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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 21 January 2004, vol. 19:19
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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21 January 2004 Stanford Vol. 19, No. 19
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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 21 JANUARY 2004 TO 30 JANUARY 2004
WEDNESDAY, 21 JANUARY 2004
12 noon Diversity in Language Seminar
Bldg. 260:252 German Studies Library
"Whose German?"
Orrin (Rob) Robinson
German Studies, Stanford
http://dlcl.stanford.edu/research/workgroups/diversity.html
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
"Golden Path Analyzer: Using Divide-and-Conquer to Cluster Web
Clickstreams"
Kamal Ali
Yahoo
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
Abstract below
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
5:30pm Wesson Lectures in Problems of Democracy
TCSEQ 210
"Can there be democratic jurisprudence?"
Jeremy Waldron
Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law/ Director of the
Center for Law and Philosophy at Columbia Law School
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_wesson.html
THURSDAY, 22 JANUARY 2004
11:00am Music 319: CCRMA Hearing Seminar
CCRMA Library, The Knoll
"Musical Structure and the Brain"
Dan Levitin
McGill
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/ccrmas/ccrmas.html
Abstract below
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Packard 202
"Design and Analysis of Switch Scheduling Algorithms"
Devavret Shah
Stanford University
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
1:15pm SPRIE Seminar
Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall
"How the New Wave of 21st Century Globalization is
Transforming How Intel Operates"
Sandra Morris
CIO and VP, Intel Corporation
http://sprie.stanford.edu/events/
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
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Opening Access to Science"
Hemai Parthasarathy
Senior Editor, The Public Library of Science
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
"A Statistical Approach to Automatically Retrieving
Handwritten Historical Manuscript Images:
Retrieving George Washington's Manuscripts"
R. Manmatha
UMass Amherst
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ywteh/cis-seminar
Abstract below
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 202
"From 2 To Infinity: Information Theory For Large Alphabets"
Alon Orlitsky
UCSD
http://isl.stanford.edu/groups/seminar/
Abstract below
5:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Department Colloquium
Place TBA (Berkeley)
"Case-marking and relative clause structure in Quechua"
Rachel Hastings
Cornell University/University of Syracuse
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/Current/events.html
Abstract below
5:30pm Wesson Lectures in Problems of Democracy
TCSEQ 210
"Can there be democratic jurisprudence?"
Jeremy Waldron
Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law/ Director of the
Center for Law and Philosophy at Columbia Law School
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_wesson.html
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/
Abstract below
4:15pm CS545: Database Seminar
Gates B12
"DBCache: A Project on Database Caching Support for Web Applications"
C. Mohan
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
MONDAY, 26 JANUARY 2004
9:00am Second Language Acquisition Reading Group
CERAS 204
"Theoretical Issues in Second Language Acquisition -
Two Readings from Robinson (2001)"
Discussion led by Ken Romeo
Ellis, N.C. (2001). "Memory for language". (pp.33-68)
Gregg, K. (2001). "Learnability and second language
acquisition theory". (pp.152-68)
Both in P. Robinson (Ed.) Cognition and second language
instruction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
http://www.stanford.edu/~kenro/SLA-RG/
3:30pm Social Lab
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Studying Gender Issues Through Qualitative Methods:
The Case of Academically Successful Latinas"
Aida Hurtado
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
Jianbo Shi
University of Pennsylvania
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~jshi/
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs528/
TUESDAY, 27 JANUARY 2004
2:00pm Special University Oral Examination
Packard 101
"Next Generation Optical Access Networks"
Fu-Tai Richard An
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
4:15pm Logic Seminar
Bldg. 380:380F (math corner)
"The theory of Liouville functions" by P. Koiran, JSL 68 (2003)
Review by Michael Zakharevich
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
4:15pm EE392: Sensor Networks Seminar
Jordan Hall 041
"Reliable operation despite ultra low power - the ultimate
quest in wireless sensor networks"
Jan Rabaey
UC-Berkeley
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee392s/
4:15pm SNRC Industry Seminar
Packard 101
"Applications of Consumer Wireless Technology"
Thomas Zimmerman
IBM
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
Abstract below
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Revealing Information while Preserving Privacy"
Kobbi Nissim
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
5:30pm Syntax Workshop
Margaret Jacks 460:126
"Specificational clauses at the interfaces"
Line Mikkelsen
UC Santa Cruz
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 28 JANUARY 2004
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
"The Visual Analysis of Human Movement"
Maggie Shiffrar
Rutgers University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
"Information-theoretic Co-clustering"
Dharmednra S. Modha
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"3D Face Recognition: The Ultimate Biometric Lock"
Ron Kimmel
CS Dept. Technion
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
7:00pm SCIL Futures of Learning Lecture Series
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160)
Allan Collins
Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
http://scil.stanford.edu/
THURSDAY, 29 JANUARY 2004
12:15pm CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
"Morgan's Canon"
Elliott Sober
Philosophy, Stanford
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Packard 202
"Supporting Massively Multiplayer Online Games on Peer-to-Peer
Overlays"
Honghui Lu
University of Pennsylvania
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
Reuters lounge, Cordura Hall
Reid Hoffman
http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/reuters/cgi-bin/calendar/index.cgi
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"How do people think about space?"
