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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 17 October 2007, vol. 23:7
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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17 OCTOBER 2007 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 7
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A weekly publication of the
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
a subdivision of H-Star, http://hstar.stanford.edu/
Stanford University, Cordura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4101
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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ACTIVITIES FROM 17 OCTOBER 2007 TO 26 OCTOBER 2007
WEDNESDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2007
all day Tekes Seminars [17-Oct-07]
Ceras 100B
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/h-star/tekes/tekes.html
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [17-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"India Adolescence Without Disengagement:
The Daily Family Lives of Indian Teenagers"
Suman Verma
Center for Advanced Studies; Dept of Child Development
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [17-Oct-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"From monoliths to molecules and how they can 'put Humpty
dumpty together again'"
Matthias Kaiser
SAP Research Center, Visiting Stanford 2007-2008
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
5:00pm Tekes Networking Cocktail Event [17-Oct-07]
Ceras 100B
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/h-star/tekes/tekes.html
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Talk [17-Oct-07]
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
"Yahoo! Mail - designing a large Ajax application"
Greg Rosenberg
Yahoo!
http://sfbayacm.org/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2007
all day Tekes Seminars [18-Oct-07]
Ceras 100B
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/h-star/tekes/tekes.html
all day PNC and ECAI 2007 Annual Conference [18-Oct-07]
UC Berkeley
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
and Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC)
http://pnclink.org/pnc2007/english/index.htm
Information below
11:00am CCRMA Hearing Seminar [18-Oct-07]
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
"Optimized Contemporary Loudness Modeling"
Ryan Cassidy
CCRMA
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [18-Oct-07]
Nora Suppes 103
"Intentionality, Intuition, and Proof in Mathematics"
Richard Tieszen
San Jose State
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar [18-Oct-07]
Packard 101
"The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It"
Jonathan Zittrain
Oxford University/Stanford
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
3:30pm Bio-X "Talks in English" [18-Oct-07]
Clark Center S360
"Genomics and the Death of the Neutral Theory"
Dmitri Petrov
Biological Sciences
http://biox.stanford.edu/news/tie.html
4:00pm PARC Forum [18-Oct-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"A classical interpretation of observed macroscopic quantum
behavior in microwave driven Josephson systems"
Niels Gronbech Jensen
Applied Science, UC Davis
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [18-Oct-07]
Soda Hall 320 (UC Berkeley)
"Boosting the Area under the ROC Curve"
Phil Long
Google
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [18-Oct-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Film: 'The Great Robot Race' (2006)"
with discussion afterward
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [18-Oct-07]
Packard 202
"Information Theory of Wireless Networks: A Deterministic Approach"
David Tse
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
Abstract below
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience Seminar [18-Oct-07]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman
"Hippocampal sequence memory formation and reactivation"
Matt Wilson
MIT
http://web.mit.edu/picower/faculty/wilson.html
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
FRIDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2007
all day PNC and ECAI 2007 Annual Conference [19-Oct-07]
UC Berkeley
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
and Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC)
http://pnclink.org/pnc2007/english/index.htm
Information below
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [19-Oct-07]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"The malleability of visual cognition: Effects of videogame expertise"
Steve Mitroff
Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [19-Oct-07]
Gates B01
"Augmented Social Cognition"
Ed Chi
PARC
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [19-Oct-07]
Gates 104
"Sensor Fusion and Depth Superresolution"
James Diebel
Stanford
http://ai.stanford.edu/~diebel/
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [19-Oct-07]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty"
Richard Moran
Harvard University
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [19-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Bilingual Language Processing: Eye-Tracking Evidence for
Parallel Activation"
Viorica Marian
Northwestern University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
SATURDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2007
all day PNC and ECAI 2007 Annual Conference [20-Oct-07]
UC Berkeley
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
and Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC)
http://pnclink.org/pnc2007/english/index.htm
Information below
MONDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2007
3:15pm Stanford Phonology Workshop [22-Oct-07]
Linguistics Chair's office, Margaret Jacks Hall
Title to be announced
Aaron Kaplan
UC Santa Cruz
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
3:45pm Social Lab [22-Oct-07]
Bldg. 160:326
"The Self-expansion Model of Cognition and Emotion:
Implications for New Understandings of Romantic Love and
Intergroup Attitudes"
Art Aaron
NYU at Stonybrook
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_social.html
4:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium [22-Oct-07]
182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Mary Beckman
Ohio State University
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mbeckman/
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
4:00pm UC Berkeley Working Group in Neuroscience and Philosophy [22-Oct-07]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Bruno Olshausen
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley
http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno/
http://neurophilosophy.berkeley.edu/
TUESDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2007
4:15pm Mathematical Logic Seminar [23-Oct-07]
Bldg. 420:048
"The Roots of Sleeping Beauty: A Procedure for Converting
Diachronic Uncertainties into Synchronic Uncertainties"
Alistair Isaac
Stanford
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/fss/isaac.html
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2007
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [24-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
Title to be announced
Deborah Henderson
Stanford University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
3:30pm SRI CCB Seminar Series [24-Oct-07]
EK255, SRI International
"The Genomic Nosology as a Foundation For Medical Evolutionary
Discovery"
Joel Dudley
Stanford University
mi .. at .. ai.sri.com
THURSDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2007
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [25-Oct-07]
Cordura Hall 100
"Gödel, Nagel, Minds and Machines"
Solomon Feferman
Math, Stanford University
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar [25-Oct-07]
Packard 101
"Rethinking Data Centers"
Chuck Thacker
Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
4:00pm PARC Forum [25-Oct-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Inventing the Ink Jet Printer"
Edmond Kyser
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [25-Oct-07]
Soda Hall 320 (UC Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Ambuj Tewari
UC Berkeley
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ambuj/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [25-Oct-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Let's Improve Machine Learning"
Oliver Selfridge
MIT Media Lab and BBN Technologies
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [25-Oct-07]
Packard 202
"Equi-energy sampling and its applications"
Wing Hung Wong
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/group/wonglab/
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience Seminar [25-Oct-07]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman
"The Evolution of Primate Color Vision"
Jeremy Nathans
John Hopkins
http://www.mbg.jhmi.edu/FacultyDetails.asp?PersonID=372
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar [25-Oct-07]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Attacks On the Netscape Browser plus Security Response
Philosophy and Methods"
Jim Roskind
Roskind Consulting
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2007
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [26-Oct-07]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Boolean Maps and Visual Awareness."
Hal Pashler
Psychology, UC San Diego
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [26-Oct-07]
Gates B01
"Designing a Health Care Interface"
Paul Tang
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [26-Oct-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
title to be announced
Megan Flynn
Berkeley
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [26-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"High-resolution fMRI of the medial temporal lobe during
delayed-match-to-sample"
Rosanna Olsen
Stanford University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:30pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [26-Oct-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Modeling and Explaining Similarity"
Patrick Pantel
USC Information Sciences Institute
http://www.patrickpantel.com/
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2007
all day Biomedical Computation at Stanford 2007 (BCATS) [27-Oct-07]
Cubberley Auditorium
http://bcats.stanford.edu/html/bcats-home.html
Information below
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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; they need
$200,000 and have $80,000 so far.
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NOTE
Stanford has had a Symbolic Systems focus dorm, Arroyo, since last
year. The formal focus is Mind and Intelligence which "is intended to
be of interest to anyone who wonders how the mind works, how people
behave and communicate and what the future holds for computers and
artificial intelligence."[1] As such it is holding relevant events
open to Stanford people. Their web page is out-of-date but should be
revamped sometime soon. http://www.stanford.edu/group/arroyo/
[1] http://www.stanford.edu/dept/rde/has/applying/upperclass/ucapply/ucspecpriolist.html
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"From monoliths to molecules and how they can 'put Humpty
dumpty together again'"
Matthias Kaiser
SAP Research Center, Visiting Stanford 2007-2008
I will give a short synopsis of the evolution of SAP ERP technology to
motivate the value of our new collaboration project POEM
"Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management".
After a short outline of this project and its benefits, I want to
focus on some ideas how the interaction of an "enterprise physics"
system and its users can evolve the systems's knowledge (particularly
policies) and, at the same time, users can be assisted in obtaining an
understanding of the system's activities on the basis of explanations
and simulations facilitated by an assistant facilitating
policy-oriented enterprise management.
