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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 13 December 2006, vol. 22:15
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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13 December 2006 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 15
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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 13 DECEMBER 2006 TO 5 JANUARY 2007
WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2006
6:00pm Silicon Valley Web Guild [13-Dec-06]
Google (900 Alta Avenue, Mountain View, CA)
"Advanced Search Marketing"
Dave Roth, Director of Search Engine Marketing, Yahoo Inc.
Jessie Stricchiola, Founder, Alchemist Media
Barbara Coll, Founder & Search Specialist, WebMama
Massimo Burgio, Search Specialist, Global Search Interactive
http://www.webguild.org/
(registration and fee)
Abstract below
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [13-Dec-06]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Recent Advances in Data Mining in the Aerospace Domain"
Ashok N. Srivastava
Intelligent Data Understanding Group Lead, NASA Ames Research Center
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2006
1:00pm CITRIS Symposium 2006: Engineering a Better World [14-Dec-06]
Bechtel Engineering Center (Berkeley)
http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/citris/
Information below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [14-Dec-06]
EJ228, SRI International
"Unsupervised Learning with Bregman Divergences:
Clustering, Co-clustering, and Beyond"
Arindam Banerjee
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [14-Dec-06]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"The Archimedes Codex:
the Many Layers of the World's Greatest Palimpsest"
Reviel Netz
Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2006
10:00am Berkeley Information Access Seminar [15-Dec-06]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"A Scalable Front-stage Service Application for a Non-profit
Tutoring Agency"
Lois Wei
"Defining Neighborhoods with Distinct Boundaries"
Bernt Wahl
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is296a-1/f06/schedule.html
Abstracts below
10:00am Berkeley Intel Research Seminar [15-Dec-06]
Intel Research Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck, Ste. 1300
"High Resolution Imaging from Underwater Robotic Vehicles"
Hanumant Singh
Deep Submergence Lab
http://www.intel-research.net/berkeley/Seminars.asp
Abstract below
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NOTES
Stanford University will be mostly closed from 20 December 2006 to 1
January 2007. The winter quarter officially starts on 8 January.
Please enjoy the season.
The Blood Center will be open and, as a large chunk of its usual supply
of donors (students) are away, please consider donating if you are
eligible. http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/
Annoyed by the 'click here' or color contrasts that don't contrast on
web pages or web pages that are only readable under one browser,
Stanford has started a Stanford Online Accessibility Program (SOAP) in
hopes of improving online accessibility of Stanford sites by promoting
Universal Accessibility and web standards compliance. The website
http://soap.stanford.edu/ has more information and links to various
gadgets to aid web designers. In addition the Program provides
services such as online accessibility audits of your Stanford web
pages, consulting when developing your Stanford web pages and testing
facilities.
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SILICON VALLEY WEB GUILD
on Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 6:00pm
Google (900 Alta Avenue, Mountain View, CA)
http://www.webguild.org/
"Advanced Search Marketing"
Panel
Search Marketing is a subject area that is becoming increasingly
sophisticated everyday; yet, it is still far from maturity as a
channel and a medium. Today's advanced Search Marketer needs to
integrate search into the overall marketing mix to design strategies,
processes, and metrics, gain cutting-edge knowledge, and have access
to tools to improve Search Marketing performance. WebGuild's December
event will delve into these areas and will offer practical advice and
tips for successful Search Marketing strategies and operations.
About the Speakers
Dave Roth, Director of Search Engine Marketing, Yahoo Inc. David Roth
is the Director of Search Engine Marketing at Yahoo! Inc. In this
capacity David guides SEM advertising strategy across all Yahoo!
properties, overseeing SEM programs and establishing internal best
practices and reporting standards. He has seven years of SEM
experience, working most recently with Carat Fusion, a full-service
advertising agency, as the Director of Search Engine Marketing in the
San Francisco office. Previously, Roth worked with Avenue A/Razorfish,
eonMedia and Inceptor. Roth holds an MBA from U.C. San Diego, and a BA
in Sociology from U.C. Berkeley.
Jessie Stricchiola, Founder, Alchemist Media As the founder of
Alchemist, I personally have been doing high end search engine
optimization since 1997. For the past five years, I have been a guest
speaker at each of the search industry's leading conferences
worldwide, including Incisive/Jupiter Media's Search Engine
Strategies, WebmasterWorld's World of Search, and Ad:Tech
conferences. I have also been interviewed by numerous trade
publications and media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, Wired Magazine, The Washington Post,
SearchEngineWatch.com, CNET.com, CNBC, NPR, BBC, and others.
Additionally, I am one of the original founders of SEMPO, the Search
Engine Marketing Professional Organization, and served two years on
the Board of Directors for the organization.
Barbara Coll, Founder & Search Specialist, WebMama Barbara C. Coll
founded WebMama.com, Inc. in 1996 to provide online businesses with
high quality, qualified lead generation for their websites. Since
founding the company, Barbara and her team have executed low-cost,
high-gain methods of internet marketing. The company now exclusively
focuses on search engine marketing for B2B and B2C businesses.
