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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 12 September 2007, vol. 23:2
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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12 SEPTEMBER 2007 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 2
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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 12 SEPTEMBER 2007 TO 21 SEPTEMBER 2007
WEDNESDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2007
2:00pm Berkeley International Computer Science Institute [12-Sep-07]
ICSI, Rm 607 (UC Berkeley)
"Question Answering based on Semantic Roles"
Michael Kaisser
University of Edinburgh
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
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
"Gravity Probe B: Testing Einstein at the Limits of Engineering"
William Bencze
Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
FRIDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2007
all day AdFraud'07 Workshop [14-Sep-07]
CIS 101
http://crypto.stanford.edu/adfraud/
Information below
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
3:30pm SRI CSL Seminar Series [14-Sep-07]
EK228, SRI International
"Halting Password Puzzles : stronger defenses against offline
dictionary attacks"
Xavier Boyen
Voltage, Inc.
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
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/
Information below
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/
MONDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2007
1:00pm UC Berkeley HWNI [17-Sep-07]
Berkeley City Club (Berkeley)
"10th Anniversary Celebration"
10th anniversary of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
4:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium [17-Sep-07]
182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
"Event Structure and the Problem of Serial Verb Constructions"
William A. Foley
University of Sydney
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Ear Club [17-Sep-07]
3105 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Psychophysical Measurements and the Auditory Periphery"
Bruce Berg
Psychology, UC Irvine
http://ear.berkeley.edu/ear-club-schedule.html
TUESDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2007
WEDNESDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2007
12 noon UC Berkeley IPSR colloquium [19-Sep-07]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Visual Information Processing"
Priya Raghubir
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ipsr/colloquia.html
7:00pm SF Bay ACM TechMaster Talk [19-Sep-07]
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
"Managing for Effective Prototyping"
Michael Arent, Jonathan Arnowitz
SAP Labs
Nevin Berger
Ziff Davis Media
http://sfbayacm.org/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2007
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [20-Sep-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Using Pathway Ontologies to Help Uncover Genetic Factors in
Human Disease"
Paul D Thomas
Evolutionary Systems Biology, SRI
http://www.ai.sri.com/esb/
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [20-Sep-07]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"Spinoza, Platonism and Naturalism"
Michael Ayers
University of California, Berkeley
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
FRIDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2007
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [21-Sep-07]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"ROC and reasoning"
Evan Heit
Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [21-Sep-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Reference Library Service in a Digital Environment"
Michael Buckland
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
4:00pm UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture [21-Sep-07]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Control of Single-Photon Transmission at the Rod-To-Rod
Bipolar Synapse"
Alapakkam Sampath
Physiology and Biophysics, USC
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
Abstract below
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bloodmobile.
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MEDIA-X REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Advanced Human Communication Technologies
deadline: Friday, 14 September 2007 at 6:00PM
(Stanford PIs only)
http://mediax.stanford.edu/
Media X announces availability of funding for projects about the
exploration of the fusion of virtual and physical worlds for
advanced human communications.
Digitized Virtual Worlds have blossomed in recent years, enticing a
wide variety of users via games, shared digital media, and
participatory social networks. Computer-aided "Physical Worlds" are
the basis of most corporate work these days, with digitized documents,
media and information exchange. The question of synchronizing or
harmonizing Virtual Worlds with Physical Worlds, though, has not been
studied in much depth, and is increasingly vital to understand.
Interaction between physical objects and their virtual counterparts
(e.g. deleting a "stored document" when the "real" document is
shredded; or a Virtual teacher applying a "touch" to a student
modeling clay in a ceramic arts class) invite much study -- for
example, of the psychological effects of such coupled behavior, of the
strength of learning patterns with such methods, and of the
architectural / affective tools that best facilitate such
interactions.
