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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 31 January 2007, vol. 22:20
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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31 January 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 20
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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 31 JANUARY 2007 TO 9 FEBRUARY 2007
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
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [1-Feb-07]
Cordura Hall 100
"The Stanford Housing Draw"
Marc Pauly
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~pianoman/
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [1-Feb-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Managing Office Buildings for the 21st Century"
George Denise
CFM, CPM, FMA, RPA, General Manager, Cushman & Wakefield
http://www.parc.com/forum/
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)
"Development and Disintegration of Conceptual Knowledge:
A Parallel-Distributed Processing Approach"
James McClelland
Psychology, Stanford
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [1-Feb-07]
Packard 101
"'Cognitive' Memory and its Applications"
Bernard Widrow
Stanford University
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2007
11:00am Information Systems Seminar [2-Feb-07]
Packard 204
"Rethinking Biased Estimation: Improving Maximum Likelihood
and the Cramer-Rao Bound"
Yonina Eldar
Technion
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [2-Feb-07]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Explanation and causation: The psychology of teleological
reasoning"
Tania Lombrozo
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
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 noon Ethics@Noon [2-Feb-07]
Bldg. 60:61A
"Threat to Fairness in American Elections"
Jon Krosnick
Communication, Political Science, Psychology, Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.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
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [2-Feb-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Asking questions: empiricism, variation, and acquisition"
Bruno Estigarribia
Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics, Stanford
(dry run for a job talk)
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
3:30pm SRI CSL Seminar Series [2-Feb-07]
EK255, SRI International
"Sourcemix: An Environment for Collaborative Web Programming"
Joshua Levy
SRI
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Phonology Talk [2-Feb-07]
46 Dwinelle (Berkeley)
"Why do children with phonological disorder produce speech
sounds less accurately than their peers?"
Benjamin Munson
University of Minnesota
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/events
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture [2-Feb-07]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Functional organization of the human ventral stream: insights
from high resolution fMRI and development"
Kalanit Grill-Spector
Psychology & Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
Abstract below
4:15pm CS545: InfoSeminar [2-Feb-07]
Gates B12
"IFLOW: Self-managing distributed information flows"
Brian Cooper
Yahoo! Research
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
Abstract below
5:00pm UC Berkeley French Linguistics Job Talk [2-Feb-2007]
French Department library (UC Berkeley)
"Language Analysis in Asylum Cases:
A Recent Development in Forensic Linguistics"
Fallou Ngom
Western Washington University
http://french.berkeley.edu
MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2007
1:00pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [5-Feb-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Instrumental Subjects"
Scott Grimm
Stanford University
(BLS talk dry-run)
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
3:00pm Stanford Software Seminar [5-Feb-07]
Gates 104
"Modular Information Hiding and Type Safe Linking for C"
Michael Hicks
University of Maryland
http://theory.stanford.edu/~mhn/sss.html
4:10pm Berkeley Hitchcock Lecture [5-Feb-07]
International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, (Berkeley)
"Explorations of the Mind--Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws"
Daniel Kahneman
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/lectures/info/events.shtml
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [5-Feb-07]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"On Saying What You Believe"
Ray Buchanan
New York University
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
TUESDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 2007
3:00pm CSLI Tea [6-Feb-07]
Cordura Hall Greenhouse
4:00pm Information Systems Seminar [6-Feb-07]
Packard 101
"Multiuser Detection in a Dynamic Environment"
Ezio Biglieri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
4:10pm Berkeley Hitchcock Lecture [6-Feb-07]
International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, (Berkeley)
"Explorations of the Mind--Happiness: Living and Thinking about It"
Daniel Kahneman
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/lectures/info/events.shtml
4:15pm Logic Seminar [6-Feb-07]
Bldg. 380:380W (math corner)
"Non-deterministic semantics for Dynamic Topological Logic"
D. Fernandez
Stanford
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
5:00pm UC Berkeley French Linguistics Job Talk [6-Feb-2007]
French Department library (UC Berkeley)
"An Analysis of Haitian Creole Intonation"
Iskra Iskrova
Indiana University
http://french.berkeley.edu
WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2007
1:00pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [7-Feb-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"The Semantics-Pragmatics Interplay, and Its Cultural Logic"
N. J. Enfield
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation [7-Feb-07]
Cordura Hall 100
"Large Scale Detection of Irregularities in Accounting Data"
Stephen Bay
Center for Advanced Research, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla/schedule.shtml
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [7-Feb-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Design for Yield / Design for Manufacturing"
Fabian Klass
PASemi
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 8 FEBRUARY 2007
4:00pm PARC Forum [8-Feb-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Decision-making from Karl Marx to YouTube: How to Think About
Strategic Dilemmas"
Phil Hood
Writer, Consultant, and Publisher
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [8-Feb-07]
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Seyoung Kim
UC Irvine
