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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 3 October 2007, vol. 23:5
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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3 OCTOBER 2007 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 5
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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 3 OCTOBER 2007 TO 12 OCTOBER 2007
WEDNESDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2007
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [3-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Perspective-taking, metacognition,and theory of mind: A brief history"
John Flavell
Stanford
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [3-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Separating Motivational Direction from Affective Valence:
Implications for the Study of Asymmetrical Frontal Cortical
Activity, Anger, and Positive Affect"
Eddie Harmon Jones
Texas A & M University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [3-Oct-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"SmartWeb: Multimodal Web Services on the Road"
Wolfgang Wahlster
DKFI
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [3-Oct-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Programmable Microfluidics"
Bill Thies
MIT
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2007
12 noon Tech Express [4-Oct-07]
Turing Auditorium
"CourseWork 5"
Marc Brierley
Academic and Residential Computing
(this is to introduce Stanford faculty and staff to the new
course management software)
http://techexpress.stanford.edu/
2:00pm Berkeley International Computer Science Institute [4-Oct-07]
ICSI, Rm 607 (UC Berkeley)
"ICSI Annual Research Review"
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
(rsvp requested)
Information below
3:30pm GIS Special Interest Group at Stanford [4-Oct-07]
Stanford Humanities Center
"Geovisualization: Finding Patterns and Relations in Information"
Alan M. MacEachren
Pennsylvania State University
http://gissig.stanford.edu
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [4-Oct-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Superlink-online: large-scale distributed system for genetic
linkage analysis"
Mark Silberstein
Technion
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [4-Oct-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Electronics sustainability challenge:
Miles to go before we sleep ..."
Ted Smith
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [4-Oct-07]
Soda Hall 420 (UC Berkeley)
"A simple algorithm for fast and accurate L1-penalized least squares"
Andrew Barron and Cong Huang
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [4-Oct-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"What We Did This Summer"
Summer Interns, Symbolic Systems Program
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Information below
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience Seminar [4-Oct-07]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman
"Deconstructing Sensory Transduction in C. elegans"
Miriam Goodman
Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
4:15pm Innovation systems and processes in Asia [4-Oct-07]
Skilling Auditorium
"The Diversity of Technology Start-Ups in China"
Lin Xu
Babson College
http://www3.babson.edu/academics/faculty/lxu.cfm
http://asia.stanford.edu/events/
FRIDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2007
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [5-Oct-07]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Sparse coding and invariance in visual cortex"
Bruno Olshausen
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry, Berkeley
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
12 noon Ethics@Noon [5-Oct-07]
Bldg. 100:101K
"Why Not Toss a Coin? Lotteries and Justice"
Peter Stone
Political Science
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.html
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [5-Oct-07]
Gates B01
"Designing Interactions that Combine Pen, Paper, and PC"
Ron Yeh
Stanford University HCI Group
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [5-Oct-07]
Gates 104
"3D Reconstruction from Monocular Views"
Ashutosh Saxena
Stanford
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [5-Oct-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Designing a Medieval Place Name Resource"
Natalia Lozovsky and Michael Buckland
"Conceptual Schemas for Events"
Ryan Shaw
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
Abstracts below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [5-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
title to be announced
Lila Divachi
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
MONDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2007
3:15pm Stanford Phonology Workshop [8-Oct-07]
Linguistics Chair's office, Margaret Jacks Hall
"Variation and Opacity in Singapore English Consonant Clusters"
Arto Anttila
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~anttila
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley Ear Club [8-Oct-07]
3105 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Neural Basis of Click Rate Coding in the Frog Auditory System"
Tafffeta Elliot
Psycholgy, UC Berkeley
http://ear.berkeley.edu/ear-club-schedule.html
TUESDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2007
4:15pm Mathematical Logic Seminar [9-Oct-07]
Bldg. 420:048
"NF and Indiscernibles in ZF"
Sergei Tupailo
Tallinn, Stanford
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
4:15pm BioMathematical Methodology Seminar [9-Oct-07]
Clark Center S 363
"Predicting the evolution of gene topologies"
Sergio Peisajovich
UCSF
http://www.stanford.edu/~scheler/bioclub.html