Barbara Tversky
Psychology, Stanford
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar
Packard 101
Title to be announced
Sergio Verdu
Princeton
http://isl.stanford.edu/groups/seminar/
FRIDAY, 30 JANUARY 2004
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Maggie Shiffar
Psychology, Rutgers University
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:4247/seminar.html
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B03
"Talking phones: a cultural analysis of an information and
communication technology"
Genevieve Bell
Intel Research.
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:30pm Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Aspectual and causal structure in event representations for
argument linking"
Bill Croft
University of Manchester and CASBS
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
4:15pm CS545: Database Seminar
Gates B12
Title to be announced
Roberta Cochrane
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
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ANNOUNCEMENT
FIFTH ANNUAL STANFORD SEMANTICS FEST
Friday, 12 March 2004
Cordura 100
Stanford University
The Construction of Meaning Workshop is pleased to sponsor the Fifth
Annual Stanford Semantics Fest. The Semantics Fest is once again
intended to serve as a forum for promoting discussion and
collaboration among all those in the Stanford community interested in
the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, as well as their
interface with other modules of grammar. We encourage contributions
by all who share these interests.
Papers (most likely 20 minute talks plus 5 to 10 minutes of
discussion) are invited on any topic pertaining to semantics or
pragmatics in natural language.
Submission of Abstracts:
Abstracts should be submitted by Monday, February 9, 2004. All
abstracts should be in PLAIN TEXT and no more than 1 page long (not
including references). E-mail submissions are preferred. E-mail
abstracts to Philip Hofmeister, philiph@stanford.edu.
Deadlines and Important Dates:
Deadline for abstracts: Monday, February 9, 2003
Notification of acceptance: Friday, February 20, 2003
Deadline for revised abstracts: Friday, February 27, 2003
Semantics Fest: Friday, March 12, 2003
Organizing Committee:
David Beaver, Ivan Garcia, Beth Levin, Philip Hofmeister and Judith Tonhauser
This event is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and funded
by a grant from the Mellon Foundation
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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Wednesday, 21 January 2004, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
"Golden Path Analyzer:
Using Divide-and-conquer to cluster Web Clickstreams"
Kamal Ali
Yahoo
This talk presents a novel algorithm and deployment that analyzes
clickstreams during a web browsing session with respect to a success
criterion such as ability to easily navigate a web site to purchase a
product. It finds the shortest 'golden' paths taken by users
(panelists) who succeeded at the task. The paths taken by the rest of
the users are then analyzed with respect to each golden path. GPA
determines whether a given user took a golden path or not, where she
dropped off that golden path, and whether or not she rejoined that
golden path or joined another path. These analyses allow one to find
which web pages are problematic, i.e. those on which a substantial
percentage of the visitors drop off. They also allow one to identify
links that are problematic. A link is deemed problematic if it
distracts users from proceeding on a golden path. The system also
provides a mechanism that allows one to determine what percentage of
the panelists used one path (eg: search) versus another (eg: browse)
to get to a target page. The system has been used in 20 client
engagements, has been implemented in Perl and Visual Basic, runs in a
Win2k/Intel environment and outputs a bundle of interlinked HTML
pages.
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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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MUSIC 319: CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 22 January 2004, 11:00am
CCRMA Library, The Knoll
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/ccrmas/ccrmas.html
Both the Hearing Seminar and Dan Levitin are back to Stanford CCRMA!
We haven't had a seminar in a while--students have been working on
individual project related to phase perception. We'll have occasional
seminars during the year as opportunities present themselves.
