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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 10 January 2007, vol. 22:17
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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10 January 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 17
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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 10 JANUARY 2007 TO 20 JANUARY 2007
WEDNESDAY, 10 JANUARY 2007
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [10-Jan-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium) (room change)
"The United Communication Transformation"
Anoop Gupta
Microsoft Corporation
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 11 JANUARY 2007
11:00am UC Berkeley HWNI Talk [11-Jan-07]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Imaging sensory neuronal activity:
from Caenorhabditis elegans to mammals"
Alfonso Apicella
CSHL
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
4:00pm PARC Forum [11-Jan-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Moving Research into the Marketplace"
Katharine Ku
Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [11-Jan-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Comparative Probability, Comparative Confirmation, and the
Conjunction Fallacy"
Branden Fitelson
UC Berkeley
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Neurobiology of Disease Seminar Series [11-Jan-07]
M104, Alway
"Dopamine and the motivation to eat"
Richard Palmiter
Biochemistry, U. of Washington
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
FRIDAY, 12 JANUARY 2007
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [12-Jan-07]
Gates B03 (HP Auditorium)
"Psychological Engagement in Complex Multiplayer Games and
Implications for Learning and Work"
Byron Reeves
Communication, Stanford
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [12-Jan-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Revealing inductive biases through iterated learning"
Tom Griffiths
UC Berkeley
http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [12-Jan-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Facilitating Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension"
Philip Hofmeister
Stanford University
(Dissertation Proposal)
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture [12-Jan-07]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Toward a Visual Prosthesis Based on Thalamic Microstimulation"
John Pezaris
Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
Abstract below
4:15pm CS545: InfoSeminar [12-Jan-07]
Gates B12
"Wavescope: A Data Management System for Signals"
Sam Madden
MIT
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
Abstract below
MONDAY, 15 JANUARY 2007 - University Holiday
4:00pm UC Berkeley Cognition, Brain, and Behavior [15-Jan-07]
Beach Room Tolman (Berkeley)
"Divided attention impairs across movement motor adaptation
while leaving within-movement feedback control intact"
Jordan Taylor
Bioengineering, Washington University
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/news/colloquia.html
TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2007
3:00pm CSLI Tea [16-Jan-07]
Cordura Hall Greenhouse
3:00pm UC Berkeley Lecture [16-Jan-07]
205 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Creativity Support Tools: A Grand Challenge for HCI Researchers"
Ben Shneierman
University of Maryland
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events/sl01162007
Abstract below
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar [16-Jan-07]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Labyrinth, an effective way to foil code injection attacks"
Ray Heasman
Technology Group Northwest
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
5:00pm UC Berkeley SSME Lecture [16-Jan-07]
202 South Hall (Berkeley)
"What is a Service?"
Bob Glusko
School of Information, Berkeley
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/events/dls/
6:00pm Symbolic Systems Dinner [16-Jan-07]
Wilbur East Dining Hall
Cliff Nass
Stanford University
(for students, Nass will only be lightly roasted)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
WEDNESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2007
10:00am Computer Forum Career Fair [17-Jan-07]
between Gates and Packard
for students
http://forum.stanford.edu/events/recruiting/fair
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [17-Jan-07]
Jordan Hall 420:041
Title to be announced
Nalini Ambady
Tufts University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [17-Jan-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"What the Second Generation Holds"
Philip Levis
Stanford University
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
4:15pm Morrison Institute Colloquium [17-Jan-07]
Herrin T-175
"Village Assembly, Language Speciation, and the Neutral Theory
in Indonesia"
R. Stephen Lansing
University of Arizona and Santa Fe Institute
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lansing/
http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/c.html
6:00pm Silicon Valley Web Guild [17-Jan-07]
Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View
"The Future of Site Design"
Bill Scott, Yahoo
Luke Kowalski, Oracle
http://www.webguild.org/
Abstract below
(fee)
