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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 6 June 2007, vol. 22:38
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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6 June 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 38
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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 6 JUNE 2007 TO 15 JUNE 2007
WEDNESDAY, 6 JUNE 2007
all day ICAIL 2007 [6-Jun-07]
Stanford University
"Artificial Intelligence and Law"
various speakers and workshops
http://www.iaail.org/icail-2007/
Information below
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [6-Jun-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
Title to be announced
Allan Reiss
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [6-Jun-07]
Jordan Hall 420:041
Title to be announced
Adele Diamond
University of British Columbia
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [6-Jun-07]
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
"Botnets: Anticipating Failure"
Rick Wesson
CEO, Support Intelligence, LLC
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
4:30pm Computer Musings [6-Jun-07]
Terman Auditorium
"Cool Graphs"
Don Knuth
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/musings.html
THURSDAY, 7 JUNE 2007
all day ICAIL 2007 [7-Jun-07]
Stanford University
"Artificial Intelligence and Law"
various speakers and workshops
http://www.iaail.org/icail-2007/
Information below
4:00pm GISSIG Talk
Stanford Humanities Center
"Urban Populations and Urban Activities in the 19th and 20th
Centuries"
Jean-Luc Pinol
Modern History, University of Lyon
"Toward a Visual and Spatial History of Modern Shanghai"
Christian Henriot
Stanford Humanities Center Fellow
http://gissig.stanford.edu/
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [7-Jun-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Social Software: Logic and Social Interaction"
Marc Pauly
Stanford University
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [7-Jun-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"The Social Atom: Physics and Human Affairs"
Mark Buchanan
Associate Editor Complexus
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [7-Jun-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Senior Honors Theses"
Symbolic Systems Senior Honors Students
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Information below
FRIDAY, 8 JUNE 2007
all day ICAIL 2007 [8-Jun-07]
Stanford University
"Artificial Intelligence and Law"
various speakers and workshops
http://www.iaail.org/icail-2007/
Information below
11:00am CCRMA Hearing Seminar
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
"Scale as a perceptual dimension (for speech and music)"
Roy Patterson
Cambridge
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [8-Jun-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Getting it right by getting it wrong: Why learners change
languages and what learning failures can tell us about the
mechanisms involved in acquisition"
Carla Hudson Kam
UC Berkeley
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
MONDAY, 11 JUNE 2007
2:00pm Stanford Phonology Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Presentations"
Advanced Phonology class students
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
TUESDAY, 12 JUNE 2007
12:15pm Senior Project Software Faire
Wallenberg
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs194/
Information below
3:00pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Negative Polarity Particles and Semantic Negativity"
Dmitry Levinson
Stanford University
(dissertation proposal talk)
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
4:15pm IASE talk
Cordura 100
"Consciousness as Internal Experience"
John McCarthy
Stanford University
http://iase.info/events
Abstract below
7:30pm BayCHI
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"'Web.Overdrive': A Day in the Life of an Enterprise User
Experience Designer"
Jeremy Ashley and Luke Kowalski
Oracle
"Going from Designer to Founder"
Christina Wodtke
Public Square
http://www.baychi.org/program/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 13 JUNE 2007
7:30am Stanford Breakfast Briefings
Stanford Faculty Club
"Decision Analysis: Why Don't We Naturally Make Good Decisions?"
Ron Howard
Management Science and Engineering, Stanford
(fee $48/$36 for Stanford staff/students/alumni)
http://breakfastbriefings.stanford.edu/
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Cutting Edge Web Analytics: Beyond Clickstream and Towards
True Customer Centricity"
Avinash Kaushik
Author, Blogger, and Analytics Evangelist at Google
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2007
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series
EJ291, SRI International
"An IP Continuum for Adaptive Interface Design"
Jeff Pierce
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
SUNDAY, 17 JUNE 2007
9:30am Stanford Commencement
Stanford Stadium
Invited speaker is Dana Gioia, Poet
http://commencement.stanford.edu/
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O-, A-, A+, B-, and AB-. For an
appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831.
It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.
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NOTE
Today is the last day of classes at Stanford for Spring quarter so
I'll wish all students the best for their upcoming finals.
