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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 24 January 2007, vol. 22:19
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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24 January 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 19
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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 24 JANUARY 2007 TO 2 FEBRUARY 2007
WEDNESDAY, 24 JANUARY 2007
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [24-Jan-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Expanding the Mobile Consumer Software Market:
Lifestyle, Games, Wallpaper, and Text Messaging"
Kristin McDonnell
LimeLife, Inc
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
5:15pm CCRMA Colloquium [24-Jan-07]
CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll
"Beyond Control - Deviating from the Grid in Performance Technologies"
Pedro Rebelo
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast (SARC)
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
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
4:00pm PARC Forum [25-Jan-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"The Promise of Concentrators in the World of Photovoltaics"
Steve Horne
VP Operations & Chief Scientist, SolFocus
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [25-Jan-07]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"The Bad Itself in Aristotle (with some speculations about goodness)"
Jonathan Beere
University of Chicago
http://philosophy-data.uchicago.edu/index-faculty.cfm
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
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
all day Berkeley Conference on Brain Network Dynamics [26-Jan-07]
Barrows Hall (Berkeley)
In honor of Professor Walter Freeman
http://scsnl.stanford.edu/conferences/NSF_Brain_Network_Dynamics_Jan2007/
(registration closed but walk-ins may be allowed depending on space)
Information below
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [26-Jan-07]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Neurological Insights into Language Processing"
Nina Dronkers
VA Medical Center, Marinez CA
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
12 noon Stanford ACM [26-Jan-07]
Gates B12
"Village: Play the World of Social Enterprise Presentation"
Darian Hickman
http://acm.stanford.edu/
(RSVP requested, see web page)
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [26-Jan-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Usability and Software Architecture:
The forgotten quality attribute and the forgotten design problem"
Bonnie John
HCI Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
12:30pm UC Berkeley HWNI Seminar [26-Jan-07]
101 LSA (Berkeley)
"Development and maintenance of neuronal polarity"
Mu-ming Poo
UC Berkeley
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
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
4:00pm Stanford Algorithms Seminar [26-Jan-07]
Gates 463B
"Determinant Versus Permanent"
Manindra Agrawal
IIT Kanpur
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/manindra/
http://theory.stanford.edu/~aflb/
4:10pm UC Berkeley Logic and the Methodology of Science [26-Jan-07]
60 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
"The Continuum Hypothesis, the Generic Multiverse, and the W*
Conjecture"
W. Hugh Woodin
UC-Berkeley
http://math.berkeley.edu/~woodin/
http://logic.berkeley.edu/colloquium.html
Abstract below
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/
SATURDAY, 27 JANUARY 2007
all day School of Engineering Opportunity Job Fair [27-Jan-07]
open to all Stanford science and engineering students
http://soe.stanford.edu/ojf/
all day Berkeley Conference on Brain Network Dynamics [27-Jan-07]
Barrows Hall (Berkeley)
In honor of Professor Walter Freeman
http://scsnl.stanford.edu/conferences/NSF_Brain_Network_Dynamics_Jan2007/
(registration closed but walk-ins may be allowed depending on space)
Information below
MONDAY, 29 JANUARY 2007
1:00pm Center for Internet and Society Talk [29-Jan-07]
Law School 280A
"Fair Use, Copyright Misuse, and Shloss v. Estate of James Joyce"
Carol Shloss, Robert Spoo and Tony Falzone
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
4:00pm Berkeley Intel Research Seminar [29-Jan-07]
Intel Research Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck, Ste. 1300
"Eliminating Fatal Errors in Software Systems"
Martin Rinard
MIT
http://www.intel-research.net/berkeley/Seminars.asp
4:00pm UC Berkeley HWNI Talk [29-Jan-07]
3105 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Top-Down and Bottom-Up Influences on Understanding Ambiguous
Speech(with Dali Wang)"
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Boston University
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [29-Jan-07]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"Information without Representation"