About the speaker: Matthias Kaiser Ph.D. is a senior research
scientist at the SAP Research Center in Palo Alto.
His current research activities focus on the conceptualization and
realization of new webservice technologies for business process
generation, verification and validation using methods of computational
logic.
He also conducts research in proactive intelligent user interfaces to
improve accessibility and usability of complex applications. This
research is strongly leveraging from approaches in knowledge
representation, cognitive science as well as natural language
processing.
Besides his research activities at SAP he is a visiting scholar at the
Artificial Intelligence Lab At Stanford university.
Before joining the research center, he had worked in CRM developing
key functionality for the call center solution database
product. Before working with SAP, Matthias was a senior research
scientist at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence,
where he headed a team conducting research and development of natural
language interfaces and information extraction.
Matthias received his Ph.D. in computational linguistics from the
University Leipzig and was awarded a postdoctoral grant at the
renowned International Computer Science Institute which is affiliated
with the University of California at Berkeley. He also worked with the
department for cognitive studies at UC Berkeley in the areas
linguistics and human problem solving and reasoning.
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SF BAY ACM TALK
on Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
http://sfbayacm.org/
"Yahoo! Mail - designing a large Ajax application"
Greg Rosenberg
Yahoo!
In this talk, Greg will discuss the interaction design behind the
all-new Yahoo! Mail, and AJAX-related challenges we encountered along
the way. He'll give an overview of my role and of the project as
well. This will cover building upon a well-established web-mail
product, to infusing it with new technology from the Oddpost.com
acquisition, to new innovations, and the competitive landscape. Then
the talk will get into specifics around the interaction design,
providing specific examples where we had to craft our own solutions
for the product. Then, I'll give a full demonstration of the product,
highlighting features, some of the areas that were challenges and
calling out some of the unique choices we made.
About the Speaker: Greg Rosenberg is a principal designer at Yahoo!
Inc. and led the interaction design for the all-new Yahoo! Mail:
designing the interaction model, tabbed message system, and several
key features. Recently, Greg has taken on managing and directing the
design for Yahoo! Mash and another new product initiative. Passionate
about design and shipping products, Greg has 12 years experience as an
interaction designer, having created a wide variety of Windows, Mac
OS, web-based and handheld products for companies such as AOL,
Netscape, Symantec and Palm.
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PNC AND ECAI 2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
on Thursday through Saturday, 18-20 October 2007
Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley
http://pnclink.org/pnc2007/english/index.htm
Registration required but free
"Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
and Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Annual Conference"
PNC and ECAI 2007 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings will be held at
the University of California, Berkeley from October 18 to October 20
(Thursday to Saturday). This Conference is one of the academic
activities in celebration of the completion of the C.V. Starr East
Asian Library, and as a memorial to the late Dr. Chang-Lin Tien,
Berkeley's first Asian Chancellor.
Chancellor Tien was one of the people who made PNC possible. In the
early 1990's, many scholars believed that information exchange between
higher education institutions on the Pacific Rim could be improved
through the development of computing and communication technology,
With this belief, the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium was founded at
Berkeley in 1992.
The main theme of PNC and ECAI 2007 Annual Conference is "Area
Studies, Then and Now. Ms. Pauline Yu, the President of the American
Council of Learned Societies, is invited to be the distinguished
speaker for the keynote session. Dr. Cliff Lynch, the Director of
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) will be the keynote speaker
in the session of "Digital Archives and e-Libraries, Then and Now;
furthermore, David Rumsey from David Rumsey Map Collection, one of the
largest private collections of historic maps in the US, will be the
keynote speaker in the session of "Map Collection and GIS, Then and
Now".
The session formats of the PNC and ECAI consists of oral presentation,
and poster sessions covering various domains such as
*Area Informatics I: Technical Aspects
*Area Informatics II: Application of Geo-temporal systems to Area Studies
*Biographical Mark-up
*ContextualInfrastructure
*Cultural Atlases
*Digital Archives and e-Libraries-Then and Now
*e-Learning
*e-Museums
*e-Resource and Service
*e-Science
*Institutional Collaborations and Funding
*Map Collection and GIS-Then and Now
*Project Showcase
*Spatial Technologies Convergence
*Spatial and Temporal Visualization in the Humanities.
