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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 4 October 2006, vol. 22:5
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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4 October 2006 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 5
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A weekly publication of the
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Stanford University, Cordura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4101
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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ACTIVITIES FROM 4 OCTOBER 2006 TO 15 OCTOBER 2006
WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2006
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags [4-Oct-06]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Introduction to research at Bing Nursery School"
Jennifer Winters and Chia-wa Yeh
Stanford University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
12 noon CCRMA Hearing Seminar [4-Oct-06]
CCRMA new stage, The Knoll
"Wave Field Synthesis: From Research to Applications"
Karlheinz Brandenburg (Mr. MP3)
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
12 noon UC Berkeley CITRIS Research Exchange [4-Oct-06]
290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building (UC Berkeley)
"Modeling of land and water for earthquake engineering"
Nicholas Sitar
Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~sitar/
http://www.citris-uc.org/
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [4-Oct-06]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Beer, Vinegar, Energy Drinks, and Painkillers:
Expectations & Experience"
Dan Ariely
MIT
http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
4:00pm UC Berkeley SIMS Distinguished Lecture Series [4-Oct-06]
202 South Hall (Berkeley)
"What Price Insularity? Dialogs about Computer Security Failings"
Fred B. Schneider
Cornell University
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/events/dls/
Abstract below
4:15pm NLaSP Colloquium [4-Oct-06]
Bldg. 200-205 (History Corner)
"Beyond Search: Proactive Document Recommendation With Bayesian
Graphical Models"
Yi Zhang
UC Santa Cruz
http://nlp.stanford.edu/events.shtml
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [4-Oct-06]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"The $100 Laptop"
Mark J. Foster
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
http://laptop.org/
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2006
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [5-Oct-06]
Cordura Hall 100
"Poverty of the Stimulus: A Rational Approach"
Amy Perfors
MIT
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
12:15pm Stanford Medical Informatics Colloquium [5-Oct-06]
SMI Conference Room x-275
"Health e-Decision: A Knowledge-Based Architecture to Enable
Customizable Bayesian Models for Patient-Centered Decision Support"
Amar Das
Stanford
http://smi-web.stanford.edu/auslese/smi-web/events.jsp
Abstract below
1:00pm Berkeley Special Cognitive Science Colloquium [5-Oct-06]
Tolman G-75 (Berkeley)
"Sampling Mental Representations Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo"
Adam Sanborn
Indiana University
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/news/colloquia.html
4:00pm PARC Forum [5-Oct-06]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI"
Peter Norvig
Google
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [5-Oct-06]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"Decisions, decisions, decisions"
Frank Arntzenius
Rutgers University
http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/FACSTAFF/BIOS/arntzenius.html
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [5-Oct-06]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"What we did this Summer"
SSP Summer Interns
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Information below
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience [5-Oct-06]
M104, Alway Building
"On the emergence of synaptic specificity in developing neural
circuits"
Anirvan Ghosh
UC San Diego
http://www.ghoshlab.org/
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2006
10:00am CCRMA Hearing Seminar [6-Oct-06]
CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll
"Music Scene Description and Its Applications"
Masataka Goto
AIST, Japan
http://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [6-Oct-06]s
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"The constructive nature of scene perception and memory"
Marvin Chun
Vanderbilt University
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
12 noon Logical Methods in the Humanities [6-Oct-06]s
room to be announced
"Formalizing common sense in mathematical logic"
John McCarthy
Computer Science, Stanford
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
12 noon Ethics@Noon [6-Oct-06]
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160)
"Ethical Issues in Sustainable Building Design"
John Kunz
Civil Engineering, Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures.html
Abstract below
12:15pm Stanford Theory Lunch [6-Oct-06]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Shellable Boolean Functions"
Don Knuth
Stanford
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html
http://theory.stanford.edu/~mihaela/theorylunch/
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [6-Oct-06]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Finding Balance: Addressing Cognitive Dissonances through Play"
Joe McKay and Greg Niemeyer
UC Berkeley
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [6-Oct-06]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"A Scalable Front-stage Service Application for a Non-profit
Tutoring Agency"
Lois Wei
"Unprocessed poster collections at UCB and suggestions for
improved access"
Lincoln Cushing
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is296a-1/f06/schedule.html
Abstracts below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [6-Oct-06]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"An integrated model of lexical and semantic processing:
Application to deficits in semantic dementia"
Katia Dilkina
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [6-Oct-06]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Causation in Psychology"
John Campbell
UC Berkeley
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:15pm ME394: Design Forum [6-Oct-06]
Terman 556
"my research"
J. Christian Gerdes
http://me.stanford.edu/faculty/facultydir/gerdes.html
http://www.stanford.edu/class/me394/
4:00pm UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture [6-Oct-06]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Representation of contrast- and texture-defined boundaries in
early visual cortex"
Curtis Baker
Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/oxyopia/oxy_current.html
Abstract below
4:10pm UC Berkeley Group in Logic and Methodology of Science [6-Oct-06]
60 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
"Knowledge of Logical Truth"
Sherri Roush
UC Berkeley
http://logic.berkeley.edu/colloquium.html
MONDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2006
all day Beckman Symposium [9-Oct-06]
Fairchild Auditorium
"Evolution! Molecules to Man"
http://beckman.stanford.edu/symposium.html
12 noon CCRMA Hearing Seminar [9-Oct-06]
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
"Distance perception of phantom sound images presented by
multiple-loudspeakers placed at different distance in front of
listener"
Reiko Okumura
NHK - Japan Broadcasting, Japan
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
4:15pm CS528: Broad Area Colloquium [9-Oct-06]
Hewlett Teaching Center 200
"Challenges for Effective MilliRobots"
Ron Fearing
EECS, UC Berkeley
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs528/
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2006
1:00pm CCRMA Hearing Seminar [10-Oct-06]
CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll
"Microphones make the best filters"
Gregor Zielinsky
Sennheiser