THURSDAY, 18 JANUARY 2007
10:00am BASES Career Fair [18-Jan-07]
between Gates and Packard
for students
http://bases.stanford.edu/
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [18-Jan-07]
EJ228, SRI International
Title to be announced
Julie Weber
University of Michigan
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [18-Jan-07]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"Conceptual Analysis Naturalized: A Metaphilosophical Case Study"
Christopher Hitchcock
California Institute of Technology
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/people/faculty/cricky
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [18-Jan-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Cautious Cars & Cantankerous Kitchens:
Apply Cognitive Science to Everyday Life"
Don Norman
Northwestern University
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [18-Jan-07]
Packard 101
"The human genome: The granddaddy of noisy channels"
Gill Bejerano
UCSC and Stanford
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
4:15pm Neurobiology of Disease Seminar Series [18-Jan-07]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman B060
"Imaging Cingulate Connectivity in Major Depression:
Relevance to Disease Pathogenesis and Treatment Mechanisms"
Helen Mayberg
Psychiatry and Neurology, Emory University
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
FRIDAY, 19 JANUARY 2007
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [19-Jan-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Problems and solutions with 'simple' interactive devices"
Harold Thimbleby
University of Swansea
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [19-Jan-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Value or salience? Competing theories of nucleus accumbens function"
Jeff Cooper
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [19-Jan-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
Title to be announced
Keren Rice
University of Toronto
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
4:15pm CS545: InfoSeminar [19-Jan-07]
Gates B12
"The Cimple Project on Community Information Management"
AnHai Doan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 20 JANUARY 2007
all day Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics [20-Jan-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"(Un)Usual Events Fest"
Juergen Bohnemyer, Alice Gaby, Maria Polinsky, Keren
Rice, Caitlin Fausey, Tatiana Nikitina, Nola Stephens
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
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NOTES
One CSLI staffer was helping out in New Orleans during the winter
break. Some notes from him and others on their experience can be
found at http://www.scu.edu/alumni/involved/nolaimmersion.cfm
Also a bit out of area but CSLI Researcher, John Etchemendy, is
sponsoring Spanish Lit 47SI: Introduction to Basque Studies this
quarter Wednesdays, 4:30pm in Bldg. 250:251K.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"The Unified Communications Transformation"
Anoop Gupta
Microsoft Corporation
This is a transformational time for the communications industry. The
transformation is being driven by two factors: 1) the convergence of
all forms of communications to software-centric IP-based
communications, and 2) the ever increasing need in today"s global
business environment for people and teams to communicate and
collaborate on-demand, anywhere, on any device. As the number of ways
we can communicate with each other has increased (email, IM,
VoIP-telephony, SMS, audio-video-web conferencing), so has the chaos
of dealing with these silos of communications modalities. Microsoft"s
vision for Unified Communications is to break down these silos,
allowing people, teams and organizations to communicate simply and
effectively while integrating communications with their business
applications and processes. Key aspects of the vision are:
* Rich, presence-based, person-centric communications tools that
make it easier and more likely that we successfully connect with
people.
* Integration of communications modalities (e-mail, IM,
VoIP-telephony, SMS, audio/video/Web conferencing) into a seamless
and intuitive experience, to be able to connect with and
communicate with people in the best, most effective ways.
* Communications capabilities contextually available within everyday
applications (inside Office, portals, line-of-business
applications), thus becoming an integral part of business
processes.
* Information agent software and services that allow us to remain
connected to relevant people and in control despite overload of
incoming communications.
* Universal availability on PCs, phones and innovative mobile
devices, at work/home/on-the-road, federated enterprise-consumer
networks, and as on-premise and hosted service solutions.
* Lower TCO for communications solutions by leveraging existing IT
infrastructure and enhancing manageability and security for IT
professionals.
* An extensible UC platform that allows our partner ecosystem and
developers to further build/extend the core offerings to meet
customers' needs.
The talk will discuss the vision, show what we are able to deliver
today in solutions, and research challenges that will need to be
addressed for us to be able to fully deliver on this vision.