Scholars, technicians, librarians, museum professionals, educators,
site managers, and all working with cultural materials and technology
may have an interest in this conference.
From the dawn of the Internet Age to the present, the Pacific
Neighborhood Consortium has brought together those at the cutting edge
of technological research for content organization, visualization,
discovery, and access; with those who create, preserve, and manage
content. PNC invites you to attend this important event for the
Pacific Rim scholarly communities.
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 18 October 2007, 11:00am
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
As discussed last week by Dick Lyon, the ear is a wonderfully non-
linear device.
Certainly one of the most important non-linearities is the perception
of loudness. It's quite amazing how we can hear sounds from the
quietest whisper to the loudest concert--- all using a few tens of
thousands of neurons that are either spiking or not. Even more
amazing, the perception of different sounds is well ordered.. you can
ask subjects to tell you when one sound is twice as large as another
and the subject can give you reliable data.
Ryan Cassidy has been studying the perception of loudness, checking
out the models, and building efficient implementations. He'll be
telling us about his work at this week's CCRMA Hearing Seminar.
Bring your two favorite loudness perceivers and we'll talk about how
they work on Thursday morning!
See you at CCRMA.
- Malcolm
"Optimized Contemporary Loudness Modeling"
Ryan J. Cassidy
worked supervised and in collaboration with Prof. Julius Smith
Electrical Engineering PhD Candidate, CCRMA Researcher
http://www.stanford.edu/~rcassidy/
In this talk, I will present a recent result of my thesis work (with
related background), which involves optimization of contemporary
loudness models for normal and hearing impaired subjects. First, we
shall review the recent model of Glasberg and Moore (JAES, 2002), and
discuss its extensions to the hearing impaired (Hear. Rev., 2004).
The major stages of the model will be explained, with particular focus
on the auditory multi-resolution transform used as a front end. Next,
an optimization to this front end, dubbed the "Hopping Goertzel"
algorithm by the authors, will be presented. Third, as a more recent
result, the derivation of the algorithm for more general
multi-resolution spectra, along with implementation and profiling
results, will be presented.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 18 October 2007, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"Intentionality, Intuition, and Proof in Mathematics"
Richard Tieszen
San Jose State
In the late nineteen twenties and early nineteen thirties Arend
Heyting, following Oskar Becker, identified proofs with fulfillments
of mathematical intentions (in the sense of intentionality). The idea
of proofs as fulfillment of intentions was then used by Heyting and
Becker to interpret the intutionistic logical constants, and in this
use it played an important historical role in the formulation of what
is now called the BHK interpretation of the intuitionistic logical
constants. The idea was that proofs in the sense of intuitionistic
constructions are just forms of intuition, where intuitions are
understood as fulfillments of mathematical intentions. A variant of
this interpretation was formulated by Kolmogorov at around the same
time, in terms of problems (in place of intentions) and solutions (in
place of fulfillments). In recent times, Martin-L\"of has again used
the language of intention and fulfillment in some presentations of his
work on intutionistic type theory. By association, there are also
relationships to the Curry-Howard idea of formulae-as-types, and to
other technical developments.<p>
In my talk I will examine the idea of proofs as fulfillments of
intentions, propose a related account of mathematical intuition, and
consider the question whether the ideas of intentionality and proof as
fulfillment (= intuition) in mathematics have applications that extend
beyond constructive foundations.
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STANFORD NETWORKING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 18 October 2007, 12:15pm
Packard 101
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
"The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It"
Jonathan Zittrain
Oxford University/Stanford
The Internet we know and love at risk even as its freedoms are at a
high water mark and rising. It's the changing slope of the curve that
counts. Regulators and some business types (e.g., incumbents) have
interest in being able to intervene more readily; they've been stymied
since the 1990's because the Net has produced too many golden eggs to
be worth shutting it down. The deciding vote is the "consumer" vote,
and they want their MTV. Unfortunately that vote is itself shifting,
in part because of the uncontrolled environment represented by Net and
PC: too much spyware, too many viruses, too little reliability for the
applications they want to use. Waiting in the wings is a new
generation of "information appliances" that in the past have been
laughable (think WebTV) but now are killer: iPod, XBox, TiVo, most
mobile phones, Zune, PSP. These appliances, and a general
appliancization of the PC itself, represent a very different
environment: the immutability of an appliance to the consumer and
third parties (think television set), coupled with use of the latest
Net innovations to make the thing eminently alterable by (and only by)
its maker and licensees. This talk maps out the bad implications of an
appliancized -- and Web 2.0 -- world, and offers suggestions to temper
it.