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
4:00pm Berkeley Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind [10-Oct-06]
Location to be announced (Berkeley)
"Why babies are more conscious than we are"
Allison Gopnik
Psychology, UC Berkeley
http://ihd.berkeley.edu/gopnik.htm
http://neurophilosophy.berkeley.edu/meetings.htm
7:30pm BayCHI [10-Oct-06]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Designing systems with emergent behavior"
Panel: Tim Brown, Ideo;
Peter Merholz, Adaptive Path;
Joy Mountford, Yahoo
http://www.baychi.org/program/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2006
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags [11-Oct-06]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Learning without learning: The strange case of the
acquisition of self then emotion in infancy"
Joseph Campos
UC-Berkeley
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
4:00pm Information Systems Seminar [11-Oct-06]
Packard 101
Title to be announced
Sergio Verdu
Princeton
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
4:15pm NLaSP Colloquium [11-Oct-06]
Bldg. 200:205 (History Corner)
"Developments in Synchronous Grammars"
Stuart Shieber
Harvard University
http://nlp.stanford.edu/events.shtml
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [11-Oct-06]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"New Architectures for a New Biology"
David E. Shaw
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
6:00pm Berkeley History and Philosophy of Logic Mathematics, and Science
234 Moses, (Berkeley) [11-Oct-06]
"The Consistency Argument for Ranking Functions"
Franz Huber
Philosophy, Cal Tech
http://hplms.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [11-Oct-06]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Methods, Examples, and Implications of Integrative Biology"
Atul Butte
School of Medicine, Stanford
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2006
3:30pm Symposium of Undergraduate Research and Public Service (SURPS)
McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center [12-Oct-06]
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/urp/SURP/
Information below
4:00pm Stanford Phonology Workshop [12-Oct-06]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Discussing 'Osage fills the gap: The quantity insensitive
iamb & the typology of feet' by Daniel Altshuler"
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [12-Oct-06]
EK255, SRI International
"Computer Science Education 2.0"
Chris DiGiano and Marie Bienkowski
SRI
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [12-Oct-06]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
Title to be announced
Roelof Botha
Sequoia Capital
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience Seminar [12-Oct-06]
M104, Alway Building
"TRP channels: mediators of sensory signaling and roles in
health and disease"
Craig Montell
Biological Chemistry, John Hopkins
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
FRIDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2006
all day Berkeley DOCAM '06 [13-Oct-06]
South Hall (Berkeley)
The Document Academy annual meeting
http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/
(registration fee, see web page for details)
Information below
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [13-Oct-06]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Cognitive Design Principles for Visual Communication"
Maneesh Agarwalla
Computer Science, UC Berkeley
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [13-Oct-06]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group: Recent work"
Marc A. Smith
Microsoft Research
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [13-Oct-06]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Explanation and causation: The psychology of teleological reasoning"
Tania Lombrozo
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [13-Oct-06]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Dimensions of Objectivity in Law"
Matthew Kramer
University of Cambridge
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
SATURDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2006
all day Berkeley DOCAM '06 [14-Oct-06]
South Hall (Berkeley)
The Document Academy annual meeting
http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/
(registration fee, see web page for details)
Information below
all day US Taiwan High Tech Symposium [14-Oct-06]
Biltmore Hotel, Santa Clara
"The World with RFID"
sponsored by IEEE and North America Taiwanese Engineers' Association
http://www.natea.org/sv/conferences/uthf/2006/program.php
(fee, prereg strongly suggested)
Information below
SUNDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2006
all day Berkeley DOCAM '06 [15-Oct-06]
South Hall (Berkeley)
The Document Academy annual meeting
http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/
(registration fee, see web page for details)
Information below
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O+, O-, A+, A-, B-, AB+, and
AB-. For an appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call
650-723-7831. It only takes an hour of your time and you get free
cookies. Remember most Stanford students are away so aren't donating.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
There is a group called Speech Lunch that meets (approximately) weekly
over Thai Cafe lunch to talk about speech research. Participants
present work in progress or give practice talks or teach informal
tutorials on various topics or share interesting papers or
occasionally hear invited outside speakers. Members include students,
faculty, post-docs, and visitors from Linguistics and also Computer
Science, and you are invited. We meet Fridays from 12-1 in the
phonetics lab (though it's good to arrive a couple minutes early to
avoid the long noon line at the Thai Cafe). There will be no meeting
this week, but we'll start October 6.
If you'd like to receive future messages about this group, you can subscribe
to our email list. Send a blank email message to
speech-lunch-join@lists.stanford.edu
In addition the Stanford Linguistics Department has revived the
Sesquipedalian. See http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/newsletter/
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 12 noon
CCRMA new stage, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Quoting Marina: As you may already know, Dr. Brandenburg is
considered by many the 'father' of the mp3 audio file format. During
this talk, he will discuss his current work on Wave Field Synthesis
and, time permitting, other research topics developed at the Ilmenau
Technical University, including metadata for rich media management,
audio recognition, automated similarity search of music, DRM and very
low latency audio coding. A short bio is attached and the abstract of
the talk is included below. -Malcolm Slaney
"Wave Field Synthesis: From Research to Applications"
Karlheinz Brandenburg
Wave Field Synthesis can dramatically increase the quality of sound
reproduction. To create new virtual rooms with realistic ambiance
within any listening space, new ideas for room simulation and virtual
acoustics are needed. The work originally done at Delft Technical
University is now continued at a number of research locations. This
talk will introduce the basic techniques, show the requirements for a
number of real world applications and give an overview of current
research topics. The applications scenarios include including cinemas,
concert halls and music performances (indoor and outdoor) of all
kinds.
About the Speaker: Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg has been a driving force
behind some of today's most innovative digital audio technology,
notably the MP3 and MPEG audio standards. He is acclaimed for seminal
work in digital audio coding and perceptual measurement techniques,
wave field synthesis (WFS) and psycho-acoustics. An IEEE Fellow, Dr.
Brandenburg serves on the IEEE Signal Processing Society's
Technical Committee on Audio and Electro-acoustics and is a Fellow of
the Audio Engineering Society (AES).
