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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 18 July 2007, vol. 22:44
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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18 July 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 44
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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 18 JULY 2007 TO 27 JULY 2007
WEDNESDAY, 18 JULY 2007
7:00pm SF Bay ACM TechMaster Talk [18-Jul-07]
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
"What Everyone Should Know About Open Source"
Ron Goldman
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
http://sfbayacm.org/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 19 JULY 2007
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [19-Jul-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Expectation Engines: Biological Substrates for Choices and Habits"
Christopher Ian Connolly
SRI
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [19-Jul-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Putting the Turing into Manufacturing:
Recent Developments in the Science of Automation"
Ken Goldberg
IEOR, EECS, Center for New Media, UC Berkeley
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 20 JULY 2007
SATURDAY, 21 JULY 2007
all day 8th Annual Engineering Day [21-Jul-07]
Arrillaga Alumni Center
"Engineering from Head to Toe"
http://soe.stanford.edu/eday07/
(registration required and limited to Stanford affiliates)
SUNDAY, 22 JULY 2007
7:30pm Summer Institute Forum Lecture [21-Jul-07]
Kresge Auditorium
"Probing Lexical Processing in Modern Dutch Poetry"
Harald Baayen
MPI-Nijmegen
http://linginst07.stanford.edu/schedule.html
Abstract below
MONDAY, 23 JULY 2007
TUESDAY, 24 JULY 2007
7:30pm Summer Institute Sapir Lecture [24-Jul-07]
Kresge Auditorium
Title to be announced
Joan Bresnan
Stanford University
http://linginst07.stanford.edu/schedule.html
WEDNESDAY, 25 JULY 2007
THURSDAY, 26 JULY 2007
4:00pm PARC Forum [26-Jul-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Sustainable Product Design"
Terry Swack
Founder and CEO, Clean Culture
http://www.parc.com/forum/
5:00pm Berkeley Symposium [26-Jul-07]
International House (UC Berkeley)
"Staying Human in the Computer Age"
http://www.citris-uc.org/event/staying_human_in_the_computer_age
Information below
FRIDAY, 27 JULY 2007
all day Berkeley Symposium [27-Jul-07]
International House (UC Berkeley)
"Staying Human in the Computer Age"
http://www.citris-uc.org/event/staying_human_in_the_computer_age
Information below
2:00pm Stanford Tech Briefing [27-Jul-07]
Turing Auditorium, Polya Hall
"Clean Slate Design for the Internet"
Nick McKeown
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
http://techbriefings.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
4:00pm Learning, Design and Technology Program [27-Jul-07]
Wallenberg Hall
"Master's Project Exposition"
13 Master's students
http://events.stanford.edu/events/116/11662/
Information below
SATURDAY, 28 JULY 2007
all day Berkeley Symposium [28-Jul-07]
International House (UC Berkeley)
"Staying Human in the Computer Age"
http://www.citris-uc.org/event/staying_human_in_the_computer_age
Information below
SUNDAY, 29 JULY 2007
all day Berkeley Symposium [29-Jul-07]
International House (UC Berkeley)
"Staying Human in the Computer Age"
http://www.citris-uc.org/event/staying_human_in_the_computer_age
Information below
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Bay Area Vision Day
Thursday, 2 August 2007
489 Minor Hall, UC Berkeley
hosted by the UC Berkeley Program in Vision Sciences
http://cornea.berkeley.edu/bavrd/
It is our pleasure to invite you to the annual Bay Area Vision
Research Day on the 2nd of August 2007. We hope you will join us for a
day devoted to bringing the bay area vision science community together
to present and discuss new and exciting vision related research in
psychophysics, neuroscience, biology and computer vision.
Admission is free; we only ask that you RSVP by July 20th so that we
can arrange for food, parking, etc. Due to limited parking spaces,
parking permits will only be issued to speakers who are presenting
talks.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
San Jose, CA, USA
12-15 August 2007
http://www.kdd2007.com/
KDD is the premier international meeting on knowledge discovery and
data mining. The conference provides a forum for academic
researchers, industry and government innovators to share their results
and experiences. The 2007 program includes the best of research track
and industrial paper and panel presentations, implemented software
demos, posters, workshops, and tutorials followed by the esteemed KDD
Cup competition.
