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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 23 May 2007, vol. 22:36
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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23 May 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 36
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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 23 MAY 2007 TO 1 JUNE 2007
WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [23-May-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Factors affecting how Spanish-speaking children learn and
interpret adjectives in real-time speech comprehension"
Kirsten Thorpe
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
2:30pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [23-May-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"A Non-Relativist Treatment of Predicates of Personal Taste"
Pranav Anand
UCSC
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
CANCELLED
3:00pm SRI CSL Seminar Series [23-May-07]
EK255, SRI International
"Diagnosis, Repair, and Multi-Armed Bandits"
Sanjit Seshia
UC Berkeley
http://www.csl.sri.com/
Abstract below
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [23-May-07]
Jordan Hall 420:041
Title to be announced
Max Muenke,
National Human Genome Research Institute
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [23-May-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Off-the-Record Messaging: Useful Security and Privacy for IM"
Ian Goldberg
University of Waterloo
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
8:00pm Liu Lecture [23-May-07]
Bldg. 370:370
John Maeda
MIT Media Lab
http://www.stanford.edu/group/liu_lectures/
THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
10:00am Philosophy Research Session [24-May-07]
Cordura 104
"Philosophy of Action Lab"
Information below
10:00am Special Communication Workshop [24-May-07]
Encina 3rd floor, APARC- Philippines Room
"Communication between and with Humans and Technologies"
(RSVP needed, this may be restricted to Stanford only)
Information below
12 noon Music 319: CCRMA Hearing Seminar [24-May-07]
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
"The Business Side of Psychoacoustics: MP3s and patents"
Marina Bosi
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
1:30pm Philosophy Research Session [24-May-07]
Bldg. 60:61G
"Collective Rationality"
Information below
4:00pm PARC Forum [24-May-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Synthetic biology in the pursuit of low-cost, effective,
anti-malarial drugs"
Jay D. Keasling
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [24-May-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Logic and Reasoning: Do the Facts Matter?"
Johan van Benthem
Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar [24-May-07]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Improving the Robustness of Private Information Retrieval"
Ian Goldberg
University of Waterloo
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [25-May-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Building the Danger Hiptop: Striking the Right Balance for a
New Mobile Internet Platform"
Joe Britt
Danger
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [25-May-07]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"The Reality of Numbers"
Gideon Rosen
Princeton University
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [25-May-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Dialogicality and Negation"
Scott Schwenter
Ohio State University
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/schwenter1/
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007 - University Holiday
TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar [29-May-07]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Operational Security Risk Metrics: Definitions, Calculations,
and Visualizations"
Alain Mayer
Red Seal
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
5:30pm Carnegie Foundation Panel [29-May-07]
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Learning, 51 Vista
Lane, Stanford
"Engaged Technology-Empowered Communities of Practice:
Learning to Learn, Learning to Teach"
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/
Information below
WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [30-May-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Cognitive neuroscience of mathematical development"
Vinod Menon
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [30-May-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensors"
Raj Amirtharajah
UC Davis
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [31-May-07]
Cordura Hall 100
"Kinesthesia and Cognition: Towards the Merleau-Pontian Universes"
Idriss Aberkane
Ecole Normale Superieure
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [31-May-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
Title to be announced
Margaret Johnson
Computer Science Department, Google
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [31-May-07]
Packard 101
"Sequential Decision Making under Parameter Uncertainty"
Shie Mannor
McGill University
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
6:00pm Keizai Society Talk [31-May-07]
Bldg 950, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosatti, 950 Page Mill, (Palo Alto)
"The Future of Digital Media"
Darin Kyoichi Grant, Dreamworks Head of Production Technolog
Yuji Ichimura, NEC Solutions Business Group Vice President
Sheridan, Tatsuno Dreamscape Principal
http://www.keizai.org/
(registration required, $30 for members, $40 for non-members)
Information below
FRIDAY, 1 JUNE 2007
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [1-Jun-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Sketching and Experience Design"
Bill Buxton
Microsoft Research
http://www.billbuxton.com/
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [1-Jun-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Linguistics Honors Colloquium"
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O-, A-, and B-. For an
appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831.
It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.
