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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 14 January 2004, vol. 19:18
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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14 January 2004 Stanford Vol. 19, No. 18
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A weekly publication of the
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Stanford University, Cordura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4115
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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ACTIVITIES FROM 14 JANUARY 2004 TO 23 JANUARY 2004
WEDNESDAY, 14 JANUARY 2004
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
Rich Probabilistic Models for Genomic Data
Eran Segal
Computer Science, Stanford University
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"BiReality: Mutually-Immersive Mobile Telepresence"
Norm Jouppi
HP Labs
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 15 JANUARY 2004
12:15pm CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
"Strategic Behavioral Transformations in Immersive
Collaborative Virtual Environments~
Jeremy Bailenson
Communication, Stanford University
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Packard 202
"Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy"
Tim Roughgarden
UC Berkeley
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
Reuters lounge, Cordura Hall
Esther Dyson
EDventura Holdings
http://www.edventure.com/
http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/reuters/cgi-bin/calendar/index.cgi
3:30pm Carlos McClatchy Memorial Colloquium
Learning Theater, Wallenberg Hall (Bldg. 160)
"Smart Mobs; The Virtual Community; & Tools for Thought"
Howard Rheingold
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/communication/
Abstract below
4:00pm Personality Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
"Methods for the online measurement of emotion experience
and 'affective dynamics'"
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#person_lab
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Cognitive Issues in the Design of Interactive Workspaces"
Terry Winograd
Computer Science Department
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 16 JANUARY 2004
12 noon Ethics@Noon
Bldg. 100:101k
"Linguistic Profiling:
Unethical Treatment in the Quest for Fair Housing"
John Baugh
Education, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.html
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B03
"The Open Mind Initiative: Large-scale knowledge acquisition
from non-experts via the web"
David Stork
Ricoh and Open Mind Initiative.
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
4:15pm CS545: Database Seminar
Gates B12
"Learning in Query Optimization"
Volker Markl
IBM Almaden
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 17 JANUARY 2004
all day Symposium in honor of Solomon Feferman
Cordura 100
http://www.stanford.edu/~sommer/Feferman04.html
SUNDAY, 18 JANUARY 2004
all day Symposium in honor of Solomon Feferman
Cordura 100
http://www.stanford.edu/~sommer/Feferman04.html
MONDAY, 19 JANUARY 2004 - University Holiday
TUESDAY, 20 JANUARY 2004
3:00pm CSLI Tea
Cordura Greenhouse
4:15pm Stanford Computer Forum Emeritus Lecture
Packard 101
"Why We Need a New Technology to Manage Information Systems
and What That Technology is"
David Luckham
Research Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus)
http://forum.stanford.EDU/events/lecture/
Abstract below
4:15pm EE392: Sensor Networks Seminar
Jordan Hall 041
"Image Sensors and Local Computation"
Andreous Andrea
Johns Hopkins
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee392s/
WEDNESDAY, 21 JANUARY 2004
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
Title to be announced
Kamal Ali
Yahoo
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"EyeToy: A New Interface for Interactive Entertainment"
Richard Marks
Sony Computer Entertainment US R&D (PlayStation)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 22 JANUARY 2004
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Packard 202
Title to be Announced
Devavret Shah
Stanford University
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
Reuters lounge, Cordura Hall
Dipak Basu
NetHope
http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/reuters/cgi-bin/calendar/index.cgi
4:00pm Personality Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Title to be announced
Sam Gosling
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#person_lab
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"On Beyond Ontology; Aspects of the philosophy, psychology,
and computationality of modern biology"
Jeff Shrager
Carnegie Institution Department of Plant Biology
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar
Packard 101
"From 2 To Infinity: Information Theory For Large Alphabets"
Alon Orlitsky
UCSD
http://isl.stanford.edu/groups/seminar/
FRIDAY, 23 JANUARY 2004
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B03
"User-based design for autistic children"
Dan Gillette
Cure Autism Now
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:30pm Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Scalar Implicatures in Context"
Angelika Kratzer
UMass Amherst
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
4:15pm CS545: Database Seminar
Gates B12
Title to be announced
C. Mohan
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
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ANNOUNCEMENT
From the Stanford Report:
'Philosophy Talk' hits the air Jan. 13; 26 weekly shows scheduled
"Philosophy Talk", a radio program created and hosted by faculty
members John Perry [ed: and a former director of CSLI] and Kenneth
Taylor, is scheduled to air Tuesdays at noon, beginning Jan. 13, on
San Francisco's KALW 91.7 FM. Listeners can also tune in by visiting
the station's website. http://www.kalw.org/
The first show will focus on President Bush's controversial doctrine
of military pre-emption. Perry, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor
of Philosophy, and Taylor, an associate professor of philosophy, will
talk with George R. Lucas Jr., a philosophy professor at the
U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and editor of the State University of
New York Press's "Ethics and the Military Profession" book series.
