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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 12 December 2007, vol. 23:15
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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12 DECEMBER 2007 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 15
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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 12 DECEMBER 2007 TO 4 JANUARY 2007
WEDNESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2007
3:30pm SRI CCB Seminar Series [12-Dec-07]
AE201, SRI International
"Regulation of Tumor Cell Energy Utilization --
an Example of Systems Biology Reasoning from the 'Wet Lab'"
Keith Laderoute
Director, Cancer Biology Program, SRI
Abstract below
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [12-Dec-07]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"Unlearning What You Have Learned"
Mike Titelbaum
UC Berkeley
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
6:00pm Silicon Valley Web Guild [12-Dec-07]
Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View
"Impact of the Social Graph on Search and Discovery"
http://www.webguild.org/
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [12-Dec-07]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Putting Engineering Back in Protein Engineering"
Sridhar Govindarajan and Claes Gustafsson
DNA 2.0
http://www.dna20.com/
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2007
1:00pm UC Berkeley Trust Seminar [13-Dec-07]
Wozniak lounge, Soda Hall
"Two Techniques for Programming by Sketching"
Rastislav Bodik
UC Berkeley
http://www.truststc.org/seminar.htm
Abstract below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [13-Dec-07]
EJ228, SRI International
"A Quest to Understand and Accept Scientific Results"
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
University of Texas at El Paso
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC [13-Dec-07]
"By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated
Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for
$12,107.09"
Guy Kawasaki
Truemors, Garage Ventures
http://www.guykawasaki.com/about/
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:10pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [13-Dec-07]
Howison Philosophy Library, (305 Moses Hall) (Berkeley)
"Two Ways to Be Moved"
Agnes Callard
UC Berkeley
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
6:30pm SDForum: Emerging Technology Group [13-Dec-07]
Pillsbury Winthrop, 2475 Hanover St, Palo Alto
"Friendsters at Work: Displaying Social Media Streams in the Workplace"
Joe McCarthy
Nokia
http://www.sdforum.org/ETSIG
Abstract below
(there is a fee for non-SDForum members, see web page)
6:30pm SDForum: Semantic Web SIG [13-Dec-07]
Hanson Bridgett, 425 Market Street, San Francisco 94105
"Semantic Web: Intelligence at the Interface"
(pre-registration required as seating is limited)
http://www.sdforum.org/
Information below
FRIDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2007
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [14-Dec-07]
Gates 104
"Advances in Imaging from Underwater Robotic Vehicles"
Hanumant Singh
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
Abstract below
2:00pm Stanford Tech Briefing [14-Dec-07]
Turing Auditorium, Polya Hall
"Research Computing at Stanford:
Review of the 2007 Supercomputing Conference"
Phil Reese
IT services
http://techbriefings.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
7:00pm Long Now Foundation Talk [14-Dec-07]
Kanbar Hall, JCCSF, San Francisco
"At the Edge of Art"
Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais
http://www.longnow.org/
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2007
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [18-Dec-07]
EJ228, SRI International
To be announced
Richard Vaughan
Simon Fraser University
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
(this shows in email announcements but not on the current web
page so it may be canceled)
WEDNESDAY, 19 DECEMBER 2007
7:30am Stanford Breakfast Briefings [19-Dec-07]
Stanford Faculty Club
"Strategy by Design: How Design Thinking Builds Opportunities"
Tim Brown
President and CEO, IDEO
(fee $48/$36 for Stanford staff/students/alumni)
http://breakfastbriefings.stanford.edu/
FRIDAY, 21 DECEMBER 2007 - Stanford closes at 5pm
THURSDAY, 3 JANUARY 2008 - Stanford reopens
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NOTE
The CSLI Calendar will not be published during the winter break. See
you in the new year.
Twas the night before break, when all through the campus,
not a creature was stirring, not even a wumpus.
The mail box were hung by the doorframe with care,
In hopes that St. NSF soon would be there;
The students were nestled all snug in their cubes,
while visions of Phds danced on their tubes.
and admin with her spreadsheet and I with my mac,
Had just settled down for a long winter's hack,
When out on the quad there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the chair to see what was the matter.
...
I'll allow others to try to complete/improve/ignore.
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SRI CCB SEMINAR SERIES
on Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 3:30pm
AE201, SRI International
"Regulation of Tumor Cell Energy Utilization --
an Example of Systems Biology Reasoning from the 'Wet Lab'"
Keith Laderoute
Director, Cancer Biology Program, SRI
Despite the growing availability of large datasets from 'omics
research, experimentalists still largely rely on hypothesis generation
and testing to generate models of biological systems. This talk will
provide an example of how modern experimental tools and informal
reasoning can help to explain a complex biological
phenomenon--subversion of normal cellular energy metabolism by cancer
cells in pathophysiological tumor microenvironments.
