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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 17 January 2007, vol. 22:18
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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17 January 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 18
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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 17 JANUARY 2007 TO 26 JANUARY 2007
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)
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Talk [17-Jan-07]
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
"An insider's perspective to the evolution of the iPod"
DJ Novotney
Sr. Manager of iPod New Products, Apple Inc
http://sfbayacm.org/
THURSDAY, 18 JANUARY 2007
10:00am BASES Career Fair [18-Jan-07]
between Gates and Packard
for students
http://bases.stanford.edu/
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [18-Jan-07]
Cordura Hall 100
"Building Blocks of Graphics come in Syntactic Categories"
Yuri Engelhardt
Media Studies, University of Amsterdam,
http://www.yuriweb.com/
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [18-Jan-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Entropy-Driven Online Active Learning for Interactive
Calendar Management"
Julie Weber
University of Michigan
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [18-Jan-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Got Game? Exploring the contexts of collaborative
experience, social awareness, and gameplay"
Tina Blaine
Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
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
Abstract below
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 noon Logical Methods in the Humanities [19-Jan-07]
Bldg. 60:62J
"Generic absoluteness and the Continuum Problem"
John Steel
Berkeley
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
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
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [19-Jan-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Introduction. 'Memories for Life'"
Clifford Lynch
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
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
"Place of articulation neutralization: evidence for universal
phonological markedness?"
Keren Rice
University of Toronto
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
4:00pm SRI CSL Seminar Series [19-Jan-07]
EK255, SRI International
"Cryptographically justifying symbolic analyses of security protocols"
Jonathan Herzog
Naval Postgraduate School
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
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/
Abstract below
MONDAY, 22 JANUARY 2007
TUESDAY, 23 JANUARY 2007
4:15pm Logic Seminar [23-Jan-07]
Bldg. 380:380W (math corner)
"Proof Search Tree and Cut Elimination"
G. Mints
Stanford
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
5:30pm Syntax Workshop [23-Jan-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Two VP anaphors in Danish"
Line Mikkelsen
UC Berkeley
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 24 JANUARY 2007
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [24-Jan-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
Title to be announced
Kristin McDonnell
LimeLife, Inc
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 25 JANUARY 2007
12 noon Berkeley On the Future of Scholarly Communication Seminar [25-Jan-07]
220 Stevens Hall (Berkeley)
"The Three-Legged Stool of Scholarly Communications: For-Profit,
Not-for-Profit, and Open Access Publishing"
Joseph Esposito
Portable CEO
http://cshe.berkeley.edu/events/?all&s=3
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [25-Jan-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Cognitive Crash Dummies: Where we are and where we're going"
Bonnie John
Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 26 JANUARY 2007
all day CIS/STLR Symposium [26-Jan-07]
Stanford Law School
"Beyond a Physical Conception of the 4th Amendment:
Search and Seizure in the Digital Age"
http://stlr.stanford.edu/symposium.html
Information below
all day Santa Clara University Symposium [26-Jan-07]
San Jose Museum of Art
"Cross-Border Legal Challenges in High Tech Law"
panel
http://www.scu.edu/techlaw/symposium.html
registration required and restricted to lawyers, academics or
government employees
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [26-Jan-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
Title to be announced
Bonnie John
HCI Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [26-Jan-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"What, Where, When and Who"
Ray Larson, Michael Buckland and others
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [26-Jan-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Strategies in learning vocabulary in new languages:
The role of early experience"
Asha Smith
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
4:15pm CS545: InfoSeminar [26-Jan-07]
Gates B12
"Testing Database Applications"
Donald Kossman
ETH (visiting Stanford)
http://www.dbis.ethz.ch/people/donaldk
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
7:00pm Long Now Foundation Talk [26-Jan-07]
Cowell Theater Fort Mason Conference Center, San Francisco
"Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs"
Philip Tetlock
author of "Expert Political Judgment"
http://www.longnow.org/
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NOTE
Linguists will want to check out the revived Sesquipedalian at
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/newsletter/
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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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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 18 January 2007, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"Building Blocks of Graphics come in Syntactic Categories"
Yuri Engelhardt
Media Studies, University of Amsterdam,
http://www.yuriweb.com/
Graphics -- such as diagrams, maps, charts, and information
visualizations -- have often been connected with the concept of
"graphic language" or "visual language". Assuming that something like
"grammar" is a useful notion in the graphic domain, are such "visual
grammars" in any way similar to linguistic grammars, in that they are
based on some set of distinct syntactic categories of building blocks,
and on rules for the combination of these syntactic categories?
