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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 31 October 2007, vol. 23:9
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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31 OCTOBER 2007 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 9
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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 31 OCTOBER 2007 TO 9 NOVEMBER 2007
WEDNESDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2007 - Halloween
10:00am IT Open House [31-Oct-07]
McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center
http://itopenhouse.stanford.edu
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [31-Oct-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"The clairvoyant in the crib:
prediction and learning in childhood and beyond"
Michael Ramscar
Stanford University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [31-Oct-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"The Challenges of Implementing Matlab(R)"
Randy Allen
Catalytic Inc
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 1 NOVEMBER 2007
8:45am Stanford University Oral Examination [1-Nov-07]
Packard 101
"Adaptive Interaction Techniques for Sharing and Reusing
Design Resources"
Brian Andrew Lee
PhD Student, HCI Group, Computer Science
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~balee/
http://cs.stanford.edu/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=2873
Abstract below
3:30pm Bio-X "Talks in English" [1-Nov-07]
Clark Center S360
"Bioengineering technology applied to the hard problems of psychiatry"
Karl Deisseroth
Bioengineering
http://biox.stanford.edu/news/tie.html
3:30pm Stanford Networking Seminar [1-Nov-07]
Packard 101
Title to be announced
Jonathan Turner
Washington University
http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~jst/
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
4:00pm Yahoo! Research Talk [1-Nov-07]
CISX 101
"A Purple Patch on the Web"
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Chief Scientist for Audience, Yahoo! Research
http://cs.stanford.edu/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=2882
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [1-Nov-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Reinventing the media businesses"
John Warnock
Co-chairman of the Board of Directors of Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [1-Nov-07]
Soda Hall 320 (UC Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Stuart Russell
UC Berkeley
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [1-Nov-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Are Emotions Beneficial or Detrimental for Human Decision Making?"
Baba Shiv
Graduate School of Business
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [1-Nov-07]
Packard 101
"An Information-theoretic view of Stochastic Resonance"
Venkat Anantharam
EECS Department, UC Berkeley
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
Abstract below
4:15pm Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience Seminar [1-Nov-07]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman
"Analog and Digital Intracortical Synaptic Communication"
David McCormick
Yale University
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
FRIDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2007
9:00am Stanford University Oral Examination [2-Nov-07]
Packard 101
"Supporting the Visualization and Analysis of Network Events"
Doantam Phan
HCI Group, Computer Science
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dphan/
http://cs.stanford.edu/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=2872
Abstract below
12 noon Ethics@Noon [2-Nov-07]
Bldg. 110, first floor seminar room (change in location)
"Equity vs. Adequacy:
The State and the Distribution of K-12 Educational Opportunities"
Bill Koski
Stanford Law
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.html
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [2-Nov-07]
Gates B01
"`It's like a fire. You just have to move on':
Toward adaptive services for personal archiving"
Cathy Marshall
Microsoft Research
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [2-Nov-07]
Gates 104
"Mesh-based Marker-less Motion Capture"
Edilson de Aguiar
MPI Informatik
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
2:15pm Stanford University Oral Examination [2-Nov-07]
Packard 101
"Designing Interactions that Combine Pen, Paper, and Computer"
Ron B. Yeh
HCI Group, Computer Science
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~ronyeh/
http://cs.stanford.edu/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=2871
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [2-Nov-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"The Current Shakeup in Scholarly Communication, Chapter 23:
A Critical Incident in Academic Freedom, Bioethics, and Open Access"
John Willinsky
Stanford
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [2-Nov-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Clause Structure and Argument Realization in Tongan:
Evidence from Clitics"
Douglas Ball
Stanford
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar [2-Nov-07]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"The Drives Project: From Disk Forensics to Media Exploitation"
Simson Garfinkel
http://www.simson.net/cv
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
Abstract below
5:00pm Memorial lecture for Richard Rorty [2-Nov-07]
Cubberley Auditorium
"'And to Define America, Her Athletic Democracy...' Richard
Rorty, Philosopher and Language-Shaper"
Jürgen Habermas
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/dlcl/cgi-bin/update/?q=node/275
MONDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2007
12 noon Wallenberg Brown Bag [5-Nov-07]
Wallenberg Hall
Title to be announced
Lars Botin
visiting scholar from Aalborg University, Denmark
12 noon Work, Technology and Organization Colloquium [5-Nov-07]
Terman 217
"Nursing Workflows and Work Practices in Acute Care"
Monique H. Lambert
Digital Health Group, Intel Corporation
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/
Abstract below
3:15pm Stanford Phonology Workshop [5-Nov-07]
Linguistics Chair's office, Margaret Jacks Hall
Title to be announced
Anne Pycha
UC Berkeley
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pycha/
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
4:00pm CSLI Reading Group on Logic and Language [5-Nov-07]
Cordura 104
"A study of machine translation and its possible relations
with logic"
All welcome.
