to performance factors. In the area of production, researchers
(Cooper & Paccia-Cooper, 1980; Gee & Grosjean, 1983; Ferreira, 1988)
have attempted to describe the relationship between intonational
phrasing and syntactic structure, and although these models enjoy
varying degrees of success, all of them tend to be complicated and
have large numbers of parameters. In light of these problems, I
propose a simpler model called the Left/Right Constituent Boundary
hypothesis (LRB). According to this hypothesis, two factors underlie
the successful performance of previous models and contribute to the
likelihood of producing intonational boundaries at word boundaries: 1)
the size of the recently completed syntactic constituent at a word
boundary; and 2) the size of the upcoming syntactic constituent. Two
experiments will be presented that suggest that this hypothesis
provides the best account of the data. In addition, I will argue that
listeners exploit the relationship between intonational phrasing and
constituency in production by using a special parsing heuristic.
Listeners prefer not to attach incoming words to lexical heads
followed by an intonational boundary. I will present data from a
series of comprehension experiments that suggest that this hypothesis
provides the best account of listener intonational boundary
preferences.
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CS528: BROAD AREA COLLOQUIUM FOR
AI-GEOMETRY-GRAPHICS-VISION-ROBOTICS
on Monday, 20 October 2003, 4:15pm
TCSeq 200
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs528/
"Convexity and prediction problems"
Peter Bartlett
Computer Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley
In pattern classification and other prediction problems, two families
of algorithms have been successfully applied in a broad variety of
areas: kernel methods and boosting algorithms. Both approaches
optimize a convex criterion on a convex function space. In addition to
its computational advantages, convexity has statistical advantages.
This talk will review boosting and kernel methods, and present error
bounds for these methods, in terms of a measure of complexity of the
function class called the Rademacher averages. In particular, we show
that convexity leads to a better estimation rate, the rate at which
the error approaches its optimal value. In pattern classification, the
natural loss function is the indicator function for a
misclassification, which is not convex. Kernel and boosting methods
for pattern classification substitute a convex function for the
discrete loss function. We show how this substitution affects the
performance of these methods.
About the Speaker: Peter Bartlett is a professor in the Division of
Computer Science and Department of Statistics at the University of
California at Berkeley. He is the co-author, with Martin Anthony, of
the book Learning in Neural Networks: Theoretical Foundations. He has
served as an associate editor of the journals Machine Learning,
Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems, the Journal of Machine
Learning Research, and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Research. In 2001, he was awarded the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for
Physical Scientist of the Year in Australia, for his work in
statistical learning theory. He was a fellow, senior fellow and
professor in the Australian National University's Institute for
Advanced Studies (1993-2003), and Miller Institute Visiting Research
Professor in Statistics and Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley in Fall
2001. His research interests include machine learning, statistical
learning theory, and adaptive control.
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DIVERSITY IN LANGUAGE SEMINAR
on Friday, 24 October 2003, 12 noon
Bldg. 260:252 German Studies Library
http://dlcl.stanford.edu/research/workgroups/diversity.html
The second diversity group meeting will be Friday Oct. 24th, noon-1pm,
in 260-252 (German Studies Library), when we will discuss the two
papers below. We will provide food, so if you plan to attend **please
RSVP** to David Oshima, davidyo[at]stanford.edu, so that we know the
expected number of attendees.
Papers for discussion:
Anna Wierzbicka, Preface to the second edition of "Cross-Cultural
Pragmatics", and
Nick J. Enfield, "The theory of cultural logic: how individuals
combine social intelligence with semiotics to create and maintain
cultural meaning".
Copies of both papers will be made available in buildings 460, 50, and
260. The Enfield paper is also available online at:
http://www.stanford.edu/~sells/enfield.pdf
but note that it is large (10MB) and only displays/prints using the
latest version of Acrobat, 6.0.
Future mailings about our activities will *only* be sent to the
diversity-in-language mailing list. Here are the instructions for
getting on it, if you are not already:
Send mail to:
majordomo@lists.stanford.edu
with the following command in the body of your email message:
subscribe diversity-in-language
If you have problems, please contact David Oshima.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 24 October 2003, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Smart Mobs:
Mobile Communication, Pervasive Computing, and Collective Action"
Howard Rheingold
http://www.rheingold.com/
Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies
amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob
technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used
by some of its earliest adopters to support democracy and by others to
coordinate terrorist attacks.
The technologies that make smart mobs possible are mobile
communication devices and pervasive computing - inexpensive
microprocessors embedded in everyday objects and environments.
Already, governments have fallen, youth subcultures have blossomed
from Asia to Scandinavia, new industries have been born and older
industries have launched furious counterattacks.
Street demonstrators in the 1999 anti-WTO protests used dynamically
updated websites, cell-phones, and "swarming" tactics in the "battle
of Seattle." A million Filipinos toppled President Estrada through
public demonstrations organized through salvos of text messages.
The pieces of the puzzle are all around us now, but haven't joined
together yet. The radio chips designed to replace barcodes on
manufactured objects are part of it. Wireless Internet nodes in cafes,
hotels, and neighborhoods are part of it. Millions of people who lend
their computers to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence are
part of it. The way buyers and sellers rate each other on Internet
auction site eBay is part of it. Research by biologists, sociologists,
and economists into the nature of cooperation offer explanatory
frameworks.
The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before
possible because they carry devices that possess both communication
and computing capabilities. Their mobile devices connect them with
other information devices in the environment as well as with other
people's telephones. Dirt-cheap microprocessors embedded in everything
from box tops to shoes are beginning to permeate furniture, buildings,
neighborhoods, products with invisible intercommunicating
smartifacts. When they connect the tangible objects and places of our
daily lives with the Internet, handheld communication media could
mutate into wearable remote control devices for the physical world.
Media cartels and government agencies are seeking to reimpose the
regime of the broadcast era in which the customers of technology will
be deprived of the power to create and left only with the power to
consume. That power struggle is what the battles over file-sharing,
copy-protection, regulation of the radio spectrum are about. Are the
citizens of tomorrow going to be users, like the PC owners and website
creators who turned technology to widespread innovation? Or will they
be consumers, constrained from innovation and locked into the
technology and business models of entrenched interests?
About the Speaker: Howard Rheingold is the author of:
* Smart Mobs
* The Virtual Community
* Tools for Thought
was the editor of:
* The Whole Earth Review
* The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
* HotWired
founded:
* Electric Minds
* Brainstorms
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BIOMEDICAL COMPUTATION AT STANFORD 2003 (BCATS 2003)
on Saturday, 25 October 2003, all day
TCSEQ
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[at]email.com
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