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ICAIL 2007
on Monday-Friday, 4-8 June 2007, all day
Stanford University
http://www.iaail.org/icail-2007/
"Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law"
Monday, June 4
All day workshops
* FMEC: Formal modelling for electronic commerce
* LOAIT: Legal ontologies and AI techniques
* DESI: Supporting search and sensemaking for electronically stored
information in discovery proceedings
Afternoon tutorials
* Advanced legal technology in practice
* Enhanced dispute resolution through the use of information
technology
Welcome reception
Tuesday, June 5 -- technical sessions
Wednesday, June 6 -- technical sessions and conference dinner
(The speaker at the dinner will be CSLI's John Perry)
Thursday, June 7 - technical sessions
Friday, June 8 - All day workshops
* ODR: Online Dispute Resolution
* SW4Law: Semantic Web technology for law
INVITED SPEAKERS
* Deborah L. McGuinness, Acting Director, Knowledge Systems,
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Stanford University, and Principal
Research Scientist, CodeX: Stanford Center for Computers and Law,
"Semantically Enabling Computational Legal Information Systems"
* George Fisher, Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Stanford Law
School, "Argument as Storytelling"
* Thomas F. Gordon, IAAIL President and Senior Research Scientist,
Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS);
Berlin, Germany, "20 Years of ICAIL: Reflections on the Field of
AI and Law
Sponsored by:
* International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)
* Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stanford Law School
* Thomson West
In cooperation with:
* ACM Sigart
* Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Conference Registration is
Full Regular - $475 (late)
Full Student - $300 (late)
Single Day Regular - $200 (late)
Single Day Student - $150 (late)
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B01 (HP Auditorium)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Botnets: Anticipating Failure"
Rick Wesson
CEO, Support Intelligence, LLC
Detecting global abuse patterns with realtime black lists, spamtraps
and honey pots. Understanding what your network is doing to the rest
of the community is difficult, we discuss how to use our tools to
understand how your network is abusing other networks and show graphs
and stats of trends globally and within the United States.
About the speaker: Rick Wesson is the CEO of Support Intelligence
which provides a security monitoring service for critical networks,
the service targets compromised hosts and provides alerts to
operations staff in real time so breaches can be shut down
immediately, before serious problems arise. The service is entirely
external, passive, and lightweight and operates much like a smoke
detector for security breaches of all kinds. The technology works by
collecting data from a distributed network of traffic capturing and
classification devices spread across the Internet. Currently Support
Intelligence tacks some 2.2 Million events per day, users include
Fortune 500 companies, national labs, federal law enforcement
agencies, universities, and network service providers. Mr Wesson is
also the CEO of Alice's Registry, Inc an ICANN accredited domain
registrar. Mr Wesson worked in the IETF, NANOG and ICANN to help build
current domain registrars, implement Registration protocols and Domain
Name System Security (DNSSEC). Within the ICANN framework Mr Wesson
served as the co-chair of the DNSO's Registrars Constituency for 4
years and was a member of the ICANN Security and Stability
Committee. Mr Wesson participated in the .ORG DNSSEC testbed and
currently runs the only deployed registrar with the DNSSEC
registration capability. On the non-profit side in 2001 Mr Wesson
served as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Santa Cruz
Community Development Credit Union (SCCCU) in Santa Cruz California.
The SCCCU has worked to foster small business development, financial
literacy and create economic opportunity and is the second largest
Community Development Credit Union within the United States. Mr Wesson
received his B.S. in Management Information Systems from Auburn
University.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 7 June 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Social Software: Logic and Social Interaction"
Marc Pauly
Stanford University
Voting Procedures, fair division algorithms, auctions and markets are
all examples of social software, i.e., algorithms that process
individual preferences or judgments in order to come up with some
social outcome. I will illustrate how formal logic enters into the
picture by two examples. First, I will discuss the relatively recent
area of judgment aggregation, where individual judgments need to be
aggregated into a group judgment. Judgments are here modeled by sets
of logical formulas. Second, I will talk about an example of real-life
social software, the Stanford Housing Draw that assigns undergraduates
to residences on campus. Here, the plan is to use logic to specify the
algorithm and to verify properties of the algorithm such as optimality
and strategic non-manipulability.
About the Speaker: Marc Pauly is an assistant professor of philosophy
at Stanford University. He received his PhD in 2001 from the
University of Amsterdam. Before coming to Stanford, he was a lecturer
in Computer Science at the University of Liverpool, UK, and a
researcher at the CNRS in France.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 7 June 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"The Social Atom: Physics and Human Affairs"
Mark Buchanan
Associate Editor Complexus
What if someone told you that the way to understanding human behavior
was through physics, rather than psychology? Suggesting that we can
apply the laws of physics to humanity is sometimes a frightening
thought. I take on the reasoning of major economic theory, and then
use the law of physics and the cutting-edge work of some of the
world's most creative scientists to explain how by looking at humans
as social atoms (and computer modeling now enables us to do this, we
are much more likely to be able to predict and understand our own
behavior.