For an initial list of readings contact Bill Rounds,
rounds ... umich,edu
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/rounds/csli/CSLIReadingList.htm
4:00pm UC Berkeley Ear Club [5-Nov-07]
3105 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Characterizing developmental effects in intensity discrimination"
Emily Buss
UNC
Chapel Hill
http://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/sphs/bios/bussbio.htm
http://ear.berkeley.edu/ear-club-schedule.html
TUESDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2007
WEDNESDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2007
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [7-Nov-07]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Relationship between brain development and stress-related
conditions in children and adolescents"
Victor G Carrion
Stanford University Medical Center, Child Psychiatry
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [7-Nov-07]
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"Software Threading"
Renee James and Wei Li
Intel Corporation
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2007
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [8-Nov-07]
Cordura Hall 100
"Two kinds of math - and how to teach them"
Keith Devlin
CSLI, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [8-Nov-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"Open Money"
Jean-François Noubel
TheTransitioner
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [8-Nov-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Water Challenges, Past, Present, and Future"
Perry L. McCarty, Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [8-Nov-07]
Soda Hall 320 (UC Berkeley)
"Sequential Document Visualization"
Guy Lebanon
Purdue University
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [8-Nov-07]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"What Everyone Should Know About Open Source"
Ron Goldman
Sun Microsystems Laboratories,
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Neuroscience Seminar [8-Nov-07]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman
"A functional role for motor cortical oscillations"
Stuart Baker
Newcastle University
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/stuart.baker/
http://nis-seminars.stanford.edu/
FRIDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2007
11:00am UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [9-Nov-07]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"What is Reasoning Good For?"
Sherri Roush
Philosophy, UC Berkeley
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/roush
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [9-Nov-07]
Gates B01
Title to be announced
Monty Hamontree
Microsoft
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [9-Nov-07]
Gates 104
"Activity Recognition"
Rahul Biswas
Stanford
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [9-Nov-07]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"From Science Information's Concilium Bibliographicum of the
1890s to Espionage and Communist Dungeons in the 1950s"
Colin Burke
University of Maryland Baltimore
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [9-Nov-07]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Top-down control processes in visual working memory"
Jesse Rissman
Stanford University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [9-Nov-07]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"A Truth in Conservatism"
Gerald Cohen
All Souls College, Oxford
http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/fellows/fellow.php?refid=1834
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:30pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [9-Nov-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Modeling Local Coherence"
Mirella Lapata
University of Edinburgh
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
4:15pm Mathematical Logic Seminar [9-Nov-07]
Bldg. 420:048
Title to be announced
Sol Feferman
Philosophy, Stanford
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/
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an appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831.
It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies plus the
vampires are hungry.
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NOTE
The following conferences will be co-located this week in the Silicon
Valley
The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/
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NOTE
This announcement, from David Chalmers and David Bourget, may
interest some of you.
We are pleased to announce the launch of MindPapers, a new website
with a bibliography covering around 18000 published papers and online
papers in the philosophy of mind and the science of consciousness.
This site grew out of a combination of David Chalmers' bibliography in
philosophy of mind and his page of online papers on consciousness, but
it is much larger and has many new capacities, programmed by David
Bourget. The site address is:
http://consc.net/mindpapers/
There is also a separate front end for "Online Papers on
Consciousness". Where MindPapers now combines both offline published
papers and online papers from free and commercial sites, Online Papers
on Consciousness is devoted to free online papers (currently around
4700). It is based on the same database as MindPapers, but is
organized in a way to emphasize issues concerning consciousness and
cognitive science rather than the philosophy of mind. The address is
http://consc.net/online/
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"The Challenges of Implementing Matlab(R)"
Randy Allen
Catalytic Inc
http://www.catalyticinc.com/
Forces of change assail the world of electronic systems design. The
complexity of new applications leaps ahead by factors and orders, not
percentages. The number of gates available on a chip is now large
enough to where just counting them, much less designing them, is a
problem. Irate iPhone purchasers are painfully aware that
time-to-market pressure continues to intensify, and the cost of
developing new ASICs is one of the few things rising faster than the
cost of Stanford tuition.
