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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007, vol. 22:26



 
                    CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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14 March 2007                   Stanford               Vol. 22, No. 26
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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 14 MARCH 2007 TO 23 MARCH 2007

WEDNESDAY, 14 MARCH 2007
 4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [14-Mar-07]
        Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
        "A New Balancing Method for Solving Parametric Maximum Flow Problems"
        Bin Zhang
        HP Labs 
        http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html

 6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [14-Mar-07]
        SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
        "Scientific Data Mining - Challenges at the Petascale"
        Chandrika Kamath
        Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
        http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
        Abstract below

THURSDAY, 15 MARCH 2007
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [15-Mar-07]
        Nora Suppes Hall 203 (next to Cordura Hall)
        "Moore's Paradox and Mooronic Belief"
        Krista Lawlor
        Stanford University
        http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/fss/klawlor.html
        http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
        Abstract below

 3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [15-Mar-07]
        Jordan Hall 420:050
        "Neural measures of individual differences in working memory
        and declarative memory" 
        Ben Hutchinson
        "Monkey fMRI: Setup and Training"
        Kevin Weiner 
        http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html

 4:00pm PARC Forum [15-Mar-07]
        George Pake Auditorium at PARC
        "How to Reduce Global Warming and Make Humans Omnipresent
        Using Virtual Worlds"
        David Rolston
        Forterra
        http://www.parc.com/forum/
        Abstract below

 4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [15-Mar-07]
        Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
        "Toward a Translation Model for English to Turkish Machine
        Translation"
        Gorkem Ozbek
        M.S. Candidate, Symbolic Systems Program
        http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
        Abstract below

FRIDAY, 16 MARCH 2007
all day 8th Annual Semantics Fest [16-Mar-07]
        Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
        http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/semfest/semfest07.html
        Information below       

11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [16-Mar-07]
        5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
        "Computing Movement Geometry -- 
        A step in sensory-motor transformations"
        David Zipser
        UCSD
        http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
        Abstract below

11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [16-Mar-07]
        Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
        "Computing Movement Geometry -- A step in sensory-motor
        transformations"
        David Zipser 
        UC San Diego
        http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
        Abstract below

12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [16-Mar-07]
        Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
        "Google Design in Practice: the Challenge of Simplicity"
        Adam Barker
        Google
        http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
        Abstract below

 3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [16-Mar-07]
        107 South Hall (Berkeley)
        "Burning Man at Google: 
        A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production?"
        Fred Turner
        Communication, Stanford
        http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
        Abstract below

 3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [16-Mar-07]
        Bldg. 90:92Q
        "Logical Segmentation and Higher-Order Quantification in
        Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus'"
        Thomas Ricketts
        University of Pittsburgh
        http://www.pitt.edu/~philosop/people/ricketts.html
        http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html

 4:15pm CS545: InfoSeminar [16-Mar-07]
        Gates B12
        "The Query Containment Problem: Set Semantics vs. Bag Semantics"
        Phokion Kolaitis
        IBM Almaden Research
        http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
        Abstract below

MONDAY, 19 MARCH 2007
 4:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium [19-Mar-07]
        182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
        "Talking your way to Whiteness: Jews, ethnicity, and language"
        Neil Jacobs 
        Ohio State University
        http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
        Abstract below

TUESDAY, 20 MARCH 2007

WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 2007

THURSDAY, 22 MARCH 2007
 4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [22-Mar-07]
        EJ228, SRI International
        "The Smart Personal Assistant: An Overview"
        Wayne Wobcke 
        Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales
        http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/

 4:00pm PARC Forum [22-Mar-07]
        George Pake Auditorium at PARC
        "Beer: The Best Beverage in the World" 
        Charlie Bamforth
        UC Davis
        http://www.parc.com/forum/

FRIDAY, 23 MARCH 2007
 3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [23-Mar-07]
        107 South Hall (Berkeley)
        "The Survivability of Texts"
        Roger C. Schonfeld
        Manager of Research, Ithaka 
        http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html
        Abstract below

 4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation [23-Mar-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
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                                 NOTE

Due to various things, I wasn't able to hunt as much as I usually do
for events, fortunately Stanford is in Dead week and Finals week so
not that many events here. My apologies --Emma 
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                      SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
             on Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
      SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
                    http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php