About the speaker: As corporate vice president of the Unified
Communications Group (UCG), Anoop Gupta leads Microsoft"s
client-server-service efforts to provide business communications
solutions (e-mail, IM, VoIP, unified messaging, audio/video/Web
conferencing) and platform components. His team is responsible for
Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Speech Server, Microsoft Office
Live Meeting, FrontBridge Services, and Microsoft Office
Communications products and business.
The charter for UCG is to deliver on the "Unified Communications"
vision, allowing people, teams and organizations to communicate simply
and effectively while integrating seamlessly with their business
applications and processes. Before leading the Unified Communications
Group, Gupta was technology assistant to Bill Gates, Microsoft"s
chairman. In that role, Gupta helped define the company"s strategy for
real-time collaboration. He also contributed to several initiatives
related to Windows Vista, the next release of the Microsoft Windows
operating system, then code-named "Longhorn." Gupta became Bill Gates"
technology assistant after working for four years at Microsoft
Research, where he led the Collaboration and Multimedia Group. His
team was responsible for development and transfer of many key
technologies to product groups.
Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Gupta was a professor of Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University for 11
years. His research at Stanford spanned computer architecture,
operating systems, programming languages, simulation and performance
debugging tools, and parallel applications. He also co-led, with John
Hennessy, the development of hardware and software for the Stanford
DASH multiprocessor, a highly concurrent shared-memory parallel
computer that had a large impact on the industry. At Stanford, Gupta
also led the Virtual Classroom project, which explored compression and
networking issues related to transmission of audio-video over the
Internet and its applications in education. In 1995, Gupta used the
seeds of the technology developed in that project to form VXtreme
Inc., a provider of technologies for streaming audio-visual content
over the Web, which Microsoft acquired in 1997.
Gupta has published more than 100 papers in major conferences and
journals, including several that have won awards. He has contributed
to more than 40 patents. With David Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh, he
co-authored the book "Parallel Computer Architecture: A
Hardware-Software Approach" in 1998. He received the National Science
Foundation (NSF) Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990, and he
held the Robert N. Noyce Faculty Scholar Chair at Stanford for 1993
and 1994. Before joining Stanford in 1987, Gupta was on the research
faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his Ph.D. in
computer science in 1986. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he
graduated, receiving the Presidents Gold Medal in 1980.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 11 January 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Moving Research into the Marketplace"
Katharine Ku
Stanford University
Stanford is a source of new technologies for companies interested in
developing revolutionary products. But technology transfer of early
stage technologies is a challenge. Stanford's 36 year history of
licensing university research results to industry presents an
interesting picture of some big wins and lots of "long tail"
inventions.
About the Speaker: Katharine Ku has been Director of the Office of
Technology Licensing (OTL) at Stanford University for over 15
years. She was Vice President, Business Development at Protein Design
Labs, Inc. from 1990-1991. She has also worked at Monsanto, Sigma
Chemical, University of California, and taught chemistry and basic
engineering courses. Ku has been active in the Licensing Executive
Society (LES), having served as Vice President of the Western Region
and Trustee. She also served as President of the Association of
University Technology Managers (AUTM) from 1988-90. She received the
AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing.
Ku has a B.S. Chemical Engineering (Cornell University), an M.S. in
Chem. Eng. (Washington University in St. Louis) and is a registered
patent agent.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 11 January 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Comparative Probability, Comparative Confirmation,
and the Conjunction Fallacy"
Branden Fitelson
UC Berkeley
http://fitelson.org/
The "conjunction fallacy" has been a key topic in discussions and
debates on the quality of human reasoning performance and its
limitations, yet the attempt of providing a satisfactory account of
the phenomenon has proven challenging. Here, we propose a new
analysis, suggesting that the fallacious probability judgments
experimentally observed are typically guided by sound assessments of
confirmation (or evidential support) relations. The proposed analysis
is shown robust (i.e., not depending on various alternative ways of
measuring degree of confirmation), consistent with available data, and
prompting further empirical investigations. The present approach
emphasizes the relevance of the notion of confirmation in the
assessments of the relationships between the normative and descriptive
study of inductive reasoning. All requisite historical, philosophical,
and psychological background will be provided during the talk. [Note:
this is joint work with psychologists Vincenzo Crupi and Katya Tentori
at the University of Trento.]