7:30pm BayCHI [9-Oct-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Panel on Advertising User Experience"
Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed
Ted Rheingold, Dogster
Heath Row, DoubleClick
http://www.baychi.org/program/
WEDNESDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2007
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [10-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Introduction to research at Bing Nursery School"
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [10-Oct-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Open Source Research: Analytics, Economics, and Best Practices"
Dirk Riehle
SAP Research
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [10-Oct-07]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative
Filtering"
Mayur Datar
Research Scientist, Google
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2007
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [11-Oct-07]
Cordura Hall 100
"Gödel, Nagel, Minds and Machines"
Solomon Feferman
Math, Stanford University
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
3:30pm Symposium of Undergraduate Research and Public Service [11-Oct-07]
McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
4:00pm Personality Lab [11-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
Bulent Turan
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_personality.html
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [11-Oct-07]
EJ291, SRI International
Title to be announced
Bill Smart
Washington University in St. Louis
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
4:00pm PARC Forum [11-Oct-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Know the Bread You Break: Kneading the Issues of Sustainable
Food Choices"
Jesse Ziff Cool
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience Seminar [11-Oct-07]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman
"Molecular genetic Analysis of Neural Circuits for Innate
defensive Behaviors in Flies and Mice"
David Anderson
Caltech, HHMI
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2007
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [12-Oct-07]
Gates B01
"The Accountability of Presence: Location Tracking beyond Privacy"
Paul Dourish
Informatics, UC Irvine
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [12-Oct-07]
Gates 104
"New Trends in 3D Video"
Christian Theobalt
Stanford
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [12-Oct-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Mark-up of Biographical Text"
Presentation based on the "Bringing Lives to Light: Biography
in Context" project
http://ecai.org/imls2006/
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [12-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
Title to be announced
Kacey Ballard
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:30pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [12-Oct-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Coherence and the (Psycho-)Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation"
Andrew Kehler
UCSD
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O-, O+, A-, A+, B-, and AB-. For
an appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831.
It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies. The
Blood Center is also raising money for a new bloodmobile.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The fall issue of "Speaking of Computers" is now online at:
http://speaking.stanford.edu/
This e-newsletter highlights the latest news in technology-related and
computing activities, services, and resources on the Stanford campus.
You'll find articles in the fall issue that cover such topics as:
- The SULAIR Open House
http://speaking.stanford.edu/highlights/SULAIR_Open_House_Oct_17.html
an October 17 event that highlights the libraries and Academic
Computing's amazing resources.
- How to get software on campus
http://speaking.stanford.edu/computing/Find_Software_on_Campus.html at
the best possible price.
- New electronic resources
http://speaking.stanford.edu/issue-library.html including a new
e-book service, new online images and full-text resources,
Engineering Village, and more.
- Quick access to computing help via the revised IT Services home page
http://speaking.stanford.edu/highlights/New_ITS_Home_Page.html and a
new Stanford Answers site
http://speaking.stanford.edu/highlights/Check_Stanford_Answers.html
- CourseWork v5
http://speaking.stanford.edu/highlights/New_CourseWork_for_Fall.html
a new version of Stanford's course management system that has many new
features.
- Fall updates on what Academic Computing's Academic Technology Specialists
http://speaking.stanford.edu/highlights/ATS_Program-What%27s_New.html
and VPUE's Academic Technology Specialists
http://speaking.stanford.edu/highlights/VPUE_ATS_Fall_News.html are
doing to help faculty in various departments with their instruction and
research needs.
- What to note if you are considering upgrading to Microsoft Vista or
purchasing a new system with it
http://speaking.stanford.edu/highlights/MS_Vista_Considerations.html
- Examples of how Stanford scholars are using Google Book Search
http://speaking.stanford.edu/library/Use_GBS_for_Research.html as a
research and discovery tool.
- Academic use of Stanford on iTunes
http://speaking.stanford.edu/highlights/SU_on_iTunes_U-Fall_Update.html
and the expanded public access.
- Much more!
Note that there are links at the top of the newsletter's home page and
at the top of each section's home page to make browsing and printing
entire sections easier. You can also browse the table of contents and
read the articles of your choice online, or you can print
"printer-friendly" copies of individual articles.