His honors include the IEEE Region 10 Engineering Excellence Award,
the AES Silver Medal, the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronic
Award and the German Future Award, which he shared with his
colleagues. The author of numerous articles and co-editor of
"Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics",
Dr. Brandenburg holds 25 patents, with several more pending.
He is professor at the Institute for Media Technology at Ilmenau
Technical University and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for
Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau, Germany.
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BERKELEY SIMS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
on Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
202 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/events/dls/
"What Price Insularity? Dialogs about Computer Security Failings"
Fred B. Schneider
Cornell University
It is risky for technologists to ignore the non-technical context in
which their systems will be deployed, just as it is risky for policy
makers to ignore the limits and potential of technology. Yet such
insularity is all too common. The results are unfortunate but not
surprising. This lecture explores the structure dialogs take to bring
about what might be termed "security failings" by revisiting: identity
theft, electronic voting, digital right management, and the overall
vulnerabilities of today's deployed software.
About the Speaker: Fred B. Schneider is a professor at Cornell's
Computer Science Department, director of the AFRL/Cornell Information
Assurance Institute, and chief scientist of the NSF "TRUST" (Team for
Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology) Science and Technology
Center, a collaboration of UC Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell,
Stanford, and Vanderbilt.
Schneider has a Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook, and a D.Sc. [honoris
causa] from the Univ of Newcastle upon Tyne ('03). He is a fellow of
AAAS and ACM, and was named Professor-at-Large at University of Tromso
(Norway) in 1996.
In addition to chairing the National Research Council's study
committee on information systems trustworthiness and editing Trust in
Cyberspace, Schneider has written a graduate textbook on concurrent
programming and an undergraduate one on logic and discrete
mathematics.
His research addresses problems associated with making distributed and
concurrent systems trustworthy. His early work was in formal methods
and methodologies for concurrent programming and in protocols for
fault-tolerance. More recently, his attention has turned to topics in
computer security.
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NLASP COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Bldg. 200-205 (History Corner)
http://nlp.stanford.edu/events.shtml
"Beyond Search:
Proactive Document Recommendation With Bayesian Graphical Models"
Yi Zhang
UC Santa Cruz
When a user has a long term information need, search engines may not
be the best solution. An alternative is a personal filtering system, a
proactive document recommendation system that learns from the user and
pushes relevant documents to the user in a dynamic environment. To
develop an intelligent personal filtering system, the biggest
challenge is to adaptively learn user profiles from limited user
supervision. If we ask a human agent to solve this problem, he/she may
consult with domain experts, borrow information from other users,
integrate the content of each document with other forms of evidence to
infer about the user's information needs, and do active learning by
carefully picking the right questions to ask the user so that the
answer can provide the most valuable information. Motivated by this, I
will present a set of solutions that enable a filtering system behave
similar to a human agent based on Bayesian Theory and Graphical
Models.
(co-sponsored with Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation)
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"Poverty of the Stimulus: A Rational Approach"
Amy Perfors
MIT
http://www.mit.edu/~perfors/
The Poverty of the Stimulus (PoS) argument holds that children do not
receive enough evidence to infer the existence of core aspects of
language, such as the dependence of linguistic rules on hierarchical
phrase structure. We reevaluate one version of this argument using a
Bayesian model of grammar induction, and show that a rational learner
faced with typical child-directed input and without any initial
language-specific biases could learn this dependency. This enables the
learner to master aspects of syntax, such as the auxiliary fronting
rule in interrogative formation, even without having heard directly
relevant data ( e.g., interrogatives containing an auxiliary in a
relative clause in the subject NP). The hierarchical Bayesian
framework is also applicable to other innateness questions involving
core aspects of linguistic structure.
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STANFORD MEDICAL INFORMATICS COLLOQUIUM
on Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
SMI Conference Room x-275
http://smi-web.stanford.edu/auslese/smi-web/events.jsp
"Health e-Decision: A Knowledge-Based Architecture to Enable
Customizable Bayesian Models for Patient-Centered Decision Support"
Amar Das
Medicine (Medical Informatics) and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
Patient decision aids (PDAs) are intended to increase the
participation of patients in shared decision-making, but the design of
most limit their accessibility and applicability in clinical care. In
the Health e-Decision project, funded by the Stanford Center on
Advancing Decision Making in Aging (CADMA), we are developing formal,
reusable methods for PDAs targeted for older adults. Our approach is
based on a decision-support software architecture that allows PDAs to
be delivered through the patient portals of electronic medical record
(EMR) systems. We have developed a novel knowledge-based decision
model (KBDM), using Protege OWL, that developers and clinicians
can use to tailor Bayesian decision models (influence diagrams) to a
particular health problem. In this talk, I will discuss how the Health
e-Decision approach supports (1) software integration with a
particular EMR system, (2) a decision model customized to
patient-specific data, and (3) user interfaces for preference
assessment. I will also present our efforts to evaluate the
suitability of this approach for shared decision-making in clinical
care.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 5 October 2006, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI"
Peter Norvig
Google
Over the last decade, web search has grown to be the largest
AI-related industry in history, far surpassing the minor booms for
Lisp Machines, Expert Systems, and other technologies. This talk
reviews AI technologies behind the Web Search industry, and shows how
large text corpora and associated computational power are enabling new
AI applications.
About the Speaker: Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at Google
Inc, where he has been since 2001. From 2002-2005 he was Director of
Search Quality, which means he was the manager of record responsible
for answering more queries than anyone else in the history of the
world. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern
Approach, the leading textbook in the field (with 94% market share).
Previously he was the head of the Computational Sciences Division at
NASA Ames Research Center, making him NASA's senior computer
scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001.
He has served as an assistant professor at the University of Southern
California and a research faculty member at the University of
California at Berkeley Computer Science Department, from which he
received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006.