About the speaker: I am an assistant professor of Philosophy at the
University of California at Berkeley. I am a member of the Group in
Logic and Methodology of Science, the Institute of Cognitive and Brain
Sciences, and the Cognitive Science core faculty. I am also a
co-organizer (with Paolo Mancosu and John MacFarlane) of the Townsend
Center Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic,
Mathematics, and Science. My primary research and teaching areas are
in (or near) philosophy of science, logic (including automated
reasoning, which is why my Erds number is 4), epistemology, and
metaphysics. I am currently writing a book on confirmation theory
called (creatively) Confirmation Theory.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 12 January 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Psychological Engagement in Complex Multiplayer Games and
Implications for Learning and Work"
Byron Reeves
Communication, Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu/~reeves/
Online multiplayer games and virtual environments engage people with
features, some new and some familiar, that heighten psychological
involvement in mediated interactions. Important features includes
new forms of self-representation, virtual economies and scoring
systems, rich narratives where people play defined roles, and voice
and chat communication systems that are configurable for simultaneous
public and private interactions. New experimental research will be
presented that shows the effects of game features on psychological
arousal and learning. Ideas and new software will be presented that
apply games features (especially features of self-representation,
collaboration and virtual economies) to real work in ways that may
increase business productivity.
About the Speaker: Byron Reeves is Paul C. Edwards Professor in the
Department of Communication at Stanford and Co-Director of the new
Stanford H-STAR Institute (Human Sciences and Technology Advanced
Research). He is also faculty director of the Stanford Media X
Program that is part of the H-STAR Institute. He does experimental
research on the psychological processing of media in the areas of
attention, emotions, learning, and physiological responses, and is
co-author of The Media Equation: How People Respond to Computer,
Television and New Media Like Real People and Places. His research
has been the basis for new media products for companies such as
Microsoft, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, in the areas of voice interfaces,
automated dialogue systems and conversational agents. He is currently
working on the applications of multi-player online games to the
conduct of serious work.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 12 January 2007, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"Facilitating Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension"
Philip Hofmeister
Stanford University
(Dissertation Proposal)
Memory retrieval is an integral part of language comprehension. It is
constantly necessary to remember what was said previously for purposes
of building syntactic structures, interpreting anaphors, etc. The ease
and success of retrieving this information from memory depends upon an
array of factors: how long ago it was studied, the context in which it
appeared, what occurred between the initial exposure and the memory
retrieval, to name just a few.
This talk addresses how the amount of information in a linguistic
expression affects the recall of that expression. Evidence from
multiple self-paced reading studies supports the view that the amount
of information encoded in linguistic entities impacts processing times
at retrieval points in a variety of complex wh-dependency
constructions, e.g. multiple wh-questions, weak island violations,
CNPC violations, and nested dependencies. On the basis of this
experimental data, I propose that linguistic elements that encode more
information can aid processing by facilitating memory retrieval of
those elements later. In other words, richer linguistic descriptions
of discourse entities make recall of those entities easier (all else
being equal). I consider various cognitive explanations for the memory
facilitation, i.e. reduced interference, distinctiveness, increased
study time, and activation boosting.
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UC BERKELEY OXYOPIA LECTURE
on Friday, 12 January 2007, 4:00pm
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
"Toward a Visual Prosthesis Based on Thalamic Microstimulation"
John Pezaris
Research Fellow in Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Electronic retinal prostheses represent a potentially effective
approach for restoring some degree of sight in blind patients with
retinal degeneration. Functional restoration of sight would require
hundreds to thousands of electrodes effectively stimulating remaining
neurons in the retina.