"Speaking of Computers" is published at the beginning of Fall, Winter,
and Spring Quarters by SULAIR Publications. A publication announcement
for each issue of "Speaking of Computers" is also being distributed to
those who've requested one at
http://speaking.stanford.edu/subscribe.html
Please send any questions or feedback to eleanor.brown..stanford.edu.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"SmartWeb: Multimodal Web Services on the Road"
Wolfgang Wahlster
DKFI
SmartWeb provides a context-aware user interface to web services, so
that it can support the mobile user in different roles, e.g. as a car
driver, a motorbiker, or a pedestrian. It provides a symmetric
multimodal dialogue system combining speech, gesture, haptic and video
input with speech, haptic, video and acoustic output. It goes beyond
traditional keyword search engines like Google by delivering higher
quality results that are adapted to the mobile users current task and
situation. In mobile situations, users don't want to deal with
hypertext lists of retrieved web pages, but simply want an answer to
their query. If a desperate driver with a crying and acutely ill child
on the backseat asks SmartWeb Who is the closest paediatrician? he
needs just the name and address of the doctor. Based on SmartWebs
ability to combine various web services, the driver can then ask
SmartWeb a follow-up question about route guidance to the doctors
practice. One of the innovative features of SmartWeb is that the user
can specify whether he wants a textual or pictorial answer, a video
clip or a sound file as a query result.
SmartWeb provides not only an open-domain question answering machine
but a multimodal web service interface for coherent dialogue, where
questions and commands are interpreted according to the context of the
previous conversation. For example, if the driver of our Mercedes-Benz
R-Class test car asks SmartWeb Where is the closest Italian
restaurant, it will access a web service to find an appropriate
restaurant and show its location on a digital map presented on the
large dashboard display. The user may continue his dialog with a
command like Please guide me there with a refueling stop at the lowest
price gas station. In this case, SmartWeb combines a navigation
service with a special web service that finds low gas prices.
SmartWeb includes plan-based composition methods for semantic web
services, so that complex tasks can be carried out for the mobile
user.
One version of SmartWeb has been deployed on a BMW motor-bike R1200RT,
using a swivel with force feedback integrated in the handle
bar. Similar to the control knob known from the iDrive interface of
BMW automobiles, the biker can rotate the swivel or push it right or
left in order to browse through menus or select items displayed by
SmartWeb on the large high-resolution screen in the middle of the
cockpit. In combination with these pointing actions, the biker can use
speech input over the microphone integrated in a Bluetooth helmet to
interact with SmartWeb. The multimodal dialogue system combines visual
displays with speech and earcons over the speakers integrated in the
helmet and haptic force feedback for output generation. For example,
the biker can ask for weather forecasts along his planned
route. SmartWeb accesses location-based web services via the bikes 3G
wireless connection to retrieve the relevant weather forecasts. In
addition, SmartWeb exploits ad-hoc Wifi connections for
vehicle-to-vehicle communication based on a local danger warning
ontology so that the motorbike driver can be informed of a danger
ahead by a car in front of him. For example, a car detecting a large
wedge of water under its wheels will pass the information wirelessly
to the bike following it and SmartWeb will generate the warning
Attention! Risk of aquaplaning 100 meters ahead using the GPS
coordinates of both vehicles to compute the distance to the upcoming
dangerous area. Another distinguishing feature of SmartWeb is the
generation of adaptive multimodal presentations taking into account
the predicted cognitive load of the biker depending on the driving
speed and other factors.
About the Speaker: Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster is the Director and CEO of
DFKI, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and a
Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at
Saarland University (Saarbr\"ucken, Germany). Founded in 1988, DFKI
today is the worlds largest contract research institute with in the
field of innovative software technology based on Artificial
Intelligence (AI) methods with more than 400 researchers working for
DFKIs industrial shareholders BWM, DaimlerChrysler, EADS, SAP,
Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom and Bertelsmann. Professor Wahlster
received his diploma and doctoral degree (1981) in Computer Science
from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published more than
180 technical papers and 8 books on intelligent multimodal user
interfaces. His current research includes multimodal and tangible user
interfaces, mobile multimedia interfaces for Car2X systems, user
modeling, ambient intelligence, embodied conversational agents, and
mobile access to semantic web services. Wahlster has received numerous
honors and awards for his research contributions. He is an AAAI Fellow
(elected in 1993), an ECCAI Fellow (since 1999), and a GI Fellow
(since 2004). In 2001, the President of the Federal Republic of
Germany presented the German Future Prize to Professor Wahlster for
his work on language technology and intelligent user interfaces. He
was the first computer scientist to receive Germanys highest
scientific prize that is awarded each year for outstanding innovations
in technology, engineering, or the natural sciences. He was the first
German computer scientist elected Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish
Nobel Prize Academy of Sciences, Stockholm in 2003. Currently, he is
serving as the chief scientific advisor of the German government for
IT in the framework of the national high-tech funding strategy.