Building partly on the work of Clive Richards and Jock Mackinlay, I
propose such a set of distinct syntactic categories of building blocks
of graphics, each category with its own combination rules. I claim,
and will try to show, that this set of syntactic categories applies to
every visual representation of information. Reminiscent of syntactic
categories of linguistic constituents, the proposed syntactic
categories of graphic constituents can help us to analyze how we
interpret and how we create visual representations.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 18 January 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Entropy-Driven Online Active Learning for Interactive Calendar Management"
Julie Weber
University of Michigan
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~weberjs/
We present a new algorithm for active learning embedded within an
interactive calendar management system that learns its users' scheduling
preferences. When the system receives a meeting request, the active
learner selects a set of alternative solutions to present to the user;
learning is then achieved by noting the user's preferences for the
selected schedule over the others presented. To achieve the goals of
presenting solutions that meet the user's needs while enhancing the
preference-learning process, we introduce a new approach to active
learning that makes online decisions about the technique to use in
selecting the schedules to present in response to each meeting request.
The decision is based on the entropy of the available options: a highly
diverse set of possible solutions calls for a selection technique that
chooses instances that are different from one another, maximizing
coarse-grained learning, whereas a set of possible solutions containing
little diversity is met with a selection strategy that promotes
fine-grained learning. We present experimental results that indicate that
our entropy-driven approach provides a better balance between learning
efficiency and user satisfaction than static selection techniques.
About the Speaker: Julie S. Weber is a doctoral candidate at the
University of Michigan working with Professor Martha E. Pollack in the
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the area of Adapative
Interaction. She received her Masters degree at Tufts University in
2004 and her Bachelors degree at Wellesley College in 2003. Her other
research interests lie in assistive technology for the elderly and
cognitively impaired, and outside of research she enjoys playing
recreational soccer and frisbee. Last summer Julie interned at Google
in New York where she applied machine learning techniques to sentiment
analysis on the web. She is looking forward to teaching computer
science to young students this summer at Michigan's Camp Caen.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 18 January 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Got Game? Exploring the contexts of collaborative experience,
social awareness, and gameplay"
Tina Blaine
Carnegie-Mellon University, Entertainment Technology Center
The pervasiveness of video games and interactive entertainment has
become one of the most significant social phenomena of Western
culture. We are witnessing the emergence and acceptance of
breakthrough interfaces, controllers, and collaborative experiences
with new models for gameplay. The convergence of video games,
immersive environments, handheld electronics, musical interaction and
experimental education give rise to new opportunities and definitions
of entertainment. This Forum presentation will cover interactive
entertainment research projects at Carnegie Mellon University, as well
as exemplary commercial applications that further extend the
boundaries and social impact of gaming.
About the Speaker: Long inspired by global traditions and spontaneous
music-making, Tina Blaine (also known by her stage name, Bean) teaches
in Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center,
developing collective experiences that integrate game design, sonic
discovery, and interactive media. Before joining CMU, she worked at
Interval Research as a musical interactivist, leading a development
team in the creation of the Jam-O-Drum, a collaborative audiovisual
instrument now on permanent exhibit at the Experience Music Project in
Seattle. Ms. Blaines subsequent research and projects with CMU
students have been featured at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies,
Zeum's Youth Art and Technology Center in San Francisco, Erie
Childrens Museum in Pennsylvania, Give Kids the World Resort in
Orlando, and Ars Electronica's Museum of the Future in Linz, Austria.