What will arise from the confluence of these forces? Complexity will
be handled by a move to higher-level languages that express
applications at a level more suitable to human understanding. Less
effort will be focused on product differentiation though
highly-customized ASICs; more effort will be focused on
differentiation through intellectual property running on programmable
systems. Because the high-level representation of an algorithm will be
not be implementation-specific, it can be more easily retargeted to
new or different systems. A leading indicator of this change is the
world of signal processing, where virtually all development is
initially done in MATLAB then manually translated into C for
implementation.
Catalytic, Inc. was founded with the goal of filling a void in this
new order of system design by automating the implementation of
languages such as MATLAB, where "implementation" as a general rule
means "compiling into efficient C code". Such compiled code can be
used to accelerate simulation performance, or to tie algorithms into
larger simulation platforms, or as a basis for a product
implementation, or potentially for parallelized performance. This talk
discusses some of the compiler optimization challenges presented by a
naturally-interpreted, dynamically-typed, vector-centric language such
as MATLAB, and how compiler theory can be both extended or stretched
to accommodate these overly-hyphenated challenges.
About the speaker: Randy Allen has over 20 years of software and
compiler development experience in startup companies, advanced
technology divisions, and research organizations. Prior to founding
Catalytic, he served as Vice President of Engineering at CynApps, Vice
President of Performance Engineering at Chronologic Simulation,
Executive Director of Software Development at Kubota/Ardent Computer,
and Director in the Advanced Technology Group at Synopsys.
Randy Allen is coauthor of the book Optimizing Compilers for Modern
Architectures. He has authored or coauthored 15 conference and journal
papers on compiler optimization, restructuring compilers, and hardware
simulation. Randy received his A.B. Summa Cum Laude in Chemistry from
Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences
from Rice University.
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY ORAL EXAMINATION
on Thursday, 1 November 2007, 8:45am
Packard 101
http://cs.stanford.edu/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=2873
"Adaptive Interaction Techniques for Sharing and Reusing
Design Resources"
Brian Andrew Lee
PhD Student, HCI Group, Computer Science
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~balee/
Today's designers generate content both on paper and online. Designers
spread their work over physical and digital media, each of which has
powerful -- but distinct -- sets of affordances. Recent work suggests
that augmented paper interfaces can marry the ubiquity of paper
interactions with the ease of search, annotation, and presentation
afforded by digital representation. This dissertation examines novel
ways to support and augment the practice of design through sharing and
reappropriation of digitally captured design content.
The thesis of this dissertation is that an ecology for design that
integrates augmented paper and digital tools can facilitate
collaboration between designers and improve the visibility of design
resources . Our contributions are twofold: we study actual use of
augmented paper tools for capture and access of design content, and we
design selection and presentation algorithms for proactive display of
design materials.
To investigate the potential value of augmented tools for design, we
developed the iDeas design ecology, which integrates physical
notebooks with a digital faceted metadata browser that offers explicit
annotation and sharing mechanisms, and conducted four studies with
student design teams. Our findings indicate that while there are
clear benefits to use, such as increased excerpting and sharing of
design material, naïve sharing mechanisms carry significant perceived
costs to adoption, including privacy concerns, which depress usage.
The findings from these studies motivated our second tool, Adaptive
Ideas, which explores the use of implicit sharing mechanisms to
improve visibility of example design resources. We describe an
optimization-based approach to selecting and presenting design
material adaptively, using decision-theoretic selection, designer
specification, and end-user preference as inputs. Results from two
laboratory studies of an example-based web page builder indicate that
proactive presentation of examples is useful in helping designers
explore and understand spaces of design alternatives.
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YAHOO! RESEARCH TALK
on Thursday, 1 November 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
CISX 101
http://cs.stanford.edu/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=2882
"A Purple Patch on the Web"
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Chief Scientist for Audience, Yahoo! Research
The Web is no longer a static repository of documents; it is a dynamic
repository of information that connects people with their passions,
and on a more prosaic note, the applications they use in their
personal and professional lives. How do we engage better with
audiences? The Web also connects advertisers and publishers with their
audiences. How do we create efficient marketplaces to monetize this
engagement? How is the Web evolving as an information source, and how
does this affect the future of information discovery? What are the
implications of the rapid growth of social networks? How does the
emergence of the Web as a delivery channel for services affect the
future of software? Technically, these questions and trends have given
rise to a new wave of challenges that are being tackled at Yahoo!,
including marketplace design, social network analysis, information
extraction and community information management, massively distributed
storage and "cloud computing" platforms. It is an exciting time, and
an exciting place to be. Come find out why.
