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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 2 June 2004, vol. 19:38
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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2 June 2004 Stanford Vol. 19, No. 38
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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 2 JUNE 2004 TO 13 JUNE 2004
WEDNESDAY, 2 JUNE 2004
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags
Bldg. 380:381U
"Girls at risk:
A longitudinal study of daughters of depressed mothers"
Anda Gershon
Psychology, Stanford
Psychology, Stanford
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#dev_brownbag
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Collective Guilt"
Nyla Branscomb
University of Kansas
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
"Fractal Dimensions in Data Mining"
Krishna Kumaraswamy
Price Waterhouse Coopers
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Automating CapCom: The Mobile Agents Integrated Field Test at
the Mars Desert Research Station"
William J. Clancey
NASA Ames Research Center
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Security and risk management in the online service environment:
the case of Microsoft Passport"
Cem Paya
Microsoft
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
Abstract below
5:15pm CCRMA Colloquium
CCRMA Ballroom, The Knoll
"Composition and Research"
Curtis Roads
UC Santa Barbara
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
7:00pm SCIL Futures of Learning Lecture Series
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160)
"Children Learn Their Community's Ways by Watching and Pitching In"
Barbara Rogoff
Psychology and Education, UC Santa Cruz
http://scil.stanford.edu/
7:00pm Center on Ethics
Law School, room 290
"Who's to Blame? Prisoners of War and Personal Responsibility"
panel discussion
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures.html
THURSDAY, 3 JUNE 2004
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Insights into Amazing Trees in our Natural and Built Environment"
David Dockter
Managing Arborist, City of Palo Alto
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:30pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Presentations of Senior Honors Projects"
SSP Honors Students, Class of '04
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Abstract below
6:15pm Stanford Phonology Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"The emergence of creole syllable structure: a
cross-linguistic survey"
Ingo Plag
Universitaet Siegen/UCSC
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 8 JUNE 2004
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series
EJ228, SRI International
"Dimensions of Adjustable Autonomy and Mixed-Initiative Interaction"
Jeffrey Bradshaw
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:15pm Logic Seminar
Bldg. 380:380F (math corner)
"Completeness for Interior + F + P logic on the Rationals"
Spencer Gerhard
Amsterdam
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 9 JUNE 2004
12:15pm Senior Project Software Faire
Wallenberg Hall
Computer Science Senior Project Course
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs194/faire/
Information below
5:30pm Syntax Workshop
Margaret Jacks 460:126
"State-deriving suffixes in Pima"
Eric Jackson
UCLA
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 10 JUNE 2004
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Computer Networks & Packet Switch Design"
Balaji Prabhakar
Stanford
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar
Packard 101
"Universal Minimax Discrete Denoising under Channel Uncertainty"
Styrmir Sigurjonson
Stanford University
http://isl.stanford.edu/groups/seminar/
Abstract below
7:00pm Computer History Museum Lecture
Computer History Museum (1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View)
"Then and Now: Computer Graphics in Games"
Jordan Mechner, Prince of Persia
Rand Miller, Myst
Will Wright, SimCity
Vince Broady, CNET Networks
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/
Abstract below
(RSVP required)
SUNDAY, 13 JUNE 2004
9:30am Stanford Commencement
Stanford Stadium
Sandra Day O'Connor
United States Supreme Court
http://commencement.stanford.edu/
open to the public and free
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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Wednesday, 2 June 2004, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
"Fractal Dimensions in Data Mining"
Krishna Kumaraswamy
Center for Advanced Research, Price Waterhouse Coopers, LLP
The "fractal" dimension of a data set is a number that is related to
the 'degrees of freedom' of the data, and the distribution of the
data. In this talk, I will introduce the idea of the intrinsic
"fractal" dimension of a data set and show how this can be used to aid
in different data mining tasks. The main interest is in answering
questions about the performance of a method and in comparing the
performance of different methods quickly. In particular, I will talk
about two specific problems - dimensionality reduction and vector
quantization. In each of these methods, we show that the performance
of a method is related to the fractal dimension of the data set. Using
real and synthetic data sets, we show how we can use this for faster
evaluation and comparison of different methods.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 2 June 2004, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Automating CapCom:
The Mobile Agents Integrated Field Test at the Mars Desert Research Station"
William J. Clancey
Human-Centered Computing Computational Sciences Division
NASA Ames Research Center
More than twenty scientists and engineers from three NASA centers and
two universities refined and tested the Mobile Agents system in a
series of incremental scenarios at the Mars Desert Research Station in
April 2003. Runtime agent software, implemented in Brahms, processed
GPS, health data, and voice commands-monitoring, controlling and
logging science data throughout simulated Extra Vehicular Activity
(moon walk, space walk, etc.) with two geologists. Brahms is a
modeling and simulation environment that includes a multi-agent
programming language for modeling and simulating how people work and
collaborate in a work system. (For more information, see
BrahmsWorkingPaper.pdf ) Predefined Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA)
plans, modified on the fly, enabled the Mobile Agents system to
provide navigation and timing advice. Communications were maintained
over five wireless nodes distributed over hills and canyons for 5 Km.
