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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 25 July 2007, vol. 22:45
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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25 July 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 45
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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 25 JULY 2007 TO 3 AUGUST 2007
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
MONDAY, 30 JULY 2007
TUESDAY, 31 JULY 2007
3:00pm Center for Internet and Society Talk [31-Jul-07]
Law School 280A
"Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties"
Rick Falkvinge
Swedish Pirate Party
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 1 AUGUST 2007
THURSDAY, 2 AUGUST 2007
all day Berkeley Vision Day [2-Aug-07]
489 Minor Hall (Berkeley)
http://cornea.berkeley.edu/bavrd/
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [2-Aug-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Enabling the Spirit of Play in Musical Instrument Building"
Hans-Christoph Steiner
http://at.or.at/hans/
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [2-Aug-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"You Are What You Make"
Dale Dougherty
Co-founder, O'Reilly Media and Make magazine
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 3 AUGUST 2007
4:00pm UC Berkeley HWNI Talk [3-Aug-07]
489 Minor Hall (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Janette Atkinson
University College, London
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/people/profiles/atkinson_janette.htm
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
First the Stanford University High Performance Computing Conference
III will take place on the 21 August 2007 at Wallenberg Hall. The
focus this year is software development and research computing;
bringing together system managers, researchers, developers,
computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent
developments and future advancement in High Performance Computing.
See http://hpcc.stanford.edu/ for more information. Registration will
be free for Stanford people and non-Stanford academics and research
institutions.
Second the Stanford Online Accessibility Program
(http://soap.stanford.edu) has arranged for Victor Tsaran,
Accessibility Program Manager at Yahoo!, to give a demo of Screen
Reading Technology at noon, 16 August, at the Office of Accessible
Education (563 Salvatierra Walk). In addition other alternative
Technology devices for web browsing will be displays. This is for
mostly for Stanford web developers who are also encouraged to sign up
for the su_webmasters@mailman.stanford.edu mailing list though other
interested people are welcome to come. Stanford web developers might
also want to look at and contribute to the
http://suwebmasters.stanford.edu/ wiki. Note that accessibility is a
necessity not only to people with disabilities but also to devices and
programs that try to 'read' and make sense of web pages.
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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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CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY TALK
on Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 3:00pm
Law School 280A
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
"Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties"
Rick Falkvinge
Swedish Pirate Party
Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party and the
international politicized pirate movement, talks about the rise and
success of pirates, and why pirates are necessary in today's politics.
He'll also outline the next steps in the pirates' strategy to change
global copyright laws.
The fight against copyright aggression tends to focus on economic
aspects of the shift to a networked economy. Falkvinge explains how
this conflict is much more important than that: the fight against the
copyright regime is about the right to fundamental civil liberties --
down to the postal secret, whistleblower protection, freedom of the
press, and the very right to an identity.
About the Speaker: Rick Falkvinge is the founder and leader of the
Swedish Pirate Party, as well as the founder of the international
politicized pirate movement. His leadership took the Pirate Party from
nothing into the top ten parties in the last Swedish election, without
a dime in the campaign chest; Rick's personal candidacy came in at
rank #15 out of over 5,000 candidates for the 349 parliamentary
seats. While he didn't win a seat due to threshold rules, his fight
for civil liberties continues, focusing on the current copyright
aggression that threatens our rights to privacy, postal secret,
whistleblower protection and more.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 2 August 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Enabling the Spirit of Play in Musical Instrument Building"
Hans-Christoph Steiner
http://at.or.at/hans/
More and more performers are using computer-based instruments for live
performance, using software that allows complex control and
interaction with sound and visual media in real time. All too
frequently, these performers tie themselves to the
keyboard-mouse-monitor interaction model, narrowly constraining the
range of possible gestures. A multitude of gestural input devices are
readily available, making it easy to utilize a broader range of
gestures. Human Interface Devices (HIDs) such as joysticks, tablets,
and gamepads are cheap and can be good musical controllers. Some even
provide haptic feedback. Now, the biggest hinderance for performers
wanting to create their own instruments is the usability of the
software. To enable the creation of computer-based instruments, we are
developing software that allows instruments to be built in the same
spirit of play that many people apply when learning a traditional
musical instrument.
This work is in collaboration with Cyrille Henry, Olaf Matthes, and
David Merrill.
About the Speaker: Hans-Christoph Steiner spends his time designing
interactive software with a focus on human perceptual capabilities,
building networks with free software, and composing music with
computers. With an emphasis on collaboration, he has worked in many
forms, including responsive sound environments, free wireless networks
that help build community, musical robots that listen, software
environments that allow people to play with math, and a jet-powered
fish that you can ride. To further his research, he teaches and works
at various media art centers and organizes open, collaborative
hacklabs and barcamp conferences. He is currently teaching courses in
physical interaction design at Polytechnic University's Integrated
Digital Media Institute and NYU's Interactive Telecommunications
Program.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 2 August 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"You Are What You Make"
Dale Dougherty
Co-founder, O'Reilly Media and Make magazine
Why make things, especially physical objects? The answer may be that
we see something of ourselves in the things we make, and more
importantly, an object becomes something we can share with others and
create our own stories about. Making things is also more than mere
manual labor. It is a way of thinking, exploring, and experimenting.
Make and Craft magazines are signs of a renewed interest in
Do-It-Yourself projects. The results are often intensely personal, not
necessary practical, but almost always engaging and fun. I'll talk
about the development of Make and Craft magazines, which also offer
new ways to think about print in a digital age. I'll also look at the
rather unusual success of Maker Faire, which reinvents the county fair
for a postmodern world. It's where you might bring things you make to
share them proudly with others.
About the Speaker: Dale Dougherty is editor and publisher of Make and
Craft magazines, both of which focus on DIY projects in print and
online. He also organizes Maker Faire, which was held May 19-20 in the
Bay Area at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. The next Maker Faire will be in
Austin, TX October 20-21. The magazines and the events are part of the
Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media.
Dale has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important
efforts, working closely with Tim O'Reilly to establish O'Reilly as a
leading technical publisher. An early Web pioneer, Dale was the
developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first
commercial Web site launched in 1993 and sold to America Online in
1995. Dale was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online
magazine for Web designers from 1995-1999, which was sold to CMP in
1999. He developed the Hacks Series of books in 2003, which includes
the bestselling Google Hacks and Excel Hacks.
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