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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"Putting Engineering Back in Protein Engineering"
Sridhar Govindarajan and Claes Gustafsson
DNA 2.0
http://www.dna20.com/
ProteinGPS, the technology for navigation in protein space, addresses
the shortcomings of existing protein engineering paradigms and takes
advantage of the last 50 years of development in linear and nonlinear
systems optimization. Protein engineering has classically been
approached from two diametrically opposed directions: rational design
and directed evolution. Rationalism attempts to understand protein
structure and function at a complete mechanistic level so that the
effect of any modification to the protein can be estimated by
calculation from first principles. Directed evolution on the other
hand follows the strict empirical tradition and attempts to find a
desired solution by testing many many different solutions, typically
using various evolution-based algorithms. ProteinGPS instead uses
established machine learning and nonlinear systems optimization
technologies to provide a standard convention for protein space
navigation. The method calculates the specific location of a protein
variant in multidimensional space and places unique information rich
variants called infologs, at important crossroads within the space
assessed. The resulting datasets are used to map the hyper space and
calculate new protein variant sequences that fulfill the functional
constraints needed. Application of technologies that the data mining
society has established over the last 50 years, to Protein
Engineering, results in far more functional protein improvement while
needing far less samples to test.
References:
Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2005 9:202-9. Predicting enzyme function from
protein sequence. Minshull, Ness, Gustafsson, Govindarajan.
BMC Biotechnol. 2007 7:16. Engineering proteinase K using machine
learning and synthetic genes. Liao, Warmuth, Govindarajan, Ness, Wang,
Gustafsson, Minshull.
About the Speakers: Sridhar Govindarajan is a cofounder and VP of
Informatics at DNA2.0. He has over 15 years of scientific computing
experience and leads the DNA2.0 automation and protein engineering
efforts. Prior to DNA2.0 Sridhar led the computational research at
Maxygen in optimizing directed evolution technologies. He has also
held the position of systems architect at EraGen Biosciences. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and holds an
undergraduate degree from IIT Bombay, India.
Claes Gustafsson is a cofounder and has served as DNA2.0's VP of Sales
and Marketing since its inception. Before founding DNA2.0, he headed
the Bioinformatics group at Maxygen and was project leader for
metabolic engineering of natural product synthesis. Prior to this,
Claes was one of the first employees at Kosan Biosciences, developing
technology for manipulating Streptomyces polyketide production. He was
a post-doctoral fellow at UCSF and UCSC and received his Ph.D. in
Umea, Sweden and is a co-author of one of the first publications
applying nonlinear systems optimization to biopolymers.
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UC BERKELEY TRUST SEMINAR
on Thursday, 13 December 2007, 1:00pm
Wozniak lounge, Soda Hall (Berkeley)
http://www.truststc.org/seminar.htm
"Two Techniques for Programming by Sketching"
Rastislav Bodik
UC Berkeley
Programmers would love to have their code automatically synthesized
but current synthesizers are domain-specific and require expert
guidance. With programming by sketching, we seek to bring software
synthesis to everyday programming. I will present results from two
efforts: a sketching language for high-performance kernels and a
programmer's search engine. SKETCH: In the SKETCH language, the
programmer writes a program with holes, called a sketch. The
synthesizer then fills in the holes so that the completed sketch
behaves like a separately provided specification. Buggy sketches are
rejected, giving us correctness by construction. Also, since holes
stand for tricky code fragments, programmer can develop sophisticated
implementations faster. SKETCH is based on the first combinatorial
(2QBF) synthesizer. PROSPECTOR: Reusing code is hard because flexible
APIs are necessarily complex. To ease development of client code, we
developed Prospector, a programmer's search engine. Given a query
expressing the coding intent, Prospector synthesizes code candidates
ready for insertion into the program. The enabling innovation is the
jungloid, a code pattern that covers many API coding headaches. I will
explain how jungloids lead to simple search queries, how jungloids are
mined, and how Prospector synthesizes jungloids never seen in the
mining corpus.