About the Speaker: Raghu Ramakrishnan is Chief Scientist for Audience
at Yahoo!, and is a Research Fellow, heading the Community Systems
Group in Yahoo! Research. He was founder and CTO of QUIQ, a company
that pioneered question-answering communities, powering Ask Jeeves'
AnswerPoint as well as customer-support for companies such as
Compaq. His research is in the area of database systems, with a focus
on data retrieval, analysis, and mining. He has developed scalable
algorithms for clustering, decision-tree construction, itemset
counting, and data anonymization, and was among the first to
investigate mining of continuously evolving, stream data. His work on
query optimization and deductive databases has found its way into
several commercial database systems, and his work on extending SQL to
deal with queries over sequences has influenced the design of window
functions in SQL:1999. His paper on the Birch clustering algorithm
received the SIGMOD 10-Year Test-of-Time award, and he has written the
widely-used text "Database Management Systems" (with Johannes Gehrke).
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 1 November 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Reinventing the media businesses"
John Warnock
Co-chairman of the Board of Directors of Adobe Systems, Inc.
The media businesses (newspapers, television, movies, music, book
publishing) are all facing daunting challenges as the Internet grows,
and the advertising models shift. This talk will informally cover
observations about the trends in these businesses and why it is so
difficult for established companies to reinvent themselves.
About the Speaker: John E. Warnock is Co-chairman of the Board of
Directors of Adobe Systems, Inc., a company he co-founded in 1982 with
Charles Geschke. Dr. Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two
years, and Chairman and CEO for his remaining 16 years at
Adobe. Warnock has pioneered the development of world-renowned
graphics, publishing, Web and electronic document technologies that
have revolutionized the field of publishing and visual
communication. Dr. Warnock holds six patents.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 1 November 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Are Emotions Beneficial or Detrimental for Human Decision Making?"
Baba Shiv
Graduate School of Business
For centuries, philosophers and thinkers have debated whether emotions
are beneficial or detrimental to human decision making. The general
consensus viewpoint that pervaded the centuries was that emotions are
like wild-horses that need to be reined in, that good decisions are
those that are made devoid of emotion. Our recent understanding of the
working of the human brain points to a diametrically opposite
viewpoint, that emotions not only exert important influences on
decision making but also might actually be essential for and
fundamental to making advantageous decisions. In this presentation,
Professor Shiv will (1) highlight some of the startling and
counter-intuitive insights being unraveled on the workings of the
human brain and then (2) get to the "so what?" of these findings for
individual decision making.
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 1 November 2007, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Packard 101
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
"An Information-theoretic view of Stochastic Resonance"
Venkat Anantharam
EECS Department, UC Berkeley
We discuss the phenomenon of stochastic resonance. We use this term to
refer to situations where the introduction of noise can enhance the
ability of a system to perceive weak signals in the environment. This
is the case, for instance, in the standard example of the periodically
forced Langevin equation studied by Benzi et al. and others.
Here we adopt an information theoretic viewpoint, evaluating the
quality of enhancement of the weak signal via the mutual information
rate between the signal and the observations. Viewing what would be
considered noise in stochastic resonance as an open loop control, and
using Markov decision theory techniques, we formulate and study an
optimal control problem: how best to choose the control in order to
maximize this mutual information rate.
The corresponding dynamic programming recursion is unorthodox and its
study is interesting. The eventual result is that the optimal control
involves the conditional law of certain conditional laws associated to
the dynamics. Further, the optimal control may be chosen as a
deterministic function of
this law of laws.
About the Speaker: Venkat Anantharam received his B.Tech in Electrical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, 1980, a M.S. in
EE from UC Berkeley, 1982, a M.A. in Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1983,
a C.Phil in Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1984 and a Ph.D. in EE, UC
Berkeley, 1986. Prior to joining the faculty of EECS in 1994, he was a
member of the faculty at Cornell University.
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY ORAL EXAMINATION
on Friday, 2 November 2007, 9:00am
Packard 101
http://cs.stanford.edu/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=2872
"Supporting the Visualization and Analysis of Network Events"
Doantam Phan
HCI Group, Computer Science
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dphan/
The flow of traffic among computers on the Internet and the exchange
of goods between countries are examples of causally connected
measurable events in a network. Understanding the behavior of such
networks often requires the ability to discover temporal connections
among the events in a large data set. One challenge is that the volume
of data makes it difficult to explore the data and organize the events
into a narrative sequence. This dissertation contributes new
interactive visualization techniques for analyzing, organizing, and
presenting network event data at multiple levels of detail for the
purpose of forensic analysis - tracking down causal sequences of
importance.
