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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 7 February 2007, vol. 22:21
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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7 February 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 21
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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 7 FEBRUARY 2007 TO 16 FEBRUARY 2007
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
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [7-Feb-07]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Dissociable parietal mechanisms supporting visual object
individuation and identification"
Yaoda Xu
Yale University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
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)
"Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes for modeling fMRI brain
activation patterns"
Seyoung Kim
UC Irvine
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sykim/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~feisha/cis-seminar
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [8-Feb-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"User Centered Design and Autism"
Dan Gillette
Education and Behavioral Healthcare Initiative, Greenleaf Institute
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
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
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)
"Words as phonetic 'gestalts' in auditory word recognition"
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
4:10pm UC Berkeley Group in Logic and Methodology of Science
60 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
"Epistemological Critiques of 'Classical Logic' - Two Case Studies"
Branden Fitelson
UC Berkeley
http://logic.berkeley.edu/colloquium.html
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
MONDAY, 12 FEBRUARY 2007
2:30pm Stanford Security Seminar [12-Feb-07]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Applications of Group Signatures"
Kazue Sake
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
Abstract below
3:30pm Social Lab [12-Feb-07]
Bldg. 200:105
"My Wife Vs. Our Wife: Self Construal And First Person Pronoun"
Incheol Choi
Psychology, Seoul National University.
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_social.html
TUESDAY, 13 FEBRUARY 2007
12 noon Linguistics Department Colloquium [13-Feb-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Phonetic Variation in Speech Perception and Lexical Access"
Mathias Scharinger
University of Konstanz
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
3:00pm CSLI Tea [13-Feb-07]
Cordura Hall Greenhouse
4:15pm Biological Modelling Club [13-Feb-07]
Clark Center S 363
"Qualitative Networks:
A Symbolic Approach to Analyze Biological Signaling Networks"
Marc Schaub
Computer Science, Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu/~scheler/bioclub.html
Abstract below
7:30pm BayCHI [13-Feb-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"He Says, She Says: Conflict and Coordination in Wikipedia"
Ed Chi
PARC
"Digitizing Friendship:
Learning From and About Massive On-Line Social Networks"
Scott Golder
Hewlett-Packard
http://www.baychi.org/program/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 14 FEBRUARY 2007
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [14-Feb-07]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"The structure and acquisition of semantic knowledge"
Charles Kemp
MIT
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [14-Feb-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Usability and Software Architecture: The forgotten quality
attribute and the forgotten design problem"
Bonnie John
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [14-Feb-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Building your own dynamic language is fun and easy!
First steps on the road to reinventing computing"
Ian Piumarta
Viewpoints Research Institute
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Trojan Detection using IC Fingerprinting"
Pankaj Rohatgi
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [14-Feb-07]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"iLink and Web 2.0: Machine Learning on Dynamic Content-Driven
Social Networks in Web 2.0"
Sugato Basu
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2007
12:45pm Stanford Networking Seminar
Gates 104
Title to be announced
Daniel Blumenthal
UC Santa Barbara
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
2:00pm Berkeley ICSI Annual BEARS Open House [15-Feb-07]
ICSI, Rm 607 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
(RSVP requested)
Information below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [15-Feb-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Koala: a Wikipedia for Business Process"
Tessa Lau
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [15-Feb-07]
Soda hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://bashful.cs.uiuc.edu/~braz/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~feisha/cis-seminar
4:15pm NIS Seminar Series [15-Feb-07]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman
"Neural basis of motor preparation and prostheses"
Krishna Shenoy
EE and Neuroscience, Stanford
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
7:30pm Silicon Valley Shannon Lecture [15-Feb-07]
Packard 101
"New Standards from W3C: XPath, XQuery, and XSLT"
Don Chamberlin
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~tylin/ieeesilicon/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 2007
12 noon Linguistics Department Colloquium [16-Feb-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"The effect of experience in the perception and representation
of dialects"
Meghan Sumner
SUNY Stony Brook/UC Berkeley
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [16-Feb-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Designing Interfaces for Musical Experience"
Tina Blaine
HCI Institute Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [16-Feb-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"The European Commission's Joint Research Centre: a Reference
Center for Science and Technology in the European Union"
Doris Florian
Belgium
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [16-Feb-07]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Agency, Mind, and Authority"
Akeel Bilgrami
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philosophy/fac-bios/bilgrami/faculty.html
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [16-Feb-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"How does learning about categories change the way we perceive?"