Ms. Coll is a recognized expert on search engine marketing (SEM). She
is familiar with the product directions and general health of the
search engines, and has expertise and opinions about paid and organic
search marketing. Her knowledge extends to how search engines use and
display 'fresh content' (blogs, rss, video, etc) and why her clients
need to get involved in these marketing tactics.
Moderator: Massimo Burgio, Search Specialist, Global Search
Interactive Massimo Burgio is a frequent speaker at the Search Engine
Strategies Conferences and co-Chairs the Global Committee at Search
Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) where he is also
the Chairman of the Sempo Latino Working Group. He contributed to the
start-up and launch of some of Italy's biggest Internet consumer
portals such as Kataweb, Wind & RAI Net. He then served as
Business/Marketing Director for two of Italy's top creative
interactive agencies, Deepend Rome & Xister. Massimo then set up a
start-up that focuses on the integration of search/interactive
channels in campaigns with a worldwide reach, serving worldwide brands
such as Barilla, European School of Economics, Warner Bros, and FIAT
Iveco. Massimo received a Degree in Marketing Communications from the
University of Rome, with further studies at the U of Hertfordshire and
at the Universidad de Oviedo, and post-graduate courses in Integrated
Marketing Communications at Berkeley.
Register online: free for members, $15 for non-members.
Register at the door: $10 for members, $20 for non-members.
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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"Recent Advances in Data Mining in the Aerospace Domain"
Ashok N. Srivastava
Intelligent Data Understanding Group Lead, NASA Ames Research Center
http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/tech/groups/index.php?gid=5&ta=1
The presentation will include a technical discussion of recent
algorithmic advances made to address key challenges in text mining and
data mining of heterogeneous data sources. Several new areas of
algorithmic developments will be discussed, including the use of
Mariana, a hybrid Support Vector Machine and Markov Chain Monte Carlo
optimization system for automatic text classification, the Inductive
Monitoring System and Orca for automatic detection of anomalies in
continuous data streams, and "sequenceMiner," a new algorithm based on
ideas from bioinformatics that discovers anomalies in discrete
sequences. The value of these advances will be shown through the use
of Aviation data as well as data from Space Shuttle systems.
About the Speaker: Ashok N. Srivastava, Ph.D. is the leader of the
Intelligent Data Understanding Group at NASA Ames Research Center. The
group performs research and development of advanced machine learning
and data mining algorithms in support of NASA missions. He is the lead
researcher for numerous programs at NASA, including those involved
with improving aviation safety, development of new technologies to
improve the safety of next generation propulsion systems, fundamental
studies in the earth sciences to understand climate change, and
studies in astrophysics regarding the large-scale structure of the
universe. Ashok was Deputy Technical Area Lead for the Discovery and
Systems Health department at NASA Ames Research Center until May
2006. In this role, he co-managed a research department of over 70
Ph.D. and M.S. level researchers in Computer Science, Artificial
Intelligence, and Systems Science. Ashok has given seminars in
numerous international conferences and recently gave a televised
presentation of his work. Ashok has a range of business experience
including serving as Senior Director at Blue Martini Software and
Senior Consultant at IBM. In these roles, he led engagements with
numerous Fortune Global 500 companies including Bank of America,
Chrysler Corporation, Saks 5th Avenue, Sprint, Chevron, and LG
Semiconductor. He has won numerous awards, including the NASA
Distinguished Achievement Award, NASA Group Achievement Awards, the
IBM Golden Circle Award, the Department of Education Merit Fellowship,
and several fellowships from the University of Colorado. Ashok holds a
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at
Boulder.
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CITRIS SYMPOSIUM 2006
on Thursday, 14 December 2006, 1:00pm - 5:30pm
Bechtel Engineering Center (Berkeley)
http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/citris/
"Engineering a Better World"
Panel, presentations and reception
"The Role of University Research in California's Future" featuring
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau
Richard Blum, Vice Chairman, UC Regents
Vice Chancellor Beth Burnside
CITRIS Director Shankar Sastry
David Tenhenhouse, Vice President, A9.com
Dean Orville Schell, moderator
Faculty presentations:
"Engineering a Better World" by CITRIS Director Shankar Sastry
"Meeting the Global Energy Challenge" by CITRIS Chief Scientist Paul Wright
"Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions" by Prof. Eric Brewer
CITRIS student exhibitions and demonstrations.