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BERKELEY INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE
on Thursday, 4 October 2007, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Main Lecture Hall, ICSI, 1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
"ICSI Annual Research Review"
This year's Research Review includes keynote presentations by
Professor Krste Asanovic, the ICSI Architecture Group Leader, who
recently came to UC Berkeley and ICSI from MIT, and Professor Dan
Klein of UC Berkeley, who is collaborating with the ICSI Speech Group.
Agenda:
2:00 Introduction to ICSI Research (Nelson Morgan, Director)
2:45 Featured Talk on Computer Architecture by Krste Asanovic
3:30 Break
3:45 Featured talk: Machine Translation at UCB/ICSI by Dan Klein
4:45 Reception
RSVP required for this event - contact leahh .. icsi.berkeley.edu
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 4 October 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Superlink-online:
large-scale distributed system for genetic linkage analysis"
Mark Silberstein
Technion
Linkage analysis is a tool used by geneticists for mapping
disease-susceptibility genes in the study of genetic diseases. However
such analysis is often beyond the capabilities of a single
computer. We present a distributed system called Superlink-Online for
computing multipoint LOD scores of large inbred pedigrees.
Superlink-online achieves high performance via parallelization of the
algorithms in Superlink, a state-of-the-art serial program for linkage
analysis tasks, and through utilization of thousands of resources
residing in multiple opportunistic computing environments, aka
Grids. Notably, the system is available online, which allows
geneticists to perform computationally intensive analyses with no need
for either installation of software, or maintenance of a complicated
distributed environment.
In this talk I will describe the scheduling system architecture which
drives Superlink-online. The main challenges have been to efficiently
split large tasks for distributed execution in highly dynamic
non-dedicated running environment, and to provide nearly interactive
response time for shorter tasks while simultaneously serving massively
parallel ones. The system utilizes resources in all the available
grids, unifying thousands CPUs over campus grids in the Technion and
the University of Wisconsin in Madison, EGEE grids in Europe, and
Community Computing Grid Superlink@Technion (via BOINC). The system is
being extensively used by medical centers worldwide. Since January
2006, over 12,000 interactive genetic analysis tasks were performed,
utilizing over 240 years of CPU time.
This work has been done as a part of his PhD in the Technion under
joint supervision of Prof. Assaf Schuster and Dan Geiger. It has been
published in American Journal of Human Genetics and presented at High
Performance Distributed Computing conference in 2006.
About the Speaker: Mark Silberstein is a PhD student at the CS
department in the Technion under the joint supervision of Prof. Assaf
Schuster and Dan Geiger. His main research focus has been efficient
serial and parallel algorithms for inference in Bayesian networks (in
the context of genetic linkage analysis), and their execution in
large-scale opportunistic computing environments, aka Grids. He is
currently visiting UC Davis, working with Prof. John Owens on the
parallelization of Bayesian inference on GPUs.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 4 October 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"What We Did This Summer"
Summer Interns, Symbolic Systems Program
SCHEDULE:
4:15 General Intro - Todd Davies
4:20 David Ho, "Can representation sharpening protect memories against
interference?" (supervisor: James McClelland)
4:25 Brenden Lake (supervisor: James McClelland)
4:30 Anna Schapiro (supervisor: James McClelland)
4:35 Jonathan Drucker (supervisor: Anthony Wagner)
4:40 Te Thamrongrattanarit (supervisor: Brian Knutson)
4:45 Jessica Humprhreys (supervisor: Ricardo Dolmetsch)
4:50 Karl Pichotta and Matt Paden, "Calculating Textual Entailments and
Paraphrases in a Large-Scale Natural Language Processing System"
(supervisors: Lauri Karttunen and Tracy King)
5:00 Kiefer Katovich (supervisor: Patrick Langley)
5:05 Michael Morgan (supervisor: Patrick Langley)
5:10 Dana Sittler (supervisor: B.J. Fogg)
5:15 Discussion and refreshments
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BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SEMINAR
on Friday, 5 October 2007, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"Sparse coding and invariance in visual cortex"
Bruno Olshausen
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry, Berkeley
There is now much theoretical and experimental support for the idea of
feature selectivity and sparse coding in visual and other sensory
cortical areas. At the same time, it is widely believed that higher
cortical areas are involved in representing invariances of the
environment, and "slowness" has been proposed as a potential coding
objective for achieving this. Here I will discuss the relation
between sparseness and slowness, and preliminary efforts to combine
these two objectives into a single framework. The model raises a
number of intriguing questions regarding the nature of cortical
representation that can be tested experimentally.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Designing Interactions that Combine Pen, Paper, and PC"
Ron Yeh
Stanford University HCI Group
Pen and paper are powerful tools for visualizing designs, penning
music, and communicating through art and written language. This
pairing provides many benefits--it is mobile, flexible, and robust.
