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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 11 October 2006, vol. 22:6
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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11 October 2006 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 6
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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 11 OCTOBER 2006 TO 20 OCTOBER 2006
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 202
"Erasure Entropy"
Sergio Verdu
Princeton
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
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
"Venture Capital's Homage to the Alchemy of PARC"
Roelof Botha
Sequoia Capital
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [12-Oct-06]
Soda Hall 320 (UC Berkeley)
"Analyzing iterated learning"
Tom Griffiths
UC Berkeley
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~feisha/cis-seminar
Abstract below
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://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/cmontell/
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
Abstract below
3:30pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [13-Oct-06]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Against a neo-Davidsonian account of stative verbs"
Graham Katz
Stanford
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
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
3:30pm CCRMA Event [14-Oct-06]
CCRMA Classroom
"Computer Music on The Farm: The Beginning"
Panel discussion
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/concerts/c_schedule.html
Information below
6:30pm CCRMA Event [14-Oct-06]
CCRMA Courtyard
"A CyberSound Celebration"
Concert
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/concerts/c_schedule.html
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
MONDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2006
3:30pm Social Lab [16-Oct-06]
Wallenberg Hall 160:124
Title to be announced
Elizabeth Mullen
Business, Stanford
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_social.html
4:15pm CS528: Broad Area Colloquium [16-Oct-06]
Hewlett Teaching Center 200
"Digital Image Forensics"
Hany Farid
Dartmouth College
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs528/
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2006
3:00pm CSLI Tea [17-Oct-06]
Cordura Hall Greenhouse
cookies, tea, coffee, conversation
WEDNESDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2006
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags [18-Oct-06]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Cultivating emotional balance in the classroom"
Tish Jennings
Garrison Institute
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
12 noon UC Berkeley CITRIS Research Exchange [18-Oct-06]
290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building (UC Berkeley)
"Imaging the Voices of the Past: Using Optics to Restore Sound
Recordings"
Carl Haber
Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://www.citris-uc.org/CRE-Oct18-2006
http://www.citris-uc.org/
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [18-Oct-06]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Measurements vs. Bits:
Compressed Sensing meets Information Theory"
Dror Baron
Rice University
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
4:15pm NLaSP Colloquium [18-Oct-06]
Bldg. 200:205 (History Corner)
"Developments in Synchronous Grammars"
Stuart Shieber
Harvard
http://nlp.stanford.edu/events.shtml
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [18-Oct-06]
Packard 202
"A New Look at Convexity, Duality, and Optimization"
Dimitri Bertsekas
MIT
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2006
11:00am SRI AI Seminar Series [19-Oct-06]
EJ228, SRI International
Title to be announced
Jude Shavlik
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
4:00pm Personality Lab [19-Oct-06]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Faculty Q&A"
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_personality.html
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [19-Oct-06]
EJ228, SRI International
"Semantic Web Services: Where Are We Headed?"
David L Martin
SRI
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [19-Oct-06]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
Title to be announced
Stuart Russell
UC Berkeley
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy George Myro Memorial Lecture [19-Oct-06]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"Practical Reasoning and Inference"
Jonathan Dancy
University of Reading/University of Texas
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ld/Philos/jpd/jpd.htm
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [19-Oct-06]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Resurrecting the Turing Test"
Stuart Shieber
Computer Science, Harvard University
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
4:15pm Logic Seminar [19-Oct-06]
Room to be announced
"Constructive NF"
Thomas Forster
Cambridge
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2006
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [20-Oct-06]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Will WE be witness to a true revolution in the mind sciences?"
David Presti
Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/NEU/prestid.html
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [20-Oct-06]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Expressive Intelligence:
Artificial Intelligence, Games and New Media"
Michael Mateas
UC Santa Cruz
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
2:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [20-Oct-06]
EJ228, SRI International
"Semantics Wikis and Microformats:
Bringing the Semantic Web to Today's Web
Adam Souzis
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [20-Oct-06]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
To be announced
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is296a-1/f06/schedule.html
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [20-Oct-06]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Learning to listen ahead in Spanish: First language learners
are more efficient than second language learners in online
sentence processing"
Casey Williams
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:15pm ME394: Design Forum [20-Oct-06]
Terman 556
"Research"
Larry Leifer
http://me.stanford.edu/faculty/facultydir/leifer.html
http://www.stanford.edu/class/me394/
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [20-Oct-06]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"VPUE research presentations"
Pat Callier and Cole Paulson, Doug Kenter, Rafe Kinsey, Gabe
Recchia, & Bea Sanford
Undergraduates, Stanford
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of everything. 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.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The Stanford Challenge
http://thestanfordchallenge.stanford.edu/
or for those of you with javascript disabled
http://thestanfordchallenge.stanford.edu/home/main?indexredir=y
To quote President Hennessy in his letter to the Stanford Community
...