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sykim/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~feisha/cis-seminar
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [8-Feb-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"User Centered Design and Autism"
Dan Gillette
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [8-Feb-2007]
Packard 101
"Mathematical modeling to help understand planar cell polarity
in fly wings"
Claire Tomlin
Berkeley
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
5:00pm UC Berkeley French Linguistics Job Talk [8-Feb-2007]
French Department library (UC Berkeley)
"Crossed Wires? Syntactic Borrowing in French News Agency Dispatches"
Mairi McLaughlin
Cambridge University
http://french.berkeley.edu
FRIDAY, 9 FEBRUARY 2007
all day 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society [9-Feb-07]
Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/program.html
Information below
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [9-Feb-07]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Keith Johnson
Linguistics, Berkeley
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [9-Feb-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"The Design of Future Things: Cautious Cars and Cantankerous Kitchens"
Don Norman
Northwestern University and Nielsen-Norman Group
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [9-Feb-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Support for the Learner: Needs, Habits, and Evaluation Studies"
Lin Muehlinghaus, Kim Carl, and others
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [9-Feb-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Neural bases of self and close other-referential processing"
Becky Ray
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
4:00pm UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture [9-Feb-07]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Coding and perceiving the positions of moving objects"
David Whitney
Center for Mind and Brain, Psychology, UC Davis
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
Abstract below
4:15pm CS545: InfoSeminar [9-Feb-07]
Gates B12
"Entity Search: Finding Stuff on the Web, Directly and Holistically"
Kevin Chang
University of Illinois
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2007
all day 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society [10-Feb-07]
Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/program.html
Information below
SUNDAY, 11 FEBRUARY 2007
all day 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society [11-Feb-07]
Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/program.html
Information below
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CALL FOR ANECDOTES
AI Magazine Special Issue on What Went Wrong and Why:
Lessons from AI Research and Application
AI Magazine will soon publish a special issue on the topic of learning
from mistakes, dedicated to the proposition that insight often begins
with unexpected results, and arrives in the response to apparent
problems. We believe every person working in the field of Artificial
Intelligence has experienced this effect, so we are collecting
anecdotes for publication.
Authors should submit 400 word descriptions of personal experiences
that link problems to insights/lessons learned. Problems can include,
but are not limited to: unusual observations, odd algorithm behavior,
technology/application mismatch, risk to people, products, projects,
or corporations, and physical systems failure. The lessons learned
may be technical, methodological, commercial, or organizational in
nature, and more. The ideal contribution will be crisp (possibly in
the form of an "A-ha!" moment), of general interest, and related to
some aspect of AI. Humor is a plus. Selected anecdotes will be
published as sidebars in the special issue.
Please send contributions to Dan Shapiro (dgs at stanford.edu) or
Mehmet Goker (mehmet.goker at us.pwc.com) by March 1, 2007 in text,
postscript, pdf, or MSWord format.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 1 February 2007, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"The Stanford Housing Draw"
Marc Pauly
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~pianoman/
The Stanford Housing Draw is a complex social mechanism that assigns
students to residences based on students' preferences. This kind of
mechanism belongs to the wider class of matching problems that have
been studied in economics. But in the presence of theme houses,
priorities, draw groups, etc., the complexity of the Stanford Housing
Draw far exceeds the housing assignment problems studied in the
theoretical literature. In this talk, we try to bring together theory
and practice. We look at the specific features of the situation at
Stanford and Stanford's current mechanism, applying insights from the
theoretical literature to understand the current system and suggest
possible improvements.
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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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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 1 February 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Development and Disintegration of Conceptual Knowledge:
A Parallel-Distributed Processing Approach
(How the brain learns to differentiate concepts,
and how they disintegrate when neurons die)"
James McClelland
Director, Center for Mind, Brain and Computation, Stanford University
As a new member of the Stanford faculty I will take this opportunity
to introduce my overall research program. After a brief overview of
some of the topics we consider in my lab, I will focus the body of the
talk on one recent project that is continuing in my laboratory.
This project centers on a model of human semantic cognition, based on
the ideas of distributed representation and gradual incremental
learning inherent in the Parallel-Distributed Processing (PDP)
framework. The model addresses progressive differentiation of
conceptual knowledge in child development and progressive
disintegration of conceptual knowledge in semantic dementia, a rare
condition affecting the temporal lobes.
I will also use the model to addresses phenomena that some have taken
as supporting the idea that human semantic knowledge takes the form of
naive, implicit domain theories, including category coherence effects,
differential importance of different properties for different domains,
and reorganization of conceptual knowledge in development. It
suggests how domain specific constraints on the interpretation of new
information may arise from prior experience, providing an alternative
to nativist approaches to the origins of such constraints on
cognition.