Our use of paper has even adapted to fit into today's electronic
workplace. We print electronic documents so that we can annotate
them. We scribble meeting notes on pads, before we type them up and
email them to our colleagues. We sometimes attach sticky notes to our
LCD monitors, because writing down a to-do can be faster than entering
it into our online task list.
My work explores how we can combine the power of pen and paper with
the benefits of computation, including search, remote collaboration,
and data storage. In this talk, I will discuss the impact that this
will have on end users and the software developers that will have to
create these applications. First, I will describe our observational
study of field biology researchers, one example of a community that
will benefit from this technology. Second, I will present a set of
interactions to demonstrate the potential of pen-and-paper
computing. Finally, I will describe a toolkit architecture and
development environment that will enable programmers to create these
applications.
About the Speaker: Ron Yeh is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at
Stanford University. He studies Human-Computer Interaction, and is
advised by Scott Klemmer. He has also worked closely with Andreas
Paepcke and Terry Winograd. Much of his work is part of BioACT, which
contributes new technology approaches for field biology researchers.
He received his B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 2001.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 5 October 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
"Designing a Medieval Place Name Resource"
Natalia Lozovsky and Michael Buckland
Latin place names continued in use in Africa, Asia and Europe long
after the Fall of Rome. Existing lists of medieval Latin place names
exhibit many of the worst aspects of the print environment, being
largely out-of-date, incomplete, and inaccessible. So what would be
the best course of action today to harvest existing resources, update
the notion of what a place name list can do, and maximize
accessibility, currency, completeness, and usefulness through
cooperation, open source software, quality control, and peer
production?
"Conceptual Schemas for Events"
Ryan Shaw
This past spring I began a survey of current practice in representing
events by examining a number of standards from the historical,
archival, and genealogical communities. This fall, I am continuing
that survey by looking at models of event structure and event
relationships developed by philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and
researchers in the multimedia computing and Semantic Web
communities. My goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of
different disciplinary approaches to conceptualizing and representing
events that can inform the design of event-oriented systems of
information organization.
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STANFORD PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP
on Monday, 8 October 2007, 3:15pm
Linguistics Chair's office, Margaret Jacks Hall
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
"Variation and Opacity in Singapore English Consonant Clusters"
Arto Anttila
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~anttila
Singapore English consonant clusters undergo phonological processes
that exhibit variation and opacity. Quantitative evidence shows that
these patterns are genuine and systematic. Two main conclusions
emerge. First, a small set of phonological constraints yields a
typological structure (T-order) that captures the quantitative
patterns, independently of specific assumptions about how the grammar
represents variation. Second, the evidence is consistent with the
hypothesis that phonological opacity has only one source: the
interleaving of phonology and morphology.
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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 420:048
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/
"NF and Indiscernibles in ZF"
Sergei Tupailo
Tallinn, Stanford
I start with a collection of results/viewpoints which were reported
this May at seminars/conferences in 3 different Universities in
Europe: Bonn, Cambridge and Leeds. Here is the Abstract of my Leeds
talk (the Title was the same):
"We show how NF (Quine's "New Foundations") can be seen as a special
model of ZF. First, we give a sufficient condition for [the famous
long-standing open problem of] NF consistency. Next, in the ZF
language, we will present a much simplified Specker's refutation of AC
in NF (= in that model of ZF)."
This is a material I feel I already know reasonably well; naturally,
much more interesting for me would be to talk about things which are
unknown and which at best for now I can only expect or conjecture. I
have a research program for this academic year at Stanford, consisting
of several stages, which, if eventually successful, should result in a
model of NF. The title of the program, and the title of the project
which gave me the money for visiting Stanford, is "Set Theory,
Automorphisms and External Forcing", and this is very much what it is
about.
On the other hand, I do realize that starting with my real present
interests, without giving necessary background, would not do much good
for the audience. So, I will start with known things, and hope to have
a chance to discuss in some detail my Stanford research plans at some
later point.
