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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 13 June 2007, vol. 22:39
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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13 June 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 39
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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 13 JUNE 2007 TO 22 JUNE 2007
WEDNESDAY, 13 JUNE 2007
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [13-Jun-07]
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 [14-Jun-07]
EJ291, SRI International
"An IP Continuum for Adaptive Interface Design"
Jeff Pierce
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 15 JUNE 2007
1:15pm Berkeley International Computer Science Institute [15-Jun-07]
ICSI, Rm 607 (UC Berkeley)
"Visual Learning and Multimodal Interaction"
Trevor Darrell
MIT CSAIL
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
SUNDAY, 17 JUNE 2007
9:30am Stanford Commencement [17-Jun-07]
Stanford Stadium
Invited speaker is Dana Gioia, Poet
http://commencement.stanford.edu/
MONDAY, 18 JUNE 2007
TUESDAY, 19 JUNE 2007
WEDNESDAY, 20 JUNE 2007
4:00pm PARC Forum [20-Jun-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Oh say can you see?"
Dennis Levi
Optometry and Vision Science, UC Berkeley
http://www.parc.com/forum/
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Talk [20-Jun-07]
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
"Folding@Home"
Guha Jayachandran
Stanford University
http://sfbayacm.org/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 21 JUNE 2007
10:00am SRI AI Seminar Series [21-Jun-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Exploring Cost-Effective Approaches to Human Evaluation of
Search Engine Relevance"
Kamal Ali
Stanford University
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
10:30am SRI AI Seminar Series [21-Jun-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"TiVo Suggestions: Predicting Viewer Affinity Using
Collaborative Filtering"
Kamal Ali
Stanford University
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 22 JUNE 2007
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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
Best wishes to all students graduating this Sunday.
Also I hope the Berkeley staff enjoy Cal Staff Carnivale, their annual
staff appreciation day on June 20 ( http://summerfest.berkeley.edu/
).
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Outdoor Science Talks at Cantor
7pm, every other Thursday starting 28 June 2007
Cantor Arts Center Lawn
http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/course/EVT173.asp
free and open to the public
Please join us for Stanford's acclaimed Summer Science Lecture Series
on the lawn adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center on four Thursday
evenings this summer. You are invited to come early and wander through
the art museum, buy dinner in the Art Center's Cool Cafe or bring your
own picnic, and then settle on the lawn outside to hear informal
lectures about cutting-edge research from four of Stanford's most
esteemed professors, all of whom are either current or former chairs
of their academic departments.
We promise that all of the talks will be delivered in terms
understandable to the lay public. So bring your whole family (high
school age and up) and enjoy!
The Outdoor Science Series is co-sponsored by the Stanford Office for
Science Outreach, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, and Stanford
Continuing Studies.
Talk 1: "Regenerative Medicine: What is it? Where Do We Stand? Where
are We Going?" by Michael T. Longaker, Deane P. and Louise Mitchell
Professor Director, Children's Surgical Research, Department of Surgery
28 June 2007
Talk 2: "Recent Advances in Heart Surgery" by Robert Robbins,
Professor and Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
12 July 2007
Talk 3: "Cool Hands, Better Performance" by H. Craig Heller, Professor
of Biological Sciences
26 July 2007
Talk 4: "Drugs: One Size Does Not Fit All" by Russ Altman, Professor
and Chair of Bioengineering Professor of Genetics and Medicine
9 August 2007
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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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BERKELEY INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE
on Friday, 15 June 2007, 1:15pm
Main Lecture Hall, ICSI, 1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
"Visual Learning and Multimodal Interaction"
Trevor Darrell
MIT CSAIL
http://people.csail.mit.edu/trevor/
Intelligent systems should support natural interaction with people,
and be aware of and reactive to objects in the environment. Computer
vision plays a key role towards both goals, enabling multimodal
conversation and recognition of objects and object categories. In
this talk I'll present new work on the recognition of visual agreement
and grounding gestures in conversation, to allow conversational
systems to directly perceive visual backchannel cues. Our work
exploits dialog context as part of the visual recognition process,
leading to improved robustness. I'll also overview our work on
efficient algorithms for object category recognition and indexing,
including linear time kernels which can compute approximate partial
match correspondences over sets of local image features, and a
sub-linear time hashing scheme for this representation. A key
challenge in perception is the question of how to discover good
representations for learning, and I'll close by describing new
transfer learning methods for visual recognition, in which
representations learned from previous tasks speed learning of future
tasks. I will show results demonstrating that transfer of both linear
and non-linear representations improves performance on visual
recognition tasks.