About the Speaker: James McClelland is now Professor of Psychology at
Stanford University and the founding Director of the Center for Mind,
Brain and Computation. Over his career, McClelland has contributed to
both the experimental and theoretical literatures in a number of
areas, most notably in the application of connectionist/parallel
distributed processing models to problems in perception, cognitive
development, language learning, and the neurobiology of memory. He was
a co-founder with David E. Rumelhart of the Parallel Distributed
Processing research group, and together with Rumelhart he led the
effort leading to the publication in 1986 of the two-volume book,
Parallel Distributed Processing, in which the parallel distributed
processing framework was laid out and applied to a wide range of
topics in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. McClelland
and Rumelhart jointly received the 1993 Howard Crosby Warren Medal
from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the 1996 Distinguished
Scientific Contribution Award (see citation) from the American
Psychological Association, the 2001 Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology,
and the 2002 IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award for their pioneering
work in this area.
McClelland recently moved to Stanford from Carnegie Mellon University
and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has served as
Senior Editor of Cognitive Science, as President of the Cognitive
Science Society, and as a member of the National Advisory Mental
Health Council. Other honors include the APS William James Fellow
Award for lifetime contributions to the basic science of
psychology. He currently teaches cognitive neuroscience and conducts
research on learning, memory, conceptual development, spoken language,
and semantic cognition.
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 1 February 2007, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Packard 101
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
"'Cognitive' Memory and its Applications"
Bernard Widrow
Stanford University
Regarding the workings of the human mind, memory and pattern
recognition seem to be intertwined. You generally do not have one
without the other. Taking inspiration from life experience, a new form
of computer memory has been devised. Certain conjectures about human
memory are key to the central idea. The design of a practical and
useful "cognitive" memory system is contemplated, a memory system that
may also serve as a model for many aspects of human memory.
The new memory does not function like a computer memory where specific
data is stored in specific numbered registers and retrieval is done by
reading the contents of the specified memory register, or done by
matching key words as with a document search. Incoming sensory data
would be stored at the next available empty memory location, and
indeed could be stored redundantly at several empty locations. The
stored sensory data would neither have key words nor would it be
located in known or specified memory locations.
Sensory inputs concerning a single object or subject are stored
together as vectors in a single "file folder" or "memory folder." When
the contents of the folder are retrieved, sights, sounds, tactile
feel, smell, etc., are obtained all at the same time. Sensor fusion is
a memory phenomenon. The sensory signals are not fused, but they are
simply recorded together in the same folder and retrieved together.
Retrieval would be initiated by a prompt signal from a current set of
sensory inputs or patterns. A search through the memory would be made
to locate stored data that correlates with or relates to the present
real-time sensory inputs. The search would be done by a retrieval
system that makes use of autoassociative artificial neural networks.
Applications of cognitive memory systems have been made to visual
aircraft identification, aircraft navigation, and human facial
recognition. Other applications to speech recognition and control
systems are being explored.
About the Speaker: Bernard Widrow received the S.B., S.M., and
Sc.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1951, 1953, and 1956, respectively. He
joined the MIT faculty and taught there from 1956 to 1959. In 1959, he
joined the faculty of Stanford University, where he is currently
Professor of Electrical Engineering.
He began research on adaptive filters, learning processes, and
artificial neural models in 1957. Together with M.E. Hoff, Jr., his
first doctoral student at Stanford, he invented the LMS algorithm in
Autumn of 1959. Today, this is the worlds most widely used learning
algorithm. He has continued working on adaptive signal processing,
adaptive controls, and neural networks since that time.
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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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ETHICS@NOON
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 12 noon
Bldg. 60:61A
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.html
"Threat to Fairness in American Elections"
Jon Krosnick
Communication, Political Science, Psychology, Stanford
Dr. Krosnick conducts research in three primary areas: (1) attitude
formation, change, and effects, (2) the psychology of political
behavior, and (3) the optimal design of questionnaires used for
laboratory experiments and surveys, and survey research methodology
more generally. This talk will focus on voting biases.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://hci.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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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"Asking questions: empiricism, variation, and acquisition"
Bruno Estigarribia
Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics, Stanford
(dry-run of his upcoming job talk)
In this talk, I demonstrate that a data-driven approach to language
development succeeds in a domain long considered a bastion of nativist
argumentation. Chomsky (1975) claimed that auxiliary-initial
("inverted") yes/no questions in English cannot be learned unless
children possess innate knowledge of syntactic structure. Experimental
and observational studies have argued that some question errors are
never observed in child language because this innate knowledge
precludes them. My research shows that non-derivational,
constraint-based models of adult grammar, when coupled with detailed
empirical analyses of structural variation in child-directed speech,
explain the observed facts, and make recourse to nativistic argument
unnecessary.