Ms. Blaine embarked upon her exploration of musical interaction
techniques in the 1980s, building electronic MIDI controller
instruments and large-scale audience participation devices for live
performance with the multimedia ensemble DCuckoo (which performed at
PARC in 1993). She has written for numerous publications including
Electronic Musician and the Journal for New Music Research, and is
co-founder of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
conference. In 2005, she was honored for her inspiring, innovative
work in the sciences by the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern
Pennsylvania and the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA. She
also was selected for Richard Saul Wurmans 2002 publication, Who's
Really Who: 1000 Most Creative Individuals in the USA.
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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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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 18 January 2007, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Packard 101
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
"The human genome: The granddaddy of noisy channels"
Gill Bejerano
UCSC and Stanford
The human genome, the hereditary material we pass on to our progeny,
is a 3*109 letter string over a DNA alphabet of four. We understand
1.5% of this mass, mostly in the form of genes, DNA substrings that
code for proteins, the molecules making up every living cell. The
remainder 98.5% of our genome was often deemed as "junk".
Recent comparison to newly sequenced non-human genomes revealed the
locations of a staggering 106 additional DNA subsequences that must be
important to the human cell.
I will discuss several works attempting to decipher what we have come
to believe is the control layer of the genome, including our discovery
of ultraconserved elements, arguably the most perplexing regions in
the human genome. We will also track down a phenomenon of turning
genomic junk into gold, and briefly discuss the relationship between
genome evolution and noisy communication channels.
The talk will assume no prior knowledge in Molecular Biology.
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LOGICAL METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES
on Friday, 19 January 2007, 12 noon
Bldg. 60:62J
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Generic absoluteness and the Continuum Problem"
John Steel
Berkeley
Philosophical considerations may have a role to play in an eventual
solution to the Continuum Problem, since any solution will probably
need to be accompanied by some analysis of what it is to be a
solution. Conversely, the Continuum Problem presents philosophers with
an important case study.
The "official" Cabal philosophy has been dubbed "consciously naive
realism". This was an appropriate attitude when the founding fathers
were first laying down the new large cardinals/determinacy theory. One
had the axioms; the important thing was to develop them. However, it
may be useful now to attempt a more sophisticated realism, one
accompanied by some self-conscious, metamathematical considerations
related to meaning and evidence in mathematics. In particular, generic
absoluteness (i.e. immunity to independence proofs via forcing) is
attractive as guide to theory choice.
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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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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 19 January 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
"Introduction. 'Memories for Life'"
Clifford Lynch
After the usual introduction to the Seminar and introductions, I'll
discuss and reflect on the UK Memories for Life Program (see
http://www.memoriesforlife.org/ for more information), based on the
workshop and symposium that I had the opportunity to attend in
December 2006. Memories for Life is a very broad-scale,
multidisciplinary effort to look at how science and technology are
changing our understanding of memory and our ability to support it,
and also to explore some of the social and cultural implications of
these changes.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 19 January 2007, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"Place of articulation neutralization:
evidence for universal phonological markedness?"
Keren Rice
University of Toronto
There has long been a debate in phonological theory about the roles of
substance and markedness, with linguists taking diametrically opposed
positions on the importance of these to phonology. Perhaps the most
frequent phonological diagnostics used to determine whether a feature
is marked or unmarked are emergence-of-the-unmarked diagnostics,
including neutralization and epenthesis. In this talk I present a
cross-linguistic study of neutralization of place of articulation,
concluding that this survey does not provide evidence for a universal
place of articulation markedness hierarchy.
It is often claimed that coronal and glottal places of articulation
are what one finds in positions of neutralization as a result of
neutralization (e.g., de Lacy 2006 for recent work on this). In fact
in languages in which no contrast exists between places of
articulation in a word-final position, that place of articulation can
be restricted to (using stops as an example) coronal (e.g., Finnish)
or laryngeal (e.g., Yagaria), but it can also be labial (e.g.,
Nimburan) or velar (e.g., some Fuzhou). In languages which contrast
two places of articulation in this position, the following contrasts
are possible (taking into account only languages with labial, coronal,
velar distinction): coronal-labial (e.g., Kiowa), coronal-velar (e.g.,
some Chinese dialects), labial-velar (e.g., some Vietnamese
dialects). All possible combinations of two places of articulation
thus are found cross-linguistically.