Why are some bars crowded one week and empty the next? What's the
logic behind the New York Stock Exchange, and other financial
markets, and how do streams of thinking feed on themselves to
create rallies and crashes that no one ever intended? What makes
ethnic violence break out?
Using these and other examples, I will show that our collective
behavior follows mathematical patterns of surprising precision. But
this way of thinking does not demean or devalue human life, it merely
accepts that mathematics and mechanics of the ordinary world apply to
us as much as to anything else. "Looking at patterns, not people" - in
the way that physicists observe atoms-offers us a basic, yet
revolutionary way to understand the ways in which we all live
together, and why sometimes it works so well, and why sometimes so
badly.
About the Speaker: Mark Buchanan is a theoretical physicist and
associate editor at Complexus, a journal of bio-complexity. He was
formerly an editor at Nature and New Scientist, and is the author of
numerous magazine and newspaper articles in the U.S. and U.K. He
writes a monthly column for Nature Physics, and - over the past month
- has been a guest columnist for the New York Times.
Dr Buchanan is a European Commission expert in the area of the
"complexity sciences," and the author of two prize-nominated books,
Ubiquity: The Science of History and Nexus: Small Worlds and the
Groundbreaking Science of Networks. His third book, The Social Atom,
is publishing on June 5, 2007, and explores how ideas and concepts
from the physical sciences can help us understand human affairs. He
lives in Cambridgeshire, England.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 7 June 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Senior Honors Theses"
Symbolic Systems Senior Honors Students
4:15 Roger Grosse,
"Efficient Algorithms for Automatic Discovery of Concise Sensory
Representations"
(Honors Advisor: Andrew Ng, Computer Science;
Second Reader: Daphne Koller, Computer Science)
4:25 Chaitu Ekanadham,
"Learning V2 Features Using Sparse Variants of Deep Belief Networks"
(Honors Advisor: Andrew Ng, Computer Science;
Second Reader: Honglak Lee, Computer Science)
4:35 Gabe Recchia,
"STRATA: Search Tools for Richly Annotated and Time-Aligned
Linguistic Data"
(Honors Advisor: Joan Bresnan, Linguistics;
Second Reader: Tom Wasow, Linguistics and Philosophy)
4:45 Ryan Mead,
"Text-to-Tune Alignment in the Music of La Charanga Habanera"
(Honors Advisor: Paul Kiparsky, Linguistics;
Second Reader: Arnold Zwicky, Linguistics)
4:55 Hassan Abudu,
"The Effect of Visual Feedback on Dynamic Envelopes of Pianists"
(Honors Advisor: Jonathan Berger, Music; Chris Chafe, Music)
5:05 Tim Nguyen,
"The Magnitude and Specificity of Arousal"
(Honors Advisor: Antonio Rangel, Economics;
Second Reader: Kathleen Carrie Armel, Economics)
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Friday, 8 June 2007, 11:00am
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
I'm very happy to announce that Prof. Roy Patterson, from the
Department of Physiology at the University of Cambridge, will be here
to talk about his work on how we perceive sounds, independent of the
size of the animal or the instrument.
This is work that relates to much of the work we've been doing at
Stanford, both because it talks about timbre and because it talks
about temporal perception. Roy has applied his basic theory to both
speech perception and to music composition.
Roy is best known for his work to understand critical-band filters,
the work he did on gammatone filters, and for the world's second best
model of temporal perception (after the correlogram :-).
Roy is traveling, so this seminar will be at 11AM on Friday (not
Thursday!) --Malcolm
"Scale as a perceptual dimension (for speech and music)"
Roy Patterson
Cambridge
The sounds that animals use to communicate, including the syllables of
speech, have a very special `pulse resonance' form which automatically
distinguishes them from background noise. The parts of the body used
to produce these sounds grow as the animal grows. Thus, there is
`acoustic scale' variability in communication sounds which poses a
serious problem for the perception and recognition stages of
communication. The success of bio-acoustic communication suggests that
the auditory system has a special pre-processor that automatically
normalizes for acoustic scale as it constructs our internal `auditory
image' of a sound. In this paper, we propose that the normalization is
performed in the early stages of the auditory pathway by adding an
extra, rather special dimension to the space of auditory
perception. This paper is about the mathematics of the space, which
has to be `scale-shift covariant' to support communication, and the
discovery of a unitary operator that can construct the appropriate
space. The mathematics makes it clear that there is no equivalent
means of scale normalization available in the traditional
time-frequency space of the spectrogram. Research supported by the UK
MRC (G0500221, G990369).