Sam Cumming
Rutgers University
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
TUESDAY, 30 JANUARY 2007
3:00pm CSLI Tea [30-Jan-07]
Cordura Hall Greenhouse
4:15pm Logic Seminar [30-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
(rescheduled from the 30th)
5:30pm Syntax Workshop [30-Jan-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"The Syntax of Ideophones"
Adams Bodomo
University of Hong Kong/Stanford Visitor
http://www.hku.hk/linguist/staff/ab.html
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 31 JANUARY 2007
12 noon UC Berkeley IPSR colloquium [31-Jan-07]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Social Cognition and the Law: Informing Policy with Science"
Justin D. Levinson
Law, University of Hawaii, Manoa
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ipsr/colloquium.htm
3:00pm Neuroethics Symposium [31-Jan-07]
Stanford Medical Center, room M108
"A comparison of prognosis to outcome in the critically ill
neurological patient"
Anna K. Finley Caulfield
"Electricity, Memory and Forgetting: Trajectories of
Experience in ECT and Brain Stimulation"
Niranjan Karnik
"Using cellular telephone technology to deliver cognitive
behavioral therapy to adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder:
confidentiality, adherence, therapeutic alliance and effectiveness"
Margo Thienemann
http://neuroethics.stanford.edu/
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [31-Jan-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Computer Architecture is Back:
The Berkeley View of the Parallel Computing Research Landscape"
Dave Patterson
UC Berkeley
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 2007
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [1-Feb-07]
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
"Learning Multiple Online Tasks with a Global Objective"
Ofer Dekel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~feisha/cis-seminar
Abstract below
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [1-Feb-07]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"Why Does Aristotle Need Matter?"
David Ebrey
UCLA
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [1-Feb-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"How the Brain Learns to Differentiate Concepts, and How They
Disintegrate When Neurons Die"
James McClelland
Psychology, Stanford
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
FRIDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2007
12 noon Logical Methods in the Humanities [2-Feb-07]
Bldg. 60:62J
"Von Neumann as a Logician"
Martin Davis
Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley and Professor Emeritus, NYU
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [2-Feb-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Designing Interactions"
Bill Moggridge
IDEO
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [2-Feb-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"A Practice-based Approach to Human-centered Computing"
Volker Wulf
Univ. of Siegen, Germany
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [2-Feb-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Neurodevelopmental changes in cognitive control"
Silvia Bunge
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of all types. For an appointment:
http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831. It only takes
an hour of your time and you get free cookies.
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NOTE
The Stanford Neuroscience graduate students are holding their 7th
Grade Brain Day soon. These are annual trips by the graduate students
to the Palo Alto Middle Schools to introduce seventh graders to the
fun and importance of neuroscience. Just wanted to say 'good work' to
those students involved. For more info see
http://neurostudents.stanford.edu/BrainDay
The Neuroscience Institute at Stanford (NIS) publishes a newsletter,
Synapse, which might be of interest to some (it is a video newsletter
with a text summary). See http://neuroscience.stanford.edu/synapse/
The most recent (November 2006) includes an interview with Jay
McClelland who recently moved from Carnegie Mellon to Stanford's
Psychology department as director of the new Center for Mind, Brain
and Computation (he will also be giving a CSLI CogLunch on March 1 and
the Symbolic Systems Forum on February 1). Also interviewed was Miriam
Goodman on her course Genetic Analysis of Behavior.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Expanding the Mobile Consumer Software Market:
Lifestyle, Games, Wallpaper, and Text Messaging"
Kristin McDonnell
CEO, LimeLife, Inc.
http://www.limelife.com/
The mobile consumer software industry is a multi-billion dollar market
that is slated to grow three-fold to $50 billion worldwide by
2009. Casual games and the female market are forecasted to be two of
the industry's primary growth drivers.