Neutralization in the cases discussed above is passive in the sense
that they are based on distribution, rather than synchronic
alternations. Neutralization to the different major places of
articulation is found actively as well, with synchronic
alternations. While active neutralization to coronal and glottal
places of articulation is well reported, in addition active
neutralization can result in a labial place of articulation (e.g.,
Manam) as well as in a velar place of articulation (e.g., some Spanish
dialects).
This study of neutralization of place of articulation suggests that
neutralization is not very helpful as a diagnostic in assessing
cross-linguistic universal phonological markedness as
cross-linguistically the full range of place features can appear in
neutralization positions. Two questions arise. First, why does
neutralization not yield information about universal phonological
markedness when it s generally perceived to do so in the literature? A
basic principle is at work here: in the absence of contrast, the
phonetic realization is phonologically indeterminate. Second, why is
it so commonly believed that certain places of articulation can be
identified as universally unmarked? This follows from the important
role of articulatory and perceptual factors in realizing the output of
neutralizaiton; however, other reasons, including social factors, can
override these. Thus emergence-of-the-unmarked phenomena reveal that a
number of different factors can play a role in determining the output
for a particular language, calling into question substantive theories
of featural markedness.
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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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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Saturday, 20 January 2007, all day
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"(Un)Usual Events Fest"
9:15-9:30 Coffee
9:30-10:30 Keren Rice, University of Toronto
"Incorporated Subjects of Transitive Verbs: Athabaskan Cases"
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Juergen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo-SUNY
"How to Hammer a Shirt Apart (and Talk About It): Unusual
Instrument-Theme Configurations and Complex Predicates
Across Languages"
11:45-12:15 Caitlin Fausey, Stanford University
"Se What? Descriptions of Accidents Vary Across Languages
and Speakers"
12:15-1:45 Lunch break
1:45-2:45 Maria Polinsky, Harvard University/UCSD
"Complementation in a Language Without Complement Clauses"
2:45-3:15 Nola Stephens, Stanford University
"Controlling the Weather"
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Alice Gaby, University of California, Berkeley
"When Reciprocity Goes without Saying:
Event Typicality and Reciprocal Coding in Kuuk Thaayorre"
4:30-5:00 Tatiana Nikitina, Stanford University
"Lexical Meaning and Contextual Inference: Goal/Source
Ambiguity in Descriptions of Motion"
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LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 4:15pm-5:30pm
Math Corner 380:380W
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Proof Search Tree and Cut Elimination"
G. Mints
Stanford
The cut rule A=>B,B=>C/ A=>C violates subformula property. A new cut
elimination method (in particular a new proof of Herbrand's Theorem)
is obtained here by ``proof mining'' (unwinding) from the familiar
non-effective proof. That proof begins with extracting an infinite
branch when the canonical search tree for a given formula of first
order logic is not closed. Our reduction of a cut does not introduce
new cuts of smaller complexity preserving instead only one of the
branches.
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SYNTAX WORKSHOP
on Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 5:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
"Two VP anaphors in Danish"
Line Mikkelsen
UC Berkeley
Recent work on ellipsis has identified new varieties of verb phrase
ellipsis in Hebrew (Goldberg 2005), Irish (Goldberg 2005, McCloskey
1991) and Farsi (Toosarvandani 2006). These varieties look different
from English verb phrase ellipsis in that the main verb (in Hebrew and
Irish) or the light verb (in Farsi) is stranded. These authors argue
that the differences in surface appearance are due to other syntactic
properties of these languages: Hebrew and Irish have V-to-T raising
(English does not), and in Farsi complex predicates v has independent
phonological expression (English v does not). Given these
independently established properties of English, Hebrew, Irish and
Farsi, the surface forms arising from verb phrase ellipsis in the
different languages are in fact entirely expected. The goal of this
paper is to investigate two kinds of VP anaphora in Danish -- one
involving a null form (VPE) and one involving a proform (VPP).