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SRI CSL SEMINAR SERIES
on Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EK255, SRI International
http://www.csl.sri.com/
"Diagnosis, Repair, and Multi-Armed Bandits"
Sanjit Seshia
UC Berkeley
Verification, Diagnosis, and Repair take up a significant portion of
the effort spent in system design and maintenance. In this talk, I
will examine the diagnosis and repair problems from a formal
standpoint and propose a new algorithmic approach to tackle them. The
approach is based on a combination of online learning and formal
methods, and can leverage the extreme parallelism that is expected to
become available. I will present theoretical and experimental
results. Along the way, we'll learn what many-armed bandits have to do
with all this.
Brief biography at: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sseshia/bio.html
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PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH SESSION
on Thursday, 24 May 2007, 10:00am
Cordura 104 and Bldg. 60:61G
The Stanford philosophy department is organizing a number of informal
meetings where colleagues present current work and interact on topics
of shared interest, with an audience including faculty and graduate
students working on related topics.
The first event on 'Information in Philosophy and Logic' took place
on May 11th, with Johan van Benthem, John Perry, and Jose Saiguillo.
Here are our second instalments: 'Philosophy of Action Lab' and
'Collective Rationality'. As the titles suggest, the two events deal
with the topics that are coming up forcefully in philosophy, logic,
and related fields these days.
Lunch will be provided between the two events.
All are Welcome.
Here is the schedule
Part I: Philosophy of Action Lab.
Room: Cordura 104
Time: 10:00-12:45
10:00am Randall Harp: "Cooperative reasoning: an intention-based
decision-theoretic approach"
11:30am Olivier Roy: "Acceptances in a context, means-end coherence
of intentions and the problem of false beliefs"
These will be interactive sessions rather than formal
presentations. The goal is to discuss ongoing research in a convivial
and collaborative atmosphere.
Intermission: 12:45-1:30
Part II: Collective Rationality
Time: 1:30-3:45
Location: 60-61G
"Shared Action, Shared Intention, Shared Valuing"
Michael Bratman
Human beings act together in characteristic ways. Forms of shared
activity matter to us a great deal, both intrinsically -- think of
friendship, singing duets, the joys of conversation -- and
instrumentally -- think of how we frequently manage to work together
to achieve complex goals. My focus will be on activities of small,
adult groups -- and on associated modes of thinking together -- in the
absence of asymmetric authority relations within those groups. My
approach begins with an underlying model of individual planning
agency, and then seeks a conceptual and metaphysical bridge from such
individual planning agency to modest forms of sociality. Such a
bridge aims to provide a route from roles and norms characteristic of
individual planning agency to central roles and norms characteristic
of shared agency.
"Individual and Collective Rational Self-Management"
Kenneth Taylor
As rational and reflective agents we are in the business of managing
our cognition and conation. We try, for example, to make our beliefs
fit the evidence, to make our intentions cohere with our commitments,
and to make our commitments cohere with our conceptions of the good.
We do so individually but also collectively. As such, each of us must
manage her own cognition. But we also often exert rational pressure on
the rational other, who simultaneously exerts rational pressure on us
as well. In this talk, I begin by examining the individual
psychological capacities that enable us to engage in individual
rational self-management. I then examine the dynamics of what I call
the dialectic of ratification, by which individuals rationally array
themselves in collectivities that engage in something like joint
rational self-management.
"Collective Judgments & Beliefs in Logic"
Marc Pauly
We often find it useful to attribute beliefs or judgments to
collective entitites like university departments, political parties,
nations, markets, etc. These collectives provide for many interesting
case studies in the processes that give rise to collective judgments
and the properties of these. I will illustrate how logic has
contributed to this area through epistemic logic and judgment
aggregation theory.
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SPECIAL COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP
on Thursday, 24 May 2007, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Encina 3rd floor, APARC- Philippines Room
(RSVP needed, this may be restricted to Stanford only)
"Communication between and with Humans and Technologies"
If interested please RSVP immediately to Susie Ementon -
susiele .. stanford.edu specifying if you would like to attend in the
morning, the afternoon, or both.
10:00am "Talking About Talk"
Speakers: Joseph Capella, University of Pennsylvania
Howie Giles, University of California at Santa Barbara
Clifford Nass, Stanford University
Abstract: With dramatic advances in fMRI, speech production and
recognition technologies, and statistical and methodological
technique, there are tremendous opportunities to ask and answer both
classical and wholly new questions about how people speak and
understand from psychological, socio-cultural, and technological
frameworks.