Adam November
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
4:00pm UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture [16-Feb-07]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Form Vision in the Periphery"
Bosco Tjan
Psychology, University of Southern California
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
Abstract below
4:15pm CS545: InfoSeminar [16-Feb-07]
Gates B12
"Supporting Scaleable Online Statistical Processing"
Christopher Jermaine
Univ. of Florida
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
Abstract below
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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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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 8 February 2007, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~feisha/cis-seminar
"Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes for modeling fMRI brain
activation patterns"
Seyoung Kim
UC Irvine
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sykim/
In this talk I will describe the use of Dirichlet process mixtures for
modeling of spatial patterns across multiple images. A motivating
application is the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) data for brain image. I present a mixture-based
response-surface technique for extracting and characterizing spatial
clusters of image intensity. This approach provides a richer and more
powerful representation of the image data compared to more traditional
voxel-based hypothesis testing methods. Dirichlet process priors are
used to automatically select the number of activation clusters in a
single image. This model can be further extended with hierarchical
Dirichlet processes to extract common activation clusters from
multiple images.
In addition, I combine hierarchical Dirichlet processes with random
effects model to capture the image-level variabilities in the shape of
local clusters.
I describe an MCMC sampling method to simultaneously estimate both the
shape parameters and the number of local activations, and demonstrate
the application of the algorithm to fMRI brain images.
About the Speaker: Seyoung Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department
of Computer Science at UC, Irvine. Her research interests include
statistical machine learning and Bayesian methods.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 8 February 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"User Centered Design and Autism"
Dan Gillette
Education and Behavioral Healthcare Initiative, Greenleaf Institute
In this talk, Dan Gillette will discuss his experience conducting
collaborative, field-based, user-centered design in cultures that
include individuals with severe autism. He will also give examples
from the work of other designers that show why it is critical to
employ user-centered design practices in developing products for
individuals with autism. Time permitting, Dan will also describe some
of the exciting new projects being funded by the Cure Autism Now
Innovative Technology for Autism Initiative.
About the Speaker: Dan Gillette is the director of the Education and
Behavioral Healthcare Initiative at the Greenleaf Institute, and is a
lead designer in behavioral medicine at Greenleaf
Medical. Additionally, Dan is chair of the Innovative Technology for
Autism Board at Cure Autism Now, and regularly consults and conducts
research in education, psychology, product design, and disability
studies. Dan has held research and teaching positions at Stanford
University, UC Berkeley, Mills College, and CSU Monterey
Bay. Additionally, Dan has extensive experience as a learning
specialist and administrator at the middle school, high school,
undergraduate, and graduate levels. Before getting into educational
psychology and product design, Dan had a ten-year career as a musician
and composer, as well as a stint as a bicycle courier.
Dan holds a B.A. in human development from the Lesley College Graduate
School, and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education,
where he concentrated in cognitive science, psychology, and
instructional design.
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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 seamless 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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STANFORD SECURITY SEMINAR
on Monday, 12 February 2007, 2:30pm
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
"Applications of Group Signatures"
Kazue Sake
In the talk I will give a brief introduction to what group signature
is and discuss its possible applications. Group signature scheme
allows one to sign anonymously on behalf of a group and was first
thought as a tool to enhance privacy of users. For example, a user can
identify himself as a member of some privileged group and enjoy the
membership services anonymously. However, this conflicts the need of
service providers who usually want to supply personal services to
their customers. In the talk we will discuss alternative scenarios in
which the properties of group signatures are more appreciated by the
business companies. This is a on-going work and many comments are
greatly appreciated.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12 noon
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"Phonetic Variation in Speech Perception and Lexical Access"
Mathias Scharinger
University of Konstanz
There is ample evidence in the experimental as well as theoretical
literature that phonetic variation, measurable in the speech signal,
is not entirely random. Articulatory gestures can be controlled to
express specific phonetic distinctions. On the other hand, these
distinctions do not usually pose considerable problems for speech
perception. Listeners successfully map the highly variable speech
signal onto discrete lexical representations. How can this efficient
and adaptive interface between continuous and discrete speech
characteristics be best described?