LimeLife is a mobile software publisher focused on bringing lifestyle
and entertainment software to the female market. The company works
with major consumer companies, such as Time Inc and Procter & Gamble,
to bring their content and brands to women's mobile phones. LimeLife
distributes its software through the major U.S. wireless carriers
including Verizon, Sprint, Cingular, and T-Mobile. The company
recently launched InStyle Mobile, a community-based fashion
application, in conjunction with Time Inc's InStyle Magazine.
This talk will focus on the opportunities for growth in the mobile
consumer software market as well as an overview of the industry's
value chain.
About the Speaker: Kristin McDonnell has over 15 years experience in
growing and operating consumer digital media companies. She has held
senior management positions in a number of Silicon Valley companies
including HearMe/Mpath (IPO), AT's ImagiNation Network (sold to AOL),
and Electronic Arts. At Mpath, Kristin was part of the leadership team
that grew the Mplayer online games service to 10 million registered
members, took the company public, and sold Mplayer to GameSpy (sold to
News Corp/IGN). More recently, she helped drive the launches of two
online entertainment communities -- Xfire (sold to MTV Networks) and
There. Earlier in her career, she was an Associate with McKinsey &
Company, a founding employee of Lante Corporation (IPO), and a
marketing associate with IBM. Kristin has an MBA from Harvard
Business School and a BS in Engineering with Tau Beta Pi honors from
Northwestern University.
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CCRMA COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 5:15pm
CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/
"Beyond Control - Deviating from the Grid in Performance Technologies"
Pedro Rebelo
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast (SARC)
This paper investigates the relationship between instrument and
performer and explores the use of metaphor in designing performance
technologies. The paper describes performance situations from the
point of view of engagement and navigation making specific reference
to Deleuze and Guattari's notion of Smooth Space. The project
"Prosthetic Congas" is presented as an example of collaborative
research involving DSP, Composition and Performance.
About the Speaker: Pedro Rebelo is a composer/digital artist working
in electroacoustic music, digital media and installation. His approach
to music making is informed by the use of improvisation and
interdisciplinary structures. He has been involved in several
collaborative projects with visual artists and has created a large
body of work exploring the relationships between architecture and
music in creating interactive performance and installation
environments. This includes a series of commissioned pieces for
soloists and live-electronics which take as a basis the interpretation
of specific acoustic spaces. In the duo laut with saxophonist
Franziska Schroeder he investigates the extension of interfaces and
control in interactive performance practices. The duo has recently
joined percussionist Steven Davis for a double CD on the Creative
Source Recordings label. His electroacoustic music is featured in
various CD sets (Sonic Circuits IV, Discontact III, Exploratory Music
from Portugal, ARiAD! A).
Pedro conducts research in the field of digital media, interactive
sound and composition. His writings reflect his approach to design and
composition by articulating creative practice in a wider understanding
of cultural theory.
Pedro has been awarded a PhD in composition from the University of
Edinburgh and is currently Director of Research at the Sonic Arts
Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast.
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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 CONFERENCE ON BRAIN NETWORK DYNAMICS
on Friday and Saturday, 26 and 27 January 2007
Barrows Hall (Berkeley)
http://scsnl.stanford.edu/conferences/NSF_Brain_Network_Dynamics_Jan2007/
The Study of Human Brain Function is arguably one of our society's
most important endeavors in this century. Although there has been an
explosive amount of research in basic neurobiology, progress in
understanding the integrated functioning of the brain remains a
significant scientific problem.
It is now clear that even "simple perception" is an act of creation
that involves many distributed brain regions, and discovering the
network interactions among these regions is important for
understanding a range of issues in neuroscience, psychology,
neurology, and psychiatry, as well as related fields such as
computational intelligence and philosophy. Essential for understanding
human brain function is a detailed knowledge of the spatio-temporal
dynamics of neuronal populations and their interactions during
cognitive function.