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SENIOR PROJECT SOFTWARE FAIRE
on Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 12:15pm - 3:15pm
Wallenberg
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs194/
In CS194, Stanford's Senior Project Course, student teams design and
implement a significant software project of their own choosing. It is
the capstone course--a chance for them to show us what they have
learned and demonstrate that they can work with the intensity that
will be required after graduation. At the end of the quarter, we hold
a Software Faire. It's like a small trade show, with nonstop
demonstrations of all the projects. It's a fun event, with lots of
people and prizes for the best projects. The students get very excited
about showing off their work, especially to visitors from industry.
Who is invited?
Everyone is invited to attend the Faire. This is a great opportunity
for people outside of Stanford to see what our seniors in Computer
Science are capable of producing in a short 10 weeks!
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 3:00pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"Negative Polarity Particles and Semantic Negativity"
Dmitry Levinson
Stanford University
(dissertation proposal talk)
Negative polarity items (NPIs) are words and expressions that cannot
appear in simple affirmative sentences, and are limited to mostly
negative environments. In this talk I discuss a class of NPIs that I
call negative polarity particles (NPPs). The negative polarity
particles in English include the words 'yet', 'anymore', 'either', and
'neither':
(1) This album is *(not) reviewed yet.
(2) I *(don't) work there anymore.
(3) He didn't like me and I didn't like him either.
(4) You *(don't) work for free, and neither do I.
Examination of the distribution of the English negative polarity
particles shows that it cannot be adequately described by any of the
conditions proposed in the semantic literature on NPI licensing. The
NPPs occur in some, but not all, downward monotone environments. To
explain the distribution of the English NPPs, I propose a condition of
'semantic negativity'; it combines the familiar condition of downward
monotonicity and a new additional condition of assertivity. In
addition to English, a number of negative polarity particles in
French, Spanish, German and Russian are also shown to occur only in
semantically negative environments. This condition also turns out to
be helpful in determining the argumentative orientation of clauses, as
demonstrated by choice of conjunctions and speaker-oriented adverbs.
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IASE TALK
on Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 4:15pm - 5:45pm
Cordura 100
http://iase.info/events
"Consciousness as Internal Experience"
John McCarthy
Stanford University
Conscious knowledge and other information is distinguished from
unconscious information by being observable, and its observation
results in conscious knowledge about it. We call this introspective
knowledge; it's an internal form of experience.
A robot will need to use introspective knowledge in order to operate
in the common sense world and accomplish the tasks humans will give it.
Many features of human consciousness will be wanted, some will not,
and some abilities not possessed by humans have already been found
feasible and useful in limited domains. We give preliminary fragments
of a logical language a robot can use to represent information about
its own state of mind.
A robot will often have to conclude that it cannot decide a question
on the basis of the information in memory and therefore must seek
information externally. Paradoxes, e.g. as mentioned by Montague, lie
in wait for us here, but Godel's idea of relative consistency lets us
formalize non-knowledge and avoid paradox. It turns out that relative
consistency, is the basis of many other introspective abilities.
Programs with much introspective consciousness do not yet exist.
Thinking about consciousness with a view to designing it provides a
new approach to some of the problems of consciousness studied by
philosophers.
About the Speaker: Professor John McCarthy is Professor Emeritus at
Stanford University, more details can be found at his Stanford
University home page: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/
(The Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering (IASE) is a
non-profit organization not affiliated with Stanford University).
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BAYCHI
on Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.baychi.org/program/
"'Web.Overdrive': A Day in the Life of an Enterprise User
Experience Designer"
Jeremy Ashley and Luke Kowalski
Oracle
Luke Kowalski and Jeremy Ashley from Oracle will discuss what happens
when Web 2.0 user interfaces are adapted to the enterprise. Social
networking, hosted exchanges, and individual empowerment are married
with concerns about security, scalable performance, group policy and
quality of information.
Enterprise user experience brings with it unique challenges such as
longer design cycles and need to understand specialized domains. But
users still expect the same ease of use and web 2.0ish features as in
the consumer space. A person using flickr for personal photographs now
wants to tag catalog content in the procurement application, or use
web-based collaboration on a proposal. Jeremy and Luke Kowalski will
describe a day in the life of an enterprise user experience designer.
They will discuss tools that embed design patterns, UI donations and
standards, and management process challenges, as well as illustrate
the upcoming transition to the Web 2.0 Enterprise at Oracle.
About the Speakers: Luke Kowalski helps with technology policy and
serves as the corporate UI architect at Oracle. His role bridges the
user interface (UI) design groups at Oracle, and he works as an
evangelist for effective UI technology, on legal aspects of user
interfaces, accessibility, business context and partnerships, as well
as cross-divisional information architecture strategy. Before coming
to Oracle, he worked for various startups as director of UI and Web,
as well as for Netscape's Server and ECommerce divisions. He holds
several UI patents, a CPE Certification, writes about HCI stuff, and
serves as an ISO representative for US through ANSI. His educational
background includes advanced degrees from UTA, Pratt Institute, and
Columbia University. He spends his spare time seeking a cure for his
addiction to Italian design, cars, and literature.