KDD Cup
This year's competition involves making predictions from over 100
million movie ratings collected by Netflix. Full details available at
http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/Netflix-KDD-Cup-2007.html
Presentations
* Leading practitioners, researchers, companies, and government
organizations will present their latest and greatest enhancements
relating to knowledge discovery and data mining.
* Topics include social network analysis, visual data mining,
security and privacy issues, semantic web mining, temporal and
spatial mining, novel algorithms, high performance and grid
computing, text and semi-structured data mining, and much much
more.
Exhibit Hall
Software vendors, book publishers and consulting firms will be
demonstrating their wares throughout the 3 day event. Come see the
latest technology developments.
Workshops
* Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD'07)
* Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD'07)
* KDD Cup and Workshop 2007
* Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data
* Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD'07)
* Web Mining and Social Network Analysis (WebKDD/SNA-KDD '07)
* Data Mining Case Studies and Data Mining Practice Prize
* Data Mining Standards, Services and Platforms
* Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM2007)
* Multimedia Data Mining
* Mining Multiple Information Sources
* Workshop and Challenge on Time Series Classification
Tutorials
* Mining Large Time-evolving Data Using Matrix and Tensor Tools
* A Statistical Framework for Mining Data Streams
* Statistical Modeling of Relational Data
* From Trees to Forests and Rule Sets -- A Unified Overview of
Ensemble Methods.
* Learning Bayesian Networks
* Mining Shape and Time Series Databases with Symbolic
Representations
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SF BAY ACM TECHMASTER TALK
on Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
http://sfbayacm.org/
"What Everyone Should Know About Open Source"
Ron Goldman
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Open source is an important software development methodology. It can
also be an important part of business strategy. In this talk Ron
Goldman, a Sun Microsystems researcher, will describe how open source
works and discuss why a company might want to participate. He will
touch on open source business models, building community, licensing,
and common mistakes.
About the Speaker: Ron Goldman is a researcher working at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories on alternative software development
methodologies and new software architectures. He is currently a member
of the Sun SPOT team that is investigating using Java on small
embedded, wireless devices. He was instrumental in defining the vision
and details for the java.net website and helped start the Javapedia
project. He has advised various Sun open source projects including
NetBeans, OpenOffice, and Jini. He is the co-author of the book
Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy
published in April 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann. Before joining Sun, Ron
developed a program to generate and manipulate visual representations
of complex data for use by social scientists as part of a
collaboration between NYNEX Science & Technology and the Institute for
Research on Learning. He has a continuing interest in the design of
programming languages and has developed various programming
environments (IDEs). He has a PhD in computer science from Stanford
University where he was a member of the robotics group. His research
interests include autonomic computing, biologically-inspired
computing, collaborative computing, open source, programming
languages, software robustness and user interface design.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 19 July 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Expectation Engines: Biological Substrates for Choices and Habits"
Christopher Ian Connolly
SRI
Martingales provide a theoretical framework for examining exploratory
and habitual behavior. The ``expectation engine for a finite
martingale can be constructed using a resistive network or digital
relaxation algorithm. Potentials in the resistive network are exactly
the expected values (as a function of state) for the corresponding
martingale. This talk will explore the relationships among exploratory
and habitual behavior in a state-space context, using the physiology
and pathology of the basal ganglia as a source of inspiration.
About the Speaker: Areas of research:
* Computer vision
* Robotic path planning
* Computational neuroscience
* Experimental neuroscience.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 19 July 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Putting the Turing into Manufacturing:
Recent Developments in the Science of Automation"
Ken Goldberg
IEOR, EECS, Center for New Media, UC Berkeley
Manufacturing, which includes everything from electronics to
industrial equipment, represents a major sector of the American
economy. In 2006, durable-goods manufacturing accounted for 6.9
percent of the GDP whereas all information-communications-technology
industries comprised 3.9 percent.
