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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 18 February 2004, vol. 19:23
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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18 February 2004 Stanford Vol. 19, No. 23
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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 18 FEBRUARY 2004 TO 27 FEBRUARY 2004
WEDNESDAY, 18 FEBRUARY 2004
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
"The Essential Child:
Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought"
Susan Gelman
University of Michigan
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Karine Chemla
CNRS, HPLMS
http://www.cnrs.fr/DEP/prg/Hist.Savoirs.html
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/html/events/deptevents.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Things CPU Architects Need To Think About"
Bob Colwell
R.E. Colwell & Assoc.
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
7:00pm SCIL Futures of Learning Lecture Series
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160)
"The Wisdom of Practice: Capturing the Richness of Teaching
for the Preparation of New Professionals"
Lee Shulman
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/president/biography.htm
http://scil.stanford.edu/
THURSDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2004
10:30am US-Asia Technology Management Center Event
CISX - 101 (CIS Building)
"Showcasing NEC's Nanotechnology Research:
Nanotechnology Research at NEC"
Jun'ichi Sone, General Manager
Fundamental and Environmental Research Laboratories
Talk starts 11:00am followed by a panel discussion
http://asia.stanford.edu/events/NEC/cnt_seminar.html
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Gates 104 (note change in location)
"Tools for Problem Determination and Program Understanding
for Framework-Intensive Applications"
Darrell Reimer, Nick Mitchell
IBM Research
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
Reuters lounge, Cordura Hall
Larry Lessig
Law, Stanford
http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/reuters/cgi-bin/calendar/index.cgi
4:00pm Personality Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Title to be announced
Iris Mauss
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#person_lab
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Folding@Home: Can a grid of 100,000 CPUs tackle fundamental
barriers in molecular simulation?"
Vijay Pande
Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Regulation of Thoughts, Feelings, and Memories in the Human Brain"
John Gabrieli
Psychology, Stanford University
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar
Packard 101
"Some Classes of Stationary Processes and their On-line Detection"
Benjamin Weiss
Hebrew University
http://isl.stanford.edu/groups/seminar/
Abstract below
5:00pm UC Berkeley Cognitive Science Talk
Dwinelle 155 (Berkeley)
"Causal Categories in Language and Cognition"
Philip Wolff
Psychology, University of Memphis
Abstract below
5:15pm Archaeology Research Workshop
Bldg 60:61H
"Beyond the facade: reading libraries in the ancient world"
David Platt
Stanford University:
http://archaeology.stanford.edu/workshop.html
5:30pm Linguistics Discussion
Margaret Jacks Hall 126
"A discussion with Arto Anttila on consonant clusters and opacity in
Singapore English"
FRIDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2004
all day Berkeley Linguistics Symposium
370 Dwinelle (UC Berkeley)
"Symposium on the Ecology of Language
and a Celebration of the 100th Birthday of Murray Emeneau"
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~garrett/LanguageEcologyConference.pdf
Information below
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Lera Boroditsky
ICBS Fellow MIT, Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:4247/seminar.html
12 noon Ethics@Noon
Bldg. 100:101K
"Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development"
James Ferguson
Cultural and Social Anthropology
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.html
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B03
"The Business of User Experience"
Jeffrey Herman and Suja Raju
eBay
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
2:00pm NLP Reading Group
Ventura 17
"Montage: Markup for Ontological Annotation and Grammar Engineering"
Dan Flickinger
CSLI
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/nlp/nlpgroup.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium
Bldg. 90:92Q
"What Could Animals Do With Nonconceptual Content?"