He has over fifty publications in Computer Science, concentrating on
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software
Engineering, including the books Paradigms of AI Programming: Case
Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for
Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also
the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world's
longest palindromic sentence.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 5 October 2006, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"What We Did This Summer"
Student Summer Interns of 2006
Schedule:
4:15 Adnan Majid (supervisor: Vinod Menon)
4:20 Gabe Recchia "Spoken Syntax Lab" (supervisors: Joan Bresnan,
Arto Anntila, and Tom Wasow)
4:25 Lea Simon, "Learning to Listen Ahead: The Cost of Slow
Language Processing" (supervisor: Anne Fernald)
4:30 Leo Perry, "Putting Deme on Rails" (supervisor: Todd Davies)
4:35 Julie Finkelstein, "Helping Make GradeGrinder More Teacher
Friendly" (supervisor: Dave Barker-Plummer)
4:40 Jieun Oh, "Action Item Detection in Multiparty Spoken
Discourse" (supervisors: Stanley Peters, Patrick Ehlen, John
Niekrasz and Matthew Purver)
4:45 Rachel Levy "Gestures and Diagram Collaboration" (supervisor:
Barbara Tversky)
4:50 Anthony Krumeich (supervisor: Tirin Moore)
4:55 Michael Morgan "Creating an A.I. Driving Simulation"
(supervisor: Patrick Langley)
5:00 Matt Janes (supervisor: Patrick Langley)
5:05 Laura O'Laughlin, "Technology and Community Engagement"
(supervisor: Todd Davies)
5:10 Jessi Humphreys, "Embodiment-focused Cognitive Psychology:
The Color of Age" (supervisor: Lera Boroditsky)
5:15 Eric Boromisa (supervisor: Stephen Bacchus)
5:20 Hassan Abudu (supervisor: Jonathan Berger)
5:25 Perry Rosenstein (supervisor: Ivan Sag)
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Friday, 6 October 2006, 10:00am
CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Goto-San has done lots of very interesting work on music analysis,
beat tracking, music segmentation, and music interfaces over the
years. He's spoken at CCRMA before and always has interesting things
to say.
His latest work will describe work he has done to under the deep
structure of music, using just the audio signal. His work combines
interesting signal processing, with great music analysis, and
entertaining applications. -Malcolm Slaney
"Music Scene Description and Its Applications"
Masataka Goto
AIST, Japan
http://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/
Our research project "music scene description'' aims to achieve an
understanding of musical audio signals at the level of untrained
listeners. This contrasts with most studies in the past that aimed
to achieve it at the level of trained musicians by identifying all
musical notes forming a musical score or obtaining segregated signals
from sound mixtures. Music scene description features the
description of "scenes'' that occur within a musical performance such
as hierarchical beat structure, melody line, bass line, repeated
sections, and chorus sections. In this talk, I introduce our real-
time methods for obtaining descriptions of such scenes. Several
applications we developed by using those methods are also described,
including a beat driven computer graphics dancer "Cindy'' and a music
listening station with chorus-search function "SmartMusicKIOSK''.
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BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SEMINAR
on Friday, 6 October 2006, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"The constructive nature of scene perception and memory"
Marvin Chun
Vanderbilt University
To perceive and remember a continuous visual world from discontinuous,
fragmented views, cortical mechanisms actively fill-in missing
information. I will report functional magnetic resonance imaging
evidence for "filling-out" of scene layout information beyond what was
physically presented, an illusion known as boundary extension. Two
cortical areas important for scene processing, the parahippocampal
cortex and retrosplenial cortex, represented more information than was
physically presented. Earlier visual brain regions such as the lateral
occipital complex and retinotopic cortex did not reveal such
extrapolation. A second experiment demonstrated that retrosplenial
cortex plays a further role in stitching discontinuous views into a
continuous, panoramic representation of the local environment. These
results demonstrate that scene layout representations are extrapolated
beyond the confines of the perceptual input, providing neural evidence
for the constructive nature of scene perception and memory.
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LOGICAL METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES
on Friday, 6 October 2006, 12 noon
Room to be announced
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Formalizing common sense in mathematical logic"
John McCarthy
Computer Science, Stanford AI Lab
Leibniz hoped to devise a mathematical logic adequate for human
affairs. Since the 1950s progress has been made in formalizing
limited common sense domains in first order logic for the purposes of
artificial intelligence (AI). However, we argue that extensions to
the reasoning methods of first order logic are need to reach
human-level common sense. These include nonmonotonic reasoning,
reasoning with approximately (or partially) defined entities,
reification of propositions and individual concepts, reification of
contexts. Even these extensions are probably insufficient.
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ETHICS@NOON
on 6 October 2006, 12 noon
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160)
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.html
"Ethical Issues in Sustainable Building Design"
John Kunz
Civil Engineering, Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu/~kunz/
"Sustainable" building means building for economy, ecology and
equity. Personal and societal ethics issues abound as we consider
these "triple bottom line" goals. To build economically, ecologically
and equitably, it is necessary to manage multi-discipline and ethics
issues with high knowledge, sensitivity and cooperation of all
building stakeholders. This talk will introduce some of the rich
ethical issues concerning building in the world today and what
Stanford students can do to participate effectively in the process.
About the Speaker: Professor Kunz is Executive Director of the Center
for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) in the Civil Engineering
department, Academic Director of the Virtual Design and Construction
Certificate Program, editor of Advanced Engineering Informatics, and
is affiliated with the Symbolic Systems program. Professor Kunz's
research interests include virtual design and construction, non-
numeric (symbolic) modeling of engineering products and processes, and
education, training and technology-transfer.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 6 October 2006, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Finding Balance: Addressing Cognitive Dissonances through Play"
Joe McKay and Greg Niemeyer
UC Berkeley
Can games make us better humans? In their talk, Joe McKay and Greg
Niemeyer will present brief overviews of their respective creative
work to date, the nature of their collaboration, and the feelings they
wish to elicit with their current joint project, Balance. They will
also demonstrate the current version of their Balance game. The game
interface consists of a displacement sensing tile and video graphics
which allow players to refine their sense of balance with adaptive
feedback optimizations. Niemeyer and McKay hope to show that their
game can help especially senior citizens maintain and improve their
sense of balance.