I propose a developmental model that is cognitively simple, uses a
general learning procedure, and posits no otherwise unmotivated
language-specific mechanisms; it replaces the hypothesis-testing view
of acquisition, prevalent in linguistics, with a more cognitively
plausible information-processing approach; it is consistent with
well-established results in learning theory; and it gives center stage
to natural language variation, which structures the child-directed
speech in ways informative for the learner.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 3:30pm
EK255, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Sourcemix: An Environment for Collaborative Web Programming"
Joshua Levy
SRI
Popular use of the Web has evolved rapidly over the past two years, as
applications shift from the desktop to the Web, and as Web sites
become increasingly social and collaborative. This talk explores how
these Web 2.0 trends might extend to the process of building software.
I will describe recent work on Sourcemix, a new JavaScript-based
programming environment for collaboratively building Web applications,
services, and mashups. The environment offers wiki-like code editing,
sandboxed script execution, shared storage for code and data, tools
for accessing and publishing Web content, and simple composition of
services. I will give an overview of the system and its underlying
technologies, demonstrate the Sourcemix portal and some applications
built in it, and discuss connections with current issues in Web
interoperability, semantic annotation, and programming languages.
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UC BERKELEY PHONOLOGY TALK
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 4:00pm
46 Dwinelle (Berkeley)
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/events
"Why do children with phonological disorder produce speech
sounds less accurately than their peers?"
Benjamin Munson
University of Minnesota
In acquiring phonology, children must learn two distinct types of
knowledge about the sound structure of a language. First, they must
accrue parametric phonetic knowledge of the acoustic/perceptual and
articulatory characteristics of its sounds. Second, they must learn
how this continuous parametric variation is parsed into abstract
phonological categories. This investigation examines which of these
types of knowledge is deficient in children with phonological disorder
(PD). Children with PD produce speech sounds substantially less
accurately than their peers with typical language development (TD) in
the absence of a medical condition that would otherwise cause them to
do so. The term phonological disorder implies that these children's
inaccurate speech production is a consequence of deficits in the
ability to learn and access abstract representations for speech
sounds. Alternatively, however, PD may arise from deficits in
children's ability to encode and discover systematicity in the
parametric acoustic/perceptual and articulatory phonetic spaces. This
talk will synthesize the results of three experiments recently
conducted in our laboratory, the purpose of which was to delineate the
relative contribution of deficits in mapping the parametric phonetic
space, and deficits in the accessing of abstract phonological
representations, to PhI. The results of two naming experiments showed
no differences between children with PD and age-matched children with
TD in the ability to access lexical items from memory, or to
phonological encode them. In contrast, significant group differences
were found in an implicit learning task measuring children's ability
to encode perceptual representations for novel words. Together,
results support earlier findings that PD is cause primarily by
deficits in perceptual encoding (Munson, Edwards, & Beckman, 2005).
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UC BERKELEY OXYOPIA LECTURE
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 4:00pm
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
"Functional organization of the human ventral stream:
insights from high resolution fMRI and development"
Kalanit Grill-Spector
Psychology & Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
Humans are extremely rapid and efficient in their ability to recognize
object and faces. However, the neural mechanisms underlying this
amazing human ability are still unknown. In this talk I will present
recent data from our lab providing insights about the functional
organization of the human ventral stream. The talk will mainly focus
on two studies: (1) high resolution fMRI of the ventral stream and (2)
maturation of the human ventral stream from childhood to adulthood.
Our recent results with high resolution fMRI show that the functional
organization of the ventral stream is more complex and heterogeneous
than previously thought. I will also discuss topics related to
analysis of high resolution data (and potential pitfalls) in the
context of the recent debate surrounding our analysis methods. Our
developmental data provides evidence of a differential developmental
trajectory of the human ventral stream in which face and
place-selective regions take longer to mature than object-selective
regions. Finally, I will discuss the implications of our studies on
current theories of face and object recognition.
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CS545: INFOSEMINAR
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Gates B12
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
"IFLOW: Self-managing distributed information flows"
Brian Cooper
Yahoo! Research
Large scale information flows are a critical substrate for building
many modern enterprise and scientific applications. However,
constructing, tuning and maintaining information flow systems is very
difficult due to their distribution and complexity. Moreover,
application users are often concerned with business-level performance
metrics and value (such as "information requests by first class
passengers should receive higher priority than requests by coach
passengers"), and want the information flow system to automatically
make low-level decisions which maximize business-level utility. In
this talk, I will describe IFLOW, a self-managing information flow
middleware we have built. IFLOW presents a set of abstractions that
make it easier to develop, deploy and manage new distributed
information services. Application developers specify their processing
as "task graphs," representing flows of information between software
components. They also specify a high-level utility function, which
computes the "business value" of a system configuration, based on the
performance delivered by the system. IFLOW then attempts to deploy the
software components to network nodes in order to optimize this
business utility. Over time, as conditions change, IFLOW can
reconfigure information flows to continue maintaining high utility.