Colin Allen
Texas A&M University
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Three dimensions of phonological variation"
Arto Anttila
New York University
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
4:15pm CS545: Database Seminar
Gates B12
"Search Engines Considered Harmful:
In Search of an Unbiased Web Ranking"
Junghoo Cho
UCLA
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2004
all day Berkeley Linguistics Symposium
370 Dwinelle (UC Berkeley)
"Symposium on the Ecology of Language
and a Celebration of the 100th Birthday of Murray Emeneau"
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~garrett/LanguageEcologyConference.pdf
Information below
1:00pm Continuing Studies Talk
Human Mind: Emotions
http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/course/EVT64.asp
Information below
MONDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2004
12 noon Biomedical Ethics Special Talk
Room M-106
"Soul Made Flesh: The Birth of Our Neurocentric Age"
Carl Zimmer
http://scbe.stanford.edu//events/neurocentric.html
4:15pm CS528: Broad Area Colloquium in AI,
Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Vision
TCSeq 200
Title to be announced
John Anderson
Pixar
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs528/
4:15pm CS531: SCCM Seminar Series
Gates B12
"Inexact Gauss-Newton Methods with Applications in Numerical
Weather Prediction"
Nancy K. Nichols
University of Reading (currently visiting Stanford)
http://www-sccm.stanford.edu/seminar-s2004/
5:30pm UC Berkeley Cognitive Science Talk
370 Dwinelle (UC Berkeley)
"Beyond Language and Thought"
Terry Regier
University of Chicago
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2004
2:45pm CS531: SCCM Seminar Series
Gates B12
"Medical Image Registration:
A Challenge for Imaging and Numerical Linear Algebra"
Bernd Fisher
Universit\"at zu L\"ubeck
http://www-sccm.stanford.edu/seminar-s2004/
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
Reuters lounge, Cordura Hall
"Is There a Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid? An
innovative venture in poor markets to promote social equity
and sustainable commerce"
Paul Rankin
Philips Research Fellow
http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/reuters/cgi-bin/calendar/index.cgi
4:15pm Logic Seminar
Bldg. 380:380F (math corner)
"Intuitionistic Frege Systems are Polynomially Equivalent"
Grigori Mints
Philosophy, Stanford
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
4:15pm EE392: Sensor Networks Seminar
Jordan Hall 041
"Human factors in Sensor Networks"
Boris De Ruyter
Philips Research/Eindhoven
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee392s/
4:15pm Stanford Computer Forum Emeritus Lecture
Packard 101
"Computer Architecture: The Road Ahead"
Michael J. Flynn
Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering
http://forum.stanford.EDU/events/lecture/
4:15pm SNRC Industry Seminar
Gates B03
"Next-Generation Optical Access Architecture"
Kyeongsoo (Joseph) Kim
STMicroelectronics Researcher-in-Residence
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
Abstract below
5:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Philosophical Reflection and Recollection in the Phaedo"
Lee Franklin
The University at Albany, SUNY
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
7:00pm Symbolic Systems Event
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"From Symbols to Reality: Entrepreneurship and Startups"
A panel discussion featuring Symbolic Systems Alumni:
Ryan McIntyre (Mobius Venture Capital)
Srinija Srinivasan (Yahoo!)
Mark Torrance (Vinq)
Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
WEDNESDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2004
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
"The Cultural Psychology of Suffering: The Many Meanings of
Health in Orissa, India (And Elsewhere)"
Richard Shweder
University of Chicago
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Multi-Microphone Speech Processing,
or Why Two Ears Are Better Than One"
Parham Aarabi
Artificial Perception Laboratory, University of Toronto
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
4:15pm OR Colloquium
Terman 453
"Improved Approximation For Sparsest Cuts"
Satish Rao
UC Berkeley
http://theory.stanford.edu/~aflb/
THURSDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2004
12:15pm CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
"The Cognitive Neuroscience of Remembering:
Building and Retrieving Memories"
Anthony Wagner
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Packard 202
"Utility maximization, routing,fairness"
Steven Low
California Institute of Technology
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
Reuters lounge, Cordura Hall
Dan Schwartz
Education, Stanford
http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/reuters/cgi-bin/calendar/index.cgi
3:30pm Social Lab
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Everyday Race-Making: Negotiating Racial Boundaries In School"
Amanda Lewis
Sociology And African American Studies, U. Illinois at Chicago
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#social_lab
4:00pm Personality Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
"You can't always get what you want:
Social class, agency, and choice"
Alana Conner Snibbe
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#person_lab
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"G\"odel vs. Turing on minds and machines"
Solomon Feferman
Mathematics and Philosophy, Stanford
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
5:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Department Colloquium
182 Dwinelle (Berkeley)
"Modeling Cross-Linguistic Perceptual Differences"
Keith Johnson
OSU
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/Current/events.html
FRIDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2004
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B03
"NASA's Collaborative Information Portal: HCI Lessons Learned"
Joan Walton, Leslie Keely, and Ronald Mak
NASA Ames Research Center
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
FYP Talks
Asha Smith and Susan Standen
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#frisem
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
Title to be announced
Kira Hall
University of Colorado
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
4:15pm CS545: Database Seminar
Gates B12
Title to be announced
Surajit Chaudhuri
Microsoft Research
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
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Stanford Blood Center status: Shortage of O- and A+. For an
appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831.