In the last five years, it has become clear that society faces
enormous and time-critical challenges around the world, from improving
human health to preserving our environment to promoting peace and
stability. In this interconnected world, we cannot hide from these
issues but must embrace opportunities to address them.
Stanford can and must play a vital role in this pursuit. To do this,
we are transforming our research endeavors to seek solutions to these
challenges and enhancing our educational programs to better prepare
students to become tomorrow's leaders. These efforts require
significant new financial support, and we have established a goal of
raising $4.3 billion through December 31, 2011. I am pleased to report
that lead donors have already come forward with commitments totaling
almost $2.19 billion. This energetic response bodes well for the work
ahead.
I invite all of you to visit http://thestanfordchallenge.stanford.edu
and to read the press release below to learn more. I also encourage
you to attend The Roundtable at Stanford on Saturday, October 14,
moderated by Ted Koppel, MA '62, titled "Anxious Times: Seeing Beyond
a World of Perpetual Threats" ( http://www.stanford.edu/roundtable
). This promises to be a fascinating discussion among Stanford faculty
and some of our most prominent alumni about the kind of global issues
The Stanford Challenge will address.
Stanford is exceptionally well positioned to seek solutions and
educate leaders in new ways, and that is a tribute to your work. I am
confident that in the coming years, we will achieve great things for
Stanford and, through Stanford, for the world.
...
[The challenge is split into several parts
and of particular interest to those interested in H-Star (including
CSLI) and related areas could be
Seeking Solutions: Multidisciplinary Research Across the University
Educating Leaders: all sections
]
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Packard 202
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
"Erasure Entropy"
Sergio Verdu
Princeton
We define the erasure entropy of a collection of random variables as
the sum of entropies of the individual variables conditioned on all
the rest. The erasure entropy measures the information content carried
by each symbol knowing its context.
In the setup of a source observed through an erasure channel, we offer
an operational characterization of erasure entropy rate as the minimal
amount of bits per erasure required to recover the erased information
in the limit of small erasure probability.
When we allow recovery of the erased symbols within a prescribed
degree of distortion, the fundamental tradeoff is described by the
erasure rate-distortion function which we characterize. Connections
between the erasure rate-distortion function and the regular one are
established.
We derive a lower bound on the erasure rate-distortion function which
is analogous to the Shannon Lower Bound on the regular rate-distortion
function. We show that the erasure rate-distortion function is
derivable in closed form for various sources whose regular
rate-distortion function is not known in closed form. This includes
the class of stationary binary source and random fields (under Hamming
loss).
When no additional encoded information is available, the erased
information is reconstructed solely on the basis of its context by a
denoiser. Connections between erasure entropy and discrete denoising
are developed.
Based on joint work with Tsachy Weissman.
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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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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 12 October 2006, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Soda Hall 320 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~feisha/cis-seminar
"Analyzing iterated learning"
Tom Griffiths
Psychology and Cognitive Science, Berkeley
http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/
Most formal analyses of learning assume that agents are provided with
data by the world, evaluating hypotheses about the processes that
might have produced those data. However, some of the most complex
knowledge that people acquire, such as languages or religious
concepts, can only be learned from other people, who themselves
learned from other learners. The prevalence of this process of
iterated learning raises a natural question: what are the consequences
of iterated learning for the information being transmitted? I will
present theoretical results indicating that, in the case where the
learners are Bayesian agents, iterated learning converges to an
equilibrium determined by the inductive biases of those agents, as
expressed by their priors. These results identify some surprising
correspondences between processes of cultural evolution and
statistical inference algorithms such as Gibbs sampling and the EM
algorithm, and provide constraints on explanations for the properties
of human languages and other cultural universals. I will describe the
results of some experiments with human subjects testing the
predictions of this account, examining human inductive biases for
functions and simple boolean concepts.
About the Speaker: Dr. Tom Griffiths is an assistant professor of
Psychology and Cognitive Science at Berkeley.