Specifically, I ask what kind of VP anaphora constructions we would
expect to find in this language on theoretical grounds and whether
this is indeed what we find.
Unlike English (and Hebrew, Irish and Farsi), Danish is a generalized
V2 language: in all main clauses, the finite verb -- whether it is an
auxiliary or a main verb -- appears in second position and some
phrasal element occupies the initial position. I argue that the V2
property of Danish leads to two expectations about the surface
realization of VP anaphora in the language:
i) that at least one type of VP anaphora (VPE) should, under certain
circumstances, strand a finite main verb, and
ii) that the proform involved in VPP should participate in movement to
clause-initial position.
I show that the second of these expectations is realized, but that the
first one is not. I then consider what these empirical observations
reveal about the syntactic derivation of these VP anaphoric
constructions, and, more generally, about verb movement and the V2
property found in Danish and most other Germanic languages.
Rererences:
Goldberg, Lotus (2005) Verb-Stranding VP Ellipsis: A Cross-Linguistic
Study, Ph.D. thesis, McGill University.
McCloskey, James (1991) Clause structure, ellipsis and proper
government in Irish, Lingua 85: 259-302.
v-Stranding VPE: Ellipsis in Farsi complex predicates. In Christopher
Davis, Amy Rose Deal, and Youri Zabbal, eds. NELS 36: Proceedings of
the 36th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, 639-652.
*This talk is based on joint work with Michael Houser, Ange
Strom-Weber and Maziar Toosarvandani (all UC Berkeley).
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BERKELEY ON THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION SEMINAR
on Thursday, 25 January 2007, 12 noon
220 Stevens Hall (Berkeley)
http://cshe.berkeley.edu/events/?all&s=3
"The Three-Legged Stool of Scholarly Communications: For-Profit,
Not-for-Profit, and Open Access Publishing"
Joseph Esposito
President, Portable CEO
Discussions of the current state of scholarly communications tend to be
binary, with Open Access advocates lining up on one side against their
foes in the traditional publishing world, often called toll-access
publishing. Within the traditional world, however, there is an important
distinction between the for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. The
future of scholarly communications is likely to have all three kinds of
activity - sometimes operating independently, sometimes competing, and
often working together. The aim of this seminar is to propose what kind
of activities are best suited for each publishing venue and to make a
case for renewed support of not-for-profit toll-access publishing.
About the Speaker: Joseph J. Esposito is President of Portable CEO, an
independent consultancy providing strategy assessment and interim
management to the information industries. Over the course of his
career, Mr. Esposito has been associated with various publishers in
all segments of the industry and was involved from an early time with
new media publishing. He has served as an executive at Simon &
Schuster and Random House, as President of Merriam-Webster, and CEO of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he was responsible for the launch of
the first Internet service of its kind. Mr. Esposito has also served
as CEO of Internet communications company Tribal Voice and SRI
Consulting, both of which he led to successful exits. Among
Mr. Esposito's clients have been such technology companies as
Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, various publishers of all stripes, and
a growing number of not-for-profit organizations (e.g., Ithaka
Harbors/JSTOR, the University of California Press, and the American
Nationals Standards Institute). Recent projects range from business
development for a large not-for-profit institution, electronic
textbooks, The Processed Book Project (experimental interactive
texts), and consultation on mergers and acquisitions. He has
participated in numerous trade shows and has written extensively in
trade magazines and journals. He is currently researching new economic
models for a post-copyright age.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 25 January 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Cognitive Crash Dummies: Where we are and where we're going"
Bonnie John
Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Crash dummies in the auto industry save lives by testing the physical
safety of automobiles before they are brought to market. "Cognitive
crash dummies" save time, money, and potentially even lives, by
allowing computer-based system designers to test their design ideas
before implementing those ideas in products and processes. This talk
will review the uses of cognitive models in system design and the
current state of research and practice. I will also present some
exciting new research directions that promise to make predictive human
performance modeling even more useful. Along the way, I will discuss
the role of applications in driving science and validity v. useful
approximation.