A pilot of "Philosophy Talk" on the topic of lying was first broadcast
Aug. 20 on KALW. Since then, Perry and Taylor have secured enough
funding for 26 one-hour shows and attracted the attention of several
other radio stations and networks. Oregon Public Broadcasting will air
recordings of the program Thursdays at 8 p.m. starting Jan. 15.
The program recently won a grant from the Greenwall Foundation, as
well as support from the Hoover Institution, the Office of Public
Affairs and the Office of the Dean of the School of Humanities and
Sciences. However, Taylor is quick to note that they are producing the
program "on a shoestring" and "are still in full fundraising mode."
The show's executive producer, Ben Manilla, is president of the
award-winning Ben Manilla Productions (BMP), which, in conjunction
with Martin Scorsese and WGBH Boston, recently produced "The Blues," a
13-hour radio documentary series. BMP also produces the nationally
syndicated "House of Blues Radio Hour." It is currently developing a
new public radio series with The New Yorker magazine.
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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Wednesday, 14 January 2004, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
"Rich Probabilistic Models for Genomic Data"
Eran Segal
Stanford University
Genomic datasets, spanning many organisms and data types, are rapidly
being produced, creating new opportunities for understanding the
molecular mechanisms underlying human disease, and for studying
complex biological processes on a global scale. Transforming these
immense amounts of data into biological information is a challenging
task. We address this challenge by presenting a statistical modeling
language, based on Bayesian networks, for representing heterogeneous
biological entities and modeling the mechanism by which they interact.
We use statistical learning approaches in order to learn the details
of these models (structure and parameters) automatically from raw
genomic data. The biological insights are then derived directly from
the learned model. In this talk, I will describe three applications of
this framework to the study of gene regulation:
* Understanding the process by which DNA patterns (motifs) in the
control regions of genes play a role in controlling their
activity. Using only DNA sequence and gene expression data as
input, these models recovered many of the known motifs in yeast
and several known motif combinations in human.
* Finding regulatory modules and their actual regulator genes
directly from gene expression data. Some of the predictions from
this analysis were tested successfully in the wet-lab, suggesting
regulatory roles for three previously uncharacterized proteins.
* Combining gene expression profiles from several organisms for a
more robust prediction of gene function and regulatory pathways,
and for studying the degree to which regulatory relationships have
been conserved across evolution.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 14 January 2004, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"BiReality: Mutually Immersive Mobile Telepresence"
Norm Jouppi
Hewlett-Packard
BiReality uses a teleoperated robotic surrogate to visit remote
locations as a substitute for physical travel. Our goal is to create
to the greatest extent practical, both for the user and the people at
the remote location, the sensory experience relevant for business
interactions of the user actually being in the remote location. Our
second-generation system provides a 360-degree surround immersive
audio and visual experience for both the user and remote participants,
and streams eight 720x480 MPEG-2 videos totaling almost 20Mb/s over
802.11a wireless networking. The system preserves gaze and eye
contact, presents local and remote participants to each other at life
size, and preserves the head height of the user at the remote
location. This talk focuses on some of the system challenges inherent
in the project, and includes a short video demonstration.
