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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 5 September 2007, vol. 23:1
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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5 SEPTEMBER 2007 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 1
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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 5 SEPTEMBER 2007 TO 7 SEPTEMBER 2007
WEDNESDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2007
THURSDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2007
3:30pm CCRMA Hearing Seminar [6-Sep-07]
CCRMA Library, The Knoll
"The perception of attack times"
Matt Wright
Stanford and Berkeley
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [6-Sep-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Extensional Reasoning: Datalog-based Deduction"
Tim Hinrichs
Stanford University
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2007
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [7-Sep-07]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Aesthetics as Cognitive Science: Understanding Preferences
for Color and Spatial Composition."
Steve Palmer
Psychology, UC Berkeley
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Conference [7-Sep-07]
Seaborg Room, Men's Faculty Club (Berkeley)
"Models of Mind. A conference in honor of Tony Long"
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~cdozier/ModelsofMind.html
Information below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [7-Sep-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Authorship and Identity"
Clifford Lynch
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER 2007
all day UC Berkeley Philosophy Conference [8-Sep-07]
Seaborg Room, Men's Faculty Club (Berkeley)
"Models of Mind. A conference in honor of Tony Long"
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~cdozier/ModelsofMind.html
Information below
all day Singularity Summit [8-Sep-07]
Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco)
http://www.singinst.org/summit2007
Abstract below
SUNDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 2007
all day UC Berkeley Philosophy Conference [9-Sep-07]
Seaborg Room, Men's Faculty Club (Berkeley)
"Models of Mind. A conference in honor of Tony Long"
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~cdozier/ModelsofMind.html
Information below
all day Singularity Summit [9-Sep-07]
Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco)
http://www.singinst.org/summit2007
Abstract below
MONDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2007
12:30pm Center for Internet and Society Talk [10-Sep-07]
Law School 280A
"The GNU General Public License:
What We've Changed in Version 3, and Why"
Richard Stallman
GNU
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
4:00pm UC Berkeley Ear Club [10-Sep-07]
3105 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"MAPPS: A persistent performance score for modern music"
Kieth Macmillen
Beam Foundation Berkeley
http://ear.berkeley.edu/ear-club-schedule.html
TUESDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2007
6:00pm Cafe Scientifique [11-Sep-07]
SRI International
"Technology, Privacy and Civil Liberties:
The Challenges of Homeland Security"
Peter Neumann
SRI International Computer Science Laboratory
http://www.cafescipa.org/
Abstract below
7:30pm BayCHI [11-Sep-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Marrying the Qualitative + Quantitative:
A Match Made in Heaven for User Centered Design"
Avinash Kaushik
Author, Blogger, Analytics Evangelist
"Software Instrumentation:
How to Developer Smarter Products with Built-in Customer Intelligence"
Cameron Turner
co-founder and CEO, ClickStream Technologies
http://www.baychi.org/program/
Abstracts below
WEDNESDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2007
7:30am Stanford Breakfast Briefings [12-Sep-07]
Stanford Faculty Club
"What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management"
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Professor, Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business
(fee $48/$36 for Stanford staff/students/alumni)
http://breakfastbriefings.stanford.edu/
6:00pm Silicon Valley Web Guild [12-Sep-07]
Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View
"Mobile Advertising"
http://www.webguild.org/
Abstract below
6:00pm Berkeley HPLMS [12-Sep-07]
234 Moses (Berkeley)
"Replacing Truth"
Kevin Scharp
Philosophy, Ohio State University
http://hplms.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [12-Sep-07]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Finding without Searching: A Long-tail Social Commerce Story"
Neel Sundaresan
Director, eBay Research Labs
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
12 noon UC Berkeley IPSR colloquium [12-Sep-07]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"See me, feel me, touch me": Empathy and its underpinnings"
Robert W. Levenson
UC Berkeley
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ipsr/colloquia.html
THURSDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2007
4:00pm PARC Forum [13-Sep-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Testing Einstein at the Limits of Engineering"
William Bencze
Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
FRIDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2007
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [14-Sep-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative: 3-D Visual Analysis of
the Korean Buddhist Canon"
Lewis Lancaster
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture [14-Sep-07]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Frames of reference in the computation of lightness"
Alan Gilchrist
Rutgers University
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2007
11:00am Mozilla 24 [15-Sep-07]
Wallenberg Hall
http://www.mozilla24.com/en-US/
See announcement
all day Educamp [15-Sep-07]
Bldg. 300
"Reforming education BarCamp-style!"