I'm really happy to announce that CCRMA prodigal son, Dan Levitin, is
returning to talk about how we perceive music and other temporal
signals. Dan's work, using fMRI imaging, shows that we perceive the
temporal structure in musical signals using structures in the brain
that have already been labeled as processing the linguistic structure
in spoken and signed language. Pretty cool... perhaps not surprising,
but it's really nice to see direct evidence of the connection between
speech and music.
I think this work is interesting for several reasons: 1) it provides a
direction to help us understand how we process music and speech, 2) it
uses a combination of fMRI and random musical sequences to identify
the interesting areas of the brain, and 3) Dan is a long-time friend
and attendee at the Hearing Seminar (welcome home).
- Malcolm
"Musical structure and the brain"
Daniel Levitin and Vinod Menon
We investigated the neuroanatomical correlates of musical structure
using functional magnetic neuroimaging (fMRI) and a unique stimulus
manipulation involving scrambled music. The experiment compared brain
responses while participants listened to classical music and scrambled
versions of that same music. Specifically, the scrambled versions
disrupted musical structure while holding low-level musical attributes
constant, including the psychoacoustic features of the music such as
pitch, loudness, and timbre. Comparing music to its scrambled
counterpart, we found focal activation in the pars orbitalis region
(Brodmann Area 47) of the left inferior frontal cortex, a region that
has been previously closely associated with the processing of
linguistic structure in spoken and signed language, and its right
hemisphere homologue. We speculate that this particular region of
inferior frontal cortex may be more generally responsible for
processing fine-structured stimuli that evolve over time, not merely
those that are linguistic. In this sense, we believe that we may have
identified a "perceptual organization" module in the brain that is
amodal.
About the Speaker: Daniel J. Levitin is assistant professor of
psychology at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the
Psychology of Electronic Communication and the FQRNT Strategic Chair
in Psychology. He is an Associate member of the Department of Music
Theory, Program in Sound Recording, and Program in Music Technology at
McGill. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with a
Ph.D. minor in Music Technology from the University of Oregon, his
B.A. from Stanford in cognitive psychology (with honors) and did
post-doctoral training in psychoacoustics at Interval Research
Corporation and in neuroimaging at Stanford University. He has also
studied at M.I.T., UC Berkeley, Berklee College of Music, and
completed the professional management executive course through Harvard
Business School.
As a musician (tenor saxophone, guitar and bass), he has performed
with Mel Torme, Nancy Wilson, and members of the Steve Miller Band and
Santana. Levitin served as Vice President of Artists & Repertoire at
415/Columbia Records (now Sony Records) from 1984-1988, as President
in 1989. After 415, Levitin ran a successful production and
consulting company whose clients included every major American record
label and several film companies.
Levitin has published 20 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and over
300 articles about music and music technology in commercial and trade
magazines including Billboard, Electronic Musician, Mix, and Grammy.
For his technical and marketing contributions to the recording
industry, Levitin has been awarded 12 gold or platinum records, and
two of his projects received Oscar nominations. He has consulted on
underwater sound source separation for the U.S. Navy, and currently
directs the McGill Laboratory for the Study of Music Cognition,
Perception and Expertise.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 22 January 2004, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Opening Access to Science"
Hemai Parthasarathy
Senior Editor, The Public Library of Science
"Why is it, a growing number of people are asking, that anyone can
download medical nonsense from the Web for free, but citizens must
pay to see the results of carefully conducted biomedical research
that was financed by their taxes? The Public Library of Science aims
to change that." -Washington Post front page, 5 August 2003.
Biomedical research is funded by the public or by private
organizations in the name of public welfare. Scientists do the work,
they peer-review the work of their colleagues and then, more often
than not, they publish the work in a journal which turns around and
charges these same scientists and their institutions to read it. The
current scientific publication system began in a paper-based world,
but as in so many other domains, the Internet has changed the
possibilities for communicating science. The Public Library of
Science grew out of a grass-roots movement of biomedical scientists
with the aim of freeing the scientific literature from its
subscription-based shackles and maximizing its potential in an open
electronic-based forum. We are now a full-fledged publisher; and in
this talk, I will discuss the current publishing landscape, its role
in the larger scientific enterprise and the value and pitfalls of
high-profile scientific publishing. I'll explain how we are
positioning ourselves in this publishing landscape to achieve our goal
of making the world's scientific and medical literature a public
resource.
About the Speaker: Hemai Parthasarathy received a Ph.D. in systems
neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995.