Luke alo writes a blog at http://blogs.oracle.com/lukekowalski/
Jeremy Ashley is Vice President of Applications User Experience at
Oracle. His team is responsible for the user experience for the
current and next generation applications. He leads a 140+ person
multidisciplinary team bringing together the former user experience
teams from Oracle, Peoplesoft, JDEdwards, and Siebel. His organization
also manages the corporate usability labs worldwide. He previously
worked for Taligent and Apple Computer, and formerly supported Oracles
business intelligence, data warehousing, and CPM applications. He is a
member of the CHI design management committee, a member of the Design
Managers Institute, and writes and speaks on design management. His
educational background includes advanced degrees from the Glasgow
School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. In his spare
time he tries to hang on to all his fingers while designing and
building furniture.
"Going from Designer to Founder"
Christina Wodtke
Public Square
Sick of fighting with engineers and product managers, tired of
executives driven by quarterly reports, we've all dreamed of taking
that giant step and starting our own company, where design would
matter, and things would be done right. Christina Wodtke dipped her
toes in and discovered nothing was as it seemed. She discovered she'd
make giant usability blunders, launch bad designs and feel utterly
helpless... and yet love every minute of it. Come get the real skinny
on owning your own company, and how one designer discovered nothing
was quite what she expected.
About the Speaker: A relentless instigator, Christina Wodtke cofounded
Cucina Media, the creator of PublicSquare (the software running
Foundread, Boxes and Arrows and more) as well as founding and
publishing Boxes and Arrows, the premier Web Design 'zine. Previously,
she cofounded MIG, a management consulting firm, founded the Institute
of Information Architecture; authored the bestselling book Information
Architecture, Blueprints for the Web; and has spoken on the topic of
the human experience in information spaces at conferences
worldwide. Prior to founding Cucina Media, Christina was senior
director of design for Yahoo! Search and Marketplace where she led
design work in the revival of Search, and the reinvention of Shopping.
Christina also writes a blog http://www.eleganthack.com/blog/
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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"Cutting Edge Web Analytics:
Beyond Clickstream and Towards True Customer Centricity"
Avinash Kaushik
Author, Blogger, and Analytics Evangelist at Google
Web Analytics is simple, it is complicated. It is data rich and it is
not. The talk will cover the challenges and opportunities that are
presented to practitioners, marketers and website owners in finding
actionable insights from their website data. Learn about the Trinity
strategy, the value of testing and competitive intelligence. Avinash
will close with his insights that you can apply to your web analytics
practice.
About the Speaker: Avinash Kaushik is the author of Web Analytics: An
Hour A Day and the highly rated web analytics blog, Occam's Razor. He
is a independent consultant and currently the Analytics Evangelist for
Google. Prior to that he was the Director of Web Research & Analytics
for Intuit where he was responsible for the business, technical and
strategic elements of the analytics platform that supported more than
70 Intuit websites.
He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as Emetrics
Summits, Ad-Tech and Web 2.0 Expo in the US and Europe, and he is
often quoted as a Web Metrics expert by The Chicago Tribune and other
media.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 14 June 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ291, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"An IP Continuum for Adaptive Interface Design"
Jeff Pierce
IBM Almaden Research Center
The promise of adaptive user interfaces is that they will provide a
flexible mechanism for systems to adapt to the needs of different
users for a variety of tasks. As we consider such systems a basic
trade-off arises between the responsibilities of the system and the
user. In this talk I will describe our initial work exploring a
continuum that expresses potential balances of proactivity between the
user and the system: what combinations of actions by those two could
be responsible for accomplishing a particular task. In addition to
describing the continuum, I will describe how a set of example
applications fit into it and discuss its implications. In particular,
our continuum provides a framework and vocabulary for discussing and
comparing adaptive interfaces. The continuum also provides directions
for future work by suggesting potential interfaces and identifying new
research directions, such as designing interfaces to maximize
effective feedback.
About the Speaker: Jeff Pierce is a research staff member in IBM
Research at the Almaden Research Center in the User-Focused Systems
(USER) group. Previously he was an Assistant Professor in the College
of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he led the
Personal Information Environments research group and co-directed the
Adaptive Personalized Information Environments lab with Charles
Isbell. Among his other stellar accomplishments, he was selected as
Time magazines Person of the Year for 2006.
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