http://educamp.pbwiki.com/
SUNDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 2007
all day Educamp [16-Sep-07]
Bldg. 300
"Reforming education BarCamp-style!"
http://educamp.pbwiki.com/
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bloodmobile.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Mozilla 24
http://cs.stanford.edu/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=2612
http://www.mozilla24.com/en-US/
Mozilla 24 is a worldwide, 24-hour open discussion that connects
community members, academics and Web visionaries from Asia, America
and Europe, in person and over the broadband video WIDE network. The
event will feature industry leaders who will present on Web trends and
technologies that will help shape the future of the Web.
Current speakers include:
* Dr. Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google
Inc.
* Dr. Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder
of its Center for Internet and Society
* Dr. Jun Murai, professor of Faculty of Environment and Information
Studies and Vice President at Keio University
* David Humphrey, professor at the School of Computer Studies at Seneca
College, Toronto, Canada
* Mitchell Baker, Chief Executive Officer, Mozilla Corporation
* Mike Shaver, Chief Evangelist, Mozilla Corporation
* Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe
* Satoko Takita, Chair of the Board of Directors, Mozilla Japan
"Mozilla 24" consists of a variety of programs, including presentations,
panel discussions, online contests, and music festivals. Many of the
presentations, including the panel discussions, will be accessible online to
anyone in the world using the distance learning environment and remotely
placed virtual machines provided by the WIDE Project's School on the
Internet Working Group (SOI), a research consortium that operates its own IP
backbone and the M-Root Server. For example, Keio University and Stanford
University will facilitate a distance panel discussion among Dr. Vint Cerf,
Dr. Jun Murai and Mitchell Baker, using DVTS high-definition video and
advanced data technologies. This panel will mark the inaugural connection
between Keio University's Global Studio and that of Stanford University
which was established as a part of DMC Research Institute's Global Studio
initiative. In addition, Mozilla Europe will present in real-time to
audiences at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand, and
Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.
Our event at Stanford will feature a talk by Larry Lessig, as well as a talk
on free and open source software by Zak Greant of the Mozilla Foundation, a
look at the future of Web technologies by Mike Shaver of the Mozilla Corp.,
a discussion on Browser Security UI by Johnathan Nightingale of the Mozilla
Corp., and more. The day will end with a global discussion on the future of
the Web that will include Vint Cerf and Mitchell Baker CEO of the Mozilla
Corp.
Times and places
USA, Wallenberg Hall, Stanford, 15 September 2007, 11:00am - 8:00pm (Pacific)
Europe, 10:00am - 1:00pm, 15 September (CEST)
Japan:
* Keio University's DMC Global Studio: Live streaming of Mozilla 24
worldwide activities, in-person, presentations and panel discussions.
* Bellesalle Kudan: Children's event, live streaming of Mozilla 24
worldwide activities and more.
* SHIBUYA BOXX: Special music event, Firefox ROCK FESTIVAL '07 - 3:30pm -
22:00pm, September 15th (JST) only.
If you are interested in the events at Wallenberg, please register as
space is limited. See http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/241294 or
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_24
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 6 September 2007, 3:30pm
CCRMA Library, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
The first Hearing Seminar of the fall. We start with a fast attack!
Matt Wright, Hearing Seminar student for many years, will be back one
last time to talk about his research on how we perceive audio attacks.
Attack time is one of the primary aspects of timbre perception (along
with brightness and spectral flux.) But there is little understood
about how we perceive the start of a sound. Matt will address these
issues. --Malcolm Slaney
"The perception of attack times"
Matt Wright
Stanford and Berkeley
My dissertation research involves Perceptual Attack Time, the time
that a sound is perceived as a rhythmic event, which in general is not
the same as the sound's onset. My research has three related
projects:
* Measuring perceptual attack time with a downloadable listening
experiment: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~matt/together This
experiment will be open through September, and I would be very
grateful for any volunteer subjects.
* Modeling perceptual attack time of arbitrary musical sounds
directly from the raw signal.
* Representing perceptual attack time as a statistical probability
density function of time for applications in music analysis and
composition. (This includes the theory of interpreting the result
of aligning 2 tones as the sample cross-correlation of their
"intrinsic" PAT-pdfs.)