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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"Google News Personalization:
Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering"
Mayur Datar
Research Scientist, Google
Several approaches to collaborative filtering have been studied but
seldom have the studies been reported for large (several millions of
users and items) and dynamic (the underlying item set is continually
changing) settings. This talk will focus on our approach to
collaborative filtering for generating personalized recommendations
for users of Google News. We generate recommendations using three
approaches: collaborative filtering using MinHash clustering,
Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (PLSI), and covisitation
counts. We combine recommendations from different algorithms using a
linear model. Our approach is content agnostic and consequently domain
independent, making it easily adaptible for other applications and
languages with minimal effort. The talk will describe our algorithms
and system setup in detail, and report results of running the
recommendations engine on Google News.
About the Speaker: Mayur Datar works as a Research Scientist with
Google Inc. His research interests are in datamining, algorithms,
databases and computer science theory. Prior to joining Google, Mayur
obtained his doctorate degree in computer science from Stanford
university and a Bachelor of Technology degree from I.I.T. Bombay. He
was awarded the President of India, Gold Medal for being the most
outstanding student of his graduating batch from I.I.T. Bombay. He has
published several papers in renowned conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB,
KDD, FOCS, SODA, WWW.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 11 October 2007, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"Gödel, Nagel, Minds and Machines"
Solomon Feferman
Math, Stanford University
Just fifty years ago, Ernest Nagel and Kurt Gödel became involved in a
serious imbroglio about the possible inclusion of Gödel's original
work on incompleteness in the book, Gödel's Proof, then being written
by Nagel with James R. Newman. What led to the conflict were some
unprecedented demands that Gödel made over the use of his material and
his involvement in the contents of the book--demands that resulted in
an explosive reaction on Nagel's part. In the end the proposal came to
naught. But the story is of interest because of what was basically at
issue, namely their provocative related but contrasting views on the
possible significance of Gödel's theorems for minds vs. machines in
the development of mathematics. That is our point of departure for the
attempts by Gödel, and later Lucas and Penrose, to establish
definitive consequences of those theorems, attempts which--as we shall
see--depend on highly idealized and problematic assumptions about
minds, machines and mathematics. In particular, I shall argue that
there is a fundamental equivocation involved in those assumptions that
needs to be reexamined. In conclusion, that will lead us to a new way
of looking at how the mind works in deriving mathematics that
straddles the mechanist and anti-mechanist viewpoints.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 12 October 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"The Accountability of Presence: Location Tracking beyond Privacy"
Paul Dourish
Informatics, UC Irvine
In all the media hubbub around the recent release of Apple's iPhone,
one consistent critique is that it lacks a GPS unit. It's interesting
that, at that point, a claim to technological leadership for a mobile
device can founder on this. Mobility is no longer sufficient;
location-tracking is a key feature. However, the introduction of
location-based technologies has traditionally been accompanied by a
series of concerns over privacy. These discussions, though, adopt a
fairly reductive model of privacy, concerned primarily with the
trade-offs involved in service provision and location disclosure.
Following a strategy of selecting extreme examples as prototypical
cases for potential futures, we have been studying a group of paroled
sex offenders who are tracked via GPS as part of their parole
conditions. We were interested in the way in which pervasive location
tracking in a complex social context affects one's experience of
everyday space. While the issues that arise are highly specific to
their particular situation, they are suggestive of a new set of
considerations for location tracking in consumer devices. Based on our
preliminary studies, I will discuss some of these concerns, including
the multiple accountabilities of presence at specific places and
times, the legibilities of everyday space both from within and
without, and the underexamined relationship between mobile
technologies and the bodies that carry them.
About the Speaker: Paul Dourish is a Professor of Informatics in the
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine,
with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and Anthropology. His
primary research interests lie at the intersection of computer science
and social science, and he is known particularly for his research in
the areas of Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-Supported Cooperative
Work, and Human-Computer Interaction. His book, "Where the Action Is:
The Foundations of Embodied Interaction" was published by MIT Press in
2001; it explores how phenomenological accounts of action can provide
an alternative to traditional cognitive analysis for understanding the
embodied experience of interactive and computational systems.
Before coming to UCI, he was a Senior Member of Research Staff in
the Computer Science Laboratory of Xerox PARC; he has also held
research positions at Apple Computer and at Rank Xerox EuroPARC.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College,
London, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer
Science from the University of Edinburgh.
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