It only takes an hour of your time.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Media X Request for Proposals
and
Announcement of Kozmetsky Research Assistantship Positions
Media X at Stanford University announces availability of funding for
research about interactive technology used in social interaction and
collaboration in productivity contexts. Relevant technologies include
synchronous and asynchronous uses of text, graphics, voice and
video. Examples include web and video conferencing, whiteboarding,
application sharing, email, IM, VOD, and speech recognition and
synthesis. Individual and organizational outcomes include
productivity, efficiency, quality, adaptiveness, comprehension,
personalization, engagement, liking, demand creation, learning,
credibility, trust, and information integrity. Example scenarios of
technology use include distance learning, multi-player games used in
training, knowledge worker collaboration, virtual facilitation, local
versus distributed participation in meetings, indexing of expertise
and information in a networked environment.
We are also pleased to announce research assistantships for proposed
projects that will be funded from a generous gift to Media X from
George and Ronya Kozmetsky. Proposals may include one academic year
research assistant who will receive support from this special fund.
The graduate students named to these assistantships will become
Kozmetsky Research Assistants and they will become part of a community
of students, funded by other Kozmetsky gifts at Stanford, and
organized through the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory at Stanford.
(For more information about the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory,
contact Syed Shariq, sshariq@stanford.edu).
Proposals may be for funding of up to $50K for one year, plus one
Kozmetsky Research Assistant that will not count against this limit.
Multi-year projects will be considered, but funding will be allocated
only one year at a time.
Proposals of no more than five pages (including any vita information)
should be submitted electronically in PDF format by noon on March 6,
2004, and sent to Keith Devlin at: devlin@csli.stanford.edu.
Proposals should include a description of the proposed project, vita
for faculty and/or senior research staff who will work on the project.
A detailed budget should be submitted at the same time on a single
sheet, as a separate PDF file. Expenses may include (but are not
limited to) research assistants and post docs, travel, equipment, data
collection expenses, and faculty and research staff salaries.
Media X has adopted a standard format ("Quadchart") for describing
funded projects on its website. See
http://mediax.stanford.edu/projects/fidget.html
for an example. The proposal cover page should provide four short
paragraphs that could form the basis of a Quadchart for your proposal,
if funded. (Quadchart formatting is not required.) Selection will be
based on the scientific merit of the proposed project as judged by a
committee of faculty, and on any current or possible applications of
the research that may be of interest to industrial sponsors of Media X
research. One project member must be a Stanford employee with
Stanford PI status. Awards will be announced by March 11. Funding
will be available soon thereafter. For information about Media X see:
http://mediax.stanford.edu. Address inquiries about budget
arrangements by electronic mail to Christina Doering at
cdoering@stanford.edu. Address all other inquiries by electronic mail
to Keith Devlin at devlin@csli.stanford.edu.
Please note: In order to process applications within our tight time
frame, only proposals submitted electronically in PDF format can be
accepted.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Things CPU Architects Need To Think About"
Bob Colwell
R. E. Colwell & Assoc. Inc.
Microprocessor architects have been trained to simulate and quantify
their decisions, and the designs of Intel's Pentium II, Pentium III,
and Pentium 4 microprocessors are very much a product of that way of
thinking. But many other choices must be made as judgment calls, more
by feel and intuition, in a context that is much broader than
microprocessor technology. These are intrinsically non-quantifiable.
One learns how to make them from experience. This talk relates some of
the experiences I had while serving as Intel's chief IA32 architect in
the 1990's.
About the speaker: Bob Colwell was Chief Architect of Intel's IA32
microprocessors from 1992-2000, and managed the IA32 Arch group in
Intel's Hillsboro, Oregon facility. Colwell joined Intel in 1990 as a
Senior CPU Architect on the P6 (Pentium Pro) project, and became
manager of the Architecture Group two years later. He was named an
Intel Fellow in 1996, the highest technical grade at the
company. Prior to his work at Intel, Colwell was a CPU architect and
hardware designer at VLIW pioneer Multiflow Computer from 1985 until
its demise in 1990. Prior to that he worked part time as a hardware
design engineer at workstation vendor Perq Systems, while attending
graduate school at Carnegie Mellon. He was a member of the technical
staff at the Bell Telephone Labs from 1977 to 1980, working on the
BellMac series of microprocessors. He has published 16 technical
papers and journal articles, is inventor or co-inventor on 45+
patents, and has participated in numerous panel sessions and invited
talks. He is currently an independent consultant. Colwell is the
Perspectives editor at IEEE Computer Magazine and author of the At
Random column. Colwell received his BSEE degree from the University
of Pittsburgh in 1977, and his MSEE and PhD from Carnegie Mellon
University in 1978 and 1985.