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 6 September 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Extensional Reasoning: Datalog-based Deduction"
Tim Hinrichs
Stanford University
Relational databases have had great industrial success in computer
science; however, most automated theorem provers today do not take
advantage of database query engines and therefore do not routinely
leverage that source of power. Extensional Reasoning is, as far as we
know, a novel approach to automated deduction where the system
automatically translates an entailment query expressed in classical
logic into a query about a database system so that the answers to the
two queries are the same. To prove the theorem, the system then
evaluates the database query.
Extensional Reasoning was developed because many problems can be
solved efficiently using a database but are naturally expressed using
classical logic. In some cases, database query engines solve the
database version of the query orders of magnitude faster than
traditional theorem proving techniques solve the classical
version. Extensional Reasoning helps us to build systems that allow a
non-expert to write problems down naturally, convert the problem to an
efficient representation automatically, and solve that problem using
industrial-strength systems.
Algorithms for Extensional Reasoning can conceptually be broken into
two classes: those for complete theories and those for incomplete
theories. A complete theory, one that can answer all the questions in
its vocabulary, corresponds naturally to a deductive
database. Algorithms for this class of theories must recognize the
theory is complete and then construct the appropriate database
system. In the context of a logic with a finite domain, we present
incomplete but low-order polynomial-time algorithms for performing
these tasks. An incomplete theory, one for which there is some
question in the vocabulary that cannot be answered, does not
correspond naturally to a database system, and so the algorithms for
performing Extensional Reasoning are more complex. In this case our
approach constructs a new, complete theory that captures the
information pertinent to the original problema novel form of
theory-completion. We present algorithms for performing this type of
theory-completion in the same finite logic.
About the Speaker: Hinrichs is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford
University studying computational logic: the representation and
processing of knowledge in a logical form. Currently he is interested
in the relationships between some of the most successful applications
of logic in computer science: theorem proving, deductive databases,
logic programming, constraint satisfaction, boolean satisfiability,
and model checking. His thesis, Extensional Reasoning, automatically
transforms theorem proving problems in a finite logic into deductive
database problems, implicitly proving theorems using
industrial-strength database algorithms.
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UC BERKELEY ICBS COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 7 September 2007, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"Aesthetics as Cognitive Science: Understanding Preferences
for Color and Spatial Composition"
Steve Palmer
Psychology, UC Berkeley
Despite its importance and generality, the aesthetic dimension of
mental experience has received little empirical study. I will
describe three current projects that measure aesthetic preferences for
spatial and color composition. Our results show that people
consistently prefer for a single object in a rectangular frame to be
positioned at or near the center of the frame (the "center bias") and
to face toward the center of the frame (the "inward bias"), and weakly
prefer it to face to the right (the "rightward bias"). Related
experiments on people's judgments of the "goodness of fit" for small
probe shapes at various positions and orientations within a
rectangular frame support the same biases, with striking evidence for
the role of symmetry and balance in spatial composition. In the color
domain, preferences for color combinations are well predicted by
people's rated preference for the individual colors and for their
ratings of the harmony of the pair. Contradicting many color
theorists in the art world, complementary colors are not seen as
harmonious. However, colors are judged individually as most pleasing
against highly contrastive backgrounds. The results show that visual
aesthetic science is a new and exciting topic within cognitive science
that can shed new light on the nature of our mental representations of
the visible world.
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UC BERKELEY PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
on Friday-Sunday, 7-9 September 2007
Seaborg Room, Men's Faculty Club (Berkeley)
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~cdozier/ModelsofMind.html
"Models of Mind. A conference in honor of Tony Long"
A. A. Long has taught for the last 25 years in the Department of
Classics at UC Berkeley, where he is currently Professor of Classics
and Irving G. Stone Professor of Literature. During that time, he has
brought immense distinction to the department and the university,
where he has done much to set the intellectual tone of study in the
humanities. Long's work ranges widely over classical culture and the
history of ideas, but he is best known for his seminal work on ancient
philosophy. Among other things, he is renowned for his four decades
of work on Hellenistic Philosophy. Long's work has changed the
intellectual landscape, and has had a profound impact on the
discipline of Ancient Philosophy. His pioneering work has brought
about the extraordinary renaissance of Hellenistic Philosophy that is
flourishing in the academy today. Prof. Long has also been the
teacher of many students who have gone on to distinction as scholars
in their own right.
