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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 4 July 2007, vol. 22:42
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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3 June 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 42
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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 3 JULY 2007 TO 15 JULY 2007
TUESDAY, 3 JULY 2007
7:30pm July 3rd Celebration with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy & Fireworks [3-Jul-07]
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
SUNDAY, 8 JULY 2007
7:30pm Summer Institute Forum Lecture [8-Jul-07]
Kresge Auditorium
"Divergence"
William Labov
University of Pennsylvania
http://linginst07.stanford.edu/schedule.html
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 10 JULY 2007
7:30pm Summer Institute Hale Lecture [10-Jul-07]
Kresge Auditorium
"Typological Intersections: Prosody, Morphology, and Syntax"
Marianne Mithun
UC Santa Barbara
http://linginst07.stanford.edu/schedule.html
Abstract below
7:30pm BayCHI [10-Jul-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Driving Adoption through Innovation: The Alltel Celltop Case
Study (Mobile Widget Platform)"
Mahin Samadani
frog design
"The Evolving Design of OPEN Social Sharing Networks:
Bookmooch, Magnatune, and the Future of Shared Passions"
John Buckman
Creative Commons, Bookmooch, and Magnatune
http://www.baychi.org/program/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 11 JULY 2007
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [11-Jul-07]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"In-Database Analytics: A Disruptive Technology"
Marcos M. Campos
Data Mining Technologies group, Oracle
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 12 JULY 2007
4:00pm PARC Forum [12-Jul-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Neural representation of expected value"
Brian Knutson
Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 13 JULY 2007 - Triskadekaphobia day
SUNDAY, 15 JULY 2007
7:30pm Summer Institute Forum Lecture [15-Jul-07]
Kresge Auditorium
"Statistical Language Learning:
Computational and Maturational Constraints"
Elissa Newport
University of Rochester
http://linginst07.stanford.edu/schedule.html
Abstract below
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NOTE
A warm welcome to the 500 or so people who are attending the LSA
Summer Institute at Stanford.
Also due to the holiday on July 4, this calendar is coming out one day
early.
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SUMMER INSTITUTE FORUM LECTURE
on Sunday, 8 July 2007, 7:30pm
Kresge Auditorium
http://linginst07.stanford.edu/schedule.html
"Divergence"
William Labov
University of Pennsylvania
When speech communities become widely separated by migration, dialect
divergence over time is to be expected and no special accounting is
needed. The major problems for explanation arise when neighboring
dialects diverge even when they appear to be in continuing
communication. Recent studies have found such increasing divergence
between adjacent regional dialects of North America and between
communal dialects of the same community.
Origins of diversity are found at linguistic forks in the road, where
linguistic instability can be resolved in several equally probable
ways. Continued divergence is found when one or both of the
neighboring dialects become engaged in unidirectional change,
typically driven by internal factors: chain shifting, merger or
unidirectional patterns of grammaticalization. Such divergence is the
product of continued incrementaton in transmission by child language
learners.
A second source of diversity is found in the diffusion of dialect
features across geographic or social boundaries. This is primarily the
result of contact among adult language learners, which produces less
faithful copies of the original, particularly when structural
conditions of any degree of abstraction are involved.
These sources of divergence will be illustrated by an examination of
American dialects in contact across the North/Midland line, differing
chain shifts initiated by the low back merger, the differentiation of
short-a systems, and the development of tense, mood and aspect markers
in African American Vernacular English.
About the Speaker: William Labov is Professor of Linguistics and
Director of the Linguistics Laboratory at the University of
Pennsylvania. His major work is on the study of linguistic change and
social variation, and he has just published the Atlas of North
American English, with co-authors S. Ash and C. Boberg). His research
on African American Vernacular English in Harlem is reported in
Language in the Inner City (1972). Two volumes of Principles of
Linguistic Change appeared in 1994 and 2001. He is the director of the
Urban Minorities Reading Project and co-author of the Individualized
Reading Manual, designed to raise reading levels in low-income
schools. He is co-editor of Language Variation and Change, served as
president of the Linguistic Society of America (1979), and is a member
the National Academy of Sciences.
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SUMMER INSTITUTE HALE LECTURE
on Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 7:30pm
Kresge Auditorium
http://linginst07.stanford.edu/schedule.html
"Typological Intersections: Prosody, Morphology, and Syntax"
Marianne Mithun
UC Santa Barbara
We know that intonation can play a major role in conveying information
structure, distinguishing such elements of connected speech as focus
and topic, and such features of referents as givenness and
identifiability. We also know that languages and even dialects can
vary substantially in their intonation patterns. The variability
raises questions about the universality of the relationship between
prosody and information structure. If there are differences among
languages, we can ask whether any other features correlate with such
differences and if so, whether we can discern any cause-effect
relationships among them.
