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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 1 August 2007, vol. 22:46
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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1 AUGUST 2007 Stanford Vol. 22, No. 46
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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 1 AUGUST 2007 TO 10 AUGUST 2007
WEDNESDAY, 1 AUGUST 2007
2:00pm Berkeley International Computer Science Institute
ICSI, Rm 607 (UC Berkeley)
"Security and Privacy in the 'Internet of Things'"
Oliver Guenther
Humboldt-Universitaet in Berlin
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
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)
"Development of the Dorsal and Ventral Visual Cortical
`Streams: normal infants and children, Williams Syndrome, and infants
born very prematurely"
Janette Atkinson
University College, London
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/people/profiles/atkinson_janette.htm
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
WEDNESDAY, 8 AUGUST 2007
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Bringing Data into the Web's Fabric: The Swivel Approach"
Joseph M. Hellerstein
Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Sara Wood
Swivel
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 9 AUGUST 2007
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series
EJ228, SRI International
"Preference-based Search with Suggestions"
Paolo Viappiani
Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): The Fuss and the Facts"
Sanjay Sarma
Mechanical Engineering, MIT and CTO of OAT Systems
http://www.parc.com/forum/
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O-, O+, A-, A+, B+, 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 gone for
the summer. The Blood Center is also raising money for a new
bloodmobile.
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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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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"Bringing Data into the Web's Fabric: The Swivel Approach"
Joseph M. Hellerstein
Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Sara Wood
Swivel
The Web is awash in textual information on every topic imaginable. But
the amount of hard data that can be usefully accessed on the Web
remains remarkably small, despite the potential for an Internet of
people and their computers to exploit data in ways that can improve
their health, happiness and bottom line.
Swivel is a site where users explore, publish, compare, visualize,
share and discuss data. Swivel combines web technologies and user
enthusiasm to liberate data from its traditional vaults, allowing
people to discover and share insights in that data.
The breadth of data sets and variety of interactions at Swivel raise
new opportunities and challenges in Data Mining, social networking,
data visualization and human-computer interaction. In this talk, we
outline the concepts that underlie Swivel, and highlight selected
technical challenges that seem ripe for investigation by the Data
Mining community. As a community site for data enthusiasts, we are
also interested in dialog about the role Swivel can play in
accelerating innovation in the Data Mining arena more generally.
About the Speakers: Joseph M. Hellerstein is a Professor of Computer
Science at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in
data management and networking systems. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin in 1995, an M.S. from UC Berkeley in 1992, and
an A.B. from Harvard in 1990. Hellerstein's research has been
recognized via awards including an Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellowship, MIT Technology Review's inaugural TR100 list of young
leaders, and two ACM-SIGMOD Test of Time awards. Key ideas from his
research have been incorporated into commercial and open-source
database software released by IBM, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. He has also
held industrial posts including Director of Intel Research Berkeley,
and Chief Scientist of Cohera Corporation. He currently chairs the
Technical Advisory Board of Swivel.
Sara Wood is the Chief Data Officer for Swivel. Sara has spent the
better part of the last decade at institutions working with some of
the world's most important data: the World Health Organization,
Harvard School of Public Health, the UN and UNDP. Previous to that she
worked for a number of technology companies and research
organizations, including web startups such as Salon.com, where she
helped to solve emerging issues of content and data management on the
web.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 9 August 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Preference-based Search with Suggestions"
Paolo Viappiani
Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne
Preference-based search is the problem of finding the most preferred
item among a large collection. The most popular methods for
preference-based search are based on question answering, and only a
minority of people manages to find their most preferred item. In this
talk we present new mixed-initiative tools using example-critiquing
and suggestions that, according to user studies, dramatically increase
decision accuracy.
We also consider the problem of preference-based search for
configurable products, where online electronic catalogs can be modeled
by Constraint Satisfaction Problems. We show how the generation of the
displayed examples can be formulated as a single optimization problem
and solved sufficiently fast for practical applications.
Finally we discuss a strategy for producing suggestions that exploit
prior knowledge of preference distributions and can adapt the
displayed examples to users' reactions.
About the Speaker: Paolo Viappiani is an assistant and PhD candidate
at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). His thesis is advised by
Prof. Faltings and focus on personalized search tools. His research is
conducted in collaboration with the Human Computer Interaction group
directed by Prof. Pu, in the same institute. He holds a Master degree
(Laurea) in Computer Engineering from the "Politecnico di Milano",
Italy and is a member of AAAI and AI*IA (Italian association for
Artificial Intelligence). His interests include reasoning about
uncertainty, constraints and preferences. More details can be found at
http://people.epfl.ch/paolo.viappiani
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