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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 23 July 2008, vol. 23:44
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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23 July 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 44
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A weekly publication of the
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
a subdivision of H-STAR, http://hstar.stanford.edu/
Stanford University, Cordura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4101
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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ACTIVITIES FROM 23 JULY 2008 TO 1 AUGUST 2008
WEDNESDAY, 23 JULY 2008
3:30pm SRI CCB Seminar Series [23-Jul-08]
AE201, SRI International
"Activity-dependent Modulation of Adult Neurogenesis"
Ursula Haditsch
Neurosurgery, Stanford University
Abstract below
5:00pm SCPD Symposium [23-Jul-08]
Skilling Auditorium
"Emerging Threats and Defenses Symposium"
http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/courses/proed/compSecCampus/keynoteReg1.asp
(registration by July 15 recommended)
Information below
THURSDAY, 24 JULY 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [24-Jul-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Investing Your Money and Your Self"
Kevin Jones
Good Capital
http://www.parc.com/forum/
7:00pm Summer Science Lecture [24-Jul-08]
Cantor Arts Center Lawn
"Global Warming: Is the Science Settled Enough for Policy?"
Stephen Schneider
Biological Sciences, Stanford
http://oso.stanford.edu/lectures.html
FRIDAY, 25 JULY 2008
3:00pm Learning, Design and Technology Masters Project Exhibition [25-Jul-08]
Wallenberg Hall
http://ldt.stanford.edu/
MONDAY, 28 JULY 2008
TUESDAY, 29 JULY 2008
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [29-Jul-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"First-Order Probabilistic Inference"
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
UC Berkeley
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 30 JULY 2008
THURSDAY, 31 JULY 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [31-Jul-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Earthwatch: Volunteering for Science"
Tom Davis
Retired Founder/Principal Scientist at Silicon Graphics
http://www.parc.com/forum/
FRIDAY, 1 AUGUST 2008
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O, A, and B-. 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.
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UPCOMING
The Summer Institute at Wallenberg Hall 2008
http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/
In 2008, the Institute offers several independent but related one
and two-day workshops over three weeks between July 28 and August 15;
participants register for each workshop independently. Depending on
your area of interest you can attend just one, or several! Attendance
is capped in each session, guaranteeing a personal learning experience
for all.
Stanford High Performance Computing Conference IV
August 28th & 29th 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
James H. Clark Center
(for Stanford students, staff, faculty, affiliates, free)
The fourth annual Stanford HPC Conference is rapidly approaching,
brought to you by Bio-X, Flow Physics & Computational Engineering and
Stanford ITS.
Registration is now open. Breaks and Lunch Provided
http://hpcc.stanford.edu/conference/index.html
Some of the sessions are:
* Matlab Training
* TotalView Training
* Hands-on Cluster Building
* Rocks System Administration Classes
* Stanford HPC Experiences
* Facilities Challenges
There are a number of great research presentations from many
departments on campus and SLAC, in addition to outside research
institutions.
As always, the conference is free of charge, fully-funded by our sponsors!
Be sure to sign up now: http://hpcc.stanford.edu/conference/
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SRI CCB SEMINAR SERIES
on Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 3:30pm
AE201, SRI International
"Activity-dependent Modulation of Adult Neurogenesis"
Ursula Haditsch
Neurosurgery, Stanford University
Neural stem cells play diverse rolls in the adult brain and it is
becoming clear that activity regulates the generation and the survival
of new neurons in the brain. Within the adult hippocampus, the progeny
of the neuronal stem cell generate new neurons that functionally
integrate into the dentate gyrus. Negative regulators of hippocampal
neurogenesis are aging, stress and inflammation, all of which are
accompanied by deficits in memory; in contrast, physical exercise and
hippocampal-dependent learning increase the generation and the
survival of new neurons. It has been shown that the neuronal precursor
cells can sense glutamatergic and GABAergic inputs from the local
environment promoting their differentiation. Here we show that the
local neuronal network is crucial for experience-mediated production
and differentiation of new neurons in vivo and that modulation of
synpase structure and function of mature neurons directly affect
activity-dependent neurogenesis.