The field of visual prostheses has concentrated on two targets for
development of an artificial device for restoration of sight, the
retina and the primary visual cortex. The lateral geniculate nucleus
of the thalamus (LGN), the relay station between these two areas, has
been ignored largely because of the difficulty of surgical approach.
The recent development of deep brain stimulation techniques for
addressing pathologies of the midbrain has opened surgical access to
the thalamus, and motivates a reconsideration of targets for a visual
prosthesis.
With this background, we have performed a series of experiments in an
animal model to demonstrate proof of concept for a visual prosthesis
based on thalamic microstimulation. To assess the characteristics of
electrically-evoked percepts, we performed a study of LGN electrical
microstimulation in awake behaving macaques, using a behavioral report
to assess percept size and location. We used a simple center-out
visually guided saccade paradigm where animals were required to
foveate a central point and then saccade to briefly presented target
stimuli.
While most targets (and all fixation points) were presented on a
computer screen, some targets were presented via electrical
stimulation applied to fine wire bundle electrodes placed in the LGN.
Trials where the target appeared on the screen were used as a baseline
and compared against trials where the target was presented through
electrical stimulation.
Data were collected from three hemispheres of two macaques. After
being trained on screen targets alone, each animal immediately
generalized to the electrical targets in the task, consistently
saccading to a point in space which corresponded to the location of
the previously mapped receptive field of cells at the electrode tip.
Saccade latencies and accuracies to electrical targets were consistent
with those to screen targets, suggestive of a perceptual rather than
motor effect. This was verified through a small number of
double-saccade experiments.
We conclude that the LGN presents a target for a visual prosthesis
with substantial potential for additional investigation. We will
briefly review additional experiments performed along this line of
inquiry, touch upon some of the anticipated scientific insights, and
outline a path for the development of a device.
Supported by: Kirsch Foundation, Dana/Mahoney Foundation, Campbell and
Hall Charity Fund, NIH R01 EY12815.
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CS545: InfoSeminar
on Friday, 12 January 2007, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Gates B12
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
"Wavescope: A Data Management System for Signals"
Sam Madden
MIT
http://db.lcs.mit.edu/madden/
Sensors capable of sensing phenomena at high data rates on the order
of tens to hundreds of thousands of samples per second are now widely
deployed in many industrial, civil engineering, scientific,
networking, and medical applications. In aggregate, these sensors
easily generate several million samples per second that must be
processed within milliseconds or seconds. The required processing
typically involves a combination of both event stream and signal
processing operations.
In this talk, I will describe the architecture and implementation of
WaveScope, a system that combines these two different classes of
processing functions. WaveScope aims to improve both programmer
productivity, by making it easy to develop user-defined processing
functions, and achieves high performance, processing several million
samples per second on a standard PC. It uses three key ideas to meet
its goals: a new basic data type, the signal segment, to efficiently
manipulate isochronous collections of sensor samples; a new language,
WaveScript, that makes it easy to write user-defined functions that
combine event stream processing and signal processing logic; and an
efficient memory manager and novel scheduler for high performance
execution. Our experiments over three real-world
applications---acoustic monitoring, pipeline leak detection, and
network monitoring---suggest that WaveScope is a viable platform for
an emerging class of very high rate streaming applications.
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UC BERKELEY LECTURE
on Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
205 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events/sl01162007
"Creativity Support Tools: A Grand Challenge for HCI Researchers"
Ben Shneierman
University of Maryland
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/
Creativity Support Tools is a research topic with high risk but
potentially very high payoff. The goal is to develop improved software
and user interfaces that empower diverse users in the sciences and
arts to be more productive, and more innovative. Potential users
include a combination of software and other engineers, diverse
scientists, product and graphic designers, and architects, as well as
writers, poets, musicians, new media artists, and many others.