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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, 12:30pm-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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PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 13 October 2006, 3:15pm
Building 90, room 92Q
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
"Dimensions of Objectivity in Law"
Matthew Kramer
Cambridge University
This paper (a chapter in a forthcoming book) delineates six main
dimensions or conceptions of objectivity that are applicable
to the workings of legal systems: three ontological, two epistemic,
and one semantic. It also explores several conceptions of objectivity
that are each either inapplicable to law or subsumable under at least
one of the six conceptions just mentioned. The paper aims to reveal
the philosophical complexities that lurk in questions about the
objectivity of legal institutions.
About the Speaker: Matthew Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political
Philosophy at Cambridge University, where he is also a Fellow of
Churchill College. He is the Director of the Cambridge Forum for
Legal & Political Philosophy. His three most recently published books
are The Quality of Freedom (Oxford, 2003), Where Law and Morality Meet
(Oxford, 2004), and Objectivity and the Rule of Law (Cambridge, 2006).
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 13 October 2006, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"Against a neo-Davidsonian account of stative verbs"
Graham Katz
Stanford University
In this talk, I will review the arguments for the Davidsonian event-
argument position, demonstrate that these do not extend to state verbs
and show that assuming that state verbs does not have such an argument
position accounts for a number of the semantic contrasts between
stative and eventive sentences.
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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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CCRMA EVENT
on Saturday, 14 October 2006, 3:30pm
CCRMA, The Knoll
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/concerts/c_schedule.html
"Computer Music on The Farm: The Beginning
A CyberSound Celebration"
An exploration of the beginning stages of Computer Music at Stanford
and a celebration of works by Stanford Music Professors Leland Smith
and John Chowning. There will also be a special tribute to John
Chowning from the members of his 1966 Freshman Seminar "Science, Music
and Man".
Saturday, October 14, 2006
3:30 pm, Panel Discussion, CCRMA Classroom
The Panel will focus on the early history of computer music at
Stanford and how the work of Professors Smith and Chowning led to
major developments in the publishing and production of music and the
founding of CCRMA. The Panel will also include discussion of the
nature and future of computer music, will be open for participation by
any interested individuals, and will feature special guests Max
Mathews and Les Earnest.
6:30pm, Concert, CCRMA Courtyard
Rhaspody for Flute and Computer
Rondino for Computer
by Leland Smith
Four Canons from The Musical Offering
by J.S.Bach/Leland Smith
Introduction to Rhymicana
by Henry Cowell/Leland Smith
Stria for multi-channel tape
Voices for soprano and electronics
by John Chowning
Tickets: Both events are FREE
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CS528: BROAD AREA COLLOQUIUM
on Monday, 16 October 2006, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Hewlett Teaching Center 200
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs528/
"Digital Image Forensics"
Hany Farid
Dartmouth College
With the advent of high-resolution digital cameras, powerful personal
computers and sophisticated photo-editing software, the manipulation
of digital images is becoming more common. We are seeing the impact of
these technologies in nearly every corner of our lives. While the
technology that allows for digital media to be manipulated and
distorted is developing at break-neck speeds, our understanding of the
technological, ethical, and legal implications is lagging behind. I
will discuss some of these issues and describe computational
techniques which we have developed for detecting tampering in digital
media. Operating in the absence of digital watermarks or signatures,
these techniques quantify and detect statistical correlations that
result from specific forms of digital tampering.
About the Speaker: Hany Farid received his undergraduate degree in
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of
Rochester in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Following a two year post-doctoral
position in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, he joined the
Dartmouth faculty in 1999. Hany's primary appointment is in the
Computer Science Department where he is an Associate Professor and
Associate Chair. He also holds a joint appointment in the Center for
Cognitive Neuroscience. Hany is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award,
a Sloan Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. From working with
federal law enforcement agencies on digital forensics, to the digital
reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian tombs, Hany works and plays with
digital media at the crossroads of computer science, engineering,
mathematics, optics, and psychology.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Measurements vs. Bits: Compressed Sensing meets Information Theory"
Dror Baron
Rice University
http://www.dsp.rice.edu/CS
Sensors, signal processing hardware, and algorithms are under
increasing pressure to accommodate ever larger data sets; ever faster
sampling and processing rates; ever lower power consumption; and
radically new sensing modalities. Fortunately, over the past few
decades, there have been enormous increases in computational power.
This progress has motivated Compressed Sensing (CS), an emerging field
based on the revelation that optimization routines can reconstruct a
sparse signal from a small number of linear projections of the signal.