About the speaker: Jonathan Zittrain is a Visiting Professor of Law
from the University of Oxford, and the Chair in Internet Governance
and Regulation at Oxford University. Zittrain's research includes
digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private
"middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in
creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the
classroom. Education: Harvard Law School, J.D. 1995; Harvard
University John F. Kennedy School of Government, M.P.A. 1995; Yale
University, B.S. Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence 1991.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 18 October 2007, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Soda Hall 320 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
"Boosting the Area under the ROC Curve"
Phil Long
Google
(Joint work with Rocco Servedio)
http://www.phillong.info/
We show that any weak ranker that can achieve an area under the ROC
curve slightly better than 1/2 (which can be achieved by random
guessing) can be efficiently boosted to achieve an area under the ROC
curve arbitrarily close to 1. This boosting can be performed even in
the presence of independent misclassification noise, given access to a
noise-tolerant weak ranker.
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 18 October 2007, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Packard 202
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
"Information Theory of Wireless Networks: A Deterministic Approach"
David Tse
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Gaussian channels are commonly used models for multiuser wireless
communication. Unfortunately, the capacity of multiuser Gaussian
channels is unknown even for simple networks such as the single-relay
channel and the two-user interference channel. To make further
progress in understanding how to optimally communicate over these and
more general networks, we propose a deterministic channel model which
focuses on the interaction between the users rather than the noise in
the system. We show: 1) the analytical simplicity of this model by
computing the capacities of several interference and relay networks
based on this deterministic model; 2) how the insights from the
deterministic model can be translated into finding near-optimal
strategies for the Gaussian counterpart.
About the Speaker: David Tse received the B.A.Sc. degree in systems
design engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in 1989, and
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1994
respectively. From 1994 to 1995, he was a postdoctoral member of
technical staff at A.T. & T. Bell Laboratories. Since 1995, he has
been at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
in the University of California at Berkeley, where he is currently a
Professor. He received a 1967 NSERC 4-year graduate fellowship from
the government of Canada in 1989, a NSF CAREER award in 1998, the Best
Paper Awards at the Infocom 1998 and Infocom 2001 conferences, the
Erlang Prize in 2000 from the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, the
IEEE Communications and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
in 2001, and the Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2003. He
was the Technical Program co-chair of the International Symposium on
Information Theory in 2004, and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory from 2001 to 2003. He is a
coauthor, with Pramod Viswanath, of the text "Fundamentals of Wireless
Communication". His research interests are in information theory,
wireless communications and networking.
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UC BERKELEY ICBS COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 19 October 2007, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"The malleability of visual cognition: Effects of videogame expertise"
Steve Mitroff
Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University
An important aspect of visual perception that has gone relatively
understudied is how, and under what conditions, a perceiver can
influence his or her own visual system. How can specific training
regimens and prior experiences influence how and what one sees? In
this talk, I will discuss my lab's recent and current research
exploring the effects of video game experiences on visual
perception. I will present our experiments which demonstrate in what
ways action video game players differ from non-video game players, and
what the differences may mean for basic visual processing as well as
for society more broadly.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 19 October 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Augmented Social Cognition"
Ed Chi
PARC
Over the last few years, we've realized that many of the information
environments are gradually turning people into social foragers and
sharers. People spend much time in communities, and they are using
these communities to share information with others, to communicate, to
commiserate, and to establish bonds. This is the "Social Web". While
not all is new, this style of enhanced collaboration is having an
impact on people's online lives, so we've formed a new research area
here at PARC to go after these ideas in depth.