11:45am - 1:15pm: Lunch Break
1:15pm "The Future of Human Representation in Communication:
The Uniqueness of Digital Identity"
Speakers: Justine Cassell, Northwestern University
Jaron Lanier, University of California at Berkeley
Joe Walther, Cornell University
Moderated by Jeremy Bailenson, Stanford University
Abstract: The fundamental processes underlying social interaction are
evolving as digitally mediated communication becomes more prevalent.
This panel will explore the manner in which new social issues arise
from the use of digital technology during communication.
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MUSIC 319: CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 24 May 2007, 12 noon
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
"The Business Side of Psychoacoustics: MP3s and patents"
Marina Bosi
I've very happy to announce that Marina Bosi will be talking about the
business of psychoacoustics at this week's Stanford CCRMA Hearing
Seminar.
Marina was active in the MPEG and other standards committees that
defined technical specifications for various audio coding standards
including MP3 and AAC, and has worked for a number of companies that
licensed intellectual property deployed in perceptual audio (e.g.
AC-3, AAC, DTS, etc.) and video (MPEG-2, MPEG-4/H.264, VC1) coding
products.
Who would have guessed that teenagers and everybody else would be
clamoring for an MP3/AAC psychoacoustic model that fits into their
pocket?
What made it possible, and where is it going? I'm sure this will be
an interesting discussion! (But technology and business only, not
politics this week!)
Bring your favorite ears for listening to MP3s and we'll talk about
how the business side works on Thursday!
- Malcolm
P.S. Parking is especially hard, due to construction on campus, up
on the Knoll. There is lots of visitor parking down near Tresidder
in the pay lot. Arrive at least 15 minutes early and enjoy the walk
up the hill.
"The Business of Psychoacoustics: MP3s and patents"
Marina Bosi
I would like to give a brief historical overview of the technology
progress in perceptual audio coding. Discuss how consumer products
based on this technology became widespread generating the 'MP3 craze'
and 'really big business' (and related issues). Present two different
licensing models, the AC-3 model (aka NHI) and MPEG-2 Video model (aka
standards-based patent pooling) and briefly discuss MP3 licensing as a
special case of the second model. Also would like to take a brief
look at 'new' licensing pools such as the ones for AAC and/or the
H.264 (aka MPEG-4 AVC) and briefly discuss 'future' approaches.
About the Speaker: Marina Bosi is Consulting Professor in the Music
and in the Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford University
and is also a founding member and director of the Digital Media
Project, a non-profit organization that promotes successful
development, deployment, and use of Digital Media. Previously,
Dr. Bosi was Chief Technology Officer of MPEG LA, a firm
specializing in the licensing of multimedia technology; VP-Technology,
Standards and Strategies at Digital Theater Systems (DTS); and was
part of the research team at Dolby Laboratories working on AC-2 and
AC-3 technology and where she led the MPEG-2 AAC development.
Dr. Bosi has been actively involved in the development of standards
for audio and video coding and for managing digital content,
contributing to the work of ANSI, ATSC, DVD Forum, DVB, ISO/ IEC MPEG,
SDMI, and SMPTE.
Past President of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Dr. Bosi served
the AES in various capacities including as a member of the Board of
Governors and as VP of the Western Region USA and Canada. Dr. Bosi is
a member the Technical Committee on Audio and Electroacoustics of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society, a senior member of IEEE, and a member
of ASA.
Dr. Bosi received the AES Fellowship Award for her contributions to
the standardization of audio coding, video coding, and secure digital
content. She received the AES Board of Governors Award twice: in 1995
for her co-chairmanship of the 96th AES Convention and again in 2000
for her co-chairmanship of the 17th AES International Conference, the
first scientific international conference dedicated to the topic of
high quality audio coding. Dr. Bosi was the editor of MPEG-2 Advanced
Audio Coding (AAC) for which she received a Certificate of
Appreciation from ISO/IEC. She also has received several awards for
her scholarship from both the French and Italian governments.