This conference offers an opportunity for those who have been taught
and influenced by Tony Long to celebrate his unique lifetime
contribution to the field of Classics. All of the papers at the
conference will be given by Long's former pupils. The papers will
deal with a theme that is at the center of Long's current project
(and which is also featured in his earlier works)---"Models of Mind."
The speakers and commentators will engage with ideas that Long has
brought to prominence in the field of Ancient Philosophy. The
commentators on the papers all have strong intellectual ties to Tony
Long and his work, and will make for a rich and diverse conference.
This event will be a fitting celebration of one of Berkeley's most
eminent and influential scholars. In addition, it offers the
participants and the audience an opportunity to engage in
collaborative and interdisciplinary investigations.
Schedule
Friday, Sept. 7
4:00pm Opening
4:30pm Allan Silverman, "Contemplating Divine Reason"
Respondent: John Ferrari
Chair: David Sedley
5:30pm Sara Ahbel-Rappe, "Cross-Examining Happiness: Reason and
Community in the Socratic Dialogues of Plato"
Respondent: Richard McKirahan
Chair: Mary-Louise Gill
Saturday, Sept. 8
10:00am Kathryn Morgan, "Inspiration, Recollection, and the Gods:
Problems with Mythical Presentation in Plato's Phaedrus"
Respondent: Mary-Louise Gill
Chair: Andrea Nightingale
11:00am Alan Code, "Skepticism and Perceptual Puzzles in Aristotle"
Respondent: Henry Mendell
Chair: Chris Bobonich
1:30pm Luca Castagnoli, "How Dialectical was Stoic Dialectic?"
Respondent: Jean-Baptiste Gourinat
Chair: Keimpe Algra
2:30pm Richard Bett, "Beauty and its Connection with Goodness in the
Stoics"
Respondent: Ruby Blondell
Chair: Myles Burnyeat
coffee break
4:00pm Stephen White, "Stoic Selection: Who, What, and How?"
Respondent: Keimpe Algra
Chair: Henry Mendell
5:00pm Gretchen Reydams-Schils, "Seneca's Alleged Platonism: Human and
Divine Minds"
Respondent: Chris Bobonich
Chair: Richard McKirahan
6:00pm Appreciations of Tony Long
Sunday, Sept. 9
10:00am James Ker, "Seneca's Socrates"
Respondent: Brad Inwood
Chair: Brad Inwood
11:00am Ken Wolfe, "The Status of the Individual in Plotinus"
Respondent: Myles Burnyeat
Chair: John Ferrari
12:00pm Last words (Tony Long)
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 7 September 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
"Authorship and Identity"
Clifford Lynch
I'll look at various developments in scholarly communication (citation
indexing, web statistics gathering, preprint archives); in identity
management; and in name authority control. My fundamental thesis will
be that there is an opportunity to begin to deliberately and
systematically relate and potentally converge developments in these
different areas; I'll lead a discussion of the issues and actors that
might be involved in doing so.
In this talk, I'll look at various developments in scholarly
communication (citation indexing, web statistics gathering, preprint
archives); in identity management; and in name authority control. My
fundamental thesis will be that there is an opportunity to begin to
deliberately and systematically relate and potentally converge
developments in these different areas; I'll lead a discussion of the
issues and actors that might be involved in doing so.
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SINGULARITY SUMMIT
Saturday and Sunday, 8 and 9 September 2007, all day
Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco)
http://www.singinst.org/summit2007
What are the major challenges to achieving advanced AI? What are the
benefits and dangers? How far are we from self-improving AI? How
should we prepare for this potentially powerful innovation?
These are among the questions that 17 outstanding thinkers will
explore and debate at the Singularity Summit, to be held Saturday and
Sunday, September 8-9, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco,
California. The summit is organized by the Singularity Institute for
Artificial Intelligence, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit institute in
Silicon Valley for the study of safe advanced AI.
"Advanced AI has the potential to impact every aspect of human
life. We are in a crucial window of opportunity where we have
temporary but powerful leverage to influence the outcome," said Tyler
Emerson, chair of the summit and executive director of the Singularity
Institute for Artificial Intelligence. "Only a small group of
scientists are aware of the central issues. It is essential to expand
discussion of this critical 21st century issue, which is why I have
created the summit."