About the Speaker: Ras Bodik is an Assistant Professor at UC
Berkeley. Previously, he was at University of Wisconsin. His current
projects explore how run-time information can aid program analysis in
solving problems of computer architecture, software engineering, and
dynamic compilation.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 13 December 2007, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"A Quest to Understand and Accept Scientific Results"
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
University of Texas at El Paso
Scientific applications are quickly becoming more sophisticated and
capable of producing breakthrough results that some scientific
communities have been requesting for many years. At the same time that
scientific applications are becoming more capable of responding to
scientists requests, application results are becoming more difficult
for scientists to understand and accept. The complexity of the
underlying technologies supporting sophisticated applications may
explain why some scientists are reluctant to accept results from
complex applications. For instance, scientific workflow specifications
often used in support of cyber-infrastructure applications can be
instantiated by hundreds or even thousands of web services accessing
and processing data gathered by large scientific communities or
streamed in by swarms of large-scale sensor networks. With this
not-so-futuristic context in mind, we can say that when most current
complex scientific applications return results, many scientists do not
know what information sources were used, when the sources were
updated, how reliable the source was, or what information was looked
up versus derived. Many scientists also do not know how results were
derived.
This talk is centered on a single scientific question in the context
of geophysics, i.e., a scientists request, and on the problem a
scientist may face when deciding whether to accept a map as a quality
result for his/her request. The acceptance of maps as quality results
becomes even more challenging when the scientist acquires multiple
maps, not all of them similar, yet all of them are possible results
for the scientific question. We first discuss the use of provenance
and provenance visualization as key mechanisms for scientists to
understand maps as scientific results. In particular, we present the
Inference Web approach that aims to take opaque scientific results and
make the results more transparent by providing infrastructure for
presenting and managing explanations. To assess our provenance
solution, we present a user study that statistically demonstrates the
need for scientists to use provenance information to correctly
identify and explain map imperfections, if any, and thus to determine
map quality.
Later in the talk, we discuss the use of trust management as a way of
reinforcing scientists decisions concerning acceptance of maps as
quality results. A comprehensive representation of trust that includes
the notions of distrust, ignorance and vagueness is used to encode
trust relations between agents providing spatial information used to
derive map results, e.g., people, organizations, sensor networks. A
topic-driven, web-based information extraction approach has been used
to learn trust relations about people and organizations in the
geoscience community. With the combined use of provenance and the
geoscience trust network, we compute a new layer on top of maps
generated by cyber-infrastructure applications and demonstrate the
potential benefits of using the new layer to support a quality
decisions.
About the Speaker: Paulo Pinheiro da Silva is an Assistant Professor
of Computer Science and the leader of the Trust Laboratory at the
University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Texas. At UTEP, Paulo is a
co-PI of the Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence for Cyber-Infrastructure
Applications funded by the National Science Foundation, where he is
actively involved in multi-disciplinary research between computer
science, Earth sciences, and environmental sciences. Paulo is a
co-leader of the Inference Web project, a collaborative research
effort between Stanford University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and UTEP that aims to provide infrastructure for explaining responses
from software systems. Inference Web is sponsored by a number of DARPA
and DTO projects. Paulo received his Bachelors degree in Mathematics
and his M.Sc. degree in computer science both from the Federal
University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and his Ph.D. in computer science
from Manchester University, United Kingdom. He was a Postdoctoral
Fellow of the Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at
Stanford University for three and a half years.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 13 December 2007, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content,
Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09"
Guy Kawasaki
Truemors, Garage Ventures
http://www.guykawasaki.com/about/
In this talk, Guy will explain why and how he launched Truemors.com
using open-source software, contractors, favors, and cajoling. He will
also cover the current entrepreneurial and venture-capital funding
conditions.
About the Speaker: Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Truemors and a
managing director of Garage Technology Ventures. He is also a
columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple
Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books
including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to
Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh
Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well
as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
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SDFORUM: SEMANTIC WEB SIG
on Thursday, 13 December 2007, 6:30pm
Hanson Bridgett, 425 Market Street, San Francisco 94105
http://www.sdforum.org/
(pre-registration required as seating is limited, see web page)
(price $15 for non-SDForum members, free for SDForum members)
"Semantic Web: Intelligence at the Interface"
The interfaces we use to interact with the world's information are
getting smarter. Web portals gave us someone else's idea of the
content we should see. Then came search engines, which let us tell the
system what we want, one query at a time. We are about to see the next
wave -- intelligence at the interface -- in which the system knows
about us, our information, and our physical environment. With
knowledge about our context, an intelligent system can make
recommendations and act on our behalf. This SD Forum event -- a
special repeat performance -- will showcase live demos of four
exciting new examples of intelligence at the interface developed by
Bay Area companies.
* SRI will demonstrate an intelligent assistant system called CALO
that came out of an ambitious program of AI research. It learns
about your documents, email, people, schedules, and meetings, and
learns even more as you use it. It helps you organize your
information world, prepare for meetings, create presentations, and
find information in the context of your work.