I will describe the design and implementation of IFLOW. I will focus
on one use of IFLOW, as the framework for a distributed event
processing system. I will also touch on other applications of IFLOW.
About the Speaker: I am a research scientist at Yahoo!
Research. Before that I was an assistant professor at Georgia Tech,
and before that I was a PhD student at Stanford. My interests are in
building distributed systems, and in particular, distributed systems
that do database-style management and processing of data. At Yahoo! I
work on building very large distributed data storage and processing
systems. In previous lives I have worked on self-adaptive peer-to-peer
systems, distributed streaming event processing, reliable distributed
archival data storage, and XML indexing.
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LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 4:15pm-5:30pm
Math Corner 380:380W
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Non-deterministic semantics for Dynamic Topological Logic"
D. Fernandez
Stanford
Dynamic Toplological Logics (DTLs) are propositional modal systems for
reasoning about topological spaces under the action of a function
f. The logics based on such systems often turn out to be undecidable,
or even non-axiomatizable. In this talk we will consider the logic of
arbitrary topological spaces, where f is taken to be a continuous
function. One difficulty in studying these spaces is the absence of
Kripke completeness, and we will give an example to show why this is
the case. Then we will present non-deterministic semantics. Under
these semantics, f is allowed to be a relation, so that time now looks
more like a tree than a linear ordering. And yet, the logic we obtain
is identical, because we force all formulas that we are interested in
to be uniquely determined independently of the path we take through
time. Best of all, Kripke semantics are complete under this
interpretation. This has many applications, including a proof of
axiomatizability of DTL and of completeness for metric spaces, which
we will get into as time allows.
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 1:00pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"The Semantics-Pragmatics Interplay, and Its Cultural Logic"
N. J. Enfield
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Most discussion of the semantics-pragmatics distinction concentrates
on the informational logic by which tokens of code become
interpretatively enriched in context. Perhaps less often considered
are the social and cultural dimensions to this process. In this
informal talk, I begin with a brief review of the semantics-pragmatics
distinction, its defining properties, some of its payoffs, and some
disagreements between analysts as to where and how the line between
semantics and pragmatics should be drawn. I then consider
social-cultural aspects of the process of pragmatic enrichment, which
arise from the role of common ground. Common ground is, by definition,
a social phenomenon, defined with reference to two or more
individuals, based on personal as well as cultural association. I
discuss some consequences of this for a "collaborative" model of
language use (H. Clark), where there is a relation of codetermination
between a speaker's selection of code (lexical item, construction),
and a hearer's interpretative enrichment. The process is guided
strategically, not only in order to satisfy informational imperatives,
but also social-affiliational ones. The conclusion discusses
implications for an understanding of semantic variation and
change. Illustrative examples are supplied from a number of language
communities (including English, Dutch, Mandarin, and Lao).
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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla/schedule.shtml
"Large Scale Detection of Irregularities in Accounting Data"
Stephen Bay
Center for Advanced Research, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
In recent years, there have been several large accounting frauds where
a company's financial results have been intentionally misrepresented
by billions of dollars. In response, regulatory bodies have mandated
that auditors perform analytics on detailed financial data with the
intent of discovering such misstatements. For a large auditing firm,
this may mean analyzing millions of records from thousands of
clients. In this talk, I will discuss techniques for automatic
analysis of company general ledgers on such a large scale to identify
irregularities -- which may indicate fraud or just honest errors --
for additional review by auditors. These techniques have been
implemented in a prototype system, called Sherlock, which combines
aspects of both outlier detection and classification. In developing
Sherlock, we faced three major challenges: developing an efficient
process for obtaining data from many heterogeneous sources, training
classifiers with only positive and unlabeled examples, and presenting
information to auditors in an easily interpretable manner.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 8 February 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Decision-making from Karl Marx to YouTube:
How to Think About Strategic Dilemmas"
Phil Hood
Writer, Consultant, and Publisher
In Marx's day, labor capital controlled the means of production.
Today, every consumer has a computer that enables production,
distribution, and consumption from anywhere. The basic dilemma--who
controls the means of production and who captures its rewards?--
endures in a new form. In this talk, Phil Hood will examine how
strategic dilemmas are modeled and resolved in society, business and
personal life, using examples from his book _The Power of the 2 x 2
Matrix: Using 2 x 2 Thinking to Solve Business Problems and Make
Better Decisions_ (Jossey-Bass, 2004). He will introduce a problem
hierarchy model and discuss how to apply solution methods that are
appropriate to the toughest technology strategy issues today. Be ready
for group exercises and tough thinking about current challenges in
your own work.