Yet manufacturing today is where computer technology was in the early
1960's, a patchwork of ad-hoc solutions lacking a rigorous scientific
methodology. Computer Aided Design has been widely adopted for
modeling of mechanical parts and behavior. What is missing is an
associated science for Manufacturing: the required handling, assembly,
inspection, and storage of these parts, the robots and tooling for
assembling of these parts into products through networks to reach
customers in a timely and quality manner. What are the models of
manufacturing analogous to the models of computing that Alan Turing
invented to establish the mathematical and scientific foundations for
computer science?
In short: it's time to put the Turing into Manufacturing. A science of
manufacturing will require mathematical and algorithmic abstractions
for basic elements of robotics and automation such as part feeding and
fixturing and production systems. Abstractions allow functionality to
be specified independent of hardware and software implementations,
which in turn provides the foundation for formal specification,
algorithmic design, consistency checking and optimization. Abstraction
facilitate the integrity, reliability, interoperability, and
maintainability of automation, and streamlines upgrading as new
technology and theory becomes available. Such research would have
broader impacts into laboratory automation, agriculture, and health
care.
Over the past decade, researchers have made progress, developing a
variety of algorithmic models and results for part feeding and
fixturing. I'll review selected results from my lab and others,
including a new framework for fixturing deformable parts and new
geometric primitives for vibratory bowl feeders, and propose several
open problems for future research.
I'll also describe the Berkeley Center for New Media and its current
cross-disciplinary research projects.
About the Speaker: Ken Goldberg is Professor of IEOR, EECS, and the
iSchool at UC Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Center for New
Media. He is Vice-President of Technical Activities for the IEEE
Robotics and Automation Society. His research addresses robot
manipulation, geometric algorithms for automation, and networked
robots. More information on his work, art, and projects are available
at: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/ .
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SUMMER INSTITUTE FORUM LECTURE
on Sunday, 22 July 2007, 7:30pm
Kresge Auditorium
http://linginst07.stanford.edu/schedule.html
"Probing Lexical Processing in Modern Dutch Poetry"
Harald Baayen
MPI-Nijmegen
http://www.mpi.nl/world/persons/private/baayen/
Most studies investigating lexical processing have made use of
experimental techniques presenting words in isolation. These studies
have revealed a wide range of factors co-determining lexical
processing, but leave us with questions concerning the ecological
validity of the results obtained. For instance, Pinker & Ullman (2002)
admit that frequency effects for regular inflected words are attested,
contrary to the original assumptions of their dual mechanism model,
but they maintain that such frequency effects are task artifacts that
are not used in normal listening, reading, or speaking.
In this presentation, I report the results of a large self-paced
reading study addressing lexical processing in modern Dutch poetry
(Breukers, 2006). A linear mixed-effects analysis of some 300,000
logarithmically transformed reading latencies, with Subject, Word and
Poem as random effects, confirmed that the specific form frequency of
an inflected word is the key frequency measure predicting performance
not only in isolated word recognition but also in reading poetry. This
frequency effect was attenuated (but still significant) for males, in
line with the hypothesis of Ullman et al. (2002) that females have
slightly superior declarative memory. Conversely, males emerged with
an advantage reading multiply complex words, in line with Ullman's
hypothesis that males have slightly superior procedural memory.
Measures gauging paradigmatic morphological connectivity in the mental
lexicon turned out to be predictive mainly for words in the initial
position of a line of poetry, a position generally eliciting
relatively long reading latencies that allow these semantic effects to
emerge. Assonance and rhyme led to faster reading latencies, whereas
repetition (measured by the number of times a word had occurred)
slowed reading, especially for older subjects.
This study shows that it is now becoming possible to model lexical
processing of individual words read by individual subjects, taking
into account a wide range of factors ranging from characteristics of
the reader to the position of a word in a verse of poetry, and from
structural factors relating to morphological complexity to poetic
devices such as repetition, assonance and rhyme.
Breukers, C. (2006). 25 jaar Nederlandstalige poezie 1980-2005 in 666
en een stuk of wat gedichten. De Contrabas Bloemlezing, BnM
Publishers, Nijmegen.