She then did a postdoctoral fellowship first at the University of
Sydney and later at University College London, before daring to stray
from academia by accepting an editorial position at the journal Nature
in 1998. She was the acting North American Editor in Nature's
Washington D.C. office until leaving last spring to work for the
Public Library of Science. Hemai has edited review collections for
Nature and written articles for New Scientist and Nature.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 22 January 2004, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ywteh/cis-seminar
"A Statistical Approach to Automatically Retrieving Handwritten
Historical Manuscript Images:
Retrieving George Washington's Manuscripts"
R. Manmatha
UMass Amherst
(Joint work with Toni Rath and Victor Lavrenko)
There are many single-authored handwritten historical manuscript
images which would be useful to retrieve. Examples include the
manuscripts of the early American Presidents' at the Library of
Congress, Isaac Newton's at Cambridge University Library and the field
notes of the biologist Joseph Griffin at the Museum of Vertebrate
Zoology at UC, Berkeley. Since handwriting recognition does not work
well on such manuscripts, the current approach to retrieving such
manuscripts is to transcribe them and then use a text search engine.
Here, we describe a novel retrieval approach for historical
handwritten document collections, which does not require
recognition. Images are first automatically segmented into words using
a scale-space segmentation algorithm. It is assumed that an image may
be described using two vocabularies - a vocabulary of discrete image
features or its ASCII representation. The problem of retrieving page
images based on a (ASCII) text query may then be viewed as analogous
to the problem of cross-lingual retrieval. We, therefore, adapt a
relevance (based language) model to solving the problem of retrieving
handwritten manuscripts. Given a training set of transcribed images, a
joint probability distribution of word features and labels may be
computed For a given feature vector (i.e. a word image) in the test
set, the conditional probabilities for all labels may be
computed. That is, we can annotate every image in the test set with a
set of labels and associated probabilities, These labeled
probabilities allow us to build a language model based retrieval
system. Experiments show that this relevance-based language model
works very well with a mean average precision of 84% for 4-word
queries on a small subset of George Washington's manuscripts. We
believe that this is the first demonstration of a retrieval system for
handwritten manuscripts which does not rely on transcribing all the
document images. (This work is related to relevance model techniques
for automatically annotating and retrieving general images).
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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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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 22 January 2004, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Packard 202
http://isl.stanford.edu/groups/seminar/
"From 2 to Infinity: Information Theory of Large Alphabets"
Alon Orlitsky
ECE and CSE Departments, UCSD
Joint work with Prasad Santhanam and Junan Zhang
Most information-theoretic results assume fixed, typically binary,
alphabets. Yet many common sources, such as text or images, have
essentially infinite alphabets. To address such sources, we consider
not the sequence of observed symbols, but the pattern they form. We
show that the patterns of i.i.d. strings over all, including infinite
and even unknown, alphabets, can be compressed essentially as well as
when the underlying distribution is known in advance, both in block
and sequentially.
To prove these results, we relate the problem to a probability
estimator I.J. Good and A. Turing designed to help decipher the Enigma
code during World War II, and apply results by Hardy and Ramanujan on
the number of integer partitions.
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UC BERKELEY LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Thursday, 22 January 2004, 5:00pm
Place to be announced (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/Current/events.html
(note unusual date and time)
"Case-marking and relative clause structure in Quechua"
Rachel Hastings
Cornell University/University of Syracuse
This talk examines the structure of relative clauses in two dialects
of Quechua. In both dialects the head noun phrase may appear either
externally to the relative clause (as in English) or internally to the
relative clause. However, the dialects differ in the patterns of
case-marking exhibited on the head. I will show that these patterns
correlate with the interpretive scope of the head and propose that the
identity of the internal head is established syntactically in the
Cuzco dialect (spoken in southern Peru) and pragmatically in the
Imbabura dialect (from northern Ecuador). I will discuss these
findings in relation to cross-linguistic studies of internally-headed
relatives--in particular in light of recent analyses of Japanese
relative clause structure.
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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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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 23 January 2004, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"Scalar Implicatures in Context"
Angelika Kratzer
UMass Amherst
The computation of scalar implicatures is a central topic in Gazdar
(1979), and has recently been addressed in Levinson (2000), Chierchia
(forthcoming), and Sauerland (forthcoming). Are scalar implicatures
computed globally, locally, or is there no special mechanism computing
scalar implicatures? I will argue for the third possibility,
supporting Levinson - in a way.
References:
Chierchia, Gennaro. Forthcoming. Scalar Implicatures, Polarity
Phenomena, and the Syntax/Pragmatics Interface. In A. Belletti (ed.)