About the Speakers: Joe McKay is a graduate student in art at UC
Berkeley
Born in Switzerland in 1967, Greg Niemeyer studied Classics and
Photography. He started working with new media when he arrived in
the Bay Area in 1992 and he received his MFA from Stanford
University in New Media in 1997. At the same time, he founded the
Stanford University Digital Art Center, which he directed until
2001, when he was appointed at UC Berkeley as Assistant Professor
for New Media. At UC Berkeley, he is involved in the development of
the Center for New Media, focusing on the critical analysis of the
impact of new media on human experiences. His creative work focuses
on the mediation between humans as individuals and humans as a
collective through technological means, and emphasizes playful
responses to technology. His most recognized projects were Gravity
(Cooper Union, NYC, 1997), PING (SFMOMA, 2001), Oxygen Flute (SJMA,
2002), Organum (Pacific Film Archive, 2003), Ping 2.0 (Paris, La
Villette Numerique, 2004), Organum Playtest (2005), and Good
Morning Flowers (SFIFF 2006, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt,
2006).
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 6 October 2006, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is296a-1/f06/schedule.html
"A Scalable Front-stage Service Application for a Non-profit
Tutoring Agency"
Lois Wei
An initial progress report on designing and implementing an ideal
front end application that provides an optimal service experience for
handling online appointment scheduling, student enrollment, and
payment reminder. The application will also provide business
intelligence service such as business progress tracking, data and
trend analysis, and dynamic report generation. Such an application
will be designed specifically for a local tutoring agency that is in
the process of expanding to several locations.
"Unprocessed poster collections at UCB and suggestions for
improved access"
Lincoln Cushing
The UC Berkeley libraries have many significant collections of 20th
century poster art, yet most of them remain virtually inaccessible to
the public. This is partly due to technological barriers and partly
due to lack of institutional will. Cushing will make a case for the
academic value of these materials, review some example collections,
and offer an alternative model for improved processing and
access. More at:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/Bancroft/UC_unprocessed.html
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UC BERKELEY OXYOPIA LECTURE
on Friday, 6 October 2006, 4:00pm
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
"Representation of contrast- and texture-defined boundaries
in early visual cortex"
Curtis Baker
Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal
In the natural world we routinely perceive objects which are
distinguished from their backgrounds by global differences in local
luminance, contrast, texture, etc. Visual cortex mechanisms selective
to luminance-defined oriented contours are well known, but only
recently have we begun to understand a parallel set of mechanisms
sensitive to differences of contrast or texture.
Neurophysiological studies in early visual cortex reveal that many
single neurons are selective to both local textural and global contour
attributes of visual stimuli, while optical imaging demonstrates
coarse-scale anatomical compartments for contour properties which are
largely invariant to texture attributes. Computational analyses of
natural image statistics, based on models derived from
neurophysiology, indicate scale-invariance of textural information in
natural images, and its co-occurrence with luminance-defined
information.
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Monday, 9 October 2006, 12 noon
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Reiko Okumura will be here a week from Monday (Oct 9) to talk about
NHK's work on immersive audio.
Quoting Hiroko: They work for a theatrical setting - a huge screen
(they installed 350 inches screen for the national museum in Kyushu),
many loudspeakers (custom design depending on the space - typically
from 5.1 to 22.2) set on and around the stage in a theater space,
then how to make the sound more present and natural including the
vertical and depth sensation.
From her AES abstract, and to provide more context: An advanced
multichannel audio system for reproducing a live sound field with an
ultimate sensation of presence and reality was set up and studied.
The goal of this system is to provide listeners with a natural
reproduction of orchestral music, as if they were hearing it in an
actual sound field such as that in a concert hall. Subjective
evaluations of hearing impression on orchestral sound were carried
out to determine which attributes of a front sound stage were
necessary for the natural reproduction of an orchestra. The results
of the evaluations showed that perceptions of width, depth, and
localization of the orchestral sound influence the impressions of
presence and reality. -Malcolm Slaney
"Distance perception of phantom sound images presented by multiple-
loudspeakers placed at different distance in front of listener"
Reiko Okumura
NHK - Japan Broadcasting, Japan
Distance perception of the composite sound image reproduced by
multiple-loudspeakers which were placed in the forward direction
(near and far) of the listener in horizontal plane was investigated.
The experiments were carried out on distance perception of both
phantom and real sound images reproduced by four loudspeakers which
were placed at different distance in front of the listener. The
results of subjective evaluations showed the possibility that phantom
sound image could be reproduced by the near and far loudspeakers and
listeners perceived the distance of it among the real sound images
presented by the near or far loudspeakers.
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CS528: BROAD AREA COLLOQUIUM
on Monday, 9 October 2006, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Hewlett Teaching Center 200
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs528/
"Challenges for Effective MilliRobots"
Ron Fearing
EECS, UC Berkeley
Centimeter-scale robots will create the opportunity to manipulate,
sense and explore a wide range of environments with greatly reduced
cost and expanded capabilities. In many applications, the capability
of millirobots depends on mobility, multiplicity, and intelligence.
For macroscale intelligence, sensing, computation, and control
capabilities are available off the shelf. However, at the centimeter
and smaller scale, we have found in several cases that ``intelligent''
behavior, is not obtainable from algorithms, but arises from the
intrinsic mechanics. The mesoscopic range between MEMS and
conventional robots provides a new domain with rich challenges. There
are advantages to this size scale for novel low-cost fabrication
methods, including rapid prototyping of millirobots from kits of
parts. This talk will provide an overview for some of the key
challenges in millirobots, illustrated by examples in legged and
winged millirobots.
About the Speaker: Ronald Fearing is a professor in the Dept. of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Univ. of California,
Berkeley, which he joined in Jan. 1988. His current research interests
are in micro robotics, including flying micro-robots, micro-assembly,
parallel nano-grasping, and rapid prototyping. He has worked in
tactile sensing, teletaction, and dextrous manipulation. He has a PhD
from Stanford in EE (1988) and SB and SM in EECS from MIT (1983). He
received the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991, and is the
co-inventor on 4 US patents.