Pinker, S. and Ullman, M. (2002). The past and future of the past
tense, Trends in the Cognitive Sciences, 6, 456-462.
Ullman, M. T., Estabrooke, I. V., Steinhauer, K., Brovetto, C.,
Pancheva, R., Ozawa, K., Mordecai, K. & Maki, P., (2002). Sex
differences in the neurocognition of language. Brain and Language 83,
141-143.
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BERKELEY SYMPOSIUM
Thursday-Sunday, 26-29 July 2007
International House (UC Berkeley)
http://www.citris-uc.org/event/staying_human_in_the_computer_age
"Staying Human in the Computer Age"
Sponsor: Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training
A three-day symposium to explore the challenges of, and opportunities
for, human identity in the computer age. Inspired by keynote
addresses, dramatic presentations, and artistic activities (requiring
no prior experience), participants will start a dialogue leading to a
more conscious relationship with the computer.
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TECH BRIEFINGS
on Friday, 27 July 2007, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall)
(Tech Briefings are aimed at the Stanford Community)
http://techbriefings.stanford.edu/
"Clean Slate Design for the Internet"
Nick McKeown
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
The Internet has - without a doubt - been a mind-blowing success. It
is often said that the constancy of the architecture ( it is
essentially unchanged in 40 years) is a sign of strength. I disagree:
The basic Internet is only unchanged because we can't change it - the
legacy of billions of users makes it too daunting. If we could change
it, we would. Instead, we have added every conceivable carbunkle onto
it, making it almost unrecognizable. We've undermined its strengths,
and not been able to overcome its weaknesses. Looking forward, the
Internet's shortcomings won't be resolved by the conventional
incremental and 'backward-compatible' style of academic and industrial
networking research. Instead, we need to step back and rethink -- just
as we do in pretty much any long-term academic endeavor. And this is
where new programs step in: NSF has started a sea-change in networking
research, towards much more radical architectures (the FIND program),
and is working towards an experimental infrastructure on which to test
new architectures (GENI). Here at Stanford, we have started the Clean
Slate Program - a new interdisciplinary program across EE, CS, MS&E,
and GSB.
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LEARNING, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
on Friday, 27 July 2007, 4:00pm-7:00pm
Wallenberg Hall
http://events.stanford.edu/events/116/11662/
"Master's Project Exposition"
13 Master's students
Stanford University School of Education's Learning, Design and
Technology (LDT) program will host its annual Master's Project
Exposition on Friday, July 27 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. in Wallenberg
Hall, Building 160 on the Main Quad at Stanford. The public is invited
to engage in live discussions with thirteen master's students about
their projects that demonstrate designs of technology-based learning
products and environments.
The projects are wide-ranging, including Debbie Heimowitz's "Adina's
Deck: Solving Cyber Bullying Mysteries," a 30-minute interactive film,
website, and curriculum designed to educate young people about the
phenomenon of cyber-bullying -- bullying and harassment through
electronic means such as email, instant messaging, text messages, and
blogs. Victor Vuchic and Greg Warman have designed "Financial
Smackdown!"-- a game that helps students entering the workforce
develop good personal financial habits. Yeong Haur Kok and Aneto
Okonkwo have created "One Laptop Per Child Typewriter," an application
that teaches young English language learners phonics, vocabulary, and
typing skills. These and six other master's projects will be featured
at this year's Expo.
LDT master's students conceive and develop the projects of their own
initiative, and conduct background research, user testing, and learner
assessments to help formulate their work. The content and design of
each project are substantiated by educational theory.
Established in 1997, the goal of the LDT master's program is to
prepare professionals to design and evaluate educationally informed
and empirically grounded learning environments in a variety of
settings, products, and programs that effectively leverage new and
emerging technologies. The program provides students with an intensive
year of study in the basics of learning, design and technology,
including a yearlong internship and course work. Students who complete
the one-year program earn the degree of Master of Arts in Education.
For more information about the LDT program, visit
http://ldt.stanford.edu . For directions to the expo, see
http://wallenberg.stanford.edu/top/location.html .
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