The present approach espouses a model which resolves phonetic
variation directly in the mental lexicon via underspecification of
phonological representations. A very detailed phonetic input is
assumed to be mapped onto abstract lexical forms, of which the
underspecification of particular phonological features interacts with
principles of language change and morphological categorization. For
both points, evidence is drawn from experimental findings.
In relation to language change, a dialectal "variation" between
American and New Zealand English exemplifies the advantage of
underspecified lexical segments in order to capture perceptual
asymmetries based on vocalic tongue height features.
(1) [bEt]
American English: bet
New Zealand English: bat
The experimental results suggest that phonetically identical vowels
are interpreted differentially by American and New Zealand English
speakers.
As for morphological categorization, data supporting asymmetric
perception and underspecified recognition are drawn from German umlaut
where two distinct phonetic segments refer to one underlying
representation.
(2) [Stoek@]~[StOk] 'stick' plural~singular
A formerly purely phonetic process acquired morphological significance
by grammaticalization. The phenomenon of German umlaut shows that
phonetic differences not only have phonological but also morphological
and syntactic repercussions. The strongest evidence for this claim
stems from a neurolinguistic pilot study, again highlighting
asymmetries in the mapping of phonetic to phonological information.
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BIOLOGICAL MODELLING CLUB
on Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 4:15pm
Clark Center S 363
http://www.stanford.edu/~scheler/bioclub.html
"Qualitative Networks:
A Symbolic Approach to Analyze Biological Signaling Networks"
Marc Schaub
Computer Science, Stanford
A central goal of Systems Biology is to model and analyze biological
signaling pathways that interact with one another to form complex
networks. In order to build discrete models at a similar level of
abstraction to the one observed in experimental studies, we introduce
Qualitative Networks, an extension of Boolean Networks. In this
framework, variables representing the activity of biochemical
components such as proteins and genes range over a small finite
domain, allowing more flexibility than Boolean values. Interactions
between components are represented by associating one target function
to every component, thus allowing modeling a rich set of behaviors. We
propose a symbolic algorithm for analyzing the steady-state of these
networks. This algorithm reasons over sets of states and uses
partition reduction to scale to multi-cellular models of complex
pathways for which an exhaustive exploration of the state space is
intractable. We illustrate the usefulness of this approach through a
model of the interaction between the Notch and the Wnt signaling
pathways in mammalian skin, and its extensive analysis.
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BAYCHI
on Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.baychi.org/program/
"He Says, She Says: Conflict and Coordination in Wikipedia"
Ed Chi
PARC
Wikipedia has become one of the most successful experiments in
collaborative knowledge-building on the Internet. As Wikipedia
continues to grow, additional users, pages, and information increase
the possibility of conflict as well as raising the need for consensus
building and coordination.
In this talk, Ed Chi will refer to his joint work with Aniket Kittur,
Bongwon Suh, Bryan Pendleton to characterize conflicts and
coordination costs in Wikipedia in three different ways: (1)
increasing coordination cost at the global level; (2) parameters that
predict high-conflict topic areas; (3) analysis methods for
understanding conflict between users. These characterizations have led
to development of tools to increase efficiency and effect social
change in Wikipedia, and to inform the design of new collaborative
knowledge systems.
About the Speaker: Ed H. Chi is a senior research scientist at Palo
Alto Research Center's User Interface Research Group. Ed completed his
three degrees (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) in 6.5 years from University of
Minnesota, and has been doing research on user interface software
systems since 1993. He has been featured and quoted in the press,
such as The Economist, Time Magazine, LA Times, and the Associated
Press.
His most well-known project is the study of Information
Scent--understanding how users navigate and understand information
environments such as the Web. He has also worked on computational
molecular biology, ubicomp, and recommendation/search engines. In his
spare time, Ed is an avid Taekwondo martial artist, photographer, and
snowboarder.
"Digitizing Friendship:
Learning From and About Massive On-Line Social Networks"
Scott Golder
Hewlett-Packard
Studying an online community may seem easy; plentiful server logs and
databases make collecting their data almost simple. However, it's not
so clear as that; these digital footprints represent only a thin slice
of users' lives, making contextualizing and interpreting such data
subtly challenging. In this talk, Scott Golder presents results from a
study of the behavior of over four million users of the Facebook, a
popular online social network. The results include interesting
temporal patterns and insight into college students' lives, and raise
questions about what it means to be a friend in a world where digital
tools are woven into the fabric of our social lives. Generalizing from
this study, he explores the value and tradeoffs of quantitatively
analyzing online communities, and considers ways to more richly
characterize individuals' and groups' online social lives.