Dr. Bosi holds several patents and publications in the field and is
author of the acclaimed textbook 'Introduction to Digital Audio Coding
and Standards' (Kluwer/ Springer December 2002) in the process of
being translated into Chinese and Korean.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 25 May 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Building the Danger Hiptop: Striking the Right Balance for a
New Mobile Internet Platform"
Joe Britt
Danger
When mobile telephones became within the financial grasp of the
everyman, the value was easily understood. Telephone-accessible
"content" (other people with phones) could now be enjoyed from a car,
while waiting in line, or from a table at a restaurant (sometimes to
the dismay of other patrons).
With the rise in popularity of the Internet, new kinds of valuable but
tethered content became available to ordinary people. The most
popular included the web, email with friends and family, and,
especially for the younger generation, instant messaging. In early
2000 Danger began developing an analogue to the mobile phone for
Internet content. The goal was to create a pocket-sized, inexpensive,
and easy to use device with always-on connectivity to provide a
computer-like Internet experience anywhere. The result was the Danger
hiptop, also known as the T-Mobile Sidekick.
Though most end users are aware only of the device, achieving the
design goal required a tight marriage of custom hardware, operating
system software, application software, user interface design, and a
back-end service. Together, these components comprise the Danger
mobile Internet platform.
In this talk, I will discuss several key aspects of the platform's
development and share the design philosophy applied by the team.
Strong belief in the importance of hardware/software integration
and an organic, iterative design process were critical for success.
Lessons learned at companies like Apple, General Magic, and WebTV
provided the team with a context for partitioning a complex problem
across hardware, software, and a powerful back-end service. The
result is a product that enjoys widespread popularity among the 18-34
year old set. To the relief of restaurant-goers everywhere, this form
of mobile communication is silent.
About the Speaker: As Chief Technology Officer, Joe acts as a
strategic and tactical guide for the technical and intellectual
property aspects of Danger's business. Joe brings more than 14 years
of experience building consumer products to Danger, and he has been
awarded 13 patents as a result of his work. His specialty is designing
system software for consumer electronic devices.
Prior to co-founding Danger, Joe spent over four years at WebTV
Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. As the first
non-founding employee, he was responsible for the architecture and
creation of the system software used in the WebTV set-top boxes. Joe
was involved in the design of every hardware product shipped by WebTV
during his time there. Before WebTV, Joe worked at Catapult
Entertainment. Joe was part of the team that created the Xband Video
Game Network, a system which enabled multi-player gaming over the
Internet. Joe contributed to the system software as well as the
technology required to enable video games for network play. Before
Catapult, Joe worked at the 3DO Company, contributing to the design of
a game console powered by a PowerPC CPU.
Joe started his Silicon Valley career at Apple Computer, working in
the RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) Products Group. Joe was a
core member of the ROM (Read Only Memory) development team for the
first generation PowerPC-based Macintosh. He holds a B.S. in Computer
Engineering from North Carolina State University.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 25 May 2007, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"Dialogicality and Negation"
Scott Schwenter
Ohio State University
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/schwenter1/
It is a long-held intuition in linguistics that negative sentences
somehow "respond to" their corresponding affirmatives (Givon 1978;
Horn 1989). Thus, the act of uttering a sentence like I'm not in love
is presumed to be licensed by the presence of the underlying
affirmative counterpart ("the speaker is in love") somewhere in the
speaker's discourse model, whether explicitly via some prior
utterance, or implicitly as an expectation shared by some other
person(s) in the discourse. This is what I will term the Standard
Position in the study of sentential negation.
Such widespread intuitions about sentence negation, however, have not
found convincing empirical support in synchronic language use. In
fact, a number of studies examining how sentential negation is used in
naturally-occurring discourse have revealed that negative
constructions are only rarely employed to counter previous assertions
or even to challenge unstated assumptions (Tottie 1991; Thompson
1998). In this tradition of research, which I term the
Conversationalist Position, negation is therefore not invariably tied
to the presence of an underlying affirmative.