One of the major typological parameters proposed for prosodic
structure is [+- rightmost] (Ladd 1996:160). In various Romance
languages, sentence accent always appears on the rightmost element of
the nuclear clause (Vallduvi 1992, Lambrecht 1994). In various other
languages, such as English and Hungarian, sentence accent can appear
in different positions to signal focus on different elements. There
are, however, languages which show neither consistent rightmost
sentence accent nor movable accent. Such a language is Mohawk, where
sentence accent is consistently leftmost. This seeming typological
anomaly may not be an isolated idiosyncrasy. Mohawk is at another
typological extreme: degree of synthesis. Much of what is expressed
syntactically in many other languages is expressed morphologically in
polysynthetic languages like Mohawk. By considering the chains of
events behind the development of these prosodic and grammatical
structures, we can see how such typological dimensions can be related.
About the Speaker: Marianne Mithun is Professor of Linguistics at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, and the 2007 Kenneth Hale
Professor at the Linguistic Institute. She received her doctorate from
Yale University. Her interests include morphology, syntax, discourse,
and their interactions; relations between prosody and
syntactic/discourse structures; language contact and language change,
particularly the evolution of grammar; typology and universals; and
language documentation. Her own field work has been centered primarily
on languages indigenous to North America and Austronesia.
About the Ken Hale Professorship: At its May 2003 meeting, the LSA
Executive Committee established a professorship in field methods for
all future LSA Linguistic Institutes as a way to address the strongly
felt need in the profession to document endangered languages and work
with communities toward their preservation. Named for Ken Hale, a
linguist whose dedication to studying and preserving endangered
languages is legendary, the Professorship will ensure that linguistics
students have access to courses that prepare them to investigate
poorly documented languages even if their own institution does not
offer them.
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BAYCHI
on Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.baychi.org/program/
"Driving Adoption through Innovation: The Alltel Celltop Case
Study (Mobile Widget Platform)"
Mahin Samadani
frog design
Mahin Samadani will discuss the ideation, design, development, and
nascent success of the Alltel Celltop, the first widely deployed
mobile widget platform that was released in January 2007. The patent
pending Celltop has won numerous industry awards, including Best in
Show at CTIA 2007 and the Technology Innovation Award at MeM '07. frog
design developed Celltop from idea to shipping as a standard
application on multiple Alltel handsets in under a year and it is
already producing measurable results. It's a great example of
innovation and design driving adoption and revenue.
About the Speaker: Mahin Samadani is a Business Development Director
in frog design's San Francisco studio. He focuses on helping clients
maximize the value of their customer touchpoints by crafting programs
that create products, services, and experiences that meet user needs
and drive revenue growth. His passion for mobile products has drawn
him to working closely with frog's largest wireless clients to bring
strategy-shifting products like the Alltel Celltop to market from
ideation through implementation. He has a background in mobile
devices, software development, business strategy, and experience
design. Prior to joining frog in 2004, Mahin worked in the PalmSource
division at Palm, the Newton Group at Apple, Intel Corporation, and
was an early employee of dot-com era consultancy Scient. Mahin also
consulted with the Government of Singapore on the country's strategy
for driving innovation. His design contributions and insights have
been featured by popular gadget blog Gizmodo, the American Institute
of Graphic Arts, the National Science Foundation, and he is a
co-inventor on a pending patent for a mobile handset interface.
Mahin graduated with a BS from the University of Wisconsin at Madison
where he studied Economics and Computer Science. He grew up in a small
town in Wisconsin and has lived in the San Francisco area for the past
10 years.
"The Evolving Design of OPEN Social Sharing Networks:
Bookmooch, Magnatune, and the Future of Shared Passions"
John Buckman
Creative Commons, Bookmooch, and Magnatune
Bookmooch.com, founded in 2006, was designed as a place where people
could share their enthusiasm for books and ensure that books end up in
the hands of appreciative readers. John Buckman's presentation will
cover the global dimensions of the mooch network, and the continuous
improvements being made to the site. The Bookmooch toolbar was an
early UI tool to integrate Amazon data, while guiding people toward
sharing through the Bookmooch community. John will discuss UI
challenges and opportunities, and the challenges of listening to the
global community of moochers for enhancements in the site's function.
Connections with Magnatune and Creative Commons will also be
discussed.
About the Speaker: John Buckman founded Magnatune in 2003, an Open
Music site known for its commercial application of Creative Commons
licensing and overtly artist-friendly business practices. In August
2006, he launched the non-profit BookMooch, an online community for
the exchange of used books, which--in combination with his work with
Magnatune--has established Buckman as a prominent figure in the Free
Culture movement. In November 2006, Buckman was elected to the Board
of Directors of Creative Commons for his experience using CC licensing
to support commercial enterprise. In February 2007, he was elected to
the board of advisors of the Open Rights Group.