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SCPD SYMPOSIUM
on Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 5:00pm - 7:30pm
Skilling Auditorium
http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/courses/proed/compSecCampus/keynoteReg1.asp
(registration by July 15 recommended)
"Emerging Threats and Defenses Symposium"
Agenda
5:00 - 5:30pm Check-in / Refreshments
5:30 - 6:30pm "Perspectives on Security"
a presentation by Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security
Officer of Oracle
6:30 - 7:30pm "Hacks Happen"
a presentation by Jeremiah Grossman, Chief Technology
Officer of WhiteHat Security
Free, please register by July 15, using the form at
http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/courses/proed/compSecCampus/keynoteReg1.asp
About the Speakers:
Mary Ann Davidson is responsible for Oracle product security, as well
as security evaluations, assessments and incident handling. She
represents Oracle on the Board of Directors of the Information
Technology Information Security Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), is a member
of the Global Chief Security Officer Council and the editorial
advisory board of SC Magazine. She was recently named one of
Information Security's top five "Women of Vision" and is the 2004
Fed100 award recipient from Federal Computer Week. She has served on
the Defense Science Board and has recently been named to the Center
for Strategic and International Studies Cyber Commission.
Ms. Davidson has a B.S.M.E. from the University of Virginia and a
M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She
has also served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy Civil
Engineer Corps, during which she was awarded the Navy Achievement
Medal. Jeremiah Grossman, Chief Technology Officer, WhiteHat Security
Mr. Grossman founded WhiteHat Security in 2001. Prior to WhiteHat, Mr.
Grossman was an information security officer at Yahoo!, where he
designed, audited, and penetration-tested the company's hundreds of
web applications. As one of the world's busiest web properties, with
over 17,000 web servers for customer access and 600 web applications,
the highest level of security was required. Before Yahoo!,
Mr. Grossman worked for Amgen, Inc.
Mr. Grossman is an acknowledged expert in web application security and
is a frequent Information Security speaker at security conventions
including the Black Hat Briefings, the Air Force and Technology
Conference, Defcon and ToorCon. Mr. Grossman's continuing research
focuses on all areas of web application security and he has been
featured in the mainstream media on several occasions. His endeavors
have yielded successes such as the widely used assessment tool
"WhiteHat Arsenal", as well as the acclaimed Web Server Fingerprinter
tool and technology. Mr. Grossman is also a contributing member to the
Center for Internet Security Apache Benchmark Group.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"First-Order Probabilistic Inference"
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
UC Berkeley
Many Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks, such as natural language
processing, commonsense reasoning and vision, could be naturally
modeled by a language and associated inference engine using both
relational (first-order) predicates and probabilistic
information. While logic has been the basis for much AI development
and is a powerful framework for using relational predicates, its lack
of representation for probabilistic knowledge severely limits its
application to many tasks. Graphical models and Machine Learning, on
the other hand, can capture much of probabilistic reasoning but lack
convenient means for using relational predicates.
In the last fifteen years, many frameworks have been proposed for
merging those two approaches but have mainly been probabilistic logic
languages resorting to propositionalization of relational predicates
(and, as a consequence, ordinary graphical models inference). This has
the severe disadvantage of ignoring the relational structure of the
model and potentially causing exponential blowups in inference time.
I will talk about my work in integrating logic and probabilistic
inference in a more seamless way. This includes Lifted First-Order
Probabilistic Inference, a way of performing inference directly on
first-order representation, without propositionalization, and work on
DBLOG (Dynamic Bayesian Logic), an extension of BLOG (Bayesian Logic,
by Milch and Russell) for temporal models such as data association and
activity recognition. I will conclude with what I see as important
future directions in this field.
About the Speaker: Rodrigo de Salvo Braz was born in So Paulo,
Brazil. He graduated from Universidade de So Paulo in 1993 with a
B.Sc. in Computer Science. He also obtained a M.Sc. degree in Computer
Science from the same department in 1998, while working for companies
such as Bull Systems and PC Magazine Brazil. He spent two years as a
graduate student at the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic
Sciences at Brown University from 1998 to 2000. During his study in
the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois, he
focused his research on First-Order Probabilistic Inference and
Natural Language Processing. He has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at
the Computer Science Division of EECS at University of California,
Berkeley since August 2007, under the supervision of Prof. Stuart
Russell.
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