* Yahoo! Research Berkeley will demo ZoneTag and Zurfer,
mobile-phone photo-driven applications that use your social,
spatial, and temporal context to support and enhance key user
tasks on the mobile device. They intelligently help you capture,
upload, tag, view and search for photos on your mobile device,
minimizing requirements on explicit input and user attention.
* PARC will demonstrate a mobile leisure guide, codenamed Magitti,
which recommends places to visit in an urban environment. It pays
attention to your time, location, past behavior and preferences
and it also infers your current and future activity type to better
target its recommendations.
* Radar Networks will demonstrate Twine, a newly announced online
service based on their Semantic Web platform that helps people
organize, find, and share their information more intelligently. It
knows about the semantic content of information of all sorts, from
web content to email.
About the Panelists
Adam Cheyer, SRI is currently a Program Director in SRI's Artificial
Intelligence Center, where he serves as Chief Architect of the
CALO/PAL project. Previously, Mr. Cheyer was VP of Engineering at
Dejima, a mobile solutions company, and before that, VP of Engineering
at Verticalnet, an enterprise software provider. As Senior Scientist
and Co-Director of the Computer Human Interaction Center (CHIC) at SRI
International, Mr. Cheyer led a multidisciplinary team of researchers
exploring web services, distributed knowledge, and pervasive
computing.
Dr. Mor Naaman, Yahoo! Research Berkeley, is a research team lead at
Yahoo! Research Berkeley (Yahoo! Advanced Development Research). His
research focuses on context-based tools and algorithms for interacting
with media. Mor has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford
University. His research in the Stanford Infolab also focused on
management of digital photographs, thereby allowing (and requiring!)
him to take photos throughout his working life. In previous careers,
Mor was a professional basketball player as well as a software
developer and a college radio DJ.
Dr. Bo Begole, PARC, is the manager of the Ubiquitous Computing
Research Area at the Palo Alto Research Center. He is an applied
computer science researcher who invents technologies for novel
user-level applications. His past work includes systems that provide
synchronous collaboration of single-user applications,
computer-mediated communication, distributed interpersonal awareness,
sensor-based interpretability detection, temporal pattern modeling and
prediction, media device interoperability, and context-aware mobile
systems. He is a co-Chair of the 2008 conference on Computer
Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2008), to be held in San Diego, CA,
USA on 8-12 Nov 2008. Bo received a B.S. in 1992 in Mathematics from
Virginia Commonwealth University, an M.S. in 1994 and a Ph.D. in 1998
in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. Prior to his studies, Bo
served in the US Army as an Arabic language translator specializing in
Egyptian, Libyan and Iraqi dialects.
Victoria Bellotti, PARC, is a Principal Scientist and manager of the
Socio-Technical and Interaction Research (STIR) group at PARC. She
studies people to understand their practices, problems and
requirements for future technology. She also designs and analyzes
systems, focusing on user needs and experience and is an inventor on
multiple patents and pending patent applications. Her past work
encompasses domains such as transportation, process control,
computer-mediated communication, collaboration and ubiquitous
computing. Victoria is best known for her research on personal
information management and task management. However, more recently,
she has been focusing on user-centered design of context- and
activity-aware computing systems.
Nova Spivack, Radar Networks, is one of the leading voices of the
emerging Semantic Web, often referred to as Web3.0. Nova founded
Radar Networks to develop semantic social software. The company just
launched Twine, a revolutionary new way to share, organize, and find
information. In 1994, Nova co-founded EarthWeb (IPO 1998). Nova has
worked at Individual, Xerox/Kurzweil, Thinking Machines, and also with
SRI International on the DARPA CALO program and nVention. Nova founded
Lucid Ventures, and co-founded the San Francisco Web Innovators
Network. As a grandson of management guru Peter F. Drucker, Nova
shares his grandfather's interests in the evolution of knowledge
work. In 1999 Nova flew to the edge of space in Russia with Space
Adventures.
About the Moderator: Tom Gruber is an innovator in technologies that
augment human intelligence, individually and collectively. At
Stanford University he did foundational work in Ontology Engineering
and the precursors of Semantic Web technology. During Web 0.1, he
built the first public library for sharing ontologies on the Web; led
the team that deployed the first virtual document applications on the
Web that generate natural language explanations in response to
questions; and invented the first widely-used open source application
that turns email conversations into collective memories on the Web.
During Web 1.0, he led technology development at Intraspect, an
enterprise software company that pioneered the space of Collaborative
Knowledge Management -- software that helps large, distributed
communities of professional people contribute to and learn from a
collective body of knowledge. During Web 2.0, he led technology
development at RealTravel.com, a popular user-contributed content site
where travelers from around the world find and share their travel
experiences. During Web 3.0, he is working on technologies that will
bring intelligence to the interface.