Peter Thiel, PayPal Cofounder, Clarium Capital President, and
Facebook's initial investor, will MC and also present his new ideas on
Financial Markets and the Singularity. "It's clear that the term 'AI'
means a lot of different things," said Thiel. "It's one of these terms
that has been bandied about a great deal, and has been misused a
lot. It has been predicted for a long time that AI is right around the
corner, and it's taking longer than many people thought it would, with
many disappointments along the way. However, it's clear that there's a
massive set of issues happening, and people who don't think there's
something important going on are just living in a delusional fantasy
world."
Tickets can be purchased online for $50 at
http://www.singinst.org/summit2007/tickets/.
Confirmed speakers include:
* Dr. Rodney Brooks, famous MIT roboticist and founder of iRobot
* Dr. Peter Norvig, director of research at Google
* Paul Saffo, Stanford, leading technology forecaster
* Sam Adams, distinguished engineer within IBM's Research Division
* Jamais Cascio, cofounder of World Changing and creator of Open
the Future
* Dr. Ben Goertzel, director of research at SIAI and founder of
Novamente
* Dr. J. Storrs Hall, author of Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience
of the Machine
* Dr. Charles L. Harper, Jr., senior VP at John Templeton
Foundation
* Dr. James Hughes, executive director of Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technologies
* Neil Jacobstein, prominent AI expert and CEO of Teknowledge
* Dr. Stephen Omohundro, founder of Self-Aware Systems
* Dr. Barney Pell, founder and CEO of Powerset
* Christine Peterson, cofounder of Foresight Nanotech Institute
* Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and founder of Clarium Capital
* Wendell Wallach, author of Machine Morality: From Aristotle to
Asimov and Beyond
* Eliezer Yudkowsky, Friendly AI pioneer and cofounder of SIAI
* Peter Voss, founder and CEO of Adaptive Artificial Intelligence
"To any thoughtful person, the Singularity idea, even if it seems
wild, raises a gigantic, swirling cloud of profound and vital
questions about humanity and the powerful technologies it is
producing," said Douglas R. Hofstadter at last year's Singularity
Summit at Stanford, author of Gdel, Escher, Bach, which won a Pulitzer
Prize in 1980. "Given this mysterious and rapidly approaching cloud,
there can be no doubt that the time has come for the scientific and
technological community to seriously try to figure out what is on
humanity's collective horizon. Not to do so would be hugely
irresponsible."
SIAI is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit institute in Palo Alto, California,
with three long-term goals: furthering the nascent science of safe
advanced AI (self-improving cognitive systems) through research and
development, research fellowships, research grants, and science
education; furthering the understanding of its implications to society
through educational outreach, such as the annual Singularity Summit;
and furthering education among students to foster an interdisciplinary
field for the study of safe advanced AI. Learn more by visiting SIAI
at http://www.singinst.org.
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CAFE SCIENTIFIQUE
on Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 6:00pm
SRI International
http://www.cafescipa.org/
"Technology, Privacy and Civil Liberties:
The Challenges of Homeland Security"
Peter Neumann
SRI International Computer Science Laboratory
http://www.csl.sri.com/neumann
Computer technology plays a critical role in homeland security
operation This application of high technology has also created
controversy. High profile examples include the FBI's Carnivore
(electronic communications surveillance) project and electronic
surveillance by the National Securi Agency.
Peter G. Neumann has been with SRI's Computer Science Lab for over 35
ye where he is known for taking a holistic approach to information
security issues. He will discuss some of the pressing questions
involved in the attempt to ensure homeland security, including:
* Do security and privacy necessarily conflict?
* Can computer related technologies ensure privacy?
* Can surveillance be done without compromise and misuse?
* What will the impact be of the emerging Employment Eligibility
Verification System?
* How effective are biometrics?
* What are the implications for civil liberties?
Dr. Neumann will discuss these questions, including lessons that
should learned from the past. He will address both progress and lack
of progre particularly in the six years to the day since Tuesday,
September 11, 2001. Relevant issues include critical infrastructures,
national security election systems, medical care, and large-scale
databases. He will also discuss the need for R&D, the potential and
inherent limits of technology and what governments, businesses and
individuals can and should do.