"Augmented Social Cognition" is trying to understand the enhancement
of a group of people's ability to remember, think, and reason. This
has been taking in the form of many Web2.0 systems like social
networking sites, social tagging systems, blogs, and Wikis. In this
talk, I will summarize examples of recent research on:
- how decreasing the interaction costs might change the number of
people who participate in social tagging systems?
- how conflict and coordination have played out in Wikipedia?
- how social transparency might affect reader trust in Wikipedia?
About the Speaker: Ed H. Chi is area manager and senior research
scientist at Palo Alto Research Center's Augmented Social Cognition
Group. Ed completed his three degrees (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) in 6.5
years from University of Minnesota, and has been doing research on
user interface software systems since 1993. He has been featured and
quoted in the press, such as the Economist, Time Magazine, LA Times,
and the Associated Press.
His most well-known project is the study of Information Scent ---
understanding how users navigate and understand information
environments such as the Web. His past works include an information
visualization project called "Spreadsheet for Visualization" --- a
data exploratory tool using a 'spreadsheet metaphor' that allows each
cell to hold an entire data set with a full-fledged visualization. He
has also worked on computational molecular biology, ubicomp, and
recommendation/search engines. He has won awards for both teaching and
research. In his spare time, Ed is an avid Taekwondo martial artist,
photographer, and snowboarder.
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PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 19 October 2007, 3:15pm
Building 90, room 92Q
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
"Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty"
Richard Moran
Harvard University
Many writers on aesthetic matters recognize a special question about
the normativity of the judgment of beauty, insofar as this is
different from the judgment of something as agreeable or pleasant.
Kant famously marks this difference in terms of a demand for universal
agreement, which is expressed in the judgment that something is
beautiful rather than merely agreeable.
"Many things may be charming and agreeable to him; no one cares
about that. But if he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he
requires the same liking from others; he then judges not just for
himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a
property of things. That is why he says: The thing is beautiful, and
does not count on other people to agree with his judgment of liking
on the ground that he has repeatedly found them agreeing with him;
rather he demands [fordern] that they agree. He reproaches them if
they judge differently, and denies that they have taste, which he
nevertheless demands of them, as something they ought to have."
(212-213, Hackett edition, Pluhar translation)
Yet Kant also claims a special autonomy for the judgment of the
beautiful, which is difficult to square with the demand for universal
agreement, as when he says: "Taste lays claim merely to autonomy; but
to make other people's judgments the basis determining one's own would
be heteronomy." (282) Some interpreters of Kant respond by rejecting
the imperatival or normative understanding of the claim to universal
agreement, rendering it closer to a prediction or expectation of
agreement. A different tradition of thinking about beauty, however,
marks the difference with objects of mere enjoyment by relating the
idea of necessity in the experience of the beautiful to the
necessities of love and the sense of requirement felt toward its
objects. Mary Mothersill refers to this tradition when she says,
"Beauty is causally linked with pleasure and inspires love. [...]
Plato's psychology is more accurate than Kant's: our earliest
impression - and in that sense our prototype of beauty - is not a
wildflower but a human face, one that is the focus of intense if
ambivalent affect." Beauty Restored, pp. 271 & 273 This paper
explores the consequences of taking this other tradition seriously,
using Proust as a representative exemplar, as a way both of making
sense of some of the features Kant ascribes to the concept of the
beautiful, while avoiding the paradoxes stemming from his focus on the
conditions for universal agreement.
About the Speaker: Richard Moran received his Ph.D. from Cornell
University, and taught at Princeton University before moving to
Harvard in 1995, where he is the Brian D. Young Professor of
Philosophy. He is the author of the book 'Authority and Estrangement:
An Essay on Self-Knowledge' (Princeton, 2001), and various articles on
aesthetics, moral psychology, the philosophy of action, and issues
relating to speech and testimony.
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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 420:048
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/
"The Roots of Sleeping Beauty: A Procedure for Converting
Diachronic Uncertainties into Synchronic Uncertainties"
Alistair Isaac
Stanford
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/fss/isaac.html
Elga (2000) introduced the problem of Sleeping Beauty (SB). A
conceptual paradox for the treatment of diachronic uncertainty in a
Bayesian framework, SB seemed to show that, under certain
circumstances, rationality dictates that one adjust one's probability
assignment when no new information has been introduced. Rather than
address the philosophical literature which followed Elga's paper, I
will investigate the Game Theoretical literature which proceeded it.