The conference will explore the dynamics of distributed brain function
from multidisciplinary perspectives. It is being held to honor
Professor Walter Freeman for his contributions to brain dynamics over
the past five decades, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
The aims of this conference are as follows:
* To present the audience with an overview of the present state of
research on brain dynamics from various perspectives, including
neurobiology, functional brain imaging, and cognitive science;
* To target issues in the brain sciences for which progress may be
facilitated by the closer interaction of multiple disciplines;
* To promote the application of tools from mathematical statistics,
network science, and neural network modeling to facilitate new
thinking about the dynamics of brain function;
* To outline avenues of approach to the application of insights from
dynamical brain studies to clinical questions for the improved
development of biomarkers for disease diagnosis.
The conference agenda will include the following major themes:
Cortical Network Dynamics
Brain Network Imaging
Brain Network Modeling
Cognitive Dynamics
We expect the conference to lead to an exchange of ideas and
perspectives from these themes and to an exploration of ways by which
each can be informed or constrained by the others.
Registration for the conference is now closed. If you have registered,
you will be receiving an email with directions regarding registration
and other relevant information. If you have not registered, attendance
will be allowed on a space-available basis only. Individuals who did
not register are welcome to check in on the day of the conference to
see if there is available space.
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STANFORD ACM
on Friday, 26 January 2007, 12 noon
Gates B12
http://acm.stanford.edu/
"Village: Play the World of Social Enterprise Presentation"
Darian Hickman
Fully developed, Village the Game is a multiplayer online real-time
strategy game for the PC that immerses the player into the role of an
entrepreneur building companies to bring prosperity to the villages of
the third world.
Please join us on Friday to learn how Village the Game is going to
transform development of the third world and how you can be involved.
RSVP at http://acm.stanford.edu so we know how many to expect.
About the Speaker: Presented by Darian Hickman, Founder and Lead Game
Designer.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 26 January 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Usability and Software Architecture:
The forgotten quality attribute and the forgotten design problem"
Bonnie John
HCI Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bej/
The usability analyses or user test data are in; the development team
is poised to respond. The software had been carefully modularized so
that modifications to the UI can be fast and easy. When the usability
problems are presented, someone around the table exclaims, "Oh, no, we
can't change THAT!"
As a field, HCI has produced methods for every phase of the software
development lifecycle except architecture design. In many projects,
HCI professionals have input into system formulation and functional
requirements. They routinely do detailed design and evaluation of the
UI and final overall system. They analyze log files and calls to the
help desk to improve future versions. BUT the design of the software
architecture can have important ramifications for the usability of the
end product and HCI has traditionally had no role in those design
decisions.
Len Bass (Software Engineering Institute, author of several
best-selling textbooks on software architecture) and I have teamed up
to bring usability to the architecture design table as a "first-class
citizen" on a par with other quality attributes like performance,
security, and modifiability. I will present our research, proposed
solution, and empirical results supporting the efficacy of that
solution.
About the Speaker: Bonnie John researches techniques to improve the
design of computer systems with respect to their usefulness and
usability. She has investigated the effectiveness and usability of
several HCI techniques (e.g., think-aloud usability studies, cognitive
walkthrough, human performance modeling) and produced new techniques
and tools for bringing usability concerns to the design process (e.g.,
CPM-GOMS, CogTool, Usability-Supporting Architectural Patterns). Much
of her work focuses on human behavior modeling, where she develops
models that assist in the design of computer systems. She creates
prototyping environments and tools for human behavior modeling,
designed for use by UI designers without psychology training. She also
brings the psychology of human-computer interaction into software
engineering techniques, e.g., including usability concerns in software
architecture design.
