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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 27 June 2007, vol. 22:41
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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27 June 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 41
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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 27 JUNE 2007 TO 6 JULY 2007
WEDNESDAY, 27 JUNE 2007
all day Silicon Valley Web Guild [27-Jun-07]
Santa Clara Conference Center
"Searchnomics 2007 Conference"
http://www.webguild.org/
(registration required, members $575/non-members $675)
THURSDAY, 28 JUNE 2007
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [28-Jun-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Intelligent Assistants - A Decision-Theoretic Model"
Sriraam Natarajan
SRI
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Mysteries of the Universe"
Patricia Burchat
Physics, Stanford
http://www.parc.com/forum/
7:00pm IEEE Monterey Bay Subsection
Business with Pleasure, 216G Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley
"Exploring the Ocean Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles"
Yanwu Zhang
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
http://www.ee.com/au
http://www.e-grid.net/calendar.html
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 29 JUNE 2007
12:15pm St. Lawrence String Quartet
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
http://events.stanford.edu/
free
2:00pm Stanford Tech Briefing
Turing Auditorium, Polya Hall
"Home Networking"
Kent Reuber
IT Services
(this is for Stanford people only)
http://techbriefings.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 3 JULY 2007
7:30pm July 3rd Celebration with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy & Fireworks
Frost Amphitheater, Stanford
http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/
(not free, but a fair number of people watch the fireworks
from the oval for free)
WEDNESDAY, 4 JULY 2007 - University Holiday
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O+, 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. Remember
the usual supply of vic^H^H^Hstudents is mostly gone for the summer.
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NOTE
Not much response on last week's query on wikis; obviously I need to
take the latter of the two courses mentioned in the next paragraph.
Stanford is offering its staff a new method of accessing Training and
Organizational Development (T&OD) courses, Webinars, or live, online,
interactive training. I've htmlized the word file they sent out about
it and put it up at
https://www.stanford.edu/~emma/stanfordonly/Reports/webinar.html
(you will need a Stanford sunetid to see). Courses ranged from
"Collaborative team decision making" to "Avoiding email evils: writing
emails that get results"
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 28 June 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Intelligent Assistants - A Decision-Theoretic Model"
Sriraam Natarajan
SRI
There have been several personal assistant systems ranging from
desktop assistants to the ones that assist the elderly. These are well
engineered solutions to specific domains and lack an overarching
framework. In the first half of the talk, I introduce a
decision-theoretic model that captures the general notion of
assistance where the goal of the assistant is to minimize the cost of
user actions. I present the results in a folder predictor domain where
we compare our results against a cost-sensitive supervised learning
algorithm.
In the second half of the talk, I extend this work to domains where
the user's policies have rich relational and hierarchical structure.
Our results indicate that relational hierarchies allow succinct
encoding of prior knowledge for the assistant, which in turn enables
the assistant to start helping the user after a relatively small
amount of experience.
About the Speaker: Sriraam Natarajan is a PhD candidate working with
Prof. Prasad Tadepalli at Oregon State University. He recieved his
Bachelor's from the University of Madras in 2001 and his M.S from
Oregon State University in 2004. His PhD thesis work focuses on
developing relational models for intelligent assistants. He has
published papers on learning in statistical relational models,
reinforcement learning and combining the relational models with
decision-theory. He is currently a summer intern at SRI focusing on
developing a relational model for activity recognition in CALO.
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IEEE MONTEREY BAY SUBSECTION
on Thursday, 28 June 2007, 7:00pm
Business with Pleasure, 216G Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley
http://www.e-grid.net/calendar.html
"Exploring the Ocean Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles"
Yanwu Zhang
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
http://www.ee.com/au
(rsvp required, see web page)
Exploring the ocean is a difficult task due to the oceans' vastness,
depth, variabilities, and often hostile conditions. The Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has been developing autonomous
underwater vehicles (AUVs) and deep-sea networks to revolutionize the
observation of the ocean's interior. In this talk, Dr. Yanwu Zhang
will introduce MBARI's Dorado-class AUVs in the context of the
Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN). He will show the AUV's
architecture and various sensors. The fundamental challenge of ocean
observation is that ocean processes vary both spatially and
temporally. With agility and speed, AUVs bring about new capabilities
to resolve the spatio-temporal variability. In this talk, Dr. Zhang
will discuss how to take advantage of different categories of
autonomous platforms to optimally measure the ocean. He will show some
results from AUV experiments in the Monterey Bay. MBARI's current
development of AUV docking and longer-range AUVs will enhance the
vehicles' capabilities and further incorporate them into the ocean
observatory system.
About the Speaker: Yanwu Zhang Yanwu Zhang (S'95-M'00-SM'05) was born
in 1969 in Shaanxi Province, China. He received the B.S. degree in
Electrical Engineering and the M.S. degree in Underwater Acoustics
Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China, in
1989 and 1991, respectively. In 1998, he received the M.S. degree in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). In June 2000, he received the
Ph.D. degree in Oceanographic Engineering from the MIT/Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program.
From June to December 2000, Dr. Zhang was a Systems Engineer working
on medical image processing at the General Electric Company Research
and Development Center, Niskayuna, NY. From January 2001 to November
2004, he was a Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineer and then
promoted to a Senior DSP Engineer at Aware Inc., Bedford, MA, working
on digital communications. Since December 2004, he has been with the
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, as a Senior Research
Specialist engaged in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and ocean
observing systems. Dr. Zhang's current research interests are mainly
in spatio-temporal signal processing and its applications to AUVs'
sampling of oceanographic processes. He has had papers published in
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Journal of
Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, and conference proceedings. He
also served as a reviewer for academic journals, as well as for
National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) proposals. He is the author of "Chapter 11:
Complex-Valued Generalized Hebbian Algorithm and Its Applications to
Sensor Array Signal Processing" in Complex-Valued Neural Networks:
Theories and Applications, published by the World Scientific
Publishing Co. in 2003. Dr. Zhang is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a
member of Sigma Xi. He was a finalist for MIT Technology Review
Magazine's 100 young innovators (TR100) in 1999.
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TECH BRIEFINGS
on Friday, 29 June 2007, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall)
(Tech Briefings are aimed at the Stanford Community)
http://techbriefings.stanford.edu/
"Home Networking"
Kent Reuber
IT Services
Join us as Kent Reuber present some basic info on setting up home
networks on Stanford DSL, Stanford West, and non-Stanford DSL/cable
modems. He will talk about the basics of print servers, wireless
access points, and routers. He will also present some example home
network diagrams that you may want to follow. He won't be covering
specific products there are simply too many products out there. He
will, however, give you some recommendations on home network
configurations that can be used with many different products.
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