About the speaker: Norman P. Jouppi is currently a Fellow at HP Labs
in Palo Alto, California. He received his PhD in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University and joined Digital Equipment
Corporation's Western Research Lab in 1984. From 1984 through 1996 he
was also a consulting assistant/associate professor in the department
of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was the principal
architect of four microprocessors, and also contributed to the design
of several graphics accelerators. His current research interests
include audio, video, and physical telepresence as well as computer
systems architecture.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 15 January 2004, 12:15pm-1:30pm
Cordura Hall, Room 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"Strategic Behavioral Transformations
in Immersive Collaborative Virtual Environments"
Jeremy Bailenson
Communication, Stanford University
Over time, our mode of remote communication has evolved from written
letters to telephones, email, internet chat rooms, and
videoconferences. Similarly, collaborative virtual environments
(CVEs) promise to further change the nature of remote interaction.
CVEs are systems which track verbal and nonverbal signals of multiple
interactants and render those signals onto avatars, three-dimensional,
digital representations of people in a shared digital space. In this
talk, I describe a series of projects that explore the manners in
which CVEs can qualitatively change the nature of remote
communication. Unlike telephone conversations and videoconferences,
interactants in CVEs have the ability to systematically filter the
physical appearance and behavioral actions of their avatars in the
eyes of their conversational partners, amplifying or suppressing
features and nonverbal signals in real-time for strategic purposes
(Transformed Social Interaction). These transformations can have a
drastic impact on interactants' persuasive and instructional
abilities. Furthermore, using CVEs, behavioral researchers can use
this mismatch between performed and perceived behavior as a tool to
examine complex patterns of nonverbal behavior with nearly perfect
experimental control and great precision. Implications for
communications systems, marketing strategies, and behavioral science
research will be discussed.
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STANFORD NETWORKING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 15 January 2004, 12:40pm (lunch 12:15pm)
Packard 202
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
"Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy"
Tim Roughgarden
UC Berkeley
The "price of anarchy"---the worst-case ratio between the social
objective function value of an equilibrium and that of a social
optimum---is an increasingly popular measure of the extent to which
competition approximates cooperation. It has recently been applied in
several theoretical studies of network games. We will illustrate its
use in one such game, "selfish routing".
About the speaker: Tim Roughgarden received his BS and MS degrees from
Stanford University in 1997 and 1998, and his PhD in from Cornell
University in 2002. He is currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UC
Berkeley, and will join Stanford's computer science faculty in the
fall of 2004.
Dr. Roughgarden's research interests lie on the interface of
combinatorial optimization and game theory. For his PhD work, he
received SIGACT's Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award, the
Mathematical Programming Society's Tucker Prize, INFORM's Optimization
Prize for Young Researchers, and an honorable mention for the ACM
Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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CARLOS MCCLATCHY MEMORIAL COLLOQUIUM
on Thursday, 15 January 2004, 3:30pm
Learning Theater, Wallenberg Hall (Bldg. 160)
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/communication/
"Smart Mobs; The Virtual Community; & Tools for Thought"
Howard Rheingold
Editor of:
The Whole Earth Review; The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog; & HotWired
Founder of: Electric Minds & Brainstorms
"SMART MOBS:
Mobile Communication, Pervasive Computing, & Collective Action"
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?
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 15 January 2004, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
"Cognitive Issues in the Design of Interactive Workspaces"
Terry Winograd
Computer Science, Stanford
We have begun experiments to identify the relevant cognitive
properties of a broad variety of command and pointing techniques in a
multi-person, multi-machine environment. This presentation will
describe a framework for analyzing the dimensions of differences
between control affordances, the measures of effectiveness and fluency
in a situation of use.
About the Speaker: Terry Winograd is Professor of Computer Science at
Stanford University, where he directs the Interactivity Laboratory
(http://interactivity.stanford.edu) and the teaching and research
program in Human-Computer Interaction Design ( http://hci.stanford.edu/ )
He is one of the principal investigators in the Stanford Digital
Libraries project, and the Interactive Workspaces Project. He recently
completed a sabbatical at Google, a search engine company founded by
Stanford students from his projects.