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 1:00pm-3:00pm
CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
"Microphones make the best filters"
Gregor Zielinsky
Sennheiser
Gregor Zielinksy from Sennheiser will present a talk entitled
"Microphones Make The Best Filters" Tuesday, October 10 in the CCRMA
classroom from 1 to 3 pm. Gregor is a tonmeister and spent 16 years
making classical recordings for Deutsche Grammaphon. He won the
Grammy Award for best engineered classical recording in 1992 for the
Bernstein:Candide album with Leonard Bernstein and the London
Symphony Orchestra. He is currently Sennheiser's artist relations
manager.
The talk will cover topics including room and instrument placement,
microphone choice and placement, and the many factors that go into
making the best possible recordings. If you want to learn how to
make classical recordings, you shouldn't miss this talk.
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BAYCHI
on Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.baychi.org/program/
"Designing systems with emergent behavior"
Tim Brown, Ideo; Peter Merholz, Adaptive Path; Joy Mountford, Yahoo
What is the role of design in web sites like MySpace or games like
Second Life? Clearly it's different than designing products for more
traditional web sites. How does the role of design change? Can it even
be called "design" in the way that many of us use the word design?
A panel will explore these and related questions.
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NLASP COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Bldg. 200:205 (History Corner)
http://nlp.stanford.edu/events.shtml
"Developments in Synchronous Grammars"
Stuart Shieber
Harvard University
Much of the activity in linguistics, especially computational
linguistics, can be thought of as characterizing not languages
simpliciter but relations among languages. Formal systems for
characterizing language relations have a long history with two primary
branches, based on transducers and synchronous grammars. We present
some background on the systems leading to some new results integrating
transducers and synchronous grammars through the
formal-language-theoretic construct of the bimorphism. We present two
applications of synchronous grammars: to tree-adjoining grammar
semantics and to syntax-aware machine translation.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"New Architectures for a New Biology"
David E. Shaw
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia
Some of the most important outstanding questions in the fields of
biology, chemistry, and medicine remain unsolved as a result of our
limited understanding of the structure, behavior and interaction of
biologically significant molecules. The laws of physics that determine
the form and function of these biomolecules are well understood.
Current technology, however, does not allow us to simulate the effect
of these laws with sufficient accuracy, and for a sufficient period of
time, to answer many of the questions that biologists, biochemists,
and biomedical researchers are most anxious to answer. This talk will
describe the current state of the art in biomolecular simulation and
explore the potential role of high-performance computing technologies
in extending current capabilities. Efforts within our own lab to
develop novel architectures and algorithms to accelerate molecular
dynamics simulations by several orders of magnitude will be described,
along with work by other researchers pursuing alternative approaches.
If such efforts ultimately prove successful, one might imagine the
emergence of an entirely new paradigm in which computational
experiments take their place alongside those conducted in "wet"
laboratories as central tools in the quest to understand living
organisms at a molecular level, and to develop safe, effective,
precisely targeted medicines capable of relieving suffering and saving
human lives.
About the speaker: David E. Shaw serves as chief scientist of
D. E. Shaw Research, LLC, and as a senior research fellow at the
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia
University.
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BERKELEY HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC, MATHEMATICS, AND SCIENCE
on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
234 Moses, (Berkeley)
http://hplms.berkeley.edu/
"The Consistency Argument for Ranking Functions"
Franz Huber
Philosophy, Cal Tech
The paper provides an argument for the thesis that an agent's degrees
of disbelief should obey the ranking calculus. This Consistency
Argument is based on the Consistency Theorem, which says that an
entrenchment function gives rise to consistent and deductively closed
beliefs iff it satisfies the ranking axioms. The Consistency Argument
is extended to various rank-theoretic update rules
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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"Methods, Examples, and Implications of Integrative Biology"
Atul Butte
Medicine (Medical Informatics) and Pediatrics, Stanford University
The past 10 years have led to a variety of measurements tools in
molecular biology that are nearly-comprehensive in nature. For
example, microarrays are just one of at least 30 large-scale
measurement or experimental modalities available to investigators in
molecular biology. Instead of focusing on the cell, or the genotype,
or on any single measurement modality, using integrative biology
allows us to think holistically and horizontally. We have been
studying the process of intersecting nearly-comprehensive data sets in
molecular biology, such as microarrays, RNAi and quantitative trait
loci. Though standards are increasingly being required and used for
microarray data, representing the experimental context using a
structured vocabulary has not yet happened. I will show how the
largest unified biomedical ontology can now be used to represent
microarray sample annotations and show examples of visualization,
searching, and analysis using this coding that could not have been
done before. Attendees will learn about how to perform inferential
processes across data sets, and will see an example of how we have
used integrative biology to study the physiological process of fat
storage.
About the Speaker: Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor
in Medicine (Medical Informatics) and Pediatrics at the Stanford
University School of Medicine, and a board-certified pediatric
endocrinologist. Dr. Butte received his undergraduate degree in
Computer Science from Brown University in 1991, and worked in several
stints as a software engineer at Apple Computer (on the System 7 team)
and Microsoft Corporation (on the Excel team). He graduated from the
Brown University School of Medicine in 1995, during which he worked as
a research fellow at NIDDK through the Howard Hughes/NIH Research
Scholars Program. He completed his residency in Pediatrics and
Fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology in 2001, both at Children's
Hospital, Boston. Dr. Butte received a Ph.D. in Health Sciences and
Technology from the Medical Engineering / Medical Physics Program in
the Division of Health Sciences and Technology, at Harvard Medical
School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Butte's laboratory focuses on solving problems relevant to genomic
medicine by developing new biomedical-informatics methodologies in
integrative biology. Dr. Butte has authored more than 25 publications
in bioinformatics, medical informatics, and molecular diabetes and has
delivered more than 30 presentations world-wide on bioinformatics,
including nine at the National Institutes of Health or NIH-sponsored
meetings. Dr. Butte's recent awards include the 2006 PhRMA Foundation
Research Starter Grant in Informatics, the 2003 Emory University
School of Medicine Pathology Residents' Choice Award, the 2002 and
2003 American Association for Clinical Chemistry Outstanding Speaker
Award, the 2002 Endocrine Society Travel Award based on presentation
merit, the 2001 American Association for Cancer Research
Scholar-In-Training Award and the 2001 Lawson Wilkins Pediatric
Endocrine Society Clinical Scholar Award. Dr. Butte's research is
supported by grants from NIDDK and NLM. Along with Isaac Kohane and
Alvin Kho, Dr. Butte has co-authored one of the first books on
microarray analysis titled Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics
published by MIT Press.
