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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 5 March 2008, vol. 23:24
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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5 MARCH 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 24
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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 5 MARCH 2008 TO 14 MARCH 2008
WEDNESDAY, 5 MARCH 2008
3:30pm SRI CCB Seminar Series [5-Mar-08]
AE201, SRI International
"Create a CCB Website"
"Improve SRI access to scientific literature"
"2008 funding to CCB seminar series"
"Call for more speakers"
"Brief review of existing projects and outstanding proposals by PIs"
Huaiyu Mi
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [5-Mar-08]
Gates B03
"When computers look at art: Computer vision and image
analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts"
David G. Stork
Ricoh Innovations, Visiting Stanford Computer Science
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
4:30pm MS&E 472: Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar [5-Mar-08]
Skilling Auditorium
Ken Wilcox
CEO, Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group
http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande472/
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [5-Mar-08]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Databases and Algorithms for Pathway Bioinformatics"
Peter D. Karp
Bioinformatics, SRI International
http://sfbayacm.org/events/2008-03-05.php
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
THURSDAY, 6 MARCH 2008
11:30am CCRMA Hearing Seminar [6-Mar-08]
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
"The Interaction of Cognitive Function
with Hearing Aid Signal Processing"
Brent Edwards
Starkey Hearing
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [6-Mar-08]
Cordura Hall 100
"How the languages we speak shape the ways we think"
Lera Boroditsky
Psychology, Stanford University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~lera/
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
12 noon Symbolic Systems [6-Mar-08]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Innovation Goes Public"
Bruce Perens
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar [6-Mar-08]
Packard 101
"The Role of Prices in Peer-Assisted Content Distribution"
Ramesh Johari
Stanford University
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [6-Mar-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Innovation Strategies in a Global Economy"
Sophie Vandebroek
Xerox Corporation, Xerox Innovation Group
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [6-Mar-08]
Soda Hall 405 (UC Berkeley)
"Suboptimality of Bayesian Inference When the Model Is Wrong"
Peter Grunwald
CWI Amsterdam
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [6-Mar-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Truth in Fiction"
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
French Department
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [6-Mar-08]
Packard 101
"Finding minimum-rank matrices via nuclear norm minimization"
Pablo Parrilo
MIT
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
4:15pm Neurobiology of Disease Seminar Series [6-Mar-08]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman B060
"Axonal transport of neurofilaments"
Anthony Brown
Ohio State
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
FRIDAY, 7 MARCH 2008
12 noon Ethics@Noon [7-Mar-08]
Bldg. 100:101K
"Developing Affordable Housing: Ethical Issues and Other Challenges"
Andrew Cantor and his team
GSB
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.html
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [7-Mar-08]
Gates B01
"Looking at Looking at Looking"
Golan Levin
Carnegie Mellon University
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [7-Mar-08]
Gates 104
Title to be announced
Harlyn Baker
HP research
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [7-Mar-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies
for the Rural Developing World"
Tapan Parikh
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/news/topstories/parikh20070815
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s08/schedule.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [7-Mar-08]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Finitism and Constructivism in Mathematics Revisited"
Ulrich Kohlenbach
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~kohlenbach/
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [7-Mar-08]
Jordan Hall 420:050
Title to be announced
I-Chant Chiang
Psychology Department
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
4:15pm CS545: Stanford-HP InfoSeminar [7-Mar-08]
Gates B03
"Enabling Mobile 2.0: Data Management for User-Generated Services"
Christian Jensen
Aalborg University
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 8 MARCH 2008
all day Stanford Center for Internet and Society [8-Mar-08]
Stanford Law School, Room 290
"Legal Futures Conference"
Chaired by Larry Kramer, Lawrence Lessig, Kent Walker
Registration: free, see web site
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
MONDAY, 10 MARCH 2008
11:00am Media X Seminar: Workgroup Protocols and Algorithms [10-Mar-08]
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160)
"Virtual Teams And Organization Design: The Larger Picture"
Doug Carmichael
http://mediax.stanford.edu/events_calendar/calendar.html
11:00am SRI AI Seminar Series [10-Mar-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"Approaches to Modeling and Learning User Preferences"
Marie desJardins
University of Maryland
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/detail.php?id=241
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
12:45pm CIS/SLATA [10-Mar-08]
Law School 280B
"Patent Failure"
Jim Bessen
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
TUESDAY, 11 MARCH 2008
2:30pm NLP Reading Group [11-Mar-08]
CANCELED
http://nlp.stanford.edu/read/
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [11-Mar-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"Mobile Visual I/O"
Kari Pulli
Nokia Research
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/detail.php?id=236
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