        "Scientific Data Mining - Challenges at the Petascale"
                           Chandrika Kamath
                Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


The data from scientific simulations, observations, and experiments is
now being measured in terabytes and will soon reach the petabyte
regime. The size of the data, as well as its complexity, make it
difficult to find useful information in the data. This is of course
disconcerting to scientists who wonder about the science still
undiscovered in the data. The Sapphire scientific data mining project
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (
http://www.llnl.gov/casc/sapphire ) has been addressing this concern
by applying data mining techniques to problems ranging in size from a
few megabytes to a hundred terabytes in a variety of domains. Using
example problems from domains including fluid mixing, molecular
dynamics, astronomy, remote sensing, and experimental physics, I will
discuss some of the challenges we have encountered in mining these
datasets. I will then discuss what the future holds for scientific
data mining as we move to petascale computing.

About the Speaker: Chandrika Kamath is a computer scientist at the
Center for Applied Scientific Computing at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, where she has led the Sapphire project in
scientific data mining since 1998. Her research focuses on the
analysis of data from observations, experiments, and simulations,
using techniques from image and video processing, data mining, pattern
recognition, and statistics. The Sapphire project won the 2006 R&D 100
award for its scientific data mining software. Prior to joining LLNL
in 1997, Chandrika was a Consulting Software Engineer at Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC), developing high performance mathematical
software for the Digital Extended Math Library (DXML). She earned her
Ph.D. in 1986 and her M.S. in 1984, both in Computer Science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds six patents in
data mining, is an Editor-in-Chief of a new Journal 'Statistical
Analysis and Data Mining' premiering in 2007, and is active in
organizing data mining conferences and workshops.
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                            CSLI COGLUNCH
             on Thursday, 15 March 2007, 12 noon - 1:00pm
                         Nora Suppes Hall 100
            http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/

                "Moore's Paradox and Mooronic Belief"
                            Krista Lawlor
                         Stanford University
         http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/fss/klawlor.html

G.E. Moore famously notes that there's something absurd about saying
"I went to the movies, but I don't believe it." It's often claimed
that if there's something absurd here, it must arise from the
absurdity of the thought or belief expressed by such an utterance.
What, if anything, is absurd about mooronic belief? A wide range of
diagnoses have been offered. Many miss the mark, however, by entailing
that garden-variety epistemic failures are conceptually impossible. I
suggest some new constraints on a diagnosis, rule out a few
misdiagnoses, and make a suggestion toward a better one.
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                              PARC FORUM
             on Thursday, 15 March 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
                     George Pake Auditorium, PARC
                      http://www.parc.com/forum/

      "How to Reduce Global Warming and Make Humans Omnipresent
                        Using Virtual Worlds"
                            David Rolston
                               Forterra

This Forum will focus on Virtual Worlds (massively multi-player online
games, or MMOGs), past, present, and future-- beginning with a live
demo of a virtual world application to illustrate concepts and
capabilities. We will discuss the history and current state of
applications based on virtual world technology - moving beyond MMOGs
to focus on "serious" applications. Our discussion of the future will
present a vision of how virtual worlds may develop, including how
interconnected virtual worlds could someday evolve into a 3D Internet
that will allow people to make a quantum leap in how they communicate
and collaborate and will fundamentally change the nature of society,
redefining the norm for human interaction. The Forum will conclude
with a presentation of technical challenges that must be resolved for
this vision to be realized.

About the Speaker: Dave Rolston has more than 35 years of experience
in high tech. His experience spans a broad spectrum of industries,
applications, and technologies including simulation and training,
graphics applications, imagery, gaming, artificial intelligence,
entertainment, and the early Internet. During his career, Dave has
performed in various roles, including technical, business,
operational, and general management assignments.

Before Forterra, Dave served as VP of Engineering for ATI, responsible
for design of graphics chips that drive many of the world's PC's and
game consoles. Prior to joining ATI, Dave was CEO of
MultiGen-Paradigm, which produces foundational software and content
development for the visual simulation industry. After
MultiGen-Paradigm was acquired by Computer Associates, Dave served as
a Senior VP, managing MultiGen-Paradigm, Viewpoint, and other
content-development organizations. Before MultiGen-Paradigm, he worked
for Silicon Graphics, starting as the Director of Marketing and later
serving as GM of the Advanced Graphics Division. Prior to SGI Dave was
a divisional GM of TRW subsidiary ESL, developing applications mostly
for the defense and intelligence community. Earlier in Dave's career,
he was a Honeywell, Inc., engineering fellow, responsible for
corporate activity in artificial intelligence.