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STANFORD NETWORKING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 19 February 2004, 12:40pm (lunch 12:15pm)
Gates 104
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
"Tools for Problem Determination and Program Understanding for
Framework-Intensive Applications"
Darrell Reimer, Nick Mitchell
IBM Research
Team: Bowen Alpern, Vas Bala, Herb Derby, Nick Mitchell, Todd Mummert,
Darrell Reimer, Edith Schonberg, Gary Sevitsky, Kavitha Srinivas,
Harini Srinivasan
Over the past several years, our group has been involved directly with
problems in large IBM customer applications. Increasingly, these
applications are primarily composed of a collection of heterogeneous,
reuseable frameworks. We call this class of applications
"framework-intensive". We'd like to share with you the customer-driven
research we've been involved in, and in particular, to share the
excitement we have in developing tools that meet the particularly
stringent requirements of these applications: the tools must be
useable in the field, constraints on time and space on the analysis is
extremely tight, the perturbation of the data collection on the
running application must be minimal, and the tools must handle the
high degree complexity we're seeing in these applications.
We'll show two examples of tools that are driven by our experience
debugging problems in these applications. One is called Saber, a tool
that analyzes code for common errors and violations of best practices.
An Eclipse plugin, Saber combines a static analysis deep enough to
uncover semantic errors with a rules engine that detects those errors.
For example, customers have used Saber to detect race conditions,
improperly managed resources, and a variety of other nasty problems
that can cause outages in deployments of these kind of applications.
The second is Leakbot, a tool that analyzes, and then tracks, the
evolution of object reference graphs within running programs. One very
common bug that shows up in these systems that Leakbot addresses is
Java memory leaks. Both of these tools will be integrated into IBM
products within the next year, and both scale to very large
applications. Leakbot, for example, can analyze graphs with 50 million
objects, and can track the actual evolution of large reference graphs
with only 1-2% slowdown.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 19 February 2004, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
"Regulation of Thoughts, Feelings, and Memories in the Human Brain"
John Gabrieli
Psychology, Stanford University
A fundamental human ability is the voluntarily control or regulation
of mental states. I will talk about recent functional neuroimaging
studies that elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying such
regulation for thinking, for the reappraisal of negative emotions, and
for the repression of unwanted memories. I will also talk about the
ability of people to regulate focal brain activation itself through
real-time feedback from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
About the Speaker: John Gabrieli is a Professor of Psychology in the
Neurosciences Program. His area of research is human cognitive
neuroscience in which he studies the brain basis of memory, language,
and thought. His research examines both normal brain functions and
diseases of those functions that occur in Alzheimer's disease,
Parkinson's disease, stroke, epilepsy, dyslexia, and attention deficit
disorder.
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 19 February 2004, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Packard 101
http://isl.stanford.edu/groups/seminar/
Refreshments will be served at 4 pm
"Some Classes of Stationary Processes and their On-line Detection"
Benjamin Weiss
Hebrew University
If \C is some class of processes, an on-line detection scheme would be
some kind of functions F_n of the observations {X_1,X_2,...X_n} that would
tend in some sense to a correct classification between processes in \C and
processes not in \C. I will discuss some new results in this spirit
concerning classes such as Markov chains, hidden Markov models and others.
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UC BERKELEY COGNITIVE SCIENCE TALK
on Thursday, 19 February 2004, 5:00pm
Dwinelle 155 (UC Berkeley)
[Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Program in Cognitive Science and the
Department of Linguistics Professor Wolff is a candidate for the
faculty position in Cognition and Language]
"Causal Categories in Language and Cognition"
Philip Wolff
Psychology, University of Memphis
Causal knowledge underlies our ability to explain the past, exert
control and predict future outcomes. It is a central topic of research
in psychology,linguistics, and philosophy. While it has received
significant attention, much of the work on causation can be traced
back to the analysis originally developed by Hume (1739). In my talk I
will introduce a new framework for the representation of causation,
the vector model, and I will discuss how this framework gives rise to
various categories of causation. The vector model formalizes an
account of causation based on Talmy's (1988)notions of force dynamics.
In vector model, the concepts of CAUSE, ENABLE, PREVENT, and DESPITE
are distinguished from one another in terms of values on three
dimensions. These dimensions specify the ways in which forces
associated with an affector, a patient, and their resultant can be
related to each other and to an endstate vector.
Support for the model is provided by experiments in which participants
watched 3D animations of realistically rendered objects with
trajectories that were wholly determined by the force vectors entered
into a physics simulator. In these experiments, the very same physical
forces used to generate physical scenes were used as inputs into a
computer model to predict how those scenes would be described.