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SYMPOSIUM OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND PUBLIC SERVICE (SURPS)
on Thursday, 12 October 2006, 3:30pm - 5:45pm
McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/urp/SURP/
The Symposium of Undergraduate Research and Public Service (SURPS) is
a forum for Stanford undergraduates to present their research,
creative projects and public service to the broader university
community. Undergraduates from all disciplines will present their
current and recent academic projects, showcasing the diversity of
topics, approaches, and interests at Stanford. The Symposium will also
serve as a resource for undergraduates not yet engaged in these
pursuits to learn how fellow students have developed their
intellectual interests, current projects, and faculty or community
connections. Finally, it will provide an occasion for students,
faculty, staff and alumni to witness how student projects enhance
faculty work and also serve the greater community. All students,
faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to attend this event.
This will be a poster session with remarks by John C. Bravman probably
at 4:00pm.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 12 October 2006, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EK255, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Computer Science Education 2.0"
Chris DiGiano and Marie Bienkowski
SRI International
Do you remember your first computer science class? Recent declines in
enrollment and diversity in college CS programs and the second-class
status of computing in high school call for a rethinking of computer
science education. In this talk I will review some non-traditional
approaches to learning about computing being led by SRI International.
I will also present some provocative alternatives to the historical
definition of the science of computing and discuss how these might
impact educational reform. This talk will draw from our work on
integrating design into the college computing curriculum, supporting
scientist-developer collaborations with computational wikis, and
"code-free" experiences of computing through participatory
simulations.
About the Speakers: Chris DiGiano is a senior research computer
scientist in SRIs Center for Technology in Learning. Chris focuses on
design processes for the creation of learning tools and has extensive
experience in the design of pedagogical programming environments and
mobile learning devices. His current research focuses on training
university students in the design of educational software, and on the
affordances of wireless handheld devices in collaborative
classrooms. Dr. DiGiano is the PI of a new project aimed at rethinking
how computer scientists can work with domain scientists in the age of
the Cyberinfrastructure. A central theme in his work is the
development of abstractions, such as design patterns, to capture
invariants in learning technology design, e.g., in the context of
component technology or collaborative learning tools. Dr. DiGiano
received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado
at Boulder and an M.S. in computer science from the University of
Toronto.
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BERKELEY DOCAM '06
South Hall (Berkeley)
on Friday-Sunday, 13-15 October 2006, all day
http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/
"The Document Academy annual meeting"
Friday October 13
08.00am-09.00am Registration
09.00am-09.15am
Welcome on behalf of School of Information, UC-Berkeley: AnnaLee
Saxenian, Dean, and DOCAM: Niels Windfeld Lund, chair
Session 1: Document Theory
09.15am-10.00am
Full Paper 1: Bernd Frohmann: "Revisiting 'What is a Document?'"
10.00am-10.45am
Full Paper 2: Murali Venkatesh, Swati Bhattacharya, and Carsten
Osterlund: "Outline of an Institutional theory of Documents"
10.45am-11.15am
Coffee break
11.15am-11.45am
Short Paper 1: Stacey Meeker: "Otlet and (Neo)Documentalist Epistemology"
11.45am-12.15pm
Short Paper 2: Roswitha Skare: "Complementarity - a concept possible to
be achieved in document analysis?"
12.15pm-12.45pm
Short paper 3: Melanie Feinberg, Deborah Turner, Kari Holland: "Talks
Like a Doc, Walks Likes a Doc"
12.45pm-2.00pm
Lunch break
Session 2: Documents In Communities
02.00pm-02.45pm
Full Paper 3: Manuel Zacklad: "Documentarisation and post-modernity:
documentary collections and communities of imagination"
02.45pm-03.30pm
Full paper 4: Carol Choksy: "Documents and Communities of Practice in
Business"
03.30pm-04.00pm
Coffee break
04.00pm-04.30pm
short paper 4: Andreas Varheim: "Libraries and Social Capital - On the
Right Track"
04.30pm-05.00pm
short paper 5: Anne Gerd Lehn: "Eyes lifted! The understanding of art as
a document in five different art institutions"
05.00pm-05.30pm
short paper 6: Marc Richard Hugh Kosciejew: "The Racial Information of
Apartheid"
07.00pm Banquet
Saturday October 14
08.30am Donuts, coffee
Session 3: Document Analysis
09.00am-09.30am
short paper 1: Mikael Gunnarsson: "Genre Identification"
09.30am-10.00am
short paper 2: Kristene Unsworth: "Personal Dossier as Document"
10.00am-10.30am
short paper 3: Signe Jantson & Helle Maaslieb: "Book trade in Estonia
1865 - 1940"
10.30am-11.00am Coffee break
11.00am-11.30am
short paper 4: Philip Bernick: "Quality of Clinical documents: a
rhetorical approach"
11.30am-12.00pm
short session 5: Deborah Turner: "Oral documents: an auditory experience"
12.00pm-01.30pm
Lunch break
Session 4: Document Analysis
01.30pm-02.15pm
Full Paper 5: Bruno Bachimont & Jean-Francois Blanchette: "Documents as
preserved access: How to escape the archival dilemma"
02.15pm-02.45pm
short paper: Helena Francke: "The (re)creation of scholarly journals:
Document and information architecture in Open Access e-journals"
02.45pm-03.15pm
Coffee break
03.15pm-03.45pm
short paper 6: Jac Soarsa: "Code-switching"
03.45pm-04.30pm
short paper 7: Jodi Kearns and Richard Anderson: "Moving Image Documents"
04.30pm-05.00pm
short paper 8: Brian C. O'Connor & Richard Anderson: "Automated
Structural Analysis"
Sunday October 15
08.30 Donuts, coffee
Session 4: Document Research
09.00am-09.45am
Full Paper 7: Michael Buckland: "Naming in the Library: Marks, Machines,
and Meanings"
10.00am-10.45am
Full Paper 8: Andrea Marcante: "Electronic Interactive Documents and
Knowledge Enhancing: A Semiotic Approach"
10.45am-11.00am
Coffee break
11.00am-12.00pm
Key note Address by professor Geoffrey Bowker
12.00pm-12.30pm closing DOCAM '06
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UC BERKELEY ICBS COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 13 October 2006, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"Cognitive Design Principles for Visual Communication"
Maneesh Agarwalla
Computer Science, UC Berkeley
The most effective visualizations capitalize on the human facility for
processing visual information and thereby improve comprehension,