Scott Golder is a researcher in the Information Dynamics Lab at HP
Labs. He studies online communities, social networks, and
collaborative systems and enjoys analyzing such environments as well
as designing novel interfaces for them. His previous and ongoing work
includes studies of del.icio.us, Facebook, Usenet, email and online
gambling.
Personal homepage: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Scott_Golder/
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Usability and Software Architecture: The forgotten quality
attribute and the forgotten design problem"
Bonnie John
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Ebej/
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
cant 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 CMUs 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 Administrators Award and the Group
Achievement Award in 2004, NSFs 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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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Building your own dynamic language is fun and easy!
First steps on the road to reinventing computing"
Ian Piumarta
Viewpoints Research Institute
Viewpoints Research Insitute recently began a five-year project to
reinvent how we program and interact with computers. An early goal of
our work is to make a practical, working mathematical model of a
complete personal computer system that invites understanding and
modification by users at all levels.
An essential part of the model is a programming language and
environment that exhibit the properties desired of the system at
large. In computer science terms, this language and environment are:
* metacircular -- they are sufficiently powerful to implement
themselves with no extrinsic behaviour or other `magic'; and
* self-similar -- the essential data abstractions and mechanisms
used to describe the most primitive levels in the implementation
are the same as those presented to the user as the building blocks
of arbitrary computation.
The result is a compact and understandable programming environment in
which nothing is hidden from, or beyond the influence of, its users.
In this talk I will describe several significant aspects of the design
and implementation of this programming environment. The foundation is
a pair of mutually-supporting abstractions for behaviour and state.
These abstractions are individually very simple and incapable of
completely describing their own implementation. When combined,
however, each abstraction provides all of the necessary `extrinsic
magic' required for the other to describe itself.
The behavioural abstraction is inspired by McCarthy's rendering of
LISP in LISP. In a half-page description, McCarthy created a recursive
model that was small enough to be easily understandable and yet
sufficiently complete to permit fruitful thinking about its meaning.
In the spirit of McCarthy's LISP I will show how the abstraction for
state in our system is modelled in terms of objects responding to
messages, where the semantics of message sending are defined
recursively in terms of objects responding to messages.
I will finish by describing of the remaining components of our
programming system (from parsing to code generation) and the
techniques that keep everything open, understandable and dynamically
extensible by the user.
About the Speaker: Ian Piumarta is a computer scientist at Viewpoints
Reseach Institute. He studied at the University of Manchester (UK)
where he was awarded a B.Sc. followed by a Ph.D. for work on code
generation techniques. After a couple of years as a post-doc at
Manchester he moved to Paris to work at IRCAM. He then spent ten years
working at INRIA and the University of Paris VI before moving to the
United States and taking his current position at Viewpoints. He spends
most of his time thinking about and implementing technologies for
making computer languages more open, reflexive, dynamically
self-describing and understandable. The rest of his time he spends
listening to music, playing Bach on the guitar, building hi-fi
equipment and flying airplanes.
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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"iLink and Web 2.0: Machine Learning on Dynamic Content-Driven
Social Networks in Web 2.0"
Sugato Basu
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
In the last decade, machine learning and data mining techniques have
seen widespread successful application to different Internet
technologies, including web search, product recommendation, spam
detection, spelling correction, and news clustering. However, the web
is fast undergoing a paradigm shift, moving from being a mechanism for
delivering static web-content in the existing Web 1.0 model to a
platform facilitating dynamic collaborative content creation in the
emerging Web 2.0 paradigm. This trend is reflected in the growing
popularity of new social web-services, for example, tagging (Flickr)
compared to photo editing (Ofoto), and blogging (Blogger) compared to
homepage hosting (Geocities). This talk will outline how this new
emphasis on rapid creation and sharing of consumer-generated data
(CGM) over large social networks has given rise to dynamic
content-driven social networks, and a new set of challenging machine
learning problems in this context. Focusing on a project (iLink) that
the speaker is currently working on, the talk will discuss research
problems like online learning of topic models over streaming text,
large-scale topic analysis over social networks, and learning to route
messages in a social query model.