Interaction between digitized "worlds" from an archive that can be
"re-lived" in the present Real Time (e.g. User experience capture
from, say, Head-Mounted or any other type of displays, that is
"triggered" and re-played for different audiences later in time; maybe
with appropriate filters for editing and re-formatting "the original
experience") also invites much study -- for example, the psychology of
"re-living" events vs. the actual experience (emotional satisfaction,
impact on recall and memory, changes in attention or focus, and
altered retained learning.) Studies focused on improved richness of
detail, especially as they may relate to corporate communications,
innovation, and competitive resilience are also invited.
Projects that examine either the interaction of objects in real space
with Virtual world information, or computer technology influence on
human communications are welcome. Projects which define new design,
prototyping and communication system by using computer- and/or
sensor-embedded objects and context-aware computing are also invited.
The submission of a brief technical report at the end of the funding
is required.
RFP: GRANT SIZE
We anticipate funding for up to five faculty-led projects for periods
of six months to one year. Funding can vary from $10,000 to $35,000.
Submission deadline is September 14, 2007. Application details are
below.
RFP: APPLICATION PROCESS:
Faculty and Senior Researchers: Proposals of no more than five pages
(including any vitae information) should be submitted electronically
in PDF format by 6:00 PM on September 14, 2007 and sent to
MediaX-RFP@stanford.edu.
Include a description of the proposed project, summary vitae including
full contact information for faculty and/or senior research staff
(email, office and mobile phone) who will work on the project. For
all project members, please fully note their "status" (title,
position, affiliation with Stanford or other organization). Note that
one project member must be a Stanford employee with Stanford PI
status.
A detailed budget should be submitted at the same time on a single
sheet (not counted as part of the five page limit), as separate PDF
file. Expenses may include (but are not limited to) research
assistants and post docs, travel, equipment, data collection expenses,
and faculty and research staff salaries. Along with the PDF files
(one for proposal, one for the detailed budget), please include in the
body of your email a short paragraph summarizing the project in such a
way that we can use the information in describing your proposal to
others.
Selection will be based on the scientific merit of the proposed
project as judged by a committee of faculty, and on any current or
possible applications of the research that may be of interest to
industrial sponsors of Media X research. Awards will be announced by
October 5, 2007, with research to start as soon as possible
thereafter.
Inquiries about budget arrangements should be sent by email to
MediaX-budget@stanford.edu. Address all other inquiries by email to
Media X at MediaX-RFP@stanford.edu. Please note: In order to process
applications within our tight time frame, only proposals submitted
electronically in PDF format can be accepted.
ABOUT MEDIA X
Media X facilitates collaboration between industry and the research
community at Stanford to address challenges that emerge at the
intersection of people and technology. Driven by questions of real
importance within both academia and industry, the research activities
fostered by Media X attract faculty and students from a wide range of
disciplines and thought leaders from leading companies representing a
diverse cross-section of industries, to tackle some of the most
challenging and intriguing issues. While some of the projects
supported by Media X are pure technology research, many involve human
and societal issues:
*how people use technologies
*how technologies may be designed to meet particular human needs and
take account of ways of interacting with technologies
Many Media X supported projects involve interdisciplinary teams,
sometimes spread across two or more schools, and occasionally
incorporating an industry partner.
For additional information about Media X see:
http://mediax.stanford.edu/
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BERKELEY INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE
on Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Main Lecture Hall, ICSI, 1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
"Question Answering based on Semantic Roles"
Michael Kaisser
University of Edinburgh
While intuition says that knowledge about semantic roles should
improve a Question Answering system's performance, the (not very
extensive) research that has been carried out on this question has so
far produced ambiguous results.
In this talk I will discuss how lexical resources based on semantic
roles (i.e. FrameNet, PropBank, VerbNet) can be used for (Web-based)
Question Answering. Two algorithms have been implemented to this end,
with quite different characteristics: (1) The first algorithm uses the
three lexical resources to generate potential answer-containing
templates. While the templates contain holes--in particular, for the
answer--the parts that are known can be used to create exact quoted
search queries. Sentences can then be extracted from the output of
the search engine and annotated with respect to the categories of the
resource being used. From this, an answer candidate (if present) can
be extracted. (2) The second algorithm analyzes the dependency
structure of the annotated example sentences in FrameNet and PropBank.