With a bachelors and masters in Mechanical Engineering, (The Cooper
Union, 1977; Stanford University, 1978), and six years experience as a
professional engineer, Dr John turned to Human-Computer Interaction in
the early 1980s to "beat psychology into a shape that engineers can
use it." Earning her doctorate in Cognitive Psychology (Carnegie
Mellon University, 1988), she was on the faculty of the Computer
Science Department and helped to form the Human-Computer Interaction
Institute in CMU's School of Computer Science. Dr. John has had
research contracts with many government and industrial organizations,
including the Office of Naval Research, NASA, DARPA, NSF, SRI, Boeing,
General Motors, Xerox, AT&T, NYNEX, and U.S.West. Elected to the ACM
SIGCHI Academy in 2005, she has won both the NASA Turning Goals into
Reality Administrator's Award and the Group Achievement Award in 2004,
NSF's Young Investigator Award, and she was a Professional Engineer in
the State of New York. She was is currently the Thomas A. Wasow
Visiting Scholar in Symbolic Systems at Stanford.
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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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UC BERKELEY LOGIC AND THE METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE
on Friday, 26 January 2007, 4:10pm - 5:30pm
60 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
http://logic.berkeley.edu/colloquium.html
"The Continuum Hypothesis, the Generic Multiverse, and the W* Conjecture"
W. Hugh Woodin
UC-Berkeley
http://math.berkeley.edu/~woodin/
This is a version of a talk given at the Cohen72 meeting at Stanford
last September; this version will be directed more toward logicians.
Godel's axiom of constructibility is the canonical example of an axiom
which provides a "semi-complete" theory for the universe of sets. But
this axiom is not compatible with the known large cardinal axioms.
Further, the independence of the Continuum Hypothesis challenges the
idea that there is a meaningful conception of the universe of sets.
The developments over the last 40 years have mitigated this challenge
somewhat but the fact remains: there is no known extension of the
axioms of set theory which is both compatible with large cardinal
axioms and "semi-complete". Finally, the credibility of any claim that
the Continuum Hypothesis has an answer is severely challenged by the
complete lack of any "semi-complete" theory for the universe of sets
(again, which is compatible with large cardinals). Does this argue for
a multiverse conception of truth? While this may look like an issue
solely for philosophers, there are some intriguing mathematical
questions and surprises which arise from the consideration of this
question.
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CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY TALK
on Monday, 29 January 2007, 12:30pm
Law School 280A
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
"Fair Use, Copyright Misuse, and Shloss v. Estate of James Joyce"
Carol Shloss, Robert Spoo and Tony Falzone
The law of copyright fair use is famously murky, and copyright misuse
is even more so. Come listen to Stanford English Professor Carol Loeb
Shloss and some of her lawyers talk about suing the Estate of James
Joyce for copyright misuse and to have material on her academic
website declared non-infringing fair use. The case is currently
pending in federal court before Judge Ware in the San Jose Division of
the Northern District of California. A hearing on the Joyce Estate's
motion to dismiss the case will be held on January 22 at 9 a.m. A
group will be travelling together to watch the argument.
About the Speakers: Carol Loeb Shloss is a Professor of English at
Stanford University. Throughout her 32-year academic career, she has
taught or held research positions at numerous universities, including
Wesleyan University, Harvard University, and Oxford University. She is
the author of four books and has won numerous grants and fellowships,
including the 1994 Pew Fellowship for Creative Non-Fiction Writing.
Professor Shloss is a world-renowned Joyce scholar and an expert on
Modernist literature.
Robert Spoo is an attorney with the San Francisco law firm of Howard,
Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, and a 2006-2007 non-resident
fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law
School. He focuses his practice and his teaching and scholarship in
the area of intellectual property, with a special emphasis on
copyrights and the needs of authors, scholars, libraries, documentary
filmmakers and others who create and use original expression. He and
his law firm are assisting CIS and Professor Shloss in her lawsuit
against the James Joyce Estate. Bob was formerly a tenured professor
of English, the Editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, and is the author
of numerous books and articles on Joyce, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle,
and other aspects of Modernist literature. He writes and speaks
frequently on copyright and IP issues.