About the Speaker: Peter G. Neumann has doctorates from Harvard and
Darmstadt. After 10 ye at Bell Labs, he joined SRI's Computer Science
Lab since September 1971. He is concerned with computer systems and
networks, trustworthiness/dependability, high assurance, security,
reliability, survivability, safety, and many risks-related issues such
as voting-system integrity, crypto policy, social implications, and
human needs including privacy. He is a member of the U.S. Government
Accountability Office Executive Council on Information Management and
Technology, and the California Office of Privacy Protection advisory
council. He co-founded People For Internet Responsibility. He has
taught courses at Darmstadt, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, and the
University of Maryland. See his website for testimonies for the
U.S. Senate and House and California state Senate and Legislature,
papers, bibliography and further background.
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BAYCHI
on Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.baychi.org/program/
"Marrying the Qualitative + Quantitative:
A Match Made in Heaven for User Centered Design"
Avinash Kaushik
Author, Blogger, Analytics Evangelist
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash
Traditionally qualitative analysis (lab usability etc) and its
practitioners have had been in a silo. The same can be said about
quantitative analysis (web analytics) and its practitioners. This
resulted in less than optimal customer experiences. The web offers
radical new ways to understand customer behavior and to some extent
removes the limits to which we have been bound. Avinash will offer his
perspective on new ways in which User Researchers and leverage new
methodologies to understand customer behavior. He will also talk
about opportunities to partner with the Quantitative Analysts to both
improve your own understanding of the website while improving their
understanding of the customer.
About the Speaker: Avinash Kaushik is the author of Web Analytics: An
Hour A Day and the highly rated web analytics blog Occam's Razor. He
is a independent consultant with a focus on helping companies unlock
the power of Web Analytics 2.0 and use data as a strategic competitive
advantage. Avinash is also the Analytics Evangelist for Google. He is
a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as eMetrics Summits,
Ad-Tech, SES and Web 2.0 Expo in the US and Europe.
"Software Instrumentation:
How to Developer Smarter Products with Built-in Customer Intelligence"
Cameron Turner
co-founder and CEO, ClickStream Technologies
Companies have long used product instrumentation to create a feedback
loop to connect users to developers of their products. Using customer
experience feedback, the product development process becomes m re
intelligent; dynamically enabling developers to focus on profitable
features and relieve testers from covering unused features. During
this session we'll explore the concept of instrumentation, including
successful examples of product instrumentation used by Adobe and
Microsoft.
About the Speaker: Cameron Turner, co-founder and CEO, ClickStream
Technologies, conducted global market research for Microsoft for eight
years as Lead Program Manger and Product Planner, and helped to create
their financial reporting software, including a SOX solution. He
developed ClickSight in 2003 while earning his MBA at Oxford.
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SILICON VALLEY WEB GUILD
on Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 6:00pm
Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View
http://www.webguild.org/
"Mobile Advertising"
Google, Yahoo, Nokia, Admob Mobile advertising is a fast growing slice
of the online marketing mix. It is expected to reach $10 Billion by
2010 according to the Mobile Marketing Association. Leading content
providers, brand advertisers, and enablers are beginning to sell
mobile specific campaigns. As traditional channels for advertising,
like TV, radio, and print are becoming less effective, marketers are
seeking new mediums to reach and engage with consumers. Join this
panel of industry experts to explore the opportunities and challenges
of mobile advertising.
*Will mobile change advertising in the same way as the Internet
*Could mobile advertising subsidize many mobile services (as
advertising supports many TV and online services today)
*What are brand advertisers expecting to see and pay for in mobile
advertising
*Do consumers want advertisements and how will it affect the user
experience
*What are some of the technological issues and where are the early
adoptions taking place
Online registration for members $20 and non-members $30.
On-site registration for members $25 and non-members $40.