Winograd was a founder of Action Technologies, a developer of workflow
software, and was a founding member of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility, of which he is a past national president. He
is on the editorial board of several journals, including
Human-Computer Interaction, Personal Technologies, and Information
Technology, and People.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 16 January 2004, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"The Open Mind Initiative:
Large-scale knowledge acquisition from non-experts via the web"
David Stork
Ricoh Innovations and the Open Mind Initiative
The Open Mind Initiative is a web-based collaborative framework for
collecting large knowledge bases from non-expert contributors. Such
knowledge bases are vital for a wide range of 'intelligent' software
such as speech and handwriting recognizers, commonsense reasoners, and
natural language understanding systems. This talk begins by examining
several important trends that underly Open Mind:
* the rise in open source software
* the expansion of opportunities for less-skilled users to
contribute knowledge
* the increase in scientific collaboration over the internet
* the growing need for large sets of 'informal' data from
non-experts
Next we contrast the Open Mind approach with traditional data mining,
and then describe ongoing projects collecting common sense, natural
language and handwriting recognition knowledge bases. Our largest
project, Open Mind common sense, has collected over a million simple
assertions from over tens of thousands of non-expert contributors.
Important considerations are speeding the collection of data (by
interactive learning techniques and motivating contributors) and
ensuring data quality (by identifying and filtering unreliable or even
'hostile' contributions). We discuss the importance of the
human-machine interface as well as the role of game interfaces.
The talk concludes with a vision of future directions and
opportunities.
About the Speaker: David G. Stork is Chief Scientist of Ricoh
Innovations as well as Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Visiting Lecturer in Art and Art History at Stanford
University. His primary interests lie in pattern recognition, machine
learning, neural networks and novel uses of the internet; he is the
creator and leader of the Open Mind Initiative. He sits on the
editorial boards of four international journals and his five books
include HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality (MIT Press)
for general audiences and the second edition of Pattern Classification
with R. Duda and P. Hart (Wiley).
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CS545: DATABASE SEMINAR
on Friday, 16 January 2004, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Gates B12
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
"Learning in Query Optimization"
Volker Markl
IBM Almaden
Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best
query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are
heavily dependent upon the optimizer's estimates for the number of
rows that will result at each step of the QEP for complex queries
involving many predicates and/or operations. These estimates, in turn,
rely upon statistics on the database and modeling assumptions that may
or may not be true for a given database. In this talk, we present
research on learning in query optimization that has been carried out
at the IBM Almaden Research Center. We introduce LEO, DB2's LEarning
Optimizer, as a comprehensive way to repair incorrect statistics and
cardinality estimates of a query execution plan. By monitoring
executed queries, LEO compares the optimizer's estimates with actuals
at each step in a QEP, and computes adjustments to cost estimates and
statistics that may be used during the current and future query
optimizations. This analysis can be done either on-line or off-line on
a separate system, and either incrementally or in batches. In this
way, LEO introduces a feedback loop to query optimization that
enhances the available information on the database where the most
queries have occurred, allowing the optimizer to actually learn from
its past mistakes. Our technique is general and can be applied to any
operation in a QEP (not just selection bpredicates on base tables),
including joins, derived results after several predicates have been
applied, and even to DISTINCT and GROUP-BY operators. The runtime
overhead of LEO's monitoring is insignificant, whereas the potential
benefit to response time from more accurate cardinality and cost
estimates can be orders of magnitude.
About the Speaker: Dr. Markl has been working at IBM's Almaden
Research Center in San Jose,USA since January, 2001, conducting
research in query optimization, indexing, and self-managing
databases. Volker Markl is spearheading the LEO project, an effort on
autonomic computing with the goal to create a self-tuning optimizer
for DB2 UDB. He also is the Almaden chair for the IBM Data Management
Professional Interest Community (PIC).