About the Speaker: Sugato Basu is a research scientist at SRI
International's Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC). His main areas
of research interest are machine learning, data mining, information
retrieval, statistical pattern recognition and optimization, with
applications to analysis of text data and social networks on the
web. He received his Ph.D. from UT Austin in 2005, his MS from UC
Santa Cruz and his BTech from IIT Kharagpur. Some of his recent awards
include the Distinguished Student Paper award at ICML in 2005, the
Best Research Paper Award at KDD in 2004, the Google Fellowship Grant
in 2004, the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship in 2002 and the UT MCD Fellowship in
2000. He has served on several conference program committees, is the
reviewer for many journals, and has worked multiple summers at the
research groups of Google and Interwoven.
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BERKELEY INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE OPEN HOUSE
on Thursday, 15 February 2007, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Main Lecture Hall, ICSI, 1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) cordially invites
you to our annual BEARS open house, featuring a talk by Nick Weaver of
the Networking Group on Haptic Keys: A Novel Approach to User
Authentication:
ICSI scientists will be on hand throughout to discuss and demonstrate
their latest research in networking, bioinformatics, artificial
intelligence, speech and natural language processing. In our feature
presentation at 3:00 pm, Nick Weaver will provide a novel take on user
authentication, the notoriously difficult problem of proving
electronically that "you are who you say you are". Grounded in the
familiar, real-world concepts of physical locks and keys, his
approach, is at once thought provoking, powerful--and eminently
pragmatic.
ICSI is located at 1947 Center Street, Suite 600, Berkeley, CA, two
blocks from the UC Berkeley campus and Downtown Berkeley BART
station. A map and detailed directions are at
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/about/location.html.
Please RSVP to Leah Hitchcock (leahh@icsi.berkeley.edu or 510 666-2974)
by February 8th. More information on this event is at
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/news/nb0701.html
A list of technology demonstrations for the open house will be posted
in the next few days.
For more information on ICSI, please see our website,
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 15 February 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Koala: a Wikipedia for Business Process"
Tessa Lau
IBM Almaden Research Center
Knowledge capture and reuse in an enterprise is an ongoing challenge
for businesses. Employees often struggle to find out how to complete
certain processes, such as hiring summer interns or ordering a new
computer. In our Koala project, we are exploiting the synergy of four
related technologies to build a system that enables end users to
document, share, and collaborate on "how to" knowledge. Koala combines
ideas from programming by demonstration, "sloppy" programming, wikis,
and user-specific data into a system that lets users easily record and
play back scripts for tasks performed on the web. Our approach is
based on a human- and machine-understandable "sloppy" programming
language that can be easily read and written by people, and yet also
interpreted by machine to automate common or difficult tasks. Scripts
are published to a company-wide server, in which we are exploring the
broader issues of social search and navigation, and script reuse and
maintenance.
About the Speaker: Tessa Lau is a Research Staff Member at IBMs
Almaden Research Center. She completed her Ph.D. in computer science
at the University of Washington in 2001. Her research goal is to give
people tools to improve their productivity, enhance their creativity,
and make them more effective. She is interested in information
management, particularly personal information, and how people interact
with and customize their working environment. She has done significant
work in the area of programming by demonstration, giving end users the
ability to automate repetitive tasks simply by showing the system how
to perform the task a few times. More generally, she is interested in
finding patterns in human behavior and human-centric information and
building tools that exploit these patterns to enable people to do more
with less work.
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NIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 15 February 2007, 4:15pm
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
"Neural basis of motor preparation and prostheses"
Krishna Shenoy
EE and Neuroscience, Stanford
It has long been recognized that, before moving, we somehow prepare
neural activity such that, when called upon, the desired movement
unfolds. But the goals of movement preparation and the underlying
neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. I will describe some of
our recent electrophysiological investigations of how cerebral
(pre-motor) cortex prepares and helps execute movements. Our results
suggest that the brain is attempting to optimize preparatory neural
activity and can delay movement until this activity is sufficiently
accurate. With an increased understanding of movement planning, it is
also possible to design real-time electronic systems capable of
translating neural plans into prosthetic movements. I will also
describe our recent electrophysiological investigations aimed at
establishing the fundamental, neurobiologically dictated performance
limits of communication prostheses. Our results suggest that at least
a factor of four performance improvement is possible, which is
essential for starting to assess the potential benefits of clinical
cortically-controlled prosthetic systems. Finally, I will also
describe a very recent effort to record neural activity and head
acceleration from freely-behaving animals, which provides insights
into the signal nonstationarities to be expected in human neural
prosthetic systems.
