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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 19 September 2007, vol. 23:3
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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19 SEPTEMBER 2007 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 3
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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 19 SEPTEMBER 2007 TO 28 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/
4:00pm PARC Forum [20-Sep-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Multiferroics: Materials of the Future"
Avadh Saxena
Condensed Matter Theory Group, Los Alamos National Lab
http://www.parc.com/forum/
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
Abstract below
3:00pm UC Berkeley Seminar [21-Sep-07]
380 Soda Hall (Berkeley)
"New Techniques for Acquisition, Rendering, and Display of
Actors and Performances"
Paul Debevec
Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
http://www.debevec.org/
Abstract below
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
4:10pm UC Berkeley Logic and the Methodology of Science [21-Sep-07]
60 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
"Forcing Axioms and Large Cardinals"
Ralf Schindler
Mathematical Logic and Foundational Research, University of Muenster
http://logic.berkeley.edu/colloquium.html
MONDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2007
4:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium [24-Sep-07]
182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
"Acoustic dispersion, and the functional relevance of speech
variation"
Daniel Silverman
San Jose State University
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind [24-Sep-07]
location TBA (Berkeley)
"Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, 'Beyond intuition and instinct
blindness: toward an evolutionary rigorous cognitive science',
from Mehler and Frank (eds.), Cognition on Cognition."
discussion
http://neurophilosophy.berkeley.edu/meetings.html
Information below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Ear Club [24-Sep-07]
3105 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Modeling the response of the binaural auditory system to
electrical stimulation"
Steve Colburn
Bioengineering, Boston University
http://ear.berkeley.edu/ear-club-schedule.html
TUESDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2007
7:00pm IEEE Talk [25-Sep-07]
Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
"Completely Unsupervised Face Recognition Database"
Albrecht Rothermel
University of ULM Institute of Microelectronics
http://mikro.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/persons/rothermel/rothermel.html
http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ce/meetings/IEEE_Mail_Notice-DS.htm
WEDNESDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2007
12 noon UC Berkeley IPSR colloquium
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Relationships Viewed in Terms of Behavioral Systems:
Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex"
Phillip Shaver
University of California, Davis
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ipsr/colloquia.html
THURSDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2007
FRIDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2007
12:30pm UC Berkeley HWNI Student Seminar [28-Sep-07]
101 LSA (Berkeley)
"Innate versus learned odor perception in the mouse main
olfactory system"
Hitoshi Sakano
U. of Tokyo
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [28-Sep-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"The University of California, Merced Library: What other
research libraries will be"
Bruce Miller
University Librarian, UC Merced
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [28-Sep-07]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Ontological Realism"
Ted Sider
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
4:00pm PARC Forum [28-Sep-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Silicon Microchips as Implantable Drug Delivery and
Biosensing Devices"
John T. Santini
MicroCHIPS Inc.
http://www.parc.com/forum/
(note unusual day)
4:00pm UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture [28-Sep-07]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"The Assembly of Functional Circuits in Developing Retina"
Marla Feller
UC Berkeley
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
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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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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 21 September 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
"Reference Library Service in a Digital Environment"
Michael Buckland
A valuable feature of the paper-based library is the reference
library, with carefully selected resources for answering all kinds of
questions. Somehow the reference library seems to have got lost on the
way to the digital library environment. A review of the research
literature on library reference services reveals a seriously
incomplete record with an emphasis on empowering librarians rather
than on empowering library users. What would be the characteristics of
an ideal reference service in a digital environment?
An opportunity to re-design reference library service for a digital,
network environment arises in a new project entitled "Context and
relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies" funded by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities' joint NEH-IMLS Advancing
Knowledge program. The challenge is to provide any reader with the
best available explanations of names, words, places, events, etc.,
encountered while reading. This can be done by supporting queries to
trusted internet-accessible resources. The Queen's University, Belfast
is funded to scan and digitize back-runs of journals in Irish Studies,
JSTOR-style. The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative has been funded
to use those texts as a test case for proof-of-concept self-help
reference support. More at the project website at
http://ecai.org/neh2007
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UC BERKELEY SEMINAR
380 Soda Hall (Berkeley)
on Friday, 21 September 2007, 3:00pm
"New Techniques for Acquisition, Rendering, and Display of
Actors and Performances"
Paul Debevec
Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
http://www.debevec.org/
In this talk I will present recent work for acquiring, rendering, and
displaying photoreal models of people, objects, and dynamic
performances. I will overview image-based lighting techniques for
photorealistic compositing and reflectance acquisition techniques
which have been used to create realistic digital actors in films such
as "Spider Man 2" and "Superman Returns". I will then describe
initial work with our lab's Light Stage 6 system to combine
image-based relighting with free-viewpoint video to capture and render
full-body performances. I will also describe a new 3D face scanning
process that captures high-resolution skin detail by estimating
surface orientation based on the skin's specular reflection of
polarized spherical gradient illumination. I will conclude by
describing a new 3D display that leverages 5,000fps video projection
to show autostereoscopic, interactive 3D imagery to any number of
viewers simultaneously.