Participants' linguistic descriptions of the animations were closely
matched by those predicted by the model.
In another series of experiments I show how the relationship between
the concept of CAUSE and the meaning of the verb 'cause' may not be as
straightforward as has often been assumed. In particular, I account
for apparent differences in the meaning of causal verbs across
languages (e.g., Russian, German) in terms of the dimensions of the
vector model. The results from these experiments suggest that the
speakers of different languages share the same underlying categories
of causation but that the boundaries between these categories can
differ.
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BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM
on Friday and Saturday, 20 and 21 February 2004, all day
370 Dwinelle (UC Berkeley)
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~garrett/LanguageEcologyConference.pdf
"Symposium on the Ecology of Language
and a Celebration of the 100th Birthday of Murray Emeneau"
Language Ecology is a multidisciplinary study of how languages
develop, spread, interact, and decline as part of sociocultural,
political and environmental processes. Within the purview of language
ecology lies the study of endangered languages and cultures, languages
in diaspora such as the immigrant and refugee languages coming to the
United States, and new linguistic varieties resulting from contact
such as Chicano English. Language-based and language-related
phenomena including folklore and music are also part of this ebb and
flow and mixing that has taken place throughout human history.
Language ecology embraces the level of the individual as we study
issues of language acquisition and socialization, especially in a
multilingual context, and ranges to levels as large as the world
itself as we examine the political-economic circumstances of the
global spread of English. Language ecology also ranges from the
theoretical to the applied, from models of language spread and
contraction to second language teaching and learning practices and
language revitalization of endangered languages.
This symposium on language ecology is dedicated to Murray B. Emeneau,
an early and influential leader in language ecology as we define it,
in honor of his 100th birthday.
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, 20 February 2004
8:00am coffee and pastries
8:45am greetings and introduction
Language spread
9:00am "Language spread in mountains"
Johanna Nichols
UC Berkeley, Slavic Languages and Literature
9:45am "Language spread among hunter-gatherers"
Jane Hill
Univ. of Arizona, Dept. of Anthropology
10:30am "Signatures of types of language spread in hunter-gatherer prehistory"
Patrick McConvell
Australian Inst. of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
11:15am Discussion
12-2 Lunch (on your own)
Language areas
2:00pm "Diffusion of lexical semantic patterns in northwestern California"
Bill Bright
Univ. of Colorado, Dept. of Linguistics
2:45pm "How One Language, Slavic, Spread"
Alan Timberlake
UC Berkeley, Slavic Languages and Literature
3:30pm Discussion
Language use in endangered language communities
4:00pm Suzanne Wertheim
Northwestern University
4:45pm Mary Eunice Romero
Cochiti Pueblo; Univ. of Arizona
5:30pm Discussion
SATUDAY, 21 February 2004
8:00am coffee and pastries
Language acquisition in multilingual environments
9:00am "Socialization into multiple languages in two Cameroonian communities"
Leslie Moore
UC Santa Cruz
9:45am "The ecology of language learning"
Leo van Lier
Monterey Institute of International Studies
10:30am "Secret codes and illusive settings:
what counts as acquisition data in educational settings?"
Jet van Dam van Isselt
Amsterdam
11-1 Lunch (on your own)
Language and Human Rights
1:30pm "Transidiomatic refugees:
why humanitarian agencies should rethink their linguistic practices"
Marco Jacquemet
University of San Francisco
2:15pm Chris Sims
Univ. of New Mexico, Depts. of Linguistics and Education
3:00pm Lily Wong Fillmore
UC Berkeley, School of Education
3:45pm Final Discussion
5:00pm Reception
6:30pm Dinner and 100th Birthday Celebration of Murray Emeneau
please RSVP re dinner, to Leanne Hinton <hinton@socrates.berkeley.edu>
or Prof. Kausalya Hart <khart@uclink.berkeley.edu>
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 20 February 2004, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"The Business of User Experience"
Jeff Herman and Suja Raju
eBay
When proposing user experience improvements, design groups often face
resistance within their company. The eBay UI Design group has had
significant success getting user experience improvements prioritized
and launched by conducting rigorous cost-benefit analysis and by
participating in the company product planning process.
The group does the cost-benefit analysis based on:
* the estimated benefit of the user experience improvement.
Estimates are based on site usage statistics (e.g. current
completion rates on key flows plus projections based on the
improvement) and standard values for key metrics (e.g. the value of
each registered user);
* the estimated cost for various resources (including the cost to
design, specify, build, and test the improvement) as well as any
impact on operations.