It poses rather abstract queries to the Web, but can in its candidate
sentence analysis stage deal with a wider range of syntactic
possibilities. I will describe both approaches when applied to each
of the resources and a combination of them, and give an evaluation.
About the Speaker: Michael Kaisser is a PhD student at the University
of Edinburgh, Scotland, supervised by Prof Bonnie Webber. (Currently
he is doing an internship at Powerset, Inc., in San Francisco.) He
received his Diploma (Master's degree) degree from Saarland University
in 2005 for his thesis entitled "Question Answering by Searching Large
Corpora with Linguistic Methods". His core interest lies in Natural
Language Search and Question Answering, specifically, in how
performance of such systems can be improved by integrating various
forms of linguistic knowledge. Recently this has led him to
investigate the potential benefits of FrameNet, PropBank and VerbNet.
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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
(rsvp to rvenky4 [..] yahoo.com unless you don't
intend to eat)
"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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ADFRAUD'07 WORKSHOP
CIS 101
http://crypto.stanford.edu/adfraud/
Click fraud and related attacks, along with their countermeasures, are
topics of increasing commercial importance. The workshop will focus on
technical and social techniques for committing ad fraud. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to: Evolution of threats;
defenses against large scale ad fraud attacks; measurements of ad
fraud rates; ad fraud attacks exploiting bot-nets; general
countermeasures (statistical, financial, or based on web content);
fraud that is not currently identified as such by terms of service;
traffic generation techniques; and rank manipulation, both as it
relates to search engine results and to banner selections;
Anticipated outcome: An improved understanding of vulnerabilities and
countermeasures; better adversarial and economical models; an open
dialog between parties interested in reducing ad fraud rates.
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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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SRI CSL SEMINAR SERIES
on Friday, 14 September 2007, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
EK255, SRI International
http://www.csl.sri.com/
"Halting Password Puzzles : stronger defenses against offline
dictionary attacks"
Xavier Boyen
Voltage, Inc.
In this talk, I shall revisit the venerable question of password-
based encryption, and show how the classic and ubiquitous "salt-and-
iterate" password hashing approach can be significantly improved. We
will see how substituting a closely related new primitive, the Halting
Key Derivation Function (HKDF), can increase the security of virtually
all real-world password-based encryption systems, at virtually no cost
and with minimal changes in user behavior.
The principle is to let users choose (with a simple UI), not only the
password, but also an associated decryption delay, on a case-by-case
basis. The delay is variable and secret; it is not stored, and can be
forgotten by the user, but it is enforced cryptographically each time
a decryption attempt is made with the correct password. What makes
HKDFs stronger, is that incorrect passwords are never recognized as
such; they behave like correct passwords with an infinite delay. As a
result, dictionary attackers must guess how much effort to spend on
each password candidate, thereby wasting a lot of extra time in the
process.
HKDFs are very simple, but have powerful ramifications, which include
an automatic way to keep up with Moore's law and multi-core
architectures. To illustrate their practicality and universality, I
shall discuss a few implementations in actual encryption software, and
give a live demo of a very simple user interface for setting up and
managing an HKDF.
This work was first presented at USENIX Security 2007.