Dave has a BS in civil engineering, MS in industrial engineering, and
PhD in computer science with emphasis in simulation and artificial
intelligence. Dave is a registered professional engineer and has
taught engineering at several universities and served with several
engineering industry consortiums. He holds several patents, has
published a large number of technical papers and a best-selling book
on artificial intelligence.
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                    SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
                  on Thursday, 15 March 2007, 4:15pm
                     Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
                http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events

"Toward a Translation Model for English to Turkish Machine Translation"
                             Gorkem Ozbek
               M.S. Candidate, Symbolic Systems Program

Since its initial formulation by IBM researchers in the early 1990's,
statistical machine translation (SMT) has grown considerably as a
research field. Today SMT systems consistently outperform rule-based
techniques in formal evaluations. However, many researchers in the
field believe that there is something to be gained by enriching the
strictly statistical approach with linguistics. The benefits become
particularly noticeable in the task of translating English text into a
language with sufficiently different word / sentence
structure. Accuracy of English to Turkish machine translation, for
example, can be improved significantly by incorporating into the
statistical skeleton components that model the important differences
in morphology and morphosyntax between English and Turkish.

I will begin the talk by providing an overview of the state-of-the-art
in statistical machine translation. I will discuss the two essential
components of every system, the language model and the translation
model, and suggest how the quality of the latter can be improved by
modeling phrase structure differences between the languages. I will go
on to analyze the main such differences in the case of Turkish:
agglutinative morphology and morphosyntax. I will present results from
preliminary experiments that consider word structure, and conclude by
discussing how to extend this approach in future work to apply at the
phrasal level, using both generative and discriminative techniques.
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                      8TH ANNUAL SEMANTICS FEST
                  on Friday, 16 March 2007, all day
                     Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
 http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/semfest/semfest07.html

The Semantics Fest is intended to promote discussion and collaboration
among all those in the Stanford community interested in the semantics
and pragmatics of natural language, as well as their interface with
other modules of grammar.

Schedule:

 8:45   Coffee

 9:00   "When under means `under to': Evidence for a unified
        locational semantics for English prepositions"
        Bruno Estigarribia and Beth Levin

 9:30   "Positional shift of adjunct PPs, Locative split and
        reanlaysis of goal locative PPs in Middle Chinese"
        Jeeyoung Peck

10:00   Break

10:15   "Telicity as implicature -- A pragmatic account of Hindi perfectivity"
        Anubha Kothari

10:45   "Aspect and object alternation in Vedic Sanskrit"
        Eystein Dahl

11:15   Break

11:30   "The `ditransitive construction' with indirect object as
        provider in Mandarin Chinese"
        Jingxia Lin

12:00   "Deriving quantitative patterns in variation and ambiguity"
        Arto Anttila and Vivienne Fong

12:30   Lunch

 1:30   "Dealing with Japanese relative clauses and beyond:
        Integration of information" 
        Yoshiko Matsumoto

 2:00   "Avoid vagueness?  The case of sentence-initial linking `however'"
        Arnold Zwicky and Douglas W. Kenter

 2:30   Break

 2:45   "Quantified indirect speech, pre-semantic uses of context and
        the pragmatics/semantics boundary"
        Graham Katz

 3:15   "The contextual dependence of inverted approximatives"
        Patricia Amaral and Scott Schwenter

 3:45   "Licensing of negative polarity particles in English"
        Dmitry Levinson
        
 4:15   Break

 4:30   "Extris, extris"
        Arnold Zwicky

 5:00   "On the development of ALL-pseudo-clefts in English"
        Elizabeth Traugott
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                     UC BERKELEY ICBS COLLOQUIUM
                  on Friday, 16 March 2007, 11:00am
                        Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
                      http://icbs.berkeley.edu/

                   "Computing Movement Geometry --
               A step in sensory-motor transformations"
                             David Zipser
                                 UCSD