About the Speaker: Writer, consultant, and publisher Phil Hood
specializes in new media and technologies. After a 15-year stint in
music publishing, he moved into information technology in the 1990s,
working as editorial director of Hypermedia Communications. While
there he directed the 250,000-circulation _NewMedia_, the first
magazine focused on the convergence of communications, media, and
computing technologies. In the mid-'90s he switched gears, becoming
EVP of Research at the Alliance for Converging Technologies, a
Toronto-based think tank specializing in custom research for Fortune
500 firms. While there, Phil directed several multimillion-dollar
studies into the future of multimedia, online commerce, e-government
and online self-organized production. As part of these programs, he
developed and delivered planning toolkits to companies around the
globe. Today Phil is involved in speaking, writing, and, once again,
music publishing, as President of Enter Music Publishing, Inc., and
consultant to several music and entertainment web sites.
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33RD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 9-11 February 2007, all day
Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/program.html
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, 9 February
8:00- 9:00 Registration and coffee (370 Dwinelle Hall)
9:00-11:00 PARASESSION
"Documenting one language in a multi-linguistic community"
Christina Willis, (University of Texas at Austin)
"Developing multilingualism in the field: Researchers in multilingual
communities"
Juliet Langman, (University of Texas at San Antonio)
"Field notes on the pronominal system of Zhuang"
Adams Bodomo, (University of Hong Kong/Stanford University)
"Indonesian money, Balinese people: Code-switching and numerals in
Balinese sociopolitical discourse"
Edmundo Luna, (University of California, Santa Barbara)
PHONETICS
"When fortis goes "ballistic": The phonetics of consonantal length in Trique"
Christian DiCanio, (University of California, Berkeley)
"Variation in voice onset time of stops: The case of Chinese Korean"
Jin Wenhua, (University of Texas at Arlington)
"Gradient vowel nasalization as the cues of morphemic boundaries in
Southern Min"
Yingshing Li, (National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan)
"Tolowa peak pitch alignment"
Christopher Doty, (University of Oregon)
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 Nick Enfield (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Title: Language contact and population thinking: semantic convergence
in the multilingual uplands of Laos
12:15- 1:45 Lunch
1:45- 3:15 SYNTAX
"Reduplication in Indonesian and the Lexicalist Hypothesis"
Yosuke Sato and Bradley McDonnell, (Arizona State University)
"Basque adjectives and the internal structure of DP"
Xabier Artiagoitia, (University of the Basque Country)
"Object case and event type: Accusative-dative object case alternation
in Japanese"
Shin Fukuda, (University of California, San Diego)
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
"Political ideology and language policy in North Korea"
Jacob Terrell, (University of Hawai'i)
"Language change in progress: Evidence from computer-mediated communication"
Natsuko Tsujimura, (Indiana University)
"Interpreting intra-regional Southern vowel distinctions"
Valerie Fridland, (University of Nevada, Reno)
3:15- 3:30 Coffee break
3:45- 5:15 SEMANTICS
"Disjunctive counterfactuals in a Hamblin Semantics"
Luis Alonso-Ovalle, (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
"Elaboration, anaphoric reference to events, and coercion"
Graham Katz, (Stanford University)
"Instrumental subjects"
Scott Grimm, (Stanford University)
SPECIAL SESSION
"The phonetic realization of pitch accent in Huave"
Keelan Evanini, (University of Pennsylvania)
"Taking what a language gives us: the reported inclusive/exclusive
distinction in Maya-Mam"
Wesley Collins, (Universidad Ricardo Palma/SIL International)
"Metaphors of Mayan morphosyntax"
John Haviland, (University of California, San Diego)
5:00- 5:15 Coffee break
5:30- 6:30 Jane Hill (University of Arizona)
Title: The Proto-Uto-Aztecan Cultivation Hypothesis: New Linguistic
Evidence
SATURDAY, 10 February
8:30- 9:00 Registration and coffee (370 Dwinelle Hall)
9:00-11:00 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
"Toward a substantively biased theory of learning"
Sara Finley, (Johns Hopkins University)
"Phonological structure in syllabification: Evidence from dyslexia "
Patricia Schneider-Zioga and Fusa Katada, (California State
University, Fullerton, and Waseda University)
"Debunking the trochaic bias myth: Evidence from phonological development"
Yvan Rose and Christine Champdoizeau (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
"Influences of L1 grammar on children's learning of the past-tense
during ESL acquisition"
Tracy O'Brien, (University of Alberta)
PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY
"An explanation of base TETU effects in Kwak'wala reduplication"
Erin Haynes, (University of California, Berkeley)
"Distributed reduplication: A case study in Kankanaey, a language of
the northern Philippines"
Bradley McDonnell, (Arizona State University)