Once the project is launched, the team uses these same metrics and
updated site usage statistics to determine the ROI of the project.
Based on the success of projects the two years, this has led to
increased credibility for the group and increased acceptance of the
projects we propose.
About the Speakers: Jeff Herman is a design manager at eBay, where he
focuses on current projects, overall design guidelines, and long-term
strategies. Prior to joining eBay in 2001, Jeff was a designer at
Yahoo!, where he worked on Yahoo! Mail, and Apple, where he worked on
Apple Guide and HyperCard. He received his M.S. from the MIT Media
Lab, where he designed and developed an adaptive, personalized audio
news guide. He holds nine patents, which include design work on
software and consumer electronics.
Suja Raju is a UI Designer at eBay, where she concentrates on designs
for improving the selling process. Prior to joining eBay, Suja was a
designer at Yahoo!, where she worked on Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Yellow
Pages, Yahoo! City Guides, and Ad Manager. She also worked as a
designer at the consulting firm, Scient Corp. where she worked on
projects for Morgan Stanley and BenefitPoint. She received her M.S. in
Computer Science from Stanford and her B.A. in Environmental Science
from U.C. Berkeley.
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NLP READING GROUP
on Friday, 20 February 2004, 2:00pm - 3:20pm
Ventura 17
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/nlp/nlpgroup.html
"Montage: Markup for Ontological Annotation and Grammar Engineering"
Dan Flickinger
CSLI
In 1992, Michael Krauss ("The World's Languages in Crisis") predicted
that within the next century, more than half of the world's
approximately 6000 languages would become extinct. The Ethnologue
(SIL, 2003) estimates that 417 of these languages are already spoken
exclusively by the elderly. Although communities live on and can
maintain distinctive identities even after assimilating to a dominant
language, as the eminent linguist Ken Hale observed, "When you lose a
language you lose a culture, intellectual wealth, a work of art. It's
like dropping a bomb on a museum, the Louvre."
Although many digital tools for field linguists are under development,
there are still critical gaps. The most problematic is the lack of
tools for producing structured grammatical annotation of texts. The
proposed Montage project aims to build those tools, enabling field
linguists to associate words in texts to dictionary entries, and
annotate words, phrases and sentences with the linguistic phenomena
they represent. We call this process "markup for ontological
annotation", and it produces a database from which linguists can
extract examples of phenomena they wish to study, reflecting ongoing
standardization efforts for linguistic description. The suite of
tools we build will also make available to linguists recent advances
in grammar engineering, supporting the development of electronic
grammars (both prose descriptions and implemented formal systems) from
the foundation of annotated texts. Using existing parsing software,
linguists will be able to have their newly created electronic grammars
automatically assign syntactic and semantic structures to new
sentences. This automatic processing will assist linguists in
searching for examples of phenomena to annotate or use in the
development of their grammars. The Montage toolkit should support
field linguists in creating resources that are useful and accessible
at any stage in their development.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 20 February 2004, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"Three dimensions of phonological variation"
Arto Anttila
New York University
In phonology, as well as in syntax and semantics, we find three types
of variation: (i) quantitative variation: a grammatical regularity
surfaces sometimes categorically, sometimes quantitatively; (ii)
lexical variation: a grammatical regularity emerges in some (classes
of) lexical items, but not in others; (iii) variation in interaction:
some grammatical regularities interact, others do not. I propose that
these three phenomena are different aspects of the same problem and
outline an optimality-theoretic solution that implies the presence of
principled variation within an individual's grammar. I illustrate the
approach by examining phonological variation in 25 regional dialects
of Finnish.
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CS545: DATABASE SEMINAR
on Friday, 20 February 2004, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Gates B12
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
"Search Engines Considered Harmful:
In Search of an Unbiased Web Ranking"
Junghoo Cho
UCLA
In this talk, we discuss the widespread use of Web search engines and
its potential impact on the ecology of the Web. Recent studies show
that a significant portion of Web accesses are referred by search
engines. Furthermore, the Web-search market is increasingly dominated
by a few number of key players. What are the implications of this
heavy reliance of Web users on search engines in their pursuit of
information? For example, given that search engines return currently
"popular" pages at the top of search results, are we somehow
penalizing newly-created pages that are not very well known yet? Are
popular pages getting even more popular while new pages are being
completely ignored? We first show that this unfortunate trend indeed
exists on the Web through an experimental study based on real Web
data. We then analytically estimate how much longer it takes for a new
page to attract a large number of Web users when search engines return
only popular pages at the top of search results. Finally, we develop
new ways of ranking Web pages that can significantly reduce the
potential bias of existing ranking metrics. We believe that our
proposed ranking metric has the potential to alleviate the
"rich-get-richer" phenomenon and help new and high-quality pages get
the attention that they deserve.