Making sensory specified goal directed movements requires the solution
of many difficult computational problems. The solution to these
problems can be simplified by decomposing the process into a series of
stages. In this talk I will show what can be accomplished by a stage
that computes the geometrical aspects of movement without regard for
time or forces. The output of the geometrical stage provides
information that simplifies the task of subsequent stages that deal
with the physics of movement. In particular I will describe a
computational model of the geometrical stage that uses a relatively
simple gradient technique to solve such problems as transformations
from extrinsic to intrinsic reference frames, specifying movement
paths, removing under-specification due to excess degrees of freedom,
and does a considerable amount of constraint satisfaction and error
correction. The model is used to simulate the 3D movements of an arm
with seven degrees of freedom. Comparing these simulated movements to
human movement data reveals the validity of several of the models
behavioral predictions.
                             ____________

          BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SEMINAR
                  on Friday, 16 March 2007, 11:00am
                        Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
                      http://icbs.berkeley.edu/

"Computing Movement Geometry -- A step in sensory-motor transformations"
                             David Zipser
                             UC San Diego
                 http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~zipser/

Making sensory specified goal directed movements requires the solution
of many difficult computational problems. The solution to these
problems can be simplified by decomposing the process into a series of
stages. In this talk I will show what can be accomplished by a stage
that computes the geometrical aspects of movement without regard for
time or forces. The output of the geometrical stage provides
information that simplifies the task of subsequent stages that deal
with the physics of movement. In particular I will describe a
computational model of the geometrical stage that uses a relatively
simple gradient technique to solve such problems as transformations
from extrinsic to intrinsic reference frames, specifying movement
paths, removing under-specification due to excess degrees of freedom,
and does a considerable amount of constraint satisfaction and error
correction. The model is used to simulate the 3D movements of an arm
with seven degrees of freedom. Comparing these simulated movements to
human movement data reveals the validity of several of the models
behavioral predictions.
                             ____________

              CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
                on Friday, 16 March 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
                      Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
                    http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/

       "Google Design in Practice: the Challenge of Simplicity"
                             Adam Barker
                                Google

Google search is deceptively simple. This homepage, with its single
text input and whimsical, seasonal logo, masks an extraordinary
quantity of engineering effort and speaks volumes about Google's
design philosophy. Over the years, the Google product family has
expanded and diversified, but each new product retains a focus on
simplicity. In this talk, Adam will describe some of the tools and
processes used by the Google user experience team, as well as some of
the challenges caused by Google's unique environment.

About the Speaker: Adam Barker is a user experience designer at
Google, where he works on Gmail and related social software
projects. He has nearly a decade of professional experience in the
high tech industry, working for companies like Amazon and Trilogy. He
holds a BS in Computer Science from Indiana University
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                 BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
              on Friday, 16 March 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
                      107 South Hall (Berkeley)
    http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html

                       "Burning Man at Google:
         A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production?"
                             Fred Turner
                       Communication, Stanford

Every August for more than a decade, thousands of information
technologists and other knowledge workers have trekked out into a
barren stretch of alkali desert and built a temporary city devoted to
art, technology and communal living: Burning Man. Drawing on extensive
archival research, participant observation, and interviews, this talk
will explore the ways that Burning Man's bohemian ethos supports new
forms of production emerging in Silicon Valley and especially at
Google.  It will show how elements of the Burning Man world --
including the building of a socio-technical commons, participation in
project-based artistic labor, and the fusion of social and
professional interaction -- help shape and legitimate the
collaborative manufacturing processes driving the growth of Google and
other firms. The talk will thus develop the notion that Burning Man
serves as a key cultural infrastructure for the Bay Area's new media
industries.

About the Speaker: Fred Turner is an Assistant Professor of
Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of From
Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth
Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Univ. of Chicago Pr.,
2006), which the Association of American Publishers recently named the
Best Book in Communication and Cultural Studies for 2006. He is also
the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory
(Anchor/Doubleday, 1996; 2nd ed., Univ. of Minnesota Pr.,
2001). Before coming to Stanford, he taught Communication at Harvard's
John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT's Sloan School of
Management.
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                          CS545: INFOSEMINAR
              on Friday, 16 March 2007, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
                              Gates B12
               http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/

   "The Query Containment Problem: Set Semantics vs. Bag Semantics"
                           Phokion Kolaitis
                         IBM Almaden Research

Query containment is a fundamental algorithmic problem in database
query processing and optimization. Under set semantics, the
query-containment problem for conjunctive queries has long been known
to be NP-complete. SQL queries, however, are typically evaluated under
bag semantics and return multisets as answers, since duplicates are
not eliminated unless explicitly requested. The exact complexity of
the query-containment problem for conjunctive queries under bag
semantics has been an outstanding open problem for about fifteen
years; in fact, this problem is not even known to be decidable.