Science data, including photographs and status, were transmitted
automatically to a remote support team.
This talk presents examples from Apollo lunar traverses and Mars
analog missions that suggest methods for augmenting human capability
to make operations safer and more efficient, while reducing flight
controller supervision. Many photographs and videos show how the
distributed system is developed in the context of use, establishing a
baseline for field science requirements relative to Mars. Issues in
extending the system to facilitate cooperation of multiple robots and
astronaut teams are also considered.
About the speaker: Dr. William J. Clancey is Chief Scientist for
Human-Centered Computing at NASA Ames Research Center, Computational
Sciences Division, where he manages the Work Systems Design &
Evaluation Group. He is on leave from the Institute for Human and
Machine Cognition, Pensacola.
Clancey's research includes work practice modeling, distributed
multiagent systems, and the ethnography of field science. Projects in
his group include participation in MER mission operations, simulation
of a day-in-the-life of the ISS, knowledge management for future
launch vehicles, and developing flight systems that make automation
more transparent.
Clancey has degrees in Mathematical Sciences (BA, Rice University,
1974) and Computer Science (PhD, Stanford University, 1979). At the
Knowledge Systems Laboratory of Stanford University (1974-1987),
Clancey developed some of the earliest artificial intelligence
programs for explanation, the critiquing method of consultation,
tutorial discourse, and student modeling. Prior to joining NASA, he
was a founding member of the Institute for Research on Learning
(1987-1997) where he co-developed the methods of business anthropology
in corporate environments.
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STANFORD SECURITY SEMINAR
on Wednesday, 2 June 2004, 4:30pm
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
"Security and risk management in the online service environment:
the case of Microsoft Passport"
Cem Paya
Microsoft
This talk will explore the challenges associated with managing
security for the Microsoft Passport identity management system.
Identity management in itself is a well-understood problem but the
unique characteristics of operating a service for 200M end-users adds
new complications. As starting point we examine where identity
management fits in the bigger picture of online interactions, explain
the reasons why Passport exists and offer predictions about how
authentication on the Internet is likely to evolve. Strict constraints
around reliability, interoperability with installed software base and
ease-of-use apply to security measures which can be deployed for a
service of this nature. We observe that the risk model for a service
is inherently different than that of a shrink-wrapped application,
which has implications for operations, incident response and
vulnerability disclosure. That unique character drives the overall
strategy and determines how different pieces such as cryptography,
systems security, human factors, operations, policy and economics
interact. These implications will be examined in the context of
specific problems Passport faces, including the efficient use of
cryptography on large scale and battling spam for Hotmail.
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CCRMA COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 2 June 2004, 5:15pm
CCRMA Ballroom, The Knoll
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/
"Composition and Research"
Curtis Roads
UC Santa Barbara
In electronic music, composition and research are often intertwined,
each fostering the other. This presentation discusses a long path of
research in the synthesis of sound particles that has led to a
fruitful period of composition, as documented in my book Microsound
(2002, The MIT Press). The talk will highlight aesthetic issues raised
by this approach, and will be accompanied by sound and video examples
taken from my forthcoming release on the Asphodel label (2004, San
Francisco).
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 3 June 2004, 4:30pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Presentations of Senior Honors Projects
SSP Honors Students, Class of '04
4:30pm Rachel Mackenzie,
"Diagrammatic Narratives: Telling Stories
Effectively with Scientific Diagrams"
(Honors Advisor: Barbara Tversky, Psychology;
Second Reader: Keith Devlin, CSLI)
4:45pm Mia Silverman,
"Shared Representations in Effective Collaborative Problem-Solving"
(Honors Advisor: Barbara Tversky, Psychology;
Second Reader: Terry Winograd, Computer Science)
5:00pm Jennifer Yoon,
"The Mind Behind the Motion: Infants Act on Mentalistic
Information in a Biological Motion Display by Twelve Months"
(Honors Advisor: Susan Johnson, Psychology:
Second Reader: Ellen Markman, Psychology)
Refreshments will be served afterward
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STANFORD PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP
on Thursday, 3 June 2004, 6:15pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
"The emergence of creole syllable structure:
a cross-linguistic survey"
Ingo Plag
University of Siegen/UCSC
Apart from sweeping claims about the simplicity of syllable structure
in creole languages, work on creole syllable has been scarce and
little attention has been devoted to the detailed description of the
observable structures or to the question of which principles govern
the development of syllable structure in creolization.