The first contribution is a technique that supports event analysis,
called progressive multiples. Our techniques are instantiated in a
system for network incident investigation, Isis, which we validated
with a long-term collaboration and deployment with the principal
network analyst of the EE and CS departments. The second contribution
is a technique for automatically generating flow maps, which present
summaries of network topology and behavior at a higher level than
event plots and timelines. Our technique has been adopted by a diverse
group of users to depict the flow of computer networks, documents, and
international ecological trade.
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ETHICS@NOON
on Friday, 2 November 2007, 12 noon
Bldg. 100:101K
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.html
"Equity vs. Adequacy:
The State and the Distribution of K-12 Educational Opportunities"
Bill Koski
Stanford Law
http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/36/William%20Koski/
In the wake of recent school finance litigation and in response to
demands for greater accountability for student outcomes, many states
have begun to develop policies and educational finance mechanisms that
will ensure that all children receive an "adequate" education. Though
prompted by pragmatic political concerns and frequently touted as
creating greater equality of educational opportunity, such
adequacy-oriented reforms may not ensure educational equity and may
not fulfill the obligation of the state to provide equality of
educational opportunity. This discussion considers the purposes of
education both as a public good from which all derive benefit and a
private good from which its possessor derives benefit. This analysis
suggests that the states interest in providing education as a public
good to ensure social cohesion, a vibrant economy, and a civic-minded
populace would require that all receive an adequate education and that
an equal education may indeed be inefficient. On the other hand, given
that education is also a private good with strong positional and
competitive aspects, one might argue that the state has an obligation
to ensure that education is provided in such a manner to ensure
equality and fairness in competitions for postsecondary admissions and
the labor market. This real tension between adequacy and equity from
the states perspective will be the focus of the conversation.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 2 November 2007, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"`It's like a fire. You just have to move on':
Toward adaptive services for personal archiving"
Cathy Marshall
Microsoft Research
Most of us engage in magical thinking when it comes to the long term
fate of our digital stuff. This magical thinking may manifest itself
in several ways: technological optimism ("JPEG is so common; why would
it stop working?"), radical ephemeralism ("It's like a fire: you just
have to move on"), or simply a gap between principals and practice ("I
should move my novel off of that zip disk while the drive still works,
but I'm too busy right now"). At this point, a strategy that hinges on
benign neglect and lots of copies seems to be the best we can hope
for.
For the last few years, with various collaborators, I have tried to
understand the current state of personal digital archiving in practice
with the aim of designing services for the long-term storage,
preservation, and access of digital belongings. Our studies have not
only confirmed that experienced computer users have accumulated a
substantial amount of digital stuff that they care about, but also
that they have already lost irreplaceable artifacts such as photos,
creative efforts, research data, and important records. Although
informants report digital safekeeping strategies, they are neither
able to implement them consistently, nor will these strategies address
many of the real problems associated with archiving. I will discuss
four central themes of personal digital archiving and some additional
challenges introduced by home computing environments. I'll also talk
about how these themes relate to emerging institutional archiving
technologies, best practices, and information policies.
This talk will reveal how far we've gotten on our quixotic mission
and why we won't give up, even in the face of adversity,
table-pounding, and social ostracism.
About the Speaker: Cathy Marshall is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Corporation. Her research on personal digital libraries lies in the
disciplinary interstices of computer science, information science, and
the humanities. She was a long-time member of the research staff at
Xerox PARC and is an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Digital
Libraries at Texas A&M University. She has delivered keynote addresses
at the WWW and Hypertext Conferences as well as at CNI and other
library and information science venues. She has served as Program
Chair for the IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (twice)
and for the ACM Hypertext Conference. Her homepage is
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall ; there you will find her
publications, her blog, her contact information, and how she is
related to Elvis.
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY ORAL EXAMINATION
on Friday, 2 November 2007, 2:15pm
Packard 101
http://cs.stanford.edu/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=2871
"Designing Interactions that Combine Pen, Paper, and Computer"
Ron B. Yeh
HCI Group, Computer Science
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~ronyeh/
Pen and paper are powerful tools for visualizing designs, penning
music, and communicating through the written language. This coupling
is mobile, flexible, graspable, and robust. By adding computation, we
can add in the power of technology, including search, redundancy, and
remote collaboration. The introduction of digital pens that capture a
person's handwriting has now made it feasible to augment paper with
computation. We refer to these as paper + digital interfaces.
Developing paper + digital interfaces is challenging. Programmers need
to abstract input into high-level events, coordinate interactions
across time, and manage output on devices. This is difficult, because
interface programmers are accustomed to working with graphical
applications that provide real-time feedback on a single display.