The goal of this talk is to present an overview of old and new results
about the complexity of the query-containment problem for conjunctive
queries and their variants, under both set semantics and bag
semantics. The main new result is that, under bag semantics, the
query-containment problem for conjunctive queries with inequalities is
undecidable. In fact, this problem remains undecidable even if the
queries use just a single binary relation and the total number of
inequalities is bounded by a constant value.

This is joint work with T.S. Jayram (IBM Almaden Research Center) and
Erik Vee (Yahoo! Research).
                             ____________

            UC BERKELEY LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
                   on Monday, 19 March 2007, 4:10pm
                       182 Dwinelle (Berkeley)
               http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/

    "Talking your way to Whiteness: Jews, ethnicity, and language"
                             Neil Jacobs
                        Ohio State University

The past two-plus centuries have witnessed numerous and ongoing
attempts at the transformation of traditional Ashkenazic society into
constituencies of emancipated (full) citizens of Jewish religion
within the paradigm of the modern nation state. However, the continued
presence of a distinct Jewish ethnicity remained a thorny issue to be
dealt with-conceptually, and as played out in everyday life. While
precise definitions of ethnicity can evolve or shift-often reflecting
the needs or agendas of time, place, and ideology-attempts to define
modern Ashkenazic Jews in western society solely in terms of religion
(whether by non-Jews or Jews) have always come up short. In recent
years, a body of scholarship has appeared which, collectively, seeks
to examine how Jews are categorized-by others, and by themselves-with
respect to the "Whiteness" of Jews. This scholarship typically has
come from disciplines such as Anthropology or History (e.g., Brodkin,
How Jews became White Folks & What that Says About Race in
America; Goldstein, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American
Identity). Anthropological linguists have staked a claim in this area
as well; see, e.g., the introductory essay by Trechter and Bucholtz,
"White Noise: Bringing Language into Whiteness Studies", in a special
issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (11:1), as well the
essay by Modan in that issue. The present talk examines some of the
ways in which insights from general and theoretical linguistics can
shed new and very different light on Jewish ethnicity. Data will be
drawn from post-Yiddish Jewish ethnolects (e.g., Jewish English,
Jewish Dutch, Jewish German), and from examination of Jewish speech in
American popular culture (film, television). We will also look at a
number of seeming paradoxes. For example, in post-World War II
American popular culture, Jews were typically described in
deethnicized terms, while at the same time, a watered-down version of
stereotypical Jewishness served as a place-holder for generic American
immigrant ethnicity.
                             ____________

                 BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
              on Friday, 23 March 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
                      107 South Hall (Berkeley)
    http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s07/schedule.html

                     "The Survivability of Texts"
                          Roger C. Schonfeld
                     Manager of Research, Ithaka

I've been working on a history of the survivability of texts in the
United States over the course of the past 150 years. This history has
major implications for policymaking about how to organize future
preservation services for both print and electronic materials. From a
systemwide organizational perspective, there are significant
implications for the network accessible environment.  I will give a
brief overview of my work and invite discussion.

About the Speaker: Roger Schonfeld is Manager of Research for Ithaka,
a not-for-profit organization working to help higher education take
advantage of advances in information technologies. Roger leads a
research program presently focused on the transition away from print
and related preservation issues; on understanding the community's
information-services needs; and on improving our understanding of new
resource models for teaching and learning. Roger is the author of
JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which examines
business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly
texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining
not-for-profit organization. He has also published The Nonsubscription
Side of Periodicals (Council on Library and Information Resources,
2004) and, with Brian Lavoie, the most comprehensive examination of
the systemwide print book collection, "Books without Boundaries: A
Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection," Journal of
Electronic Publishing, 2006. Previously, Roger was a research
associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mar 30: Spring break: No
seminar meeting.
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