The implications of CS are promising for many applications and enable
the design of new kinds of cameras and analog-to-digital converters.
Information theory has numerous rich insights to offer CS. We
investigate three directions along the interface between these fields.
First, we characterize the minimum number of measurements needed to
reconstruct the signal within a specified distortion - a problem
related to rate distortion theory. Our study reveals that the
unavoidable noise in analog measurements is the crucial factor that
dictates the number of CS measurements needed. Second, we leverage the
remarkable success of LDPC channel codes to design low-complexity CS
measurement and reconstruction algorithms. Third, our work on
distributed compressed sensing (DCS) provides new distributed signal
acquisition algorithms that exploit both intra- and inter-signal
correlation structures in multi-signal ensembles. We describe three
models for signal ensembles, propose algorithms for joint recovery of
multiple signals, and establish a parallel between the number of
measurements needed and the Slepian-Wolf theorem from information
theory. DCS is immediately applicable to a range of problems in sensor
networks and arrays.
About the speaker: Dror Baron received the B.Sc. (summa cum laude) and
M.Sc. degrees from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, in
1997 and 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in 2003, all in electrical engineering. From 1997 to
1999 he worked at Witcom Ltd. in modem design. From 1999 to 2003 he
was a research assistant at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, where he was also a visiting assistant professor in
2003. Since 2003 he has been a postdoctoral research associate in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice
University. His research interests include information theory, signal
processing, and compressed sensing.
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NLASP COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 18 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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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Packard 202
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
"A New Look at Convexity, Duality, and Optimization"
Dimitri Bertsekas
MIT
http://www.athenasc.com/New_Look.pdf
This talk will review a recent book treatment of convex analysis and
optimization. While the subject of the book is classical, the
treatment of several of its important topics is new and in some cases
relies on new research. The new lines of analysis include:
(a) A unified framework for minimax theory and constrained
optimization duality as special cases of duality between two simple
geometrical problems. Within this framework, the fundamental
constraint qualifications needed for strong duality and existence of
saddle points are quite apparent, and admit straightforward proofs.
(b) A unification of conditions for existence of solutions of convex
optimization problems, conditions for the minimax equality to hold,
and conditions for the absence of a duality gap in constrained
optimization. This unification is based on conditions guaranteeing
that a nested family of closed convex sets has a nonempty
intersection.
(c) A unification of the major constraint qualifications that
guarantee the existence of Lagrange multipliers for nonconvex
constrained optimization. This unification is achieved through the
notion of constraint pseudonormality, which is motivated by an
enhanced form of the Fritz John necessary optimality conditions.
(d) The development of incremental subgradient methods for dual
optimization, and the analysis of their advantages over classical
subgradient methods.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 19 October 2006, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Semantic Web Services: Where Are We Headed?"
David L Martin
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
The Semantic Web is many things: an ambitious vision for the future of
the Internet; a lively research area; a set of standards activities at
the World Wide Web Consortium; a technology base of Web-oriented
knowledge representation languages, reasoners, and tools; and a
growing collection of shared ontologies, knowledge bases,
collaborative activities and communities supported by these
technologies. The potential of the Semantic Web goes well beyond its
applications to information discovery and querying. In particular, it
encompasses the automation of Web-based activities and Web-accessible
devices as well. When it becomes widespread, the ability to deploy,
discover, and use online processing resources and devices, in an
significantly automated fashion, will likely be viewed as a major
transformation of the Web. Semantic Web services technology is the
embodiment of this developing trend.
Work on Semantic Web Services is complementary (to a degree) with
commercial work on Web services, and provides greater expressiveness
in describing services in a way that software agents can reason about.
This reasoning, in turn, can support more powerful and more fully
automated approaches to Web service tasks such as service discovery,
selection, invocation, execution, composition, monitoring, and
recovery. This presentation will explain the concepts embodied in
Semantic Web Services, show how it ties in with developing industry
standards, and discuss some existing applications. A perspective will
be given on the status of work in this field, tools under development
to support its use, and next steps towards realizing its promise.
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LOGIC SEMINAR
on Thursday, 19 October 2006, 4:15pm-5:30pm
Room to be announced
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Constructive NF"
Thomas Forster
Cambridge
The classical version of Quine's set theory NF is known to be strong
but not known to be consistent. The strength emerges in some highly
bizarre proofs (Of the axiom of infinity and the negation of the axiom
of choice) and it is not clear what their constructive content is.