Enhanced interfaces could enable more effective searching of
intellectual resources, improved collaboration among teams, and more
rapid discovery processes. These advanced interfaces should also
provide potent support in goal setting, speedier exploration of
alternatives, improved understanding through visualization, and better
dissemination of results (demos will be shown). For creative endeavors
that require composition of novel artifacts (computer programs,
engineering diagrams, symphonies, animations, artwork), enhanced
interfaces could facilitate rapid exploration of alternatives, prevent
unproductive choices, and enable easy backtracking.
Two key human factors issues are (1) Formulation of guidelines for
design of creativity support tools (2) Novel research methods to
assess creativity support tools. These issues will be the core of the
June 2007 Conference on Creativity and Cognition in Washington, DC.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007
About the Speaker: Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of
Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer
Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Advanced
Computer Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was
elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and
a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award
in 2001.
Ben is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer
and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface:
Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th ed. 2004). He
pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of
Hyperties, a precursor to the web. His move into information
visualization helped spawn the successful company Spotfire. He is a
technical advisor for the HiveGroup. With S. Card and J. Mackinlay, he
co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to
Think (1999). His books include Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the
New Computing Technologies (MIT Press), which won the IEEE
Distinguished Literary Contribution award in 2004.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"What the Second Generation Holds"
Philip Levis
CSL, Stanford University
Moore's law has led to a new class of computing device, wireless
sensor networks. Made up of many nodes, most of which have very
limited energy and resources, sensor networks have the potential to
transform a wide range of fields, such as structural health
monitoring, resource management, scientific research, and public
health. This different application pull, combined with extreme power
limitations, leads a sensor node operating system to take very
different approaches than traditional computing classes.
Over the past few years, TinyOS has grown from a small research
project to the dominant operating system for low power wireless sensor
networks. In this tutorial, we will detail TinyOS and how the novel
constraints of sensor networks led to its design. Beginning with early
versions, we will describe how the open source TinyOS project has
evolved in the past and its future directions, such as the formation
of an open TinyOS alliance made up of industry and academics and the
formation of working groups to tackle technical challenges the
community faces. We will cover the role TinyOS plays in current
deployed sensor networks, the emerging network architecture within the
TinyOS cloud, and what implications these clouds have on current and
future Internet systems.
About the speaker: Philip Alexander Levis is an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He
researches wireless sensor network systems, protocols, and
languages. His work, used by thousands of research groups worldwide,
includes the TinyOS operating system, the Mat\'e application specific
virtual machine framework, the nesC language, dissemination protocols,
the TOSSIM simulator, and sensor network architectures.
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SILICON VALLEY WEB GUILD
on Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 6:00pm
Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View
http://www.webguild.org/
"The Future of Site Design"
For web site and web app design, 2006 has been a stellar year and 2007
promises to be even better. Hear what the brightest and most
cutting-edge designers in the field are saying about the future of web
design. This panel will discuss trends, innovations, predictions, and
the outlook for web site and app design for 2007. The panel will also
address some of the best practices, principles, and methodologies in
design including new age tools and technologies such as Web 2.0,
design patterns libraries, and AJAX, as well as the reinvention of
CSS, Flash, and much more. Get a head start on the new year. Don't
miss it!
Online registration for members $10 and non-members $15.
On-site registration for members $15 and non-members $20.
About the Speakers: Bill Scott, Ajax Evangelist & Design Manager,
Yahoo! Bill Scott is the Yahoo! Ajax Evangelist and a Design Manager
for Yahoo!'s recently released Design Pattern Library. Bill works
closely with teams throughout Yahoo! to spread the goodness of "rich
and sane" design for Ajax solutions. Before joining Yahoo! Bill
co-founded Rico ( http://openrico.org/ ), an opensource Ajax framework
while also founding a User Experience Team, architecting a JSP/Struts
Web framework and a Java Swing framework for Sabre. Bill's 20+ years
of experience in user interface production spans from the lowest to
the highest levels across desktop and web. At the lowest level:
assembly language line buffer algorithms, 3D graphics libraries,
mapping systems built from scratch and numerous widget
libraries. Applications include: highly interactive game development
(Macintosh GATO), military war gaming, IDE tools. In the design world:
interaction design, rapid prototyping, managing user experience teams,
and creating design pattern libraries.