In this presentation, I use cross-linguistic evidence from English and
several Romance languages to shed light on this ongoing debate. I show
how both Positions ultimately make some sense. However, the relevant
evidence is not to be found by analyzing canonical or standard
sentential negative constructions, as has typically been done in the
literature emerging from both Positions. Rather, it is found in the
behavior of a set of non-canonical negative constructions, such as
English not ... either and Portuguese nao ... nada ('not ...
nothing'), which owe their existence to dialogal (=dyadic) contexts
where they express interlocutor denials. I show that these
constructions and others like them can be placed on a synchronic
continuum whose ordering metric is the degree to which a given
negative "responds to" a salient affirmative proposition that is
accessible in the discourse context and, especially, the degree to
which a given negative is sensitive to a dialogic context. I
illustrate the close connection between these negative constructions
and information structural properties of the discourse, specifically
the sensitivity that these negative constructions display to HOW the
negated propositional content has entered into the current discourse
model.
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CARNEGIE FOUNDATION PANEL
on Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 5:30pm
Carnegie Foundation, 51 Vista Lane, Stanford
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/
"Engaged Technology-Empowered Communities of Practice:
Learning to Learn, Learning to Teach"
Join Senior Scholar and Knowledge Media Laboratory (KML) Director Toru
Iiyoshi and former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation John Seely
Brown for a community conversation on "Engaged Technology-Empowered
Communities of Practice: Learning to Learn, Learning to Teach." The
discussion will focus on how knowledge sharing and social networking
technology enables communities of students and instructors to better
learn and teach by harnessing a growing number of open educational
resources. Speakers will also explore how new virtual environments and
online games such as Second Life and World of Warcraft are opening up
new possibilities of promoting learning through engaged, social
interplay and activities. Audience participation and a general
discussion on technology-enabled open education and new culture of
learning and teaching will follow the initial presentation. This is
the last of four events in Carnegie's 2006-2007 Community Event
Series, focusing on engagement in undergraduate education.
The evening begins with a reception of light hors d'oeuvres at 5:30
p.m., followed by the conversation at 6 p.m.
About the Speakers: Toru Iiyoshi is a senior scholar at the Carnegie
Foundation where he serves as the director of the Knowledge Media
Laboratory. At the Foundation, he leads research and development
efforts that take advantage of emerging technologies to enable
educational institutions, programs and faculty to transform the
knowledge implicit in effective practice into ideas, theories and
resources that can be shared widely to advance teaching and student
learning. Iiyoshi also works with various national and international
initiatives and organizations in an advisory role to provide vision
and leadership in the development and diffusion of innovative use of
technology in education.
John Seely Brown, a visiting scholar at the University of Southern
California, was previously chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and
director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a position he held
for nearly two decades. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of
corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning,
knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, ethnographic studies
of the workscape and nano technology. He was a co-founder of the
Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research
interests include the impact of globalization on business, the
management of radical innovation, digital culture, ubiquitous
computing and organizational and individual learning.
This event is free.
RSVP online by May 25, 2007
For more information, contact:
community@carnegiefoundation.org
(650) 566-5542
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 31 May 2007, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"Kinesthesia and Cognition: Towards the Merleau-Pontian Universes"
Idriss Aberkane
Ecole Normale Superieure
This talk will give an overview of the cognitive functions that
interact with kinesthesia and develop the concept of a para-linguistic
knowledge universe. This concept will then be applied to some open
problems in Information Technology and Knowledge Management.
Therefore, the second part of this talk will be more oriented towards
concrete applications, especially for the knowledge business.
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KEIZAI SOCIETY TALK
on Thursday, 31 May 2007, 6:00pm
Bldg 950, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosatti, 950 Page Mill, (Palo Alto)
http://www.keizai.org/
"The Future of Digital Media"
Darin Kyoichi Grant, Dreamworks Head of Production Technolog
Yuji Ichimura, NEC Solutions Business Group Vice President
Sheridan, Tatsuno Dreamscape Principal
From the day when filmmakers gained the ability to manipulate their
imagery digitally, the medium has changed significantly. New
opportunities for visual exploration as far as the human imagination
are now possible. Movies are combining animation and visual effects
into areas that were traditionally reserved for human actors, sets,
props, and physical effects. Nowadays, most movies have Computer
Graphics Imagery (CGI).
The ubiquity of digital imagery, from movies "shot" digitally instead
of using film to cell phone videos making world news, has opened the
world to a plethora of pictures and opportunities, especially for
independent film makers and small companies doing visual effects and
animation. It has also challenged companies to utilize more of these
digital tools, starting the fusion of technology and entertainment.