"Multiple exponence of derivational morphology in Raramuri (Tarahumara)"
Gabriela Caballero, (University of California, Berkeley)
"Phrasal tone domains in San Mateo Huave"
Marjorie Pak, (University of Pennsylvania)
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 Nora England (University of Texas)
Title: Marking Aspect and Inferring Time in Mam
12:15- 1:45 Lunch
1:45- 3:15 SPECIAL SESSION
"Problems in Zapotec tone reconstruction"
Rosemary Beam de Azcona, (La Trobe University)
"Argument quantification and qualification in Upper Necaxa Totonac"
David Beck, (University of Alberta)
"Split coordination in Otomi and the expression of comitativity"
Enrique L. Palancar, (Universidad Autnoma de Quertaro)
SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
"Dative external possessor construction in Sidaama"
Kazuhiro Kawachi, (State University of New York, Buffalo)
"The Japanese contrastive topic marker 'wa': A mirror image of EVEN"
Osamu Sawada, (University of Chicago)
"Three types of relative clause constructions in Korean: A
construction-based approach"
Jong-Bok Kim and Jaehyung Yang, (Kyung Hee University, and Kangham
University)
3:15- 3:30 Coffee break
3:30- 5:00 SEMANTICS
"Double-subject sentences, double-dimension semantics"
William Salmon, (Yale University)
"Indian English tense-aspect restructuring: Sensitivity to sentential aspect"
Devyani Sharma and Ashwini Deo, (Kings College London, and Yale University)
"Scope disambiguation strategies in ATB wh-questions"
Barbara Citko, (University of Washington)
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
"The (evolutionary) phonology of glottal stops in K'ichean languages"
Rusty Barrett, (University of Kentucky)
"From exclusive particle to adversative conjunction: A study on the
particle tasol in Tok Pisin"
Aya Inoue, (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
"Creole phonology: An alternative to markedness based accounts"
Whitney Ward, (Yale University)
5:00- 5:15 Coffee break
5:15- 6:15 Alexandra Aikhenvald (La Trobe University)
Title: Multilingual fieldwork, and emergent grammars
6:15- 6:45 Reception
6:45- 9:00 Dinner
SUNDAY, 11 February
8:30- 9:00 Registration and coffee (370 Dwinelle Hall)
10:00-12:00
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
"Topics are interesting the way they appear in non-thematic subject positions"
Jennifer Mack, (Yale University)
"Laughing our heads off: When metaphor constrains aspect"
Jaume Mateu and M. Teresa Espinal, (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
"The metaphoric grounding of grammar: The modal construction
with'give' in Brazilian Portuguese"
Maria-Margarida Salomao, (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
"Compass-oriented use of speech and gesture among speakers of Ishigaki"
Makiko Takekuro, (Waseda University)
SPECIAL SESSION
"Agent focus in Yukatek and Lakandon Maya"
Henrik Bergqvist, (University of London, School of Oriental and
African Studies)
"Directional markers in Q'anjob'al: Their syntax and meaning"
B'alam Mateo-Toledo, (University of Texas at Austin)
"A definite mystery"
Pamela Munro, (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Phonemic versus Phonetic Correlates of Vowel Length in Chuxnabn Mixe"
Carmen Jany, (University of California, Santa Barbara)
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 Roberto Zavala (CIESAS-Sureste)
Title: "Split intransitives and agentivity in Cholan and other Mayan languages"
12:15- 1:45 Lunch
1:45- 3:15 SYNTAX
"A typology of nominal classifiers in the Eastern Tukanoan languages"
Wilson Silva and Joshua Bowles, (University of Utah)
"Comparative correlatives -- The case of German"
Stefan Huber, (University of South Florida, Tampa)
"Toward a true theory of the periphery: Why some of Culicover's 'odd
prepositions' aren't that odd"
Elizabeth Coppock, (Stanford University)
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
"The kinematics of sign movement "
Martha Tyrone, (Haskins Laboratories)
"On the tone/vowel interaction in Fuzhou"
Cathryn Donohue, (University of Nevada, Reno)
"Stress in Punjabi"
Rahdip Dhillon, (Yale University)
3:15- 3:30 Coffee break
3:30- 4:30 Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
Title: TBA
4:30- 4:45 Closing remarks
Registration
All attendees, including presenters, must register for the conference.
The registration fee, if received in our office by 31 January 2007,
is: Students $20, Non-students $55
The fee for on-site registration or registrations received after 31
January 2007is: Students $25, Nonstudents $55
Registration for only one day of sessions is: Students $10/day,
Nonstudents $20/day
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 9 February 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"The Design of Future Things: Cautious Cars and Cantankerous Kitchens"
Don Norman
Northwestern Univ. and Nielsen-Norman Group
Intelligent devices are entering our everyday lives in interesting and
sometimes disconcerting ways. In this talk, Don Norman discuses his
latest book , The Design of Future Things (to be published in
October). The book discuses the increasing intrusion of intelligent
devices into the automobile and home with both expected benefits and
unexpected dangers.