In particular, a close investigation of the problem of the Forgetful
Passenger (FP) (Aumann, et al. (1997)) will demonstrate that, contra
Elga's claims: (i) FP is fundamentally different from SB; (ii) the
procedure for dealing with diachronic uncertainties recommended by
Aumann does not give the analysis of SB that Elga claims for it; and
(iii) (under Aumann's proposal) probability assignments do not change
unless information states change. Our discussion will begin by
formalizing an intuitive suggestion in Aumann, et al. We will then
explore the implications of this formalization, in particular its
application for translating games in extended form into Dynamic
Epistemic Logic.
References:
* Robert J. Aumann, Sergiu Hart, and Motty Perry, "The Forgetful
Passenger", in Games and Economic Behavior 20, 1997, pp. 117-120.
* Adam Elga, "Self-locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem",
in Analysis 60(2), April 2000, pp. 143-47.
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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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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 25 October 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Let's Improve Machine Learning"
Oliver Selfridge
MIT Media Lab and BBN Technologies
Today, in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning is a vigorous
and flourishing field. I believe that we can and ought to do more. My
overall recommendation for ML is that now we should find out how to
produce cognitive software that can be at least partly educated
instead of having to be carefully programmed. The software must be
able to learn not only how to accomplish the top level desired task,
but also how to check and improve its performance on a continuing
basis at many different levels.
There are four main topics in human learning that are mainly not even
considered in most of ML. The first is what I have termed purpose
structure; which means that software should care! The idea of purpose
structures is to build software out of modules each of which has a
success function, so that changes in them can be assessed to assure
continuing improvement. The second topic is: how are the conclusions
of ML in a piece of cognitive software to be remembered, so that what
has been learned can be applicable again in later and perhaps different
circumstances? The third topic is that anything learned by people is
rarely handled as an isolated and independent piece of knowledge;
rather, it is embedded in a structure of some conceptual models. The
fourth topic is: how are the conclusions of ML in a piece of cognitive
software to be shared with other cognitive agents?...what kind of
languages should be used? ~W for most of what we know we learned from
others, not from our own experiences.
None of those general topics has been much faced in AI, let alone in
ML. On top of that, the cognitive software must work in environments
that are continually changing at all levels, including the overall
standards of success. We need to analyze those points and put them in
some kind of order so as to be able to analyze and attack them. Then
we can propose a program that will diverge ~E and then we can take the
one less traveled by~E perhaps that will make all the difference! And
perhaps we can then break new boundaries in AI.
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STANFORD SECURITY SEMINAR
on Thursday, 25 October 2007, 4:30pm
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
"Attacks On the Netscape Browser plus Security Response
Philosophy and Methods"
Jim Roskind
Roskind Consulting
The Netscape Communicator client was deployed on millions of
desktops. It was also subject to attacks that attempted to gain
unauthorized access to data on the client's computers, if not complete
control of the computer. This talk discusses a broad range of examples
of attacks that have been proposed against the Communicator
application along with ways that the application evolved to block
them.
Although the talk discusses numerous actual attacks across the history
of Netscape, it also works to abstract elements of attacks, and show
how they assemble to form exploits. The start of the talk, first
presented in RSA2001, discusses 6 noteworthy historical attacks. The
attacks include DNS False Advertising (not, DNS compromise!), Java
class verifier vulnerability to a multi-thread attack, JavaScript
Language feature creating a cache handling vulnerability, Java symbol
table overrun, FILE: URL facilitating invasion of privacy, and
insufficient HTML escaping browser side (not server side!).
As a bonus (not presented in RSA2001), a more generic discussion of
issues surrounding security responses to identified security bugs is
presented. The resolution to some of the above problems reveals that
security patching is significantly different from software bug repair,
and that fact needs to be used by response teams. The discussion
ranges from problems caused by a lengthily QA cycle (and avoiding
thrashing when bug inter-arrival/discovery time is smaller than a QA
cycle), to why a bugs bounty is helpful (but why a bounty that is too
large is actually problematic). Also presented is a proposed method to
prevent reverse engineering of security patches (by distributing
encrypted(??) patches). The method can also automate identification of
*which* if any existing patch is critical during an attack, and it can
accelerate and even automate patch deployment of the critical
patch(es).