From January 1997 to December 2000, Dr. Markl worked for the Bavarian
Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems (FORWISS) in Munich,
Germany as deputy research group manager, leading the MISTRAL and MDA
projects, thereby cooperating with SAP AG, NEC, Hitachi, Teijin
Systems Technology, GfK, and Microsoft Research. His MDA project,
jointly with TransAction Software, developed the relational database
management system TransBase HyperCube, which was awarded the European
IST Prize 2001 by EUROCASE and the European Commission.
Dr. Markl also initiated and co-ordinated the EDITH EU IST project
investigating the physical clustering of multiple hierarchies and its
applications to GIS and Data Warehousing that now is being carried out
by FORWISS and several partners from Germany, Italy, Greece, and
Poland.
Volker Markl is a graduate of the Technische Universitat Munchen,
where he earned a Masters degree in Computer Science in 1995. He
completed his PhD in 1999 under the supervision of Rudolf Bayer. His
dissertation on "Relational Query Processing Using a Multidimensional
Access Technique" was honored "with distinction" by the German
Computer Society (Gesellschaft fur Informatik). He also earned a
degree in Business Administration from the University Hagen, Germany
in 1995. Since 1996, Volker Markl has published more than 15 reviewed
papers at prestigious scientific conferences and journals, filed 3
patents and has been invited speaker at many universities and
companies. Dr. Markl is member of the German Computer Society (GI) as
well as the Special Interest Group on Management of Data of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGMOD). He also serves as
program committee member and reviewer for several international
conferences and journals. His main research interests are on autonomic
computing, query processing, and query optimization, but also include
applications like data warehousing, electronic commerce and pervasive
computing.
Dr. Markl's earlier professional experience include software engineer
for a virology laboratory, as part of his military service; lecturer
for software-engineering courses at the University of Applied Sciences
in Augsburg, Germany and for programming and communications at the
Technische Universitat Munchen; and consultant for a forwarding
agency. He was awarded a fellowship by Siemens AG, Munich and also
worked as an international intern with Benefit Panel Services, Los
Angeles.
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STANFORD COMPUTER FORUM EMERITUS LECTURE
on Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 4:15pm
Packard 101
http://forum.stanford.EDU/events/lecture/
"Why We Need a New Technology to Manage Information Systems
and What That Technology is"
David Luckham
Research Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) -
http://forum.stanford.edu/profile/luckham.html
Corporations are becoming increasingly real time by utilizing both
private networks and the Internet. What we are witnessing is the
emergence of the "event-driven real time enterprise" as Gartner calls
it, in which the whole business structure, processes and applications
are event-driven. While Internet-based automation helps streamline
businesses, cut costs and make them more profitable, it introduces a
new problem -- managing in real time. Management is becoming an
increasing challenge. This is amply illustrated by the recent North
Eastern power blackout in which, as Congressional hearings uncovered,
no manager had a global view of that event-driven situation. A new
technology is needed that allows business process managers to
understand the event activity in their information systems. They
cannot decipher reams of network logs, nor do they have the time to do
so. They need high level views of event activity as it happens, views
that immediately indicate how critical business functions are being
impacted.
This talk will give a number of amusing illustrations from financial
services, on-line marketing, industrial automation and security, of
the need for a new management technology. We will then illustrate the
basic concepts underlying such a technology, called Complex Event
Processing (CEP). CEP technology is described in David Luckham's new
book, "The Power of Events" (Addison Wesley), available at
http://www.amazon.com/ .
About the Speaker: David Luckham has held faculty and invited faculty
positions in mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering
at eight major universities in Europe and the United States. He was
one of the founders of Rational Software Inc. in 1981, supplying both
the company's initial software product and the software team that
founded the company. He has been an invited lecturer, keynote speaker,
panelist, and USA delegate at many international conferences and
congresses. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus of Electrical
Engineering, Stanford University. His research and consulting
activities in software technology include multi-processing,
event-based simulation languages and systems, and Complex Event
Processing. He has published four books and over 100 technical papers;
two ACM/IEEE Best Paper Awards, several of his papers are now in
historical anthologies and book collections. His latest book, "The
Power of Events", deals with the foundations of complex event
processing in distributed enterprise systems.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 21 January 2004, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"EyeToy
A New Interface for Interactive Entertainment"
Richard Marks
Sony Computer Entertainment US R&D (PlayStation)
Manager, Special Projects
The display technology for video games has improved at a fantastic
rate, but little change has been made to the user interface. Most
games still assume the only interface available is a gamepad/joystick
or a mouse/keyboard. New input methods such as voice and video enable
a new level of interactivity. Increased CPU power and reduced hardware
costs have recently made such interfaces commercially viable, even
just as enhancements (not replacements) to the baseline interface.