The aviation industry knows a lot about the dangers of overautomation.
Similarly, the HCI community has learned a lot about appropriate
design. The issues here, however, are different: most studies of
automation and intelligent devices look at industrial settings, with
well-trained operators who do the same operations over and over again.
In the home and automobile, we have ill-trained operators, with little
understanding (and little interest in gaining understanding), and in
the case of the automobile, who may have to react in seconds. In the
home, poor design decisions may simply lead to annoyance and
frustration. But with the automobile, significant safety issues are
involved. All the usual suspects are here: issues of privacy, the
perceived benefits, costs, safety, control, and trust. Expectations
and perceived versus real needs. These are important areas for
research and product innovation.
About the Speaker: Don Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman
Group, an executive consulting firm that helps companies produce
human-centered products and services, Professor at Northwestern
University and Prof. Emeritus of the University of California, San
Diego. He has been Vice President of Apple Computer and an executive
at Hewlett Packard. He was President of the Learning Systems division
of UNext, an early, online education company.
He serves on many advisory boards, such as Chicago's Institute of
Design and Encyclopedia Britannica. He is a fellow of many
organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He
has received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive
Science from the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia), honorary degrees
from the University of Padova (Italy) and the Technical University of
Delft (the Netherlands), the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from SIGCHI,
the professional organization for Computer-Human Interaction, the
Mental Health award for contributions to Business from Psychology
Today, and the Taylor Award for outstanding contribution to the field
of Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology from the American
Psychological Association.
He is well known for his books "The Design of Everyday Things" and
"Emotional Design." Business Week called The Invisible Computer "the
bible of the "post PC thinking." He is now writing "The Design of
Future Things," discussing the role that automation plays in such
everyday places as the home, and automobile. He lives at
http://www.jnd.org
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 9 February 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
"Support for the Learner: Needs, Habits, and Evaluation Studies"
Lin Muehlinghaus, Kim Carl, and others
The recently-completed "Support for the Learner: What, Where, When and
Who" http://ecai.org/imls2004 ) included a variety of studies at UC
Berkeley and at Dominican University concerning the needs, habits, and
preferences of students and faculty in terms of the support that
libraries do (or might) provide for their learning. We will describe
the studies, summarize the findings and invite discussion of the
implications.
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UC BERKELEY OXYOPIA LECTURE
on Friday, 9 February 2007, 4:00pm
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
"Coding and perceiving the positions of moving objects"
David Whitney
Center for Mind and Brain, Psychology, UC Davis
Perceiving the positions of objects is one of the visual system's
primary functions. This is complicated by the fact that the eye is
almost constantly moving and objects in the world frequently move
around us. This, along with the sluggish nature of visual processing,
should pose difficulties when perceiving and interacting with moving
objects and scenes. Our experience contradicts this, suggesting that
the visual system has mechanisms that compensate for inherent delays
and sluggish processing of visual information. Recent work in our lab
has revealed that the visual system codes the locations of objects
depending on the motion that is present in scenes, and that both
passive (bottom-up) and attentive (top-down) mechanisms contribute to
this compensation process. Additional fMRI and TMS studies in our lab
have begun to reveal the neural mechanisms of position coding. FMRI
studies have revealed motion-dependent position coding in early visual
areas including V1, and a recent TMS study demonstrated that MT+ plays
a necessary role as well. The emerging psychophysical and
physiological evidence is beginning to clarify our view of how the
visual system constructs a representation of object position--one that
is apparently seemless and effortless but that nonetheless requires a
great deal of computational and neural resources.
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CS545: INFOSEMINAR
on Friday, 9 February 2007, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Gates B12
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
"Entity Search: Finding Stuff on the Web, Directly and Holistically"
Kevin Chang
University of Illinois
What have you been searching lately?
With so much data on the Web, we often search for various "stuff"
(e.g., a phone number, a paper, a name, a date)-- but current search
engines take us only to pages, *indirectly*. With the scale of the
Web, the stuff that we are looking for usually appears in many pages--
but current engines find us only each page, *individually*. Toward
searching directly and holistically, the WISDM project at Illinois is
building a new search system for finding our target "entities." For
such entity search, I will motivate its query semantics, develop the
search mechanism, and demonstrate the current prototype in several
real-world application scenarios.
About the Speaker: Kevin C. Chang is an alum of the Stanford InfoLab,
where he worked in the Digital Libraries project as a disciple of of
Hector Garcia-Molina and Andreas Paepcke until 2000, at which time he
foresaw the bursting of the dot-com bubble and decided to move far
away into the land of Siberia (aka Illinois), where he has been an
assistant professor... http://www-faculty.cs.uiuc.edu/~kcchang/
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