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 26 October 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Designing a Health Care Interface"
Paul Tang
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Even more fragmented than American health care is the management of
health care information. Faced with a barrage of poorly organized
health information, physicians and other clinicians must sift through
uninspired displays to glean pearls of information necessary to make
clinical decisions. Ineffective displays can lead to delays in care
or inappropriate decisions. The human-computer interface can either
shroud or reveal the important elements of patient information and
integrate it with domain knowledge bearing on the decisions at
hand. Beyond the walls of health care institutions, patients and
consumers will be the recipients and users of primary health
information. New tools for information gathering from patients and for
information rendering to patients must be developed in order to
activate patients to become fully informed and fully empowered members
of their health care team.
About the Speaker: Paul Tang, M.D., M.S., is an internist and vice
president, chief medical information officer at the Palo Alto Medical
Foundation (PAMF). He is also associate clinical professor at the
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. At
PAMF, Dr. Tang is responsible for clinical information systems,
including an enterprise-wide electronic health record system and an
integrated personal health record system.
Dr. Tang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering
from Stanford University and his M.D. degree from the UCSF School of
Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Stanford
University and is board certified in internal medicine.
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 26 October 2007, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"Modeling and Explaining Similarity"
Patrick Pantel
USC Information Sciences Institute
http://www.patrickpantel.com/
Similarity modeling is a key task in computational lexical semantics
for finding word senses, concepts, paraphrases, topics, and
distributional synonyms, just to name a few. Missing, however, are
ways to automatically provide explanations of why a system finds two
elements similar. In this talk, we will survey the state of the art in
large-scale semantic similarity modeling, focusing on methods for
mapping problem statements to feature representations, information
theoretic feature weighting, comparison measures, and clustering
algorithms. Then, we will present our recent work on automatically
finding explanations for why elements are similar and discuss plans
for using these to build an interactive similarity platform.
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BIOMEDICAL COMPUTATION AT STANFORD 2007 (BCATS)
on Saturday, 27 October 2007, all day
Cubberley Auditorium
http://bcats.stanford.edu/html/bcats-home.html
Now in its eighth year, the Biomedical Computation at Stanford
symposium provides an open, interdisciplinary forum for Stanford
students and post-docs to share their latest work in computational
biology and medicine with others from Stanford and beyond.
BCATS was originally organized to bring together and integrate the
diverse work done across Stanford in all fields related to biomedical
computation; after seven years, BCATS has become an important part of
the Stanford biomedical computation community.
BCATS welcomes presentations from all domains of computerized and
computer-aided biology and medicine, broadly conceived. Topics will
include:
* Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Computational Biology
* Computational Genomics and Systems Biology
* Biomechanical Simulation, Modeling and Robotics
* Medical Informatics
* Structural Biology and Chemistry
* Biomedical Imaging
Keynote Addresses
Gerard A. Ateshian, PhD
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/~ga29
Douglas A. Lauffenburger, PhD
Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor of Bioengineering
Director of the Biological Engineering Division
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://web.mit.edu/dallab/
Pavel A. Pevzner, PhD
Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science
University of California, San Diego
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~ppevzner/
Peter K. Sorger, PhD
Professor of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
http://sysbio.med.harvard.edu/faculty/sorger/
Volunteer for BCATS
BCATS is looking for volunteers to help on the day of the conference
(Oct 27) or the day before (Oct 26). Registration is free for BCATS
volunteers. For more information, see web page.
Registration for the conference includes conference materials,
breakfast, lunch, snacks, and refreshments during the Industry
Reception. Note that early registration is free for all Stanford
students, faculty and staff (you must bring your Stanford ID on the
day of the conference).
Early Registration Registration
Stanford Affiliated free* $10
Non-Stanford Students $10 $20
Not Stanford Affiliated $75 $150
* Early registration deadline is October 19, 11:59p.m.
http://bcats.stanford.edu/html/bcats-submit-registration.html
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