Recent highly-successful examples include the SOCOM headset and
EyeToy.
This talk will describe how the EyeToy went from a research project to
a high-profile product that has sold millions. It will also include a
brief high-profile product that has sold millions. It will also
include a brief presentation of the speaker's current research into
video interfaces. Several live technology demonstrations will be shown
using PlayStation2 and EyeToy, including gesture recognition for spell
casting, head tracking for hover-board and first-person strafe
control, and a real-world "Minority Report"-inspired interface.
About the speaker: Richard Marks was an Avionics major at MIT before
getting his PhD at Stanford in the Aerospace Robotics Lab. His thesis
was in conjunction with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute,
in the area of visual sensing for automatic control of an underwater
robot. He then joined Teleos Research, a computer vision start-up that
was later acquired by Autodesk. He departed and consulted for a year,
before the unveiling of the PlayStation2 hardware inspired him to join
PlayStation R&D. His research focus has been studying real-time video
input to the PS2, and he is credited as the inventor of the EyeToy
technology. Richard now manages the Special Projects group of Sony
Computer Entertainment US R&D, which includes Man-Machine Interfaces
and Physical Simulation research.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 22 January 2004, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
"On Beyond Ontology; Aspects of the philosophy, psychology, and
computationality of modern biology"
Jeff Shrager
Carnegie Institution Department of Plant Biology and
ISLE, CSLI
In the first part of this talk I'll try to answer the question, often
put to me by students: "What's a molecular biologist doing teaching a
cognitive science course (SSP145)?" Or, in more chronologically
accurate terms: "How did a cognitive scientist come to find himself in
molecular biology, and what does he do there?" In the second part of
the talk, I'll tell you what I do there. I'll give several examples of
cognitive/computational issues in molecular biology, esp. how
biologist think about biological objects and functions, and how
computational biologists try to represent and reason about these
things.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 23 January 2004, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Developing a Voice Output Communication Aid for Children with Severe Autism:
A Case Study of User-Centered, Collaborative Design
with Users Who Cannot Speak or Write"
Dan Gillette
Cure Autism Now
This talk will cover the challenges faced by a user-centered design
team developing a tablet-based, voice output communication aid for
children with severe autism. Specifically, the design challenges of
conducting user-centered, iterative design where the primary user
cannot effectively communicate and whose cognitive and sensory
capabilities are not fully understood will be discussed. Also, a
demonstration will be given of the application and the unique features
that were developed as a result of following the chosen design
process. Lastly, a case study will be presented of one of the test
subjects and the unanticipated results that occurred in her
development and the behavior of her caregivers.
About the Speaker: Dan Gillette is the IDEA Lab at CSU Monterey Bay's
first Luminary, Chair of the Innovative Technology for Autism
Workgroup at Cure Autism Now (CAN) and an independent consultant in
learning disabilities, curriculum development, teacher education and
product design. Before joining the IDEA Lab, Dan was a principal
researcher at Stanford University's Archimedes Project, where he
focused on developing user interfaces for next generation adaptive
technologies for those with disabilities. Additionally, Dan has held
positions in counseling, higher education administration, teaching and
museum exhibit design. Before getting into educational psychology, Dan
had a 10 year career as a musician and composer, as well as a stint as
a bicycle courier. Dan holds a B.A. in human development from the
Lesley College Graduate School (now Lesley University) and an Ed.M. in
cognitive science, psychology and instructional design from the
Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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