We created PaperToolkit to help programmers build applications with
digital pens and paper. PaperToolkit introduces abstractions and tools
to enhance development and testing of these interfaces. We evaluated
the toolkit through extended use in research projects, a class
deployment with 17 teams (69 students) and an analysis of the source
code produced by those teams. The evaluation found the abstractions
and tools to be highly effective.
Beyond PaperToolkit, this work includes ButterflyNet, a paper notebook
that automatically structures field data, and GIGAprints, large paper
prints that support collaboration and visual search. Using
PaperToolkit, these inspiring applications could have been built in
much less time. The toolkit is open source, and is used today in
research laboratories around the world, including labs at LRI Paris,
University of Siegen, Darmstadt University of
Technology, and at Stanford University.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 2 November 2007, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"Clause Structure and Argument Realization in Tongan:
Evidence from Clitics"
Douglas Ball
Stanford
Dissertation Proposal Talk
Work on verb-initial languages often assumes that these languages have
numerous covert configurational categories that help license the order
of constituents and the arguments within the clause. As a part of a
larger project investigating these phenomena in one such language,
Tongan, in this talk, I look at the relevant issues in the upper part
of the Tongan clause.
I argue that the upper part of the Tongan clause, unlike the lower
part, does not have a flat structure. Instead, the clause-initial
auxiliary should be treated as separate from and commanding the
constituent that includes the main predicator and all its arguments.
Not to do so would lose important generalizations regarding
c-selection and coordination, as well as encounter complications from
the behavior of "clitics."
On this analysis, however, "clitics" are not realized local to their
semantic head, the main predicator of the clause. How, then, are they
related to this head? I propose an HPSG analysis that treats the
"clitics" as an instance of copy raising: the "clitics" are syntactic
arguments of the clause-initial auxiliary, but semantically linked to
an argument position of the lower predicate. Unlike previous analyses
using clitic movement (Otsuka 2000, Custis 2004), my analysis is fully
compatible with the morphophonological and morphosyntactic evidence
for treating the "clitics" as affixes. My analysis also offers a
straightforward account of instances with and without a coreferential
independent pronoun doubling the "clitic." Furthermore, this account
can be straightforwardly extended to a construction (the double ka
construction, first noted by Dukes 2001) where the relationship
between the clitic and its semantic head is even less local.
From this investigation, I argue that the Tongan clause involves far
less structure than previously thought; instead, the Tongan facts can
be accounted for simply using interactions between lexical items and
their dependents.
References
Custis, Tonya. 2004. Word Order Variation in Tongan: A Syntactic
Analysis. Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota.
Dukes, Michael. 2001. The Morphosyntax of 2P Pronouns in Tongan.In
Proceedings of HPSG-2000 Conference, edited by Dan Flickinger and
Andreas Kathol, 63-80. CSLI Publications.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/1/.
Otsuka, Yuko. 2000. Ergativity in Tongan. Ph.D. diss., Oxford University.
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STANFORD SECURITY SEMINAR
on Friday, 2 November 2007, 4:30pm
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
"The Drives Project: From Disk Forensics to Media Exploitation"
Simson Garfinkel
http://www.simson.net/cv
Forensic techniques the data on a hard drive can reveal who broke into
a computer system, what was done, and the perpetrators. Hard drives
have proved so useful that they are now routinely seized or imaged in
DoD, intelligence, law enforcement, and even civil actions.
But analyzing the information a hard drive today takes the time of a
skilled analyst; today's tools lack significant automation and
intelligence, and frequently crash. As a result there is a large
backlog of hard drives waiting to be analyzed; important information
is easily missed or not analyzed for months after it is acquired.
This talk discusses the work to date of the Drives Project, a 9-year
(and counting) effort that is creating a large-scale collection of
real disk drive images, open source tools, and new techniques for
automatically processing data recovered from disk drives and other
kinds of storage devices. Today the Drives Project has assembled a
corpus of more than 1000 forensically interesting images from hard
drives and USB storage devices that were collected all over the
world. We have created open source formats, tools and algorithms for
automatically analyzing this data in bulk and rapidly producing
answers to questions that are relevant to the Defense, Intelligence
and Law Enforcement communities. The Project is now in the process of
dramatically expanding the global reach of data being acquired
and exploring new research opportunities for using this data.
About the Speaker: Simson L. Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at
the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and a fellow at
the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard
University.
Dr. Garfinkel has research interests in computer forensics, the
emerging field of usability and security, and privacy. Garfinkel is
the author or co-author of fourteen books on computing. He is perhaps
best known for his book Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the
21st Century. Garfinkel's most successful book, Practical UNIX and
Internet Security (co-authored with Gene Spafford), has sold more than
250,000 copies in more than a dozen languages since the first edition
was published in 1991.