Structures and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gazdar, Gerald. 1979. Pragmatics. Implicature, Presupposition and
Logical Form. New York: Academic Press.
Levinson, Stephen. 2000. Presumptive Meanings. Cambridge/Mass: The MIT
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Sauerland, Uli. Forthcoming. Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences.
Linguistics and Philosophy.
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SNRC INDUSTRY SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 4:15pm
Packard 101
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
"Applications of Consumer Wireless Technology"
Thomas Zimmerman
IBM
What began as a research project at the MIT Media Lab to instrument Yo
You Ma's cello and enable magician Penn Jillette to play air drums,
turned into a means to send data through the body. Using a small
prototype transmitter (roughly the size of a deck of cards) embedded
with a microchip, and a surprisingly simple receiver, we have
demonstrated transmission of a preprogrammed electronic business card
between two people via a simple handshake. However sending data
through the body is tricky for it depends on geometry to break
electrical symmetry. The commoditization of WLAN technology inspired
the design a Mesh Network using 802.11b radios and Linux PC's to
connect rural villages. Radio frequency key fobs and alarms protect
our cars, but they can also be used to protect our laptops. When you
want to be somewhere but you don't want to go there, why not send your
wireless digital head instead? In my lecture I shall report on these
research projects, demonstrating a wide variety of applications for
inexpensive consumer wireless technology.
About the Speaker: Thomas G. Zimmerman is an inventor and educator,
exploring the frontiers of human-computer interaction at the IBM
Almaden Research Center. His 15 patents cover position tracking, user
input, wireless communication, music training, biometrics and
encryption. His Data Glove invention established the field of Virtual
Reality, selling over one million units. His electric field PAN
invention sends data through the human body, exchanging electronic
business cards with a handshake, and prevents air bags from injuring
children in the Honda Accord. His New Zealand airport deployment of
802.11b WLAN equipped PDAs enabled passengers to self check-in and
board. Mr. Zimmerman promotes science literacy with regular
appearances on Discovery TV Canada and interactive exhibits installed
at the Exploratorium, National Geographic Society and Great Lakes
Science Center. He received his B.S. in Humanities and Engineering and
M.S. in Media Science from MIT.
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SYNTAX WORKSHOP
on Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 5:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
"Specificational clauses at the interfaces"
Line Mikkelsen
UC Santa Cruz
Based on a rich and varied set of observations, Higgins (1979)
distinguished specificational copular clauses like (1) from
predicational copular clauses like (2).
1. The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is Shirin Ebadi.
2. The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is Iranian.
Subsequent work has attributed at least some of these differences to
specificational copular clauses having a radically different syntax
from that of predicational clauses. In this talk, I argue that the
syntactic structure of specificational clauses is unexceptional, and
that what is special about these clauses is an unusual alignment of
the less referential argument with the subject position. This
alignment is in turn motivated by pragmatic factors, in particular the
preference for the topic to be aligned with the subject position. I
discuss how these ideas can be implemented either in Optimality
Theoretic terms, using harmonic alignment, or within the Minimalist
Program, exploiting the distinction between interpretable and
uninterpretable features.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"3D Face Recognition:
The Ultimate Biometric Lock"
Ron Kimmel
CS Dept. Technion
(Visiting Stanford)
At the Geometric Image Processing Lab., together with Alexander and
Michael Bronstein, and with the help of lab engineer Eyal Gordon, we
built a system that can distinguish between two identical twins
(Michael and Alexander) based on 3D pictures of their faces. Our
system can recognize faces under various poses and facial expressions.
In this talk I will review the components of our system and some
theoretical problems and technical challenges. The numerical building
blocks include
1. Kimmel-Sethian fast marching on triangulated domains (FMTD)
scheme, that efficiently computes geodesic distances on
triangulated surfaces.
2. Elad-Kimmel bending invariant signatures for isometric surfaces. A
method for matching isometric surfaces.
and the
3. Bronstein2-Kimmel eigen-forms for expression invariant 3D face
recognition.
About the speaker: Ron Kimmel is a Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology graduate (D.Sc. 1995). During 1995-1998 he has been a
postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley Labs, and UC Berkeley. Since 1998, he
has been a faculty member of Computer Science at the Technion, where
he is currently an associate professor. He is now a visiting Professor
at the Computer Science Department, Stanford University, and working
with MediGuide Inc.
His research interests are in differential geometry, scientific
computing, image processing and analysis, robotic navigation, and
computer graphics. Prof. Kimmel was awarded the Rich innovation award
(twice), the Taub Prize for excellence in research, and the Alon, HTI,
Wolf, Gutwirth, Ollendorff, and Jury fellowships.