Naturally one wonders about the status of the constructive version of
the theory. Is there perhaps an easy proof of its consistency,
perhaps using realizability ideas arising from Specker's
equiconsistency proof for NF and a version of typed set theory?
Nothing of any significance has been published on constructive NF, and
this paper is the result of my attempts to prepare - in collaboration
with Randall Holmes - a background survey paper which would be useful
to people thinking of working on this topic.
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BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SEMINAR
on Friday, 20 October 2006, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"Will WE be witness to a true revolution in the mind sciences?"
David Presti
Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/NEU/prestid.html
Several profound revolutions have been part of the developmental
trajectory of contemporary science, in particular in the physical and
in the biological sciences. While cognitive science fosters a
multifaceted approach to the study of mind which has generated
substantial progress, no similar revolutions have yet taken place.
Indeed, current approaches to the mind-body problem may be failing to
take seriously phenomena that are very relevant to understanding the
neurobiology of mind.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 20 October 2006, 12:30pm-2:00pm
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Expressive Intelligence:
Artificial Intelligence, Games and New Media"
Michael Mateas
UC Santa Cruz
Artificial intelligence methods open up new possibilities in art and
entertainment, enabling the creation of believable characters with
rich personalities and emotions, interactive story systems that
incorporate player interaction into the construction of dynamic plots,
and interactive installations and sculptural works that are able to
perceive and respond to the human environment. At the same time as AI
opens up new fields of artistic expression, AI-based art itself
becomes a fundamental research agenda, posing and answering novel
research questions which would not be raised unless doing AI research
in the context of art and entertainment. I call this agenda, in which
AI research and art mutually inform each other, Expressive AI. These
ideas will be illustrated by looking at several current and past
projects, including the interactive drama Facade (released July 2005,
downloadable from http://www.interactivestory.net/ ).
About the Speaker: Michael Mateas' research in AI-based art and
entertainment combines science, engineering and design into an
integrated practice that pushes the boundaries of the conceivable and
possible in games and other interactive art forms. He is currently a
faculty member in the Computer Science department at UC Santa Cruz,
where he is involved in launching UCSC's game design degree, the first
such degree offered in the UC system. Prior to Santa Cruz, Michael was
a faculty member at The Georgia Institute of Technology, where he held
a joint appointment in the College of Computing and the School of
Literature, Communication and Culture, and founded the Experimental
Game Lab. With Andrew Stern, Michael released Facade, the world's
first AI-based interactive drama in July 2005. Facade has received
numerous awards, including top honors at the Slamdance independent
game festival (co-located with the Sundance film festival). Michael's
current research interests include game AI, particularly character and
story AI, ambient intelligence supporting non-task-based social
experiences, and dynamic game generation. Michael has presented papers
and exhibited artwork internationally including SIGGRAPH, the New York
Digital Salon, AAAI, the Game Developers Conference, ISEA, AIIDE, the
Carnegie Museum, and Te PaPa, the national museum of New
Zealand. Michael received his BS in Engineering Physics from the
University of the Pacific, his MS in Computer Science (emphasis in
Human-Computer Interaction) from Portland State University, and his
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Friday, 20 October 2006, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Semantics Wikis and Microformats:
Bringing the Semantic Web to Today's Web"
Adam Souzis
This talk will discuss Semantic Wikis and other light-weight and
user-friendly mechanisms for creating Semantic Web content, such as
microformats and emerging W3C standards such as RDF/A and GRDDL.
Semantic Wikis are wikis that let users add explicit semantics
(usually represented as RDF) to content. Microformats and RDF/A are
different approaches for annotating the content contained in a HTML
page with explicit semantics and GRDDL is a mechanism for describing
how to extract RDF out of arbitrary HTML or XML.
This talk will demonstrate these technologies using Rhizome, an open
source Wiki-like content management and delivery system that treats
all content, metadata, and structure as RDF and lets users edit any
RDF resource as they would a wiki page. Rhizome supports microformats,
RDF/A, and GRDDL through a process called "shredding": a flexible
framework for specifying rules for characterizing semi-structured
content with RDF and providing an ontology that can precisely describe
the relationship between the source content and the resulting
statements.
About the Speaker: Adam Souzis is the creator of the Rhizome project (
http://www.liminalzone.org/ ). Before that he was co-founder and CTO
of content distribution software company Kinecta Corp. For the last
decade Adam has been creating new Internet technology for startups
such as General Magic, NetObjects, and Stellent. Adam received his BA
in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.
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