Garfinkel received three Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in 1987,
a Master's of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in 1988,
and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2005.
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WORK, TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION COLLOQUIUM
on Monday, 5 November 2007, 12 noon - 1:15pm
Terman 217
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/
"Nursing Workflows and Work Practices in Acute Care"
Monique H. Lambert
Digital Health Group, Intel Corporation
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/
Dr. Monique Lambert and colleagues have conducted observational
studies of nursing work practices and workflows in nine hospitals
across the U.S., Singapore and the UK. To date, the research team has
logged over 600 hours of direct observation, shadowing nurses and
other clinicians across 18 different acute care units including
various medical specialty units, general medical/surgical, surgical
orthopedic, surgical urology/neurology/gynecology, ICU, transitional
care (ICU step down), surgical/trauma ICU, post-partum, and accident
and emergency.
Data collection methods included direct observation (shadowing),
detailed field notes, photos and video. In addition to capturing
detailed observations of routine nursing work, e.g. medication
administration, shift report, bedside care, etc. the data also include
detailed observations of nurse interactions with and use of electronic
clinical information systems, paper-based clinical documentation and
information, and various computing devices and communications
technologies in the context of real-world acute care nursing
practice. The purpose of the presentation will be to share findings
from the global clinical study, and to engage the group in a
discussion about the implications of these empirical findings for
improving nursing workflows and work practices and enhancing the
success of future implementations of clinical information systems and
technologies designed to support acute care nursing work practice.
About the Speaker: Dr. Monique Lambert is Principal Investigator of
Clinical Practices Research in Intel's Digital Health Group. Monique's
most recent research involved leading a global ethnographic study of
clinical work practices and work flows in inpatient acute care
environments where she and her colleagues completed over 600 hours of
direct observation shadowing clinicians in hospitals across the US,
Asia and the UK. Monique's previous research includes exploring the
use of wireless sensor networks for remote elder 'wellness checking,'
application of RFID/smart objects for real-time supply chain
management, ethnographic operations research of high-volume chip
manufacturing, assembly test and warehousing/distribution work
practices, and ethnographic research of Mars mission design at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Lab. Monique has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Materials
Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Seattle,
respectively, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Management from Stanford
University with a specialization in organization science.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 8 November 2007, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"Two kinds of math - and how to teach them"
Keith Devlin
CSLI, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/
By the year 2020, we are likely to have seen two major revolutions in
mathematics education. Videogame technology will bring an
understanding of mathematics to children in the affluent western
societies who do not respond to current teaching methods. At the other
end of the economic spectrum, cheap mobile phones will deliver
instruction in basic quantitative skills to the millions in the
developing world for whom the mobile phone is the only programmable
computing device in the home. Both revolutions require taking a fresh
look at the nature of mathematics and how it can be taught.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 8 November 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Open Money"
Jean-François Noubel
TheTransitioner
http://thetransitioner.org/
Collective Intelligence, Wisdom and Consciousness (CIWC) is a new
discipline which aim is to observe and understand from an integral
perspective what social organizations humanity is producing for itself
along its evolutionary journey. The need for wider consciousness and
embrace of the world at collective levels leads to more and more
initiatives of building global wisdom driven organizations. This has
always been possible at small group level when participants get highly
trained, today the emergence of socialware, the growth of the cultural
creatives society everywhere and the many initiatives that can be
observed through the civil society demonstrate that global wisdom
driven organizations are possible. The next step that can be
anticipated is the globalization of community currencies,
i.e. currency systems that communities (people, organizations, even
countries...) will create for their own market places. Scarce,
debt-based and interest-based national tender anymore prove today to
be an inadequate tool for a knowledge and wisdom based society. We
will explore what this evolution means through the most advanced
monetary project called open money.
About the Speaker: TheTransitioner.org is an international research
organization on Collective Intelligence, Wisdom and Consciousness
(CIWC). It gathers pioneers who are exploring the next human
organizations that humanity is creating through evolutionary
drives. By applying cutting edge discoveries to itself,
TheTransitioner.org aims to be a living example of this emerging
humanity. We believe there is no greater transforming force than
inspiration.