Come and find out how people in the business are viewing the next five
years and find out where technology reserved for other applications
might expand along with the challenges of movie production,
projection, distribution and future applications. We have Darin Grant
who has a background in Visual Effects and Computer Animation as well
as being a major contributor to ACM's SIGGRAPH, and Yuji Ichimura of
NEC who leads NEC''s development of new solution offerings and
business strategies for various industries, including the Digital
Cinema, markets, and Sheridan Tatsuno who is an independent film
writer who is active in independent digital cinema.
Tickets required, $30 for members, $40 for non-members if bought in
advanced. Corporate Sponsor members are free (but need tickets).
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 1 June 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Sketching and Experience Design"
Bill Buxton
Microsoft Research
http://www.billbuxton.com/
Among others, Hummels, Djajadiningrat and Overbeeke (Knowing, Doing
and Feeling: Communication with your Digital Products.
Interdisziplinares Kolleg Kognitions und Neurowissenschaften,
Gunne am Mohnesee, March 2-9 2001, 289-308.), have expressed the
notion that the real product of design is the resultant "context for
experience" rather than the object or software that provokes that
experience. This closely corresponds to what I refer to as a
transition in focus from a materialistic to an experiential view of
design. Paraphrasing what I have already said, is not the physical
entity or what is in the box (the "material" product) that is the true
outcome of the design process. Rather, it is the behavioural,
experiential and emotional responses that come about as a result of
its existence and use in the "wild".
Designing for experience comes with a whole new level of complexity.
This is especially true in this emerging world of information
appliances, reactive environments and ubiquitous computing, where,
along with those of their users, we have to factor in the convoluted
behaviours of the products themselves. Doing this effectively
requires both a different mind-set, as well as different techniques.
This talk is motivated by a concern that, in general, our current
training and work practices are not adequate to meet the demands of
this level of design. This is true for those coming from a computer
science background, since they do not have sufficient grounding in
design, at least in the sense that would be recognized by an architect
or industrial designer. Conversely, those from the design arts, while
they have the design skills, do not generally have the technical
skills to adequately address the design issues relating to the complex
embedded behaviours of such devices and systems.
Hence, in this talk, we discuss the design process itself, from the
perspective of methods, organization, and composition. Fundamental to
our approach is the notion that sketching is a fundamental component
of design, and is especially critical at the early ideation phase.
Yet, due to the temporal nature of what we are designing, conventional
sketching is not - on its own - adequate. Hence, if we are to design
experience or interaction, we need to adopt something that is to our
process that is analogous to what traditional sketching is to the
process of conventional industrial design.
It is the motivation and exploration of such a sketching process
that is the foundation of this presentation.
About the Speaker: Bill Buxton is a designer and a researcher
concerned with human aspects of technology. His work reflects a
particular interest in the use of technology to support creative
activities such as design, film making and music. Buxton's research
specialties include technologies, techniques and theories of input to
computers, technology mediated human-human collaboration, and
ubiquitous computing.
In December 2005, he was appointed Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Research. Prior to that, he was Principal of his own Toronto-based
boutique design and consulting firm, Buxton Design, where his time was
split between working for clients, lecturing, and trying to finish a
long-delayed book on sketching and interaction design. As well, he is
an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Toronto, where he still works with graduate students.
Buxton began his career in music, having done a Bachelor of Music
degree at Queen's University. He then studied and taught at the
Institute of Sonology, Utrecht, Holland, for two years. After
completing an M.Sc. in Computer Science on Computer Music at the
University of Toronto, he joined the faculty as a lecturer. Designing
and using computer-based tools for music composition and performance
is what led him into the area of human-computer interaction. From 1994
until December 2002, he was Chief Scientist of Alias|Wavefront, (now
part of Autodesk) and from 1995, its parent company SGI Inc. In the
fall of 2004, he was a part-time instructor in the Department of
Industrial Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design. In
2004/05 he was also Visiting Professor at the Knowledge Media Design
Institute (KMDI) at the University of Toronto. And from January
through April 2005 and 2006, was a Visiting Researcher with the
Computer-Mediated Living Group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge
England. He currently splits his time between Redmond and Toronto.
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