Anthony Falzone is the Executive Director of the Fair Use Project. An
intellectual property litigator with nearly a decade of experience, he
has advised and defended writers, publishers, filmmakers, musicians
and video game makers on copyright, trademark, rights of publicity and
other intellectual property matters. Prior to his work at Stanford, he
was a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Bingham
McCutchen.
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LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 4:15pm-5:30pm
Math Corner 380:380W
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
(rescheduled from the 30th)
"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, 30 January 2007, 5:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
"The Syntax of Ideophones"
Adams B. Bodomo
University of Hong Kong/Stanford University
http://www.hku.hk/linguist/staff/ab.html
It is widely known that an understanding of the grammatical structure
of a language subsumes an understanding of the various word classes in
that language since word classes such as verbs, nouns, adjectives and
adverbs project their peculiar grammatical features from the lexicon
onto the grammar. Yet it is often challenging to neatly group all
words of a language into classes. Ideophones typify such features of
wordhood and lexicality in grammar (Voeltz and Kilian-Hatz 2001). Doke
(1935:118) defines the term ideophone as a vivid representation of an
idea in sound. A word, often onomatopoeic, which describes a
predicate, qualificative or adverb in respect to manner, colour,
sound, smell, action, state or intensity. In many languages of the
world, ideophones are often treated as belonging to a specific word
class (e.g. Bodomo (2000, 2006) for Dagaare and Kulemeka (1997) for
Chichewa). However, there is considerable controversy as to whether
they constitute a coherent class or are indeed distributed across many
word classes (e.g. Newman 1968, 2000, 2001). In this paper, we explore
further the view that ideophones form a single word class, with
evidence from i. morphophonology (for instance, ideophones display
more iconicity and sound-symbolism than other word classes, e.g. tonal
synesthesia in Dagaare), ii. syntax (for instance, resistance to
syntactic modification by other words), and iii. semantics (for
instance, lack of hyponymy). The controversy is believed to be
engendered, in part, by a confusion between formal categorical
structure and grammatical function. We thus claim that the controversy
can be neatly resolved in a grammar of parallel structures like
Lexical Functional Grammar (e.g. Bresnan 2001, Falk 2001) where we can
tease apart category and function. The novelty in our analysis within
ideophone studies is that, at the categorial structure (c-structure)
level we establish a phrase, the Ideophone Phrase (IdeoP). This IdeoP
may then function as a PRED, ADJUNCT or XCOMP at functional structure
(f-structure) level. Teasing apart category and function constitutes
an important technique in the analysis of the grammar of ideophones.
These issues are discussed based mainly on a corpus and an analysis of
Cantonese ideophones collected from various sources, including popular
Chinese/Cantonese newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong (Bodomo
2002-7, 2006, Wong 2005).
References
Bodomo, A. 2000. Dagaare: Languages of the World Materials No. 165.
Munchen: Lincom Europa.
Bodomo, A. 2000-2007. A Corpus of Cantonese Ideophones. Ms. University
of Hong Kong.
http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/bodomo/ideophones/ideophonesCorpusMSmar04.pdf
Bodomo, A. 2006. The structure of ideophones in African and Asian
languages: The case of Dagaare and Cantonese. In Selected Proceedings
of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African
Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspectives, Harvard
University.edited by John Mugane et al. 203-213. Sommerville, MA.
Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com document #1310
Bresnan, J. 2000. Lexical-Functional Syntax. Malden, MA.: Blackwell
Publishers.
Falk, Yehuda. 2001. Lexical-functional grammar: an introduction to
parallel constraint-based syntax. Stanford, CA.: CSLI Publications.
Doke, C. M. 1935. Bantu Linguistic Terminology, London: Longmans.
Kulemeka, A. T. 1997. The grammatical category of Chichewa ideophones.
In Herbert Robert (ed). African linguistics at the crossroad: papers
from kwaluseni. Germany: Rudiger Koppe Verlag Koln.
Newman, P. 1968. Ideophones from a Syntactic Point of View. Journal of
West African Languages, 5: 107-118.