About the Speaker: Junghoo (John) Cho is an assistant professor in the
Department of Computer Science at University of California, Los
Angeles. He received his Bachelors degree in Physics from Seoul
National University in 1996 and his Computer Science Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 2002. His research interests are in databases
and Web technologies. He is particularly interested in information
discovery, integration and search on the Web. He has published many
technical papers on databases and Web technologies in leading
conferences and journals.
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CONTINUING STUDIES TALK
on Saturday, 21 February 2004, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Bldg. 320:105
Human Mind: Emotions
http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/course/EVT64.asp
Registration is not required, but is appreciated.
The Human Mind: A Year-Long Series. Winter Quarter: Emotions (EVT 64)
This year, Continuing Studies highlights outstanding Stanford faculty,
and gives you a unique opportunity to hear them discuss their most
recent thought and research. Each quarter we focus on one aspect of
research on the human mind. In the fall, we heard from psychologists
and educators about studies in cognition; for the winter, the focus
will be on the relationship of the mind to the emotions; and in the
spring we will look at memory and learning.
Winter Quarter: Emotions
Nationally and internationally-known Stanford scholars in psychology
are conducting exciting research that expands the frontiers of current
knowledge on our emotions. Their work ranges from the neural basis of
emotion, to how depressed people process emotional information, to the
effects of culture on the emotional responses of individuals. Join
Continuing Studies as we spend a Saturday afternoon with three
outstanding thinkers on emotion as they describe their current work
studying the human mind.
Ian Gotlib
Professor, Department of Psychology
Ian H. Gotlib has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of
Waterloo. He directs the Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Lab,
where he and his colleagues conduct research examining the cognitive
functioning of depressed persons, the neurobiology and
psychophysiology of depression, and family risk factors for
depression. Two major funded projects focus on examining patterns of
brain activation as depressed individuals process emotional
information, and on assessing risk factors for depression in young
adolescent daughters of depressed mothers.
Brian Knutson
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Brian Knutson has a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Stanford. He
conducts research on the neural basis of emotion, specifically on a
class of neurotransmitters that powerfully modulate emotional
experience at specific brain locations. His work aims to find the
mechanisms responsible for emotional experience and to explore the
implications of these findings for the assessment and treatment of
clinical disorders of affect and addiction.
Jeanne Tsai
Assistant Professor, Department 0f Psychology
Jeanne Tsai has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from UC Berkeley. She
heads the Culture and Emotion Lab, where research focuses on the
cultural influences of various emotional phenomena, including the
expression of emotion, the impact of depression on emotional
functioning, and the physiological basis of subjective emotional
experience. Current studies focus on the emotional responses of
European-Americans, Chinese Americans, and individuals living in
Beijing and Hong Kong.
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UC BERKELEY COGNITIVE SCIENCE TALK
on Monday, 23 February 2004, 5:30pm
370 Dwinelle (UC Berkeley)
[Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Program in Cognitive Science and the
Department of Linguistics Professor Regier is a candidate for the
faculty position in Cognition and Language]
"Beyond Language and Thought"
Terry Regier
University of Chicago
The study of language and thought is often framed in terms of two
opposed traditions. The universalist tradition holds that universals
of thought shape human languages; the relativist tradition, in
contrast, holds that it is language that shapes thought, in a manner
that varies across languages. I will argue that it is time to move
beyond this framing of the debate, for three reasons. The first is
that the universalist and relativist views are sometimes both wrong.
The second reason is that evidence at other times supports both views
simultaneously, rather than one over the other. These findings can be
reconciled by asking more specifically which aspects of cognition
shape language, and which are shaped by it. Once this move is made,
the third and final reason for transcending the standard opposition
emerges: detailed models of the interaction of language and thought
can also illuminate apparently unrelated aspects of language. I will
illustrate these ideas through case studies drawn from my work.
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LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 4:15pm-5:30pm
Math Corner 380:380F
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Intuitionistic Frege Systems are Polynomially Equivalent"
Grigori Mints
Philosophy, Stanford
and (b.c.) Mathematics and Computer Science
A Frege system for a given propositional logic is a standard
formulation with axioms and modes ponens plus maybe other schematic
rules. A basic bootstrapping result for investigating NP and co-NP
completeness (due to S. Cook and R. Reckow) is polynomial equivalence
of every two Frege systems for classical logic. The proof used in an
essential way the fact that every classically admissible schematic
rule A/B is derivable: A->B is a tautology. The equivalence of
admissibility and derivability fails for the intuitionistic logic that
bears the same relation to PSPACE as classical logic to NP.