Based on the in-depth analysis of only one language, Sranan, Alber &
Plag (2001) have recently argued that universal preference laws,
transfer from the substrate languages, and superstratal influence are
important in the creation of the creole, but each of them in a
different and very specific way. The superstrate provides the
segmental material which the emerging creole tries to preserve
faithfully, but universal markedness constraints disturb faithful
copying of the superstrate system. This is possible because the
substrate exerts its influence imposing a particular grammar - high
ranked markedness constraints and low ranked faithfulness constraints
- on the creole.
The present paper extends this research program to other creoles, i.e.
Saramaccan, St Kitts and Jamaican Creole, in order to see how the
observable cross-linguistic variation can be accounted for. Using the
earliest available records of the respective languages, we will
describe the syllable structure of each variety. It will be shown that
each language has developed a constraint ranking of its own, with
sometimes only small differences in the ranking creating significant
structural differences between these varieties. We will argue that the
differences in the constraint ranking can be attributed to the
different substrate languages involved as a well as to the different
socio-historical conditions pertaining at the time of contact.
Alber, Birgit, and Ingo Plag (2001) Epenthesis, deletion and the
emergence of the optimal syllable in creole, Lingua 111, 811-840.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Tuesday, 8 June 2004, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Dimensions of Adjustable Autonomy and Mixed-Initiative Interaction"
Jeffrey Bradshaw
Several research groups have grappled with the problem of
characterizing and developing practical approaches for implementing
adjustable autonomy and mixed-initiative interaction in deployed
systems. However, each group takes a little different approach and
uses variations of the same terminology in a somewhat different
fashion. In this chapter, we will describe some common dimensions in
an effort to better understand these important but ill-characterized
topics. We are developing a formalism and implementation of these
concepts as part of the KAoS framework in the context of our research
on policy-governed autonomous systems.
About the Speaker: Jeffrey M. Bradshaw is a senior research scientist
at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola,
Florida. His work on the KAoS policy and domain services framework is
now being extended for use in several research programs including
DARPA Ultra*Log, DAML and Augmented Cognition. He also participates in
the DARPA EPCA/CALO program. He led the DARPA and NASA funded ITAC
study team "Software Agents for the Warfighter." Under grants from
NASA, ONR, and the Army Research Labs, he is investigating principles
of human-robotic teamwork, driven by reusable policies derived from
work practice studies. Jeff Bradshaw was the general chair of
Autonomous Agents 99 and PAAM 2000, is co-general chair of the
Intelligent Agent Technology 2001 conference (IAT 01) and will serve
as co-program chair for IAT 04. He was the local organizer for the
second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 03) and the
Knowledge Capture conference (K-CAP 03). He will co-chair the first
IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability (MASS 04) and
the WWW 2004 workshop on Policy. Jeff has been a Fulbright Senior
Scholar at the European Institute for Cognitive Sciences and
Engineering (EURISCO) in Toulouse, France, is a member and former
chair of the RIACS Science Council for NASA Ames Research Center. Jeff
serves on the Autonomous Agents Steering committee and on the
editorial board of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems, the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, the Web
Semantics Journal, and the Web Intelligence Journal. He is a former
chair of ACM SIGART. Among other publications, he edited the books
Knowledge Acquisition as a Modeling Activity (with Ken Ford, Wiley,
1993), Software Agents (AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 1997) and the
forthcoming Handbook of Agent Technology (AAAI Press/The MIT Press).
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LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 8 June 2004, 4:15pm-5:30pm
Math Corner 380:380F
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Completeness for Interior + F + P logic on the Rationals"
Spencer Gerhard
Amsterdam
We will give complete axiomatization of the modal logic containing
temporal operators F + P and \Box for interior on the rationals. We
will then show how the proof method can be adapted to give a simple
completeness proof for the stronger Since\Until logic.
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SENIOR PROJECT SOFTWARE FAIRE
on Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 12:15pm - 5:00pm
Wallenberg Hall
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs194/faire/
What is the Software Faire?
In CS194, Stanford's Senior Project Course, student teams design and
implement a significant software project of their own choosing. It is
the capstone course--a chance for them to show us what they have
learned and demonstrate that they can work with the intensity that
will be required after graduation. At the end of the quarter, we hold
a Software Faire. It's like a small trade show, with nonstop
demonstrations of all the projects. It's a fun event, with lots of
people and prizes for the best projects. The students get very excited
about showing off their work, especially to visitors from industry.
Who is invited?