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BERKELEY HPLMS
on Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
234 Moses (Berkeley)
http://hplms.berkeley.edu/
"Replacing Truth"
Kevin Scharp
Philosophy, Ohio State University
Of the dozens of purported solutions to the liar paradox published in
the past fifty years, the vast majority are "traditional" in the sense
that they reject one of the premises or inference rules that are used
to derive the paradoxical conclusion. Over the years, however, several
philosophers have presented an alternative to the traditional
approaches; according to them, our very competence with the concept of
truth leads us to accept that the reasoning used to derive the paradox
is sound. That is, our conceptual competence leads us into
inconsistency. I call this alternative the inconsistency approach to
the liar. Although this approach has positive features, I argue that
several of the well-developed versions of it that have appeared
recently are unacceptable. In particular, they do not recognize that
if truth is an inconsistent concept, then we should replace it with
new concepts that do the work of truth without giving rise to
paradoxes. I outline an inconsistency approach to the liar paradox
that satisfies this condition.
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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"Finding without Searching: A Long-tail Social Commerce Story"
Neel Sundaresan
Director, eBay Research Labs
This talk will focus on the nature and challenges of building a
finding experience is a social commerce network. In this network the
sellers and buyers have different capabilities, formats, motives, and
incentives. Still, there is a social binding force surfaced through
common interests, transactions, and trust. The nature of the content,
which is typically non-catalogable items, adds to this spectrum. We
discuss search relevance, classification, merchandizing, and
reputation systems in this context.
About the Speaker: Neel Sundaresan is the director of eBay Research
Labs and a Distinguished Research Scientist. His current areas of
research interest include Social and Incentive Networks, Trust and
Reputation Systems, Machine Learning as applied to Recommender
systems, Classification, Ontology, and Search. He has been with eBay
since 2005. Prior to joining eBay , he was a founder and CTO of a
startup focused on multi-attribute fuzzy search and network CRM. Prior
to this, he was the head of the eMerging Internet Technologies group
at the IBM Research Center. There he built the first XML-based Search
Engine. He was one of the early leaders in building XML technologies
including schema-aware compression algorithms, application component
generators and pattern-match systems and compilers. He built the first
RDF reference implementation as a W3C standard recommendation. He led
research work in other areas like domain specific search engines,
multi-modal interfaces and assistive technologies, semantic
transcoding, web mining, query systems, and classification for
semi-structured data. Prior to this he worked on C++ compiler and
runtime systems for massively parallel machines and for shared memory
systems and also on retargetable compilers, program translators and
generators. He has over 40 research publications and several patents
to his credit. He has been a frequent speaker at several national and
international technology conferences. He has advised 2 PhD and
several masters dissertations. He has a degree in mathematics and a
masters in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Mumbai India and a PhD in computer science from Indiana
University, Bloomington. His dissertation was on Modeling Control and
Dynamic Data Parallelism in Object-Oriented Languages.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 14 September 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
"Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative:
3-D Visual Analysis of the Korean Buddhist Canon"
Lewis Lancaster
A report on two related projects:
- 1 - "Text Analysis and Pattern Detection: 3-D and Virtual Reality
Environments". The physical positions of each ideograph on the
woodblocks used to print the 1,500 Chinese Buddhist texts provide a
physical framework for complex analyses of the woodblocks, the texts,
and their associated metadata. A new project funded by the National
Science Foundation; and
- 2 - The "Religious Atlas of China and the Himalayas" is expected to
include names, dates, coordinates, and associated information for
several thousand religious places in China and the Himalayas,
including mosques, churches and temples; sacred mountains; religious
kingdoms; monumental statuary, and other categories of features. The
Henry Luce Foundation recently awarded a grant for a three-year
continuation. See http://ecai.org/chinareligion/
Using the Chinese Buddhist canon as a backdrop for exploring these
issues, 3-D and graphic interfaces can offer a dynamic experience for
canonic research by combining multiple modalities (text, images, maps,
audio, video, 3D graphics, etc.) and contextualizing them in space and
time.
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UC BERKELEY OXYOPIA LECTURE
on Friday, 14 September 2007, 4:00pm
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
"Frames of reference in the computation of lightness"
Alan Gilchrist
Rutgers University
In computing the surface lightness of objects, the human visual system
behaves as if it is taking the illumination level into account,
although the way this is done has not been explained concretely. I
will report a series of experiments in which observers match the
lightness of gray probe disks, which are inserted into scenes
containing different levels of illumination. The results suggest that
complex scenes are segmented into functional frames of reference that
represent regions of common illumination. I will also discuss the
failure of spatial filtering approaches to account for these findings,
the factors used to segment the image into frameworks, the grouping of
non-adjacent regions of the retinal image into frameworks, and the
nature of crosstalk between adjacent frameworks.
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