Newman, P. 2000. The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference
Grammar. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Newman, P. 2001. Are ideophones really as weird and extra-systemic as
linguists make them out to be? In F. Voeltz and C. Kilian-hatz (Eds).
Ideophones. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Voeltz F. K. E. and C. K. Hatz (Eds). 2001. Ideophones. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Wong, P. L. 2005. Cantonese Ideophones: A Lexical-Functional Grammar
Analysis. Extended Essay, Department of Linguistics, University of
Hong Kong.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 1 February 2007, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~feisha/cis-seminar
"Learning multiple online tasks with a global objective"
Ofer Dekel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The simplicity and elegance of online learning make it a practical
tool with many useful applications. In practice, we are often faced
with multiple online prediction tasks in parallel. The naive approach
to dealing with such situations is to learn each task separately and
independently of the others. Can we do any better than this? We
present an online multitask learning framework where the multiple
tasks all contribute to a common goal and share the consequences of
their prediction mistakes. We present several new learning algorithms
that take advantage of this framework and learn the multiple tasks
jointly. We prove cumulative loss bounds that provide a guarantee on
the worst-case performance of our algorithms and elucidate the
advantages of our approach over the naive approach of learning each
task separately.
Many real-world online prediction applications naturally fit within
our framework. We present several concrete examples, including a
multiclass-multilabel text categorization algorithm capable of
processing millions of examples in minutes, a surprising application
of our technique to online ordinal regression, and a randomized
algorithm that dynamically allocates memory to multiple kernel-based
classifiers.
Joint work with Yoram Singer and Phil Long
About the Speaker: Ofer Dekel is a Ph.D student at The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, School of Computer Science and Engineering.
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LOGICAL METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 12 noon
Bldg. 60:62J
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Von Neumann as a Logician"
Martin Davis
Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley and Professor Emeritus, NYU
Logic and foundations was an early interest of von Neumann, and he was
part of the circle working on Hilbert's program. He was quick to grasp
the significance of the incompleteness theorem, and continued to
praise Goedel's achievement, but it seems to have ended his direct
involvement with the field.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Designing Interactions"
Bill Moggridge
Stanford Design Division and IDEO
http://www.designinginteractions.com/bill/
Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything
from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of
digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a
physical object--beautiful or utilitarian--but as designing our
interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge
introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our
interaction with technology. Moggridge, designer of the first laptop
computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm
IDEO, tells us these stories from an industry insider's viewpoint,
tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. The
innovators he interviews--including Will Wright, creator of The Sims,
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, and Doug
Engelbart, Bill Atkinson, and others involved in the invention and
development of the mouse and the desktop--have been instrumental in
making a difference in the design of interactions. Their stories chart
the history of entrepreneurial design development for technology.
About the Speaker: Bill Moggridge was a cofounder of IDEO, a firm that
helps companies innovate through the design of products, services,
environments and digital experiences. Bill founded his design firm in
London in 1969, adding a second office in 1979 in Palo Alto, at the
heart of California's Silicon Valley. He designed the first laptop
computer, the GRiD Compass, and pioneered Interaction Design as a
discipline. In 1991 he merged his company with David Kelley and Mike
Nuttall to form IDEO, which now has offices in Palo Alto, San
Francisco, Chicago, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai. Bill has been
active in design education throughout his career, notably as Visiting
Professor in Interaction design at the Royal College of Art in London,
and Associate Professor in the Design program at Stanford
University. He is most interested in what people want, who they are,
and how they interact with other people, things and places. His book,
Designing Interactions is available from The MIT Press.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
"A Practice-based Approach to Human-centered Computing"
Volker Wulf
Univ. of Siegen, Germany
Computer applications are getting increasingly interwoven in everyday
life. To build these applications, we need to take the distinct
practices of their (potential) users into account. I will frame the
talk by developing a practise-based perspective on social
systems. Based on this perspective, I will suggest a research
framework for human centered computing.
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