Register by rsvping to CITRIS_RSVP@coe.berkeley.edu
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 14 December 2006, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Unsupervised Learning with Bregman Divergences:
Clustering, Co-clustering, and Beyond"
Arindam Banerjee
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~banerjee/
Unsupervised learning methods are becoming increasingly important due
to the explosive growth in data collection and the diversity of the
data being collected. Several important emerging applications,
especially in Web 2.0, involve multi-aspect and relational data. In
this talk, I will describe a family of unsupervised learning methods
based on Bregman divergences appropriate for such diverse and
potentially multi-aspect data. A fundamental relationship between
Bregman divergences and exponential family distributions allow the
development of probabilistic versions of these unsupervised models. We
demonstrate the efficacy and diverse applicability of such models on a
wide variety of domains, such as text clustering, topic modeling,
recommendation systems, and missing value prediction. Finally, I will
show how our systematic treatment has led to progress in one of the
most challenging open problems in information theory.
About the Speaker: Arindam Banerjee is an assistant professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research interests are in Machine
Learning, Data Mining, Information Theory, Convex Analysis,
Computational Games, and their applications to complex real world
learning problems including problems in Text and Web Mining, Social
Networks, and Bioinformatics.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 14 December 2006, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"The Archimedes Codex:
the Many Layers of the World's Greatest Palimpsest"
Reviel Netz
Stanford University
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 13th century Greek prayerbook in which,
just barely visible, one can see traces of what, it turns out, is the
oldest surviving evidence for the works of Archimedes. Sold in
auction, 8 years ago, for 2 million dollars, this unique manuscript
has been the subject of an intensive collaborative project, involving
both scientists and scholars from around the world. How did the works
of Archimedes get buried so deep? What did we find as we uncovered
them? The talk leads through three major breakthroughs, based on
UV-Light, Multispectral Imaging, and X-Ray Fluorescence - revealing
Archimedes' surprising insight into both finite and infinite methods
(which, ultimately, underlie the techniques used in deciphering him).
About the Speaker: Reviel Netz is Professor of Classics at
Stanford. He publishes with Cambridge the first full-fledged English
translation of the works of Archimedes (Vol. 1 of this 3-volume
publication was published in 2004), and, with Nigel Wilson, he
co-edits the Archimedes Palimpsest. His many publications touch on
various aspects of ancient mathematics as a cognitive and aesthetic
system (e.g. The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: a Study in
Cognitive History, Cambridge 1999, Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and
the Alexandrian Aesthetic, Cambridge in Press).
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:00am - 12 noon
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is296a-1/f06/schedule.html
(Final Progress Reports, note special time)
"Berkeley Academics Management System (BAMS)"
Lois Wei
The goal of BAMS is to complete the design and implementation of an
application for handling online appointment schedule matching, and
payment reminder processing. BAMS is specifically designed for
Berkeley Academics, a local tutoring agency that is in the process of
expanding to several locations. The application will also provide
business intelligence service such as business progress tracking, data
and trend analysis, and dynamic report generation. BAMS is an
extension of a 2006 Master's Final Project titled Berkeley Academics
Information Redesign.
Lois will report on the user studies conducted to determine
application features and requirements; the different web technologies
explored to possibly replace the current PHP based application; and
the progress made on the implementation of an automatic schedule
matching system that allows for human intervention.
"Who Is In My Neighborhood? Defining Neighborhoods with
Distinct Boundaries & Identifying Localized Context"
Bernt Wahl
Cities are generally broken down into sub-regions for data
analysis based on zip code rather than neighborhood characteristics.
Many data users might want to target neighborhoods based on
socioeconomic classes. The ability to precisely delineate neighborhood
boundary brings substantial commercial benefits. However, neighborhood
boundary data for cities are not commercially available. Using
multiple criteria, we developed a new dataset which identifies
neighborhood boundary for 11,000 neighborhoods for the 150 largest
cities in the U.S. on well-established GIS principles. This dataset
has many potential uses by search engine companies, real estate firms,
governmental agencies, researchers, and others.
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BERKELEY INTEL RESEARCH SEMINAR
on Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:00am-11:00am
Intel Research Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck, Ste. 1300
http://www.intel-research.net/berkeley/Seminars.asp
"High Resolution Imaging from Underwater Robotic Vehicles"
Hanumant Singh
Deep Submergence Lab
A number of marine biological, chemical, geological,geophysical and
archaeological applications are constrained by our ability to
repeatably and reliably access and map the seafloor. This talk
outlines some of the fundamental physical constraints associated with
imaging underwater. We examine optical imaging underwater and in this
context look at the role of color, photomosaicing, and 3D image
reconstruction. We also look at high resolution sonar mapping in the
context of real underwater robotic platforms. Finally we examine the
future role of multiple vehicles in oceanographic science. We present
our results with real data collected from a multitude of research
expeditions conducted across the globe in diverse Applications ranging
from marine habitat characterization to the mapping of ancient
shipwrecks.
About the Speaker: Hanumant Singh completed degrees in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science and lots of course work in Philosophy
from George Mason University in 1989. He then went on to complete a
Ph.D. in the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint
Program in 1995. He is currently a scientist WHOI in the Deep
Submergence Lab where his interests are centered around underwater
imaging and underwater vehicles.
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