About the Speaker: Trevor Darrell leads the Vision Interface Group at
the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His
interests include computer vision, multimodal interfaces, and machine
learning. Previously, he worked as a Member of the Research Staff at
Interval Research in Palo Alto, CA. He received his PhD and SM from
MIT in 1996 and 1991, respectively, while working at the Media
Laboratory, and the BSE from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988,
where he worked in the GRASP Robotics Laboratory.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 21 June 2007, 10:00am - 10:30am
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Exploring Cost-Effective Approaches to Human Evaluation of
Search Engine Relevance"
Kamal Ali
Stanford University
Traditional Cranfield approaches to document relevance evaluation
involve judges making judgments on individual documents. The search
engine setting complicates matters by returning a *set* of summaries
of results competing with advertising and other links such as spelling
suggestions. Evaluation of the relevance of search results in such a
setting needs to account for set-level effects such as ensuring the
returned set does not contain duplicates or near-duplicates, that it
covers most of the common senses for the search query and that it
accurately ranks the results for the majority of the users. The talk
presents a framework of test types and explores the pros and cons of
each type. We compare cost-effective set-level judgments to item-level
judgments and identify the types of queries for which the item-level
methodology misses important aspects. This is work done at Yahoo and
presented at ECIR 2005.
Joint work with Chi Chao Chang and Yun-fang Juan.
About the Speaker: My research interests lie at the boundary of
application and theory in Information Extraction, Question Answering,
Parse-based Feature classification, Bootstrap Learning, Sampling in
databases, Active Learning and Bayesian Model Averaging.
My most recent set of papers is on sampling in databases based on an
application fielded at Yahoo for over two years supporting thirteen
internal analytics data-marts. Prior to that in the Web Search group,
I did work on statistical evaluation and competitive analysis of
search results which was important in Yahoo's decision to acquire
Inktomi. It also led to an ECIR paper on search evaluation framework.
My PhD is on Bayesian Model Averaging, which I received from UC
Irvine. After that I did research and consulting at IBM Almaden and
Stanford's CLL lab before leaving academia for TiVo. At TiVo, I led
the team that wrote the Suggestions Engine, a system for recommending
TV shows which runs partly in distributed form on over three million
Linux boxes (TiVo's). Following TiVo, I was a principal scientist
doing clickstream cluster analysis and text clustering at Vividence
(now Keynote).
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 21 June 2007, 10:30am
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
(this is by the same speaker of the immediately preceding SRI talk)
"TiVo Suggestions: Predicting Viewer Affinity Using
Collaborative Filtering"
Kamal Ali
Stanford University
I will describe the TiVo TV-show collaborative recommendation system
which is fielded in over three million TiVos for seven years. Over
this install base, TiVo has more than 100 million ratings of
approximately 30,000 distinct TV shows and movies. TiVo uses an
item-item form of collaborative filtering which preserves privacy so
obviating the need to keep a memory on the server for each TiVo users
viewing preferences. Despite the high profile nature of this
collaborative filtering system, because of this strong privacy
protection approach, TiVo has suffered no privacy backlash. I will
also describe the distributed recommendation task which uses the three
million Linux TiVo clients as well as the highly scalable, throttled,
parallelized server-side architecture.
Joint work with Wijnand Van Stam.
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SF BAY ACM TALK
on Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
http://sfbayacm.org/
"Folding@Home"
Guha Jayachandran
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~guha/
Biological molecules and their associated phenomena are crucial to
life as we know it. The ability to simulate such phenomena would allow
for deeper fundamental understanding of basic life processes, help
elucidate diseases such as Alzheimer's, and offer the promise of
reduced costs and time in fields such as drug discovery. Paradoxically
given their small size, detailed physical simulation of biomolecules
requires massive amounts of computational power. This, along with
other factors, has long limited the problems that could be addressed.
Distributed computing and new computational technologies can help
address the challenge. Now with over 200,000 computers participating
worldwide, the Folding@Home project is more powerful for parallel
simulation than any supercomputer in the world. With the recent
addition of Sony PS3 participation, it has a sustained performance of
over 800 TFLOPS. This talk will describe advances in the technological
infrastructure of the project, and describe examples of methods that
have been developed to take advantage of parallelism.
About the Speaker: Guha Jayachandran is completing his Ph.D. in
computer science (Chemistry minor) at Stanford University under
Prof. Vijay Pande. He will graduate in June. Guha's interests include
computational drug discovery, novel applications of biocomputation,
and grid computing. He has worked on all aspects of Folding@Home -- a
worldwide distributed computing project examining protein biophysics
-- for over five years, also focusing during recent years on the
development of new computational methods for probing biomolecular
processes like drug binding.
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