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CIS/STLR SYMPOSIUM
on Friday, 26 January 2007, 8:30am - 6:00pm
Stanford Law School
http://stlr.stanford.edu/symposium.html
"Beyond a Physical Conception of the 4th Amendment:
Search and Seizure in the Digital Age"
Technological change increasingly complicates criminal investigation:
third-party Internet service providers, not individuals, store
sensitive user information such as e-mail, while global positioning
satellites allow the government to track private citizens' movements
and thermal imaging technology permits law enforcement to monitor
activity inside the home. Recent high-profile legal cases have
involved government requests for user identification and content from
technological giants such as Apple and Google, bypassing the users
themselves. These issues are exemplified by the current political
controversy over NSA surveillance and the need for judicial oversight.
In short, a physical conception of privacy may no longer be adequate
when technology allows the tracking of new kinds of personal
information that is accessible in entirely new ways.
Current scholarship continues to play an essential role in expanding
the legal thinking on the 4th Amendment in ways that can keep pace
with this dizzying technological progress. The Stanford Center for
Internet and Society, Stanford Criminal Justice Center and Stanford
Technology Law Review have invited scholars and practioners from
around the country to participate in a Symposium this January on the
future of the 4th Amendment in this digital age.
The 2007 Symposium will take place on Friday, January 26, 2007 at
Stanford Law School and will feature the writings of 6 scholars:
* Paul Ohm, University of Colorado - The Olmsteadian Seizure Clause
* Susan Freiwald, University of San Francisco - A First Principles
Approach to Communications' Privacy
* Deirdre Mulligan and Jack Lerner, Boalt Hall - Taking the "long
view" on the Fourth Amendment: Stored Records and the Sanctity of
the Home
* Nicky Ozer, ACLU of Northern California - RFID Technology and
Legislation
* Richard Salgado, Yahoo! - International Perspectives on Digital
Search
The Symposium will also include the following commenters who will
discuss the ideas presented in the papers:
* Vik Amar, Hastings College of the Law
* Richard Downing, Department of Justice, Computer Crimes and
Intellectual Property Section
* Donald Dripps, University of San Diego School of Law
* Lauren Gelman, Stanford Center for Internet and Society
* Jennifer Granick, Stanford Center for Internet and Society
* Orin Kerr, George Washington University Law School
* Myron Moskovitz, Golden Gate University School of Law
* Erin Murphy, Boalt Hall
* Alexandra Natapoff, Loyola Law School
* Christopher Slobogin, Stanford Law School (visiting from
University of Florida)
* Ed Swanson, Swanson & McNamara LLP
* Robert Weisberg, Stanford Law School
STLR wants to make this symposium an interactive event. To facilitate
public discussion of the ideas presented in the symposium, abstracts
and working drafts of the papers will be posted on the STLR site as
they are completed. STLR invites anyone who wishes to participate to
post comments regarding the papers on the site, which the authors can
review and use to help refine their articles. The drafts will be
available for comments through January 25, 2007. The final versions of
the articles will be published on the site in the spring.
To register for the symposium, please send an email with your name
to techsymposium@gmail.com.
Deadline for registration is 11:59pm on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 26 January 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
"What, Where, When and Who"
Ray Larson, Michael Buckland & others
We will discuss a new project: "Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in
Context" (See http://ecai.org/imls2006 ). This project seeks to enable
the more effective use of biographical texts in a digital
environment. The goal is to design, demonstrate and evaluate standards
and best practices for encoded mark-up, embedded queries, and
associated editing tools that can be used to create more powerful
digital biographical texts that can in turn be connected to a wider
world of contextual information. The intended audience is the creators
of biographical records, primarily librarians, archivists, editors of
scholarly texts as well as educational publishers.
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