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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"In-Database Analytics: A Disruptive Technology"
Marcos M. Campos
Data Mining Technologies group, Oracle
Analytics matters. Study after study shows that analytics is a key
competitive factor. However, the uptake of analytics by companies is
still quite limited compared to its potential. There is a need for
analytical technology that is easy to use, is scalable, operate on
different types of data, and integrate easily within the overall
information technology infrastructure.
This talk will discuss how In-Database Analytics is a technology well
positioned to address these needs. It will also make the point that it
is a disruptive technology that can change how analytics impacts
organizations.
About the Speaker: Marcos M. Campos is Technology Development Manager
for the Data Mining Technologies group at Oracle. Previously he was a
Senior Scientist with Thinking Machines. Over the years he has been
working on transforming databases into easy to use analytical servers.
He has created, led, and participated in the design and implementation
of multiple in-database analytics projects, including: Oracle
Personalization, a distributed real-time recommendation system, and
Oracle Data Mining. He is an active contributor to the machine
learning community through technical papers and participation in
industry standards: PMML (XML) and JDM (Java Data Mining
specification).
Marcos is also the author of the popular Oracle Data Mining and
Analytics blog. http://oracledmt.blogspot.com/
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 12 July 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Neural representation of expected value"
Brian Knutson
Stanford University
Psychologists and economists have argued that people must assess
expected value in order to decide on their next course of action.
Recent advances in neuroimaging make it possible to visualize
anticipatory changes in activity deep in the living human brain. I
will review original functional magnetic resonance imaging research
suggesting that a region of the subcortex (the nucleus accumbens, or
NAcc) plays an important role in anticipation of financial gains. I
will then describe additional findings related to financial decision
making, in which NAcc activation precedes risk-taking, while
activation in a distinct brain region precedes risk-avoidance. I'll
conclude by discussing implications of this research for neurally
constrained theories of decision making and the rational actor model.
About the Speaker: Brian Knutson is an assistant professor of
psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University. His research
focuses on the neural basis of emotional experience and expression. He
investigates this topic with a number of methods including
self-report, measurement of nonverbal behavior, comparative ethology,
psychopharmacology, and functional brain imaging.
His long-term goal is to understand the neurochemical and
neuroanatomical mechanisms responsible for emotional experience and to
explore the implications of these findings for the assessment and
treatment of clinical disorders of affect and addiction, as well as
economic behavior.
Knutson has received Young Investigator Awards from the National
Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Association
for Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychiatric
Association, and the New York Academy of Science. He received BA
degrees in experimental psychology and comparative religion from
Trinity University, a PhD in experimental psychology from Stanford,
and has conducted postdoctoral research in affective neuroscience at
UC-San Francisco and at the National Institutes of Health.
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SUMMER INSTITUTE FORUM LECTURE
on Sunday, 15 July 2007, 7:30pm
Kresge Auditorium
http://linginst07.stanford.edu/schedule.html
"Statistical Language Learning:
Computational and Maturational Constraints"
Elissa Newport
University of Rochester
In recent years a wide variety of studies have shown that infants,
young children, and adults can successfully utilize the statistics of
distributional linguistic information to find candidate words in a
speech stream, form and alter phonetic categories, discover
grammatical categories, and acquire simple syntactic structure in
miniature languages in the laboratory. A major question we face, then,
is how to think about the broader picture of statistical learning: How
many kinds of statistical computations can learners perform? How are
these computations organized, and how are they constrained? Must such
mechanisms be combined with qualitatively different, more traditional
mechanisms that form symbolic rules or set linguistic parameters?
I will address these questions by presenting findings from recent
studies of statistical learning of syntax, examining the effects of
complex multiple cues and also comparing child and adult learners
given inconsistent input and (sometimes) forming rule-like
generalizations. The results of these studies suggest the outlines of
several distinct but suitably sophisticated candidate statistical
learning mechanisms and raise questions for future research regarding
how to develop a theory of statistical language learning.
About the Speaker: Elissa Newport is the department chair and the
George Eastman Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the
University of Rochester. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology at the
University of Pennsylvania and was a Sloan Fellow in Linguistics and
Cognitive Science at Penn and MIT. She has been on the faculty at the
University of California at San Diego, University of Illinois, and,
since 1988, University of Rochester. She is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences and a member of the National Academy of
Sciences. Her primary research interest is in human language
acquisition, with research projects including naturalistic studies of
children learning their first languages, experimental studies of
infants, adults, and non-human primates learning miniature languages
in the lab, fieldwork on emerging sign languages, and fMRI research on
language and the brain.
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