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LONG NOW FOUNDATION TALK
on Friday, 14 December 2007, 7:00pm
Kanbar Hall, JCCSF, San Francisco
http://www.longnow.org/
"At the Edge of Art"
Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais
http://at-the-edge-of-art.com/home.html
Art is humanity's long-term unconscious memory. Artists work by
creative misuse, and thanks to the Internet there have never been so
many tools for so many artists (and multitudes who don't know they're
artists) to creatively misuse. Take a cruise through how strange and
meaningful it is getting with the authors of At the Edge of Art.
A $10 donation is very welcome as our Seminars cost thousands to
produce each month, but it is certainly not required for
attendance. Cash or check accepted at the door.
Seminar audio is available for download and podcast. See the web
site.
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SDFORUM: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY GROUP
on Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:30pm
Pillsbury Winthrop, 2475 Hanover St, Palo Alto
http://www.sdforum.org/ETSIG
(there is a fee for non-SDForum members, see web page)
"Friendsters at Work: Displaying Social Media Streams in the Workplace"
Joe McCarthy
Nokia
Online social media services enable people to share many aspects of
their personal interests and passions with friends, acquaintances and
strangers. Much of the attention on such services -- in the
traditional media as well as scientific literature -- has focused on
the use and impact of such services on interconnections and
interactions among friends and family. Although there is a growing
appreciation for the value of friendships in work settings, relatively
little attention has been devoted to how sharing through social media
services can help foster stronger relationships in the workplace. At
Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, we are embarking on an investigation
into the use of a new generation of proactive displays -- large
computer displays that can sense and respond in contextually
appropriate ways to the people nearby. Our new Context, Content and
Community Collage proactive display application is running on 8 LCD
touchcomputers recently deployed throughout our lab. Nearby people are
sensed via Bluetooth phones, and the response is an incrementally
generated ambient collage of photos from Flickr profiles they have
chosen to share. The presentation will highlight the motivations,
goals, design and early deployment experiences with the proactive
display application. This research is part of Context, Content and
Community project at NRC Palo Alto, and was made possible primarily
through the tireless efforts of three of our interns, Max Harper, Ben
Congleton and Jiang Bian.
About the Speaker: Joe McCarthy is a Principal Instigator at Nokia
Research Center Palo Alto, where he is committed to the design,
development and deployment of technologies to help people relate to
one another. Joe's career includes earlier roles as an entrepreneur,
research scientist, professor, consultant, and musician. Other roles
currently played include husband, father and wine aficionado.
Additional information about Joe can be found at his official web site
(http://research.nokia.com/people/joe_mccarthy) and his unsanctioned
weblog <http://gumption.typepad.com/blog>
$15 at the door for non-SDForum members
No charge for SDForum members and for University of Illinois Alumni
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GRAI SEMINAR
on Friday, 14 December 2007, 2:00pm
Gates 104
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
"Advances in Imaging from Underwater Robotic Vehicles"
Hanumant Singh
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The rapid and nonlinear attenuation of the electromagnetic spectrum
underwater imposes unique challenges on imaging underwater. In this
talk we focus on high resolution optical and acoustic imaging from
underwater vehicles. Our emphasis is on systems level solutions that
utilize both, the dynamics of the platforms as well as exploit the
physics of the sensing modalities. We use these techniques in the
context of photomosaicking, 3D image reconstruction and
microbathymetric sonar mapping.
Our work is illustrated with examples from applications in marine
archaeology, arctic studies, coral reef ecology, and fisheries habitat
studies.
http://polardiscovery.whoi.edu/expedition2
http://divediscover.whoi.edu/expedition11
According to the host, "Be prepared for an impressive presentation
with many results from real adventurous expeditions, for instance
expeditions into the arctic sea. You should not miss this opportunity,
especially if you are working in robotics, vision, or 3D scene
reconstruction."
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TECH BRIEFINGS
on Friday, 14 December 2007, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall)
(Tech Briefings are aimed at the Stanford Community)
http://techbriefings.stanford.edu/
"Research Computing at Stanford:
Review of the 2007 Supercomputing Conference"
Phil Reese
IT services
Phil Reese (IT Services) will present the highlights from the
Supercomputing 2007 conference held in Reno, NV and how the joint
booth with Stanford and SLAC worked out. In addition, he'll review the
current status of Research Computing at Stanford, talking about what
is going on and what the future looks like. The planning around the
new Data Center and the many issues involved will round out the
presentation.
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