Luke Kowalski, Corporate UI Architect, Oracle: Luke Kowalski helps
with technology policy and serves as the corporate UI architect at
Oracle. His role bridges the user interface (UI) design groups at
Oracle, and he works as an evangelist for effective UI technology, on
legal aspects of user interfaces, business context and partnerships,
as well as cross-divisional information architecture
integration. Before coming to Oracle, he worked for various startups
as director of UI and Web, as well as for Netscape's Server and
ECommerce divisions. He holds several UI patents, a CPE Certification,
and serves as an ISO representative for US through ANSI. His
educational background includes advanced degrees from UTA, Pratt
Institute, and Columbia University.
Plus other speakers to be announced
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 18 January 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Cautious Cars & Cantankerous Kitchens:
Apply Cognitive Science to Everyday Life"
Don Norman
Northwestern University
Cautious cars? We already have them. Cantankerous kitchens? Not yet,
but they are coming. Our products are getting more intelligent and
more demanding. Not only do they tell us what routes to take when we
drive, but also how to drive. In fact, if they don't like our driving,
they are starting to take control. When one model of the Lexus senses
a potential collision, it looks at the driver through its TV camera on
the steering column and, if the driver is not paying attention to the
road, it brakes.
The future is one of increasing encroachment of automation into our
lives, especially in the home and automobile. But the machines are not
intelligent; the intelligence is in the minds of the designers, people
who are not present when the unexpected happens. There is a way to
build systems so as to maximize utility and pleasure while minimizing
the dangers and frustrations.
In this talk I will explore how principles from Cognitive Science can
be used to make devices that fit better into our lives.
About the Speaker: Don Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman
Group, Professor at Northwestern University, and former VP of Apple
Computer. He was the founding chair of the department of cognitive
science at the University of California, San Diego, a founder of the
Cognitive Science society, where he served as Chair and editor of its
journal. He serves on many advisory boards, including Chicago's
Institute of Design, Encyclopedia Britannica, and the department of
industrial engineering in Korea's KAIST. In 2006 he was awarded the
Benjamin Franklin medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. He has
honorary degrees from the University of Padova (Italy) and the
Technical University Delft (the Netherlands) and is the author of "The
Design of Everyday Things" and "Emotional Design." His newest book,
"The Design of Future Things," discusses the role that automation will
play in such everyday places as the home, and automobile. He lives at
http://www.jnd.org/ , which is located in Palo Alto half the year,
Evanston IL the other half.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 19 January 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Problems and solutions with 'simple' interactive devices"
Harold Thimbleby
University of Swansea
http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/~csharold
Even simple interactive devices have many usability and safety
problems. This talk reviews some of those problems, and how they can
be detected either in design (using formal methods) or by getting
feedback from users (using new digital story telling techniques).
About the Speaker: Harold Thimbleby is Professor of Computer Science
at Swansea University, Wales. He is Director of the Future Interaction
Technology Lab. His latest book, Press On (MIT Press), will be
published in 2007.
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CS545: INFOSEMINAR
on Friday, 19 January 2007, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Gates B12
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
"The Cimple Project on Community Information Management"
AnHai Doan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
In this talk I will give an overview of Cimple, a joint project
between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yahoo! Research.
Cimple develops a generic solution that crawls, extracts, and
integrates data, to build structured "portals" for online
communities. I will first describe the envisioned working of Cimple
and our prototype, DBlife, which is a structured portal being
developed for the database research community. Next, I describe the
technical challenges underlying Cimple and our solution approaches.
Finally, I discuss the connections between Cimple and research in data
integration, information extraction, human computation, and Web data
management. More information about Cimple can be found at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/projects/cimple
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