He has been a long term consultant of HP research Lab (1998-2000),
Net2Wireless/Jigami research (2000-2001), and MediGuide (2002-2003).
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STANFORD NETWORKING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 29 January 2004, 12:40pm (lunch 12:15pm)
Packard 202
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
"Supporting Massively Multiplayer Online Games
on Peer-to-Peer Overlays"
Honghui Lu
University of Pennsylvania
We present an approach to support massively multi-player games (MMG)
on peer-to-peer overlays. Our approach exploits the fact that players
in MMGs display locality of interest, and therefore can form
self-organizing groups based on their locations in the virtual world.
To this end, we have designed scalable mechanisms to distribute the
game state to the participating players and to maintain consistency in
the face of node failures. The resulting system dynamically scales
with the number of online players. It is also more flexible and has a
lower deployment cost than centralized game servers.
We have implemented a simple game we call SimMud, and experimented
with up to 4000 players to demonstrate the applicability of this
approach. I will discuss the design and experimental results of our
prototype, as well as future research in performance optimizations and
cheat detection.
About the speaker: Honghui Lu is an Assistant Professor of Computer
and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. She received
her Ph.D. from Rice University in 2001. She has previously worked on
distributed shared memory and multimedia Web content distribution.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 29 January 2004, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
"How do people think about space?"
Barbara Tversky
Psychology, Stanford University
People think about different spaces differently, depending on how they
perceive them and how they interact with or in them. The space of the
body is composed of typically named body parts and their functions.
The space around the body is organized by the three major axes of the
body, and biased by their relative accessibility. The space of
navigation is constructed out of landmarks and spatial relations among
them; this organization leads to systematic errors in cognitive maps.
Finally, the space of graphics is created by people to represent
elements and relations that are spatial or metaphorically spatial for
a number of ends: to augment memory, to facilitate information
processing, to promote inferences and discoveries.
About the Speaker: Barbara Tversky studied cognitive psychology at the
University of Michigan and taught at Hebrew University in Jerusalem
before joining Stanford. Her general interests are in spatial
thinking and language, memory, event cognitive and perception, with
specific interests in spatial mental models, cognitive maps, spatial
and temporal descriptions, event perception, event narratives, graphic
interfaces, diagrammatic reasoning, visual and verbal explanations,
visual narratives, design, cognitive design principles,
cross-linguistic comparisons.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 30 January 2004, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Talking phones:
a cultural analysis of an information and communication technology"
Genevieve Bell
Intel Research
In June of 2002, Malaysian news-stands carried the latest issue of
"Mobile Stuff" -- a magazine geared toward Malaysia's growing
population of mobile phone subscribers. On the cover, two young Malay
men in clothing that suggests more LA hood and less KL suburbs, hold
out their mobile phones to the camera beneath the banner headline
"Real Men Use SMS." Six months later, billboards in Shanghai carried
the image of a woman's shapely calves and ankles, bound with black
patent leather ankle straps; positioned beneath one strap is her
mobile phone. Beyond their utility as a technology of information
exchange, mobile phones it appears have inserted themselves into the
cultural fabric of societies across the world. Using comparative
cases from Asia, this talk explores how mobile phones, and their
various accouterments, have become key symbolic markers of
identities. I argue that mobile phones, rather than facilitating an
idealized universal communication, actually contribute to the
re-inscription of local particularity and cultural difference as
dimensions of a larger political economy of value. Making sense of the
different ways that cell phones are articulating with daily life
provides an important perspective on the ways in which cultural
patterns affect technology use.
About the Speaker: Genevieve Bell is a Senior Researcher within Intel
Corporation's Intel Research. She is currently running a 2 year
research project focused on gaining a better understanding of the
daily life of Asia's urban middle classes, with an emphasis on the
role of new information and communication technologies. To date, she
has conducted fieldwork in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,
China and South Korea. Since joining Intel in 1998, Bell has conducted
ethnographic research in a variety of consumer spaces, including
malls, retail districts, and museums, as well as within a range of
different American households. Bell has also conducted significant
research beyond the US, including a five-country, strategically
situated, ethnographic study of European domestic spaces. Prior to
joining Intel, Bell taught anthropology and Native American Studies at
Stanford University. Bell received her BA/MA in anthropology from Bryn
Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She earned a PhD in cultural
anthropology from Stanford University in 1998.
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