About the Speaker: Paul Debevec is a research associate professor at
the University of Southern California and the associate director of
graphics research at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. His
Ph.D. thesis at UC Berkeley presented Facade, an image-based modeling
and rendering system for creating photoreal virtual camera motion
through architectural scenes from photographs. Using Facade he led the
creation of a photoreal animation of the Berkeley campus for his 1997
film "The Campanile Movie" whose techniques were later used to create
virtual backgrounds for the "The Matrix"; he went on to demonstrate
new image-based lighting techniques in his animations "Rendering with
Natural Light", "Fiat Lux", and "The Parthenon". He also led the
design of HDR Shop, the first widely used high dynamic range image
editing program. Paul received ACM SIGGRAPH's Significant New
Researcher Award in 2001 and co-authored the book "High Dynamic Range
Imaging" in 2005. Most recently, he chaired the SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer
Animation Festival.
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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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UC BERKELEY LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
on Monday, 24 September 2007, 4:00pm
182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
"Acoustic dispersion, and
the functional relevance of speech variation"
Daniel Silverman
San Jose State University
The symmetry/dispersion of phonological contrasts in the
acoustic/auditory space has long been noted by phoneticians and
phonologists. Sapir (1925) asserts that speakers can "feel in [their]
bones" when a sound is symmetrically "placed" in its system, and
cannot do so with elements that are placed asymmetrically. Early
generativists assumed that symmetry may be a by-product of lexical
feature co-occurrence restrictions. Taking inspiration from Ohala
(1981 e.g.), Labov (1994), and De Boer (2001) I propose to shift the
locus of the mechanism driving systemic symmetry and dispersion from
the individual to the social, from the synchronic to the diachronic,
from the teleological to the evolutionary, and from design to
emergence.
The rest of the abstract can be downloaded at:
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/events?id=167
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BERKELEY WORKING GROUP IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
on Monday, 24 September 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
3105 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
http://neurophilosophy.berkeley.edu/meetings.html
"First meeting"
This year's Townsend Center Working Group in Philosophy of Mind will
get under way on Monday, September 24, at 4-6 pm (location TBA).
We'll meet to discuss a paper related to our theme for this year
(Evolution & Mind: optimality, design and function). The paper we'll
be discussing is:
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, "Beyond intuition and instinct
blindness: toward an evolutionary rigorous cognitive science", from
Mehler and Frank (eds.), "Cognition on Cognition".
You can find a link to the paper on our website. This is the first of
several reading-group style meetings we're planning. We're also
planning to hold several talks, as in previous years. We'll send out
details once they're fixed. We will meet twice per month at most, and
you are welcome to attend any or all of our meetings. For more
information please see our website.
http://neurophilosophy.berkeley.edu
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 28 September 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
"The University of California, Merced Library: What other
research libraries will be"
Bruce Miller
University Librarian, UC Merced
R Bruce Miller, Founding University Librarian at UC Merced, will
discuss the rapid transition of the UC Merced Library from concept in
2001 to a fully functional cutting edge research university library in
2007. The UC Merced Library superficially is similar to other research
university libraries, but a closer look reveals unique organizational
structures, atypical programs focused on communication with users,
bold attitudes regarding access to information resources, integrated
and non-intrusive technology, and pizza delivery to the reading
rooms. The role of Librarians is focused on initiative, leadership,
and creativity. Librarians are not allowed to do "piecework". Miller
will discuss problems and successes. The focus will be on the evolving
nature of libraries and the opportunities and challenges that face the
profession.
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