memory, and inference. Such visualizations can help analysts rapidly
find patterns lurking within large data sets, and they , can help
audiences quickly understand complex ideas. Yet, even with the aid of
computers, hand-designing effective visualizations is time-consuming
and requires considerable human effort. The challenge is to develop
new algorithms and user interfaces that facilitate visual
communication by making it fast and easy to generate compelling visual
content. Skilled human designers use a variety of design principles to
improve the perception, cognition and communicative intent of a
visualization. In this talk I'll describe techniques for identifying
the appropriate design principles within specific domains including
automated design of route maps, automated design of step-by-step
assembly instructions for 3D objects and interactive tools for
manipulating digital photographs. For each of these domains I'll show
how to algorithmically instantiate design principles within the
automated design system or interactive design tool. I'll conclude by
showing how this line of research opens new directions for future work
on creating effective visual content.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 13 October 2006, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group: Recent work"
Marc A. Smith
Microsoft Research
The Microsoft Research Community Technologies group focuses on the
study and enhancement of computer mediated collective action
systems. In this talk I will present recent developments in
projects that highlight and attempt to enhance computer mediated
collective action: Netscan, SNARF and AURA.
Netscan (http://netscan.research.microsoft.com) is a set of tools
and services for online communities. Netscan manufactures "social
accounting metadata" about Usenet newsgroups and web boards,
providing reports about discussion spaces and individuals that
highlight patterns of activity and contribution in tabular and
graphical forms. We have recently developed faster data update
models, new Web service interfaces, a custom community portal page,
and a new information visualization application ("Usenet Views")
that makes it simple to map and chart newsgroup communities.
SNARF (http://www.research.microsoft.com/community/snarf) applies
the concepts explored in the Netscan project to personal
collections of email. SNARF provides tools to implement "social
sorting" - reordering email collections based on the strength of
different dimensions of the relationship between sender and
receiver. For example, using SNARF, unread email from people can
be ranked higher if they are often replied to by the user. A
by-product of this tool is the generation of a high-dimensional
dataset describing the structure and temporal patterns created
through the exchange of email overtime. This dataset offers useful
insights into the nature of email-based communications. Results
from initial deployments of SNARF will be presented.
The Advanced User Resource Annotation system (AURA:
http://aura.research.microsoft.com) is a platform for Pocket PCs,
Smartphones and mobile PCs that have various kinds of sensors such
as barcode readers, digital cameras, WiFi signal strength
detection, radio frequency identification (RFID) tag readers, and
GPS. Using AURA today, users can scan the barcodes on everyday
objects in the home, office, or store and gain access to related
information and services such as competitive pricing and product
reviews. Other kinds of tags, such as tags placed on art or
equipment asset tags, can be easily linked to related data through
Web sites or Web service interfaces. This talk covers several
developments in the mobile annotation space and describes future
directions for AURA and related services.
About the Speaker: Marc Smith is a senior research sociologist at
Microsoft Research specializing in the social organization of online
communities. He leads the Community Technologies Group at MSR. He is
the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection
of essays exploring the ways identity; interaction and social order
develop in online groups.
Smith's research focuses on computer-mediated collective action:
the ways group dynamics change when they take place in and through
social cyberspaces. Many "groups" in cyberspace produce public
goods and organize themselves in the form of a commons (for related
papers see: http://www.research.microsoft.com/~masmith). Smith's
goal is to visualize these social cyberspaces, mapping and
measuring their structure, dynamics and life cycles. He has
developed a web interface http://netscan.research.microsoft.com) to
the "Netscan" engine that allows researchers studying Usenet
newsgroups to get reports on the rates of posting, posters,
crossposting, thread length and frequency distributions of
activity. This research offers a means to gather historical data on
the development of social cyberspaces and can be used to highlight
the ways these groups differ from, or are similar to, face-to-face
groups. Smith is applying this work to the development of a
generalized community platform for Microsoft, providing a web based
system for groups of all sizes to discuss and publish their
material to the web.
Smith received a B.S. in International Area Studies from Drexel
University in Philadelphia in 1988, an M.Phil. in social theory
from Cambridge University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from
UCLA in 2001.
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US TAIWAN HIGH TECH SYMPOSIUM
on Saturday, 14 October 2006, all day
Biltmore Hotel, Santa Clara
http://www.natea.org/sv/conferences/uthf/2006/program.php
"The World with RFID"
sponsored by IEEE and North America Taiwanese Engineers' Association
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a groundbreaking technology
that will serve as replacement for UPC codes and has already been
adopted by both retailer giants like Wal-Mart and Target, with the
U.S. Department of Defense - the largest consumer of goods in the
world-expected to follow suit. The trend of utilizing RFID to enable
the Real World Awareness is going to open new dimensions of
applications across software and hardware. The 2006 UTHF symposium
aims to explore the solutions that are needed to enable RFID systems
as well as the RFID applications. The symposium is also to promote the
collaboration between Taiwan and Silicon Valley in the context of "The
World with RFID" - the future.
The objectives of this UTHF symposium are:
* Provide a channel for networking with the mainstream RFID
technology and standard leaders
* Gather experts and associates across the Pacific to share their
knowledge and experiences in the RFID related areas.
* Explore business opportunities for enterprises, entrepreneurs and
VCs alike in RFID areas.
* Promote the collaboration and interaction between RFID technology
and solution communities of Taiwan and Silicon Valley, USA.
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