It turned out possible however to simulate polynomially (in a Frege
system) every intuitionistically admissible schematic rule [stated
with standard connectives &,v,~,->]. Therefore any two intuitionistic
Frege systems polynomially simulate each other.
This is a joint work with A. Kozhevnikov (Steklov Institute of
Mathematics, St. Petersburg)
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SNRC INDUSTRY SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 4:15pm
Gates B03
http://snrc.stanford.edu/events/industry-seminar/
"Next-Generation Optical Access Architecture"
Kyeongsoo (Joseph) Kim
STMicroelectronics Researcher-in-Residence
Optical access, or Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH), has long been considered
a final solution to the problem of upgrading the current bottlenecked
access to the one capable of delivering future broadband,
integrated-services. The high cost of large-scale deployment of fiber
and optical network systems in the field under traditional
point-to-point architecture, however, is a major economic barrier to
the optical access. Also, current static optical network architectures
cannot meet dynamic user demands based on on-demand service/usage
models very well.
In this talk, we first describe a new architectural trend in optical
networks ranging from Wide Area Networks (WANs) to Metropolitan Area
Networks (MANs) to Access, and investigate the issues these new
optical network architectures try to address. Then we introduce a
newly-proposed "Stanford University aCCESS" (SUCCESS in short, a joint
work between STMicroelectronics and Photonics & Networking Research
Lab at Stanford), a next-generation hybrid WDM/TDM optical access
architecture. In designing the SUCCESS architecture we focus on
providing practical migration paths from current-generation
TDM-Passive Optical Networks (PONs) to future WDM-based optical access
networks. The SUCCESS can provide backward compatibility to the users
on existing TDM-PONs while simultaneously providing upgraded,
high-bandwidth services to the users on new DWDM-PONs through advanced
WDM techniques.
The SUCCESS architecture is based on a collector ring and several
distribution stars connecting the Central Office (CO) and users.
Semi-passive configuration of the remote nodes together with this
hybrid topology enables protection and restoration, making it possible
to support both Business and Residential users on the same access
infrastructure.
About the Speaker: Kyeongsoo (Joseph) Kim is STMicroelectronics
Researcher-in-Residence at Stanford Networking Research Center and
currently working on Next-Generation Access Architectures with focus
on Optical Access. Before joining ST, Joseph worked with the PON
Systems R&D group of Lucent Technologies and developed the first
commercial ATM-PON-based Fiber-To-The-Home/Business (FTTH/B) system,
which won the 1999 Bell Labs President's Silver Award.
Joseph was also engaged in development of multi-channel ATM switching
systems as a Post-Doc researcher at Washington University in
St. Louis, Missouri, where he taught several undergraduate and
graduate courses as Instructor of Washington University and Adjunct
professor of University Missouri, St. Louis.
Joseph received his PhD in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea, in 1995.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Multi-Microphone Speech Processing,
or Why Two Ears Are Better Than One"
Parham Aarabi
University of Toronto
http://www.apl.utoronto.ca/
Speech recognition will one day revolutionize how humans and computers
interact, and in turn, how and where computers are used. Before this
can happen, speech recognition systems must become accurate and
robust, all the while remaining computationally feasible. This talk
will introduce current microphone array based robust speech processing
research at the University of Toronto's Artificial Perception
Laboratory.
We start by introducing novel sound source localization techniques,
followed by microphone array based speech de-noising and separation.
Finally, we shall discuss hardware acceleration and FPGA/VLSI
implementation of our multi-microphone speech processing algorithms.
About the speaker: Professor Parham Aarabi is a faculty member in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Toronto, a Canada Research Chair in Multi-Sensor Information Systems,
and the founder and director of the Artificial Perception
Lab. Prof. Aarabi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University in 2001, his M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1999, and his B.A.Sc. in
Engineering Science (Electrical Option) from the University of Toronto
in 1998. Prof. Aarabi has been the recipient of numerous teaching and
research awards, including the Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award,
the 2002 Best Computer Engineering Professor Award, the Early Career
Teaching Award, and the 2003 Professor of the Year Award. His current
research, which includes multi-sensor information fusion,
human-computer interactions, and FPGA/VLSI implementation of sensor
fusion algorithms, has been extensively covered by a variety of
newspapers and television shows including the Discovery Channel, CBC
Newsworld, and Scientific American.
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