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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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MOZILLA 24
on 15 September 2007, 11:00am - 8:00pm
Wallenberg Hall
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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UC BERKELEY LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
on Monday, 17 September 2007, 4:00pm
182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
"Event Structure and the Problem of Serial Verb Constructions"
William A. Foley
University of Sydney
A serial verb construction (SVC) is typically defined as a sequence of
verbs which act together as a single predicate, occur in a single
clause and describe what is conceptualised as a single event. In my
view not much progress can be made in understanding SVCs while one
proceeds in any analysis with unexamined, vague and undefined concepts
like event, simple and multiple, and monoclausality. I will show that
SVCs are in no sense a unified phenomenon, but manifest both different
structural realizations and express diverse types of event structures,
some as simple as a coverb construction and some much more complex. To
describe such crosslinguistic variation, we will need both more
precise structural notions than clausehood and more sophisticated
semantic notions than a simple contrast between single and multiple
events. Recent work in cognitive psychology, such as Gentner and
Boroditsky (2001), on the relative ranking of cognitive versus
linguistic biases in determining the semantics of parts of speech,
provide a useful entry point into these problems.
Gentner, D and Boroditsky, L. 2001. Individuation, relativity and
early word learning. In Bowerman, M and Levinson, S, eds., Language
Acquisition and Conceptual Development, 215-256. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
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SF BAY ACM TECHMASTER TALK
on Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
http://sfbayacm.org/
"Managing for Effective Prototyping"
Michael Arent, Jonathan Arnowitz
SAP Labs
Nevin Berger
Ziff Davis Media
Michael Arent, Jonathan Arnowitz and Nevin Berger will give a talk and
demonstration on how to manage for effective prototyping. How can you
tell whether a prototype is a success or failure? How do you avoid
prototypes that make too many decisions too early in the process? What
are the right prototyping tools? Answers to these questions and more
follow in an overview of strategic and tactical issues in prototyping
during software creation. The talk will end with a demonstration of
some prototyping tools that will surprise you with their speed and
effectiveness.
About the Speakers Jonathan Arnowitz is a principal user experience
designer at SAP Labs and is the co-editor-in-chief of Interactions
Magazine. Most recently Jonathan was a senior user experience designer
at Peoplesoft. He is a member of the SIGCHI executive committee, and
was a founder of DUX, the first ever joint conference of ACM SIGCHI,
ACM SIGGRAPH, AIGA Experience Design Group, and STC.
Michael Arent is the manager of user experience design at SAP Labs,
and has previously held positions at Peoplesoft, Inc, Adobe Systems,
Inc, Sun Microsystems, and Apple Computer, Inc. He holds several
U.S. patents.
Nevin Berger is design director at Ziff Davis Media. Previously he was
a senior interaction designer at Oracle Corporation and Peoplesoft,
Inc., and has held creative director positions at ZDNet, World
Savings, and OFOTO, Inc.
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BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SEMINAR
on Friday, 21 September 2007, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"ROC and reasoning"
Evan Heit
Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced
Reasoning can be conceived of as a signal detection task, in which the
goal is to distinguish good arguments from bad arguments. With this
conception, analytical tools from other areas of research, such as
memory research, can be applied to reasoning, including signal
detection theory (SDT) and receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
analysis. These tools are applied to reasoning experiments with the
aim of addressing a central issue in reasoning research, namely are
there two kinds of reasoning. Researchers have debated whether a
single model should apply to all of reasoning or if there are
different reasoning systems roughly corresponding to deduction and
induction. The applications of SDT and ROC help to settle this debate
and pave the way for improved models of reasoning.
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UC BERKELEY OXYOPIA LECTURE
on Friday, 21 September 2007, 4:00pm
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
"Control of Single-Photon Transmission at the Rod-To-Rod
Bipolar Synapse"
Alapakkam Sampath
Physiology and Biophysics, USC
Vision at absolute threshold is based on signals produced in a small
fraction of the rod photoreceptors. Under these conditions, rod
photoreceptors must reliably signal the absorption of single photons,
and the retinal circuitry must be able to relay this information to
higher visual centers. I will discuss the physiological mechanisms at
the synapse between rods and rod bipolar cells, the first relay in the
primary rod pathway, that are responsible for the efficient
transmission of single photon signals. Furthermore I will describe how
these mechanisms impact visually-guided behavior in transgenic mice.
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