Recent Papers:
[1] Churchland MM, Afshar A, Shenoy KV (2006) A central source of
movement variability. Neuron. 52:1085-1096.
[2] Santhanam G, Ryu SI, Yu BM, Afshar A, Shenoy KV (2006) A
high-performance brain-computer interface. Nature. 442:195-198.
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SILICON VALLEY SHANNON LECTURE
on Thursday, 15 February 2007, 7:30pm
Packard 101
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~tylin/ieeesilicon/
"New Standards from W3C: XPath, XQuery, and XSLT"
Don Chamberlin
IBM Almaden Research Center
On January 23, 2007, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced a
new suite of XML-related recommendations, including a new query
language called XQuery and significant updates to the widely-used
XPath and XSLT languages. This talk will describe the new languages,
their significance, and their relationship to other XML standards. It
will also discuss the W3C design process and some of the influences
that shaped the design of these languages. It will conclude with a
look at some of the ongoing work at W3C relating to XML languages and
standards.
About the Speaker: Don Chamberlin is an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow,
and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is co-inventor
of the SQL relational database language and co-inventor of the Quilt
language which became the basis for the design of XQuery. Don works at
the IBM Almaden Research Center, and for the past several years he has
represented IBM on the W3C XML Query Working Group. He is an editor of
the XPath and XQuery language specifications.
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UC BERKELEY OXYOPIA LECTURE
on Friday, 16 February 2007, 4:00pm
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
"Form Vision in the Periphery"
Bosco Tjan
Psychology, University of Southern California
To perceive form, small local features detected in the early stages of
visual processing must be selectively integrated to form larger
coherent shapes. The precise nature of this selective integration
process, which appropriately separates and integrates local features,
is largely unknown. A form-vision deficit in the peripheral visual
fields, known as crowding, provides a useful model for studying this
selective integration process. In peripheral vision, flanking an
otherwise identifiable target can impair identification of the target.
In a series of psychophysical and fMRI experiments, we concluded that
crowding cannot be explained by the spatial-tuning properties of the
periphery or the spatial uncertainty for isolated features. Instead,
crowding seems to be caused by an inability to segment or select
features that are within a range equal to the average receptive-field
size of an V2 neuron at the given eccentricity.
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CS545: INFOSEMINAR
on Friday, 16 February 2007, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Gates B12
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
"Supporting Scaleable Online Statistical Processing"
Christopher Jermaine
Univ. of Florida
Data warehousing and analytic processing have been active areas of
database research and development for nearly two decades, and many
experts now consider these problems to be "solved", especially with
regard to performance. However, an argument can be made that users and
databases have simply reached an uneasy truce with regard to analytic
processing. If users avoid ad-hoc, exploratory queries that might take
days to execute, then the database performs just fine.
In this talk, I will describe query processing in database system
called DBO that is designed from the ground up to support interactive
analytic processing. Like traditional relational database systems, DBO
can run database queries from start to finish and produce exact
answers in a scaleable fashion. Our initial results show that DBO has
all of performance of a traditional system when processing analytic
queries. However, unlike any existing research or production system,
DBO is able to produce statistically meaningful approximate answers at
all times throughout query execution. These answers are continuously
updated from start to finish, even for "huge" queries requiring
arbitrary quantities of temporary secondary storage. Thus, a user can
stop execution whenever satisfied with the query accuracy, which may
translate to dramatic time savings during exploratory processing.
About the Speaker: Chris Jermaine is an assistant professor of
computer science at the University of Florida, where he has been since
earning his PhD degree from Georgia Tech in 2002. His research is
generally concerned with databases and data analysis. With his
students and colleagues at UF he has published papers in forums such
as ACM TODS, VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE. He is the recipient of an NSF
CAREER award for his research on approximate query processing.
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