Everyone is invited to attend the Faire. This is a great opportunity
for people outside of Stanford to see what our seniors in Computer
Science are capable of producing in a short 10 weeks!
What are the projects like?
The projects cover a very wide range of topics. See
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs194/faire/projects.html
for examples from this and previous years.
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SYNTAX WORKSHOP
on Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 5:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
"State-deriving suffixes in Pima"
Eric Jackson
UCLA
A number of proposals in lexical semantics have claimed that certain
causative and inchoative events are related to states; these types of
events correspond to the causation of a state, or the coming to hold
of a state. (Dowty 1979, Rappaport Hovav and Levin 1998, among others)
The linguistic objects which correspond to such eventualities are
typically given an analysis in which the event-denoting forms are
derived from the state-denoting forms. This talk will present data on
two suffixes of O'odham (Tepiman, Southern Uto-Aztecan) which appear
to work in the opposite direction: the stems they attach to denote
events, while the suffixed forms denote states; at least a subset of
these appear to be states which entail a past event, and may therefore
be compositionally derived. The effect of these suffixes resembles
that of morphological alternations in a number of other languages, and
the applicability to the O'odham data of the analyses for two such
alternations - the German state passive (Kratzer 2000) and the
Chichewa stative (Dubinsky and Simango 1996) - will be discussed,
focusing on the introduction of external arguments and the entailment
of a past event. Little work has been done on this type of alternation
within the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz
1993); the mechanisms available within this framework to analyze such
alternations will also be discussed.
References
Dowty, David. 1979. Word Meaning and Montague Grammar. Boston: D. Reidel.
Dubinsky, Stanley, and Silvester Ron Simango. 1996. Passive and
Stative in Chichewa: Evidence for Modular Distinctions in Grammar.
Language 72, 749-781.
Halle, Morris and Alec Marantz. 1993. Distributed Morphology and the
Pieces of Inflection. In K. Hale and S.J. Keyser, eds., The View from
Building 20: Essays in Linguistics in honor of Sylvain Bromberger,
Cambridge: MIT Press, 111-176.
Kratzer, Angelika. 2000. Building Statives. Berkeley Linguistics
Society 26.
Rappaport Hovav, Malka and Beth Levin. 1998. Building Verb Meanings.
In Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds, The Projection of Arguments.
Stanford: CSLI.
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 10 June 2004, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Packard 101
http://isl.stanford.edu/groups/seminar/
"Universal Minimax Discrete Denoising under Channel Uncertainty"
Styrmir Sigurjonson
Stanford University
The goal of a denoising algorithm is to recover a signal from its
noise-corrupted observations. Perfect recovery is seldom possible, and
performance is measured under a given fidelity criterion. For discrete
signals corrupted by a *known* discrete memoryless channel, the DUDE
algorithm was recently shown to perform this task practically and
asymptotically optimally, with no knowledge of statistical properties
of the signal.
This talk will address the scenario where, in addition to the lack of
knowledge of the source statistics, there is also uncertainty in the
channel characteristics. We propose a family of denoisers and
establish their universal asymptotic optimality under a minimax
criterion we argue appropriate for this setting. The proposed schemes
can be implemented computationally efficiently. Preliminary
experimental results that seem to be indicative of the potential of
these schemes to do well on real data will also be presented.
The talk is based on joint work with George Gemelos and Tsachy
Weissman.
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COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM LECTURE
on Thursday, 10 June 2004, 7:00pm - 8;30pm
Computer History Museum (1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View)
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/
(RSVP required, see web page below)
http://www.computerhistory.org/nvidia_06102004/
($10 donation suggested)
"Then and Now: Computer Graphics in Games"
Jordan Mechner, Prince of Persia
Rand Miller, Myst
Will Wright, SimCity
with
Vince Broady, CNET Networks
Besides being a lot of fun to play, video games are also a major
driver of innovation in computer graphics. Join us for a fascinating
evening with three famous game designers -- Jordan Mechner (Prince of
Persia), Rand Miller (Myst), and Will Wright (SimCity) . who will
discuss how their games have pushed the boundaries of graphics
development over the years. Moderated by Vince Broady of CNET
GameSpot, the panelists will show and tell how their games have helped
move us from simple pixel painting to lavish 3-D simulation. Before
the panel, members of the Museum are invited to interact with the
first-ever display of the Museum's collection of computer games and
artifacts, and see examples of the absolute cutting edge in computer
graphics, courtesy of nVidia, the evening's corporate sponsor.
If you enjoy video games, then you won't want to miss this exciting
combination of creative talent, historical collections, and
cutting-edge demos. If video games are not your passion, then come
learn about how they have been responsible for exciting innovations in
computing history. In either case, prepare to have fun!
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