TheTransitioner.org is a non-profit, ideologically and financially
independent organization. We consider knowledge is a commons, our
discoveries are directly offered to the public domain.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 8 November 2007, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Soda Hall 320 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
"Sequential Document Visualization"
Guy Lebanon
Purdue University
Documents and other categorical valued time series are often
characterized by the frequencies of short range sequential patterns
such as n-grams. This representation converts sequential data of
varying lengths to high dimensional histogram vectors which are easily
modeled by standard statistical models. Unfortunately, the histogram
representation ignores most of the medium and long range sequential
dependencies making it unsuitable for visualizing sequential data. We
present a novel framework for sequential visualization of documents
based on the idea of local statistical modeling. The framework embeds
categorical time series as smooth curves in the multinomial simplex
summarizing the progression of sequential trends. We discuss several
visualization techniques based on the above framework and demonstrate
their usefulness for document visualization.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 8 November 2007, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"What Everyone Should Know About Open Source"
Ron Goldman
Sun Microsystems Laboratories,
Open source is an important software development methodology. It can
also be an important part of business strategy. In this talk Ron
Goldman, a Sun Microsystems researcher, will describe how open source
works and discuss why a company might want to participate. He will
touch on open source business models, building community, licensing,
and common mistakes. Also covered is why open source is important to
computer professionals, educators and regular people.
About the Speaker: Ron Goldman is a researcher working at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories on alternative software development
methodologies and new software architectures. He is currently a member
of the Sun SPOT's project that is investigating the use of Java on
small embedded, wireless devices. Ron was instrumental in defining the
vision and details for the java.net website and helped start the
Javapedia project. He has advised many Sun open source projects
including OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenOffice, and Jini. He is the
co-author of the book "Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as
Business Strategy" published in April 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann.
Prior to Sun, he developed a program to generate and manipulate visual
representations of complex data for use by social scientists as part
of a collaboration between NYNEX Science & Technology and the
Institute for Research on Learning. He has a continuing interest in
the design of programming languages and has developed various
programming environments (IDEs). He has a PhD in computer science from
Stanford University where he was a member of the robotics group.
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BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SEMINAR
on Friday, 9 November 2007, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"What is Reasoning Good For?"
Sherri Roush
Philosophy, UC Berkeley
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/roush/
It is possible to have beliefs that are reliably correlated with the
world without being able to talk informatively about this fact. In
perception this may be the rule rather than the exception. Why then
should we have an ability to reason about our beliefs, and convince
ourselves that we are right about them? I argue that this reasoning
has a function that is also carried out at the basic perceptual level
through self-monitoring that does not use reasoning or
consciousness. This function is calibration, the attunement of one's
degree of belief in p to one's track record of reliability in making
judgments about p-like matters. I argue that the function of
calibration, in turn, is pre-emptive self-correction, the adjustment
of your belief-states before the world punishes you for being wrong.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 9 November 2007, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html
"From Science Information's Concilium Bibliographicum of the
1890s to Espionage and Communist Dungeons in the 1950s"
Colin Burke
University of Maryland Baltimore
This talk describes a forthcoming book on the history of an 1890s
attempt to create and sustain a world-wide, random-access, cumulative,
and updatable data-base of all scientific information indexed in an
"international language", a language that helped to develop the
UDC. The Zurich Concilium's history was deep and long. It's fate was
tied to the birth of the American research university, the wealth and
values of a liberal American Quaker family, the struggles between
pragmatic and theoretical information specialists, the
internationalist movements (including the work of Paul Otlet), the
rise of America's eastern liberal elite and its institutions, the
nationalist urge in American science information, and, much, much
more,--including the modern art movement. The history of the
Concilium's founder, and his family, are also linked to: the ambitions
of the American intelligence agencies in World Wars I and II; Soviet
espionage in the 1930s and 1940s; the brutal purges in Eastern and
Central Europe in the 1940s and 1950s; and, the shaping the cold war's
science information systems.
About the Speaker: Colin Burke is Emeritus Professor, Dept of History,
University of Maryland Baltimore Campusr. His writings include
Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the other Memex
(Scarecrow Pr., 1994), The secret in Building 26 : the untold story of
America's ultra war against the U-boat Enigma codes (with Jim
DeBrosse) (Random House, 2004), and "History of Information Science"
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 4 (2007): 3-54.
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 9 November 2007, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"Modeling Local Coherence"
Mirella Lapata
University of Edinburgh
In this talk we introduce a novel framework for representing and
measuring local coherence. Central to this approach is the entity grid
representation of discourse which captures patterns of entity
distribution in a text. Inspired by Centering Theory, our algorithm
automatically abstracts a text into a set of entity transition
sequences and records distributional, syntactic, and referential
information about discourse entities. We re-conceptualize coherence
assessment as a learning task and show that our entity-based
representation is well-suited for ranking-based generation and text
classification tasks. Using the proposed representation, we achieve
good performance on text ordering, summary coherence evaluation, and
readability assessment.
(This talk reports joint work with Regina Barzilay.)
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