4:15pm ENGR110/210: Perspectives in Assistive Technology [11-Mar-08]
Meyer Library 124
"ElevAid -- Device to Press Elevator Buttons"
"LiquidMetal -- Redesign of the White Cane"
"Let's Get Physical -- Pediatric Gait Project"
Student Design Proposal Presentations
http://www.stanford.edu/class/engr110/
6:00pm Cafe Scientifique [11-Mar-08]
SRI International
"Computer Vision in the Study of Art"
David Stork
Stanford University
http://www.cafescipa.org/
WEDNESDAY, 12 MARCH 2008
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [12-Mar-08]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"The Implications of Modern Neuroscience Knowledge for a Variety
of Social Processes Including the Law and Judicial Practice"
Michael Gazzaniga,
UC Santa Barbara
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [12-Mar-08]
Gates B01
"Building a Safer Web: Web Tripwires and a New Browser Architecture"
Charles Reis
University of Washington
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 13 MARCH 2008
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [13-Mar-08]
Nora Suppes Hall 103
"Explaining Experience in Nature: The Foundations
of Logic and Apprehension / A New Kind Of Positivism"
Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
4:00pm NLaSP Colloquium [13-Mar-08]
Gates 104
"Forest-based Search Algorithms in Parsing and Machine Translation"
Liang Huang
University of Pennsylvania
https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/nlasp-coll
http://nlp.stanford.edu/events.shtml
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC [13-Mar-08]
Bernard Kerr
Yahoo! Del.icio.us
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [13-Mar-08]
Soda Hall 405 (UC Berkeley)
To be announced
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [13-Mar-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Placebo effects, price, and consumption utility:
How price can change the taste of wine"
Aurelie Beaumel
Symbolic Systems Program
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [13-Mar-08]
Packard 202
Title to be announced
Maya Gupta
University of Washington
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
4:15pm Neurobiology of Disease Seminar Series [13-Mar-08]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman B060
"Innies and Outies: Contributions of Neurotransmitter
Transporters to Neurobehavioral Disorders"
Randy Blakely
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar [13-Mar-08]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Understanding the Challenges in Browser Logic Correctness"
Shuo Chen
Microsoft Research
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
FRIDAY, 14 MARCH 2008
all day Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics [14-Mar-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall, Rm 126
"Construction of Meaning"
9th Annual Semantics Fest
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/semfest/semfest08.html
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Announcement below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [14-Mar-08]
Gates B01
"Interaction techniques for accessing,
collecting, and sharing Web content"
Mira Dontcheva
University of Washington
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [14-Mar-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"How to make the Web more educational"
Michael Buckland
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s08/schedule.html
4:15pm CS545: Stanford-HP InfoSeminar [14-Mar-08]
Gates B03
"Organizing the World's Information, Socially"
Ed Chang
Google China
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
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appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
"The Construction of Meaning"
9th Semantics Fest
Friday, March 14, 2008
Margaret Jacks Hall, Rm. 126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/semfest/semfest08.html
9:45am: Coffee, welcome
(Chair: Sven Lauer)
10:00am: Adrian Brasoveanu
"Comparative and Equative Correlatives as Anaphora to Differentials"
10:30am: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
"Finding Contradictions in Text"
11:00am: BREAK
(Chair: Nola Stephens)
11:15am: Caitlin Fausey and Lera Boroditsky
"Oops! Describing and Remembering Accidental Agents in English,
Spanish and Japanese"
11:45am: Arnold Zwicky
"What to Blame It On: Diathesis Alternations, Usage Advice,
`Confusion', and Pattern Extension"
12:15pm: LUNCH (provided)
(Chair: Beth Levin)
1:30pm: Sven Lauer
"Dependent Definites: On The Semantics of Free Relatives with -ever"
2:00pm: Asya Pereltsvaig
"Russian -nibud' Items as Dependent Indefinites"
2:30pm: BREAK
(Chair: Anubha Kothari)
2:45pm: Jan Tore Lonning
"Vector-free Semantics for Locative PPs"
3:15pm: Bill MacCartney
"Containment, Exclusion, and Implicativity in Natural Logic"
3:45pm: BREAK
(Chair: Scott Grimm)
4:00pm: Nate Chambers
4:30pm: Laura Whitton
"Quantification and Anaphora in Conditionals: Getting RESULTs"
5:00pm: SOCIAL
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Symposium on Computational Approaches to Creativity in Science
Center for the Study of Language and Information
Stanford University, March 29-30, 2008
Creativity manifests in several ways during scientific inquiry.
Investigators often need to carry forward the consequences of
established beliefs, to synthesize theory with measurements, to
explain observed phenomena, and to involve themselves in other
knowledge-driven activities. The computational metaphor provides
powerful tools both for understanding the creative process and for
supporting the environment in which it unfolds. This symposium brings
together philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists, and others
to address questions such as
What role does creativity play in different facets of the
scientific enterprise, and how can computational tools help in
each context?
When does background knowledge aid creativity in science and
when does it interfere with the discovery of creative solutions?
When do interactions among scientists increase creativity and
how can computational aids for interaction support this process?
The speakers will report and discuss their findings on scientific
creativity and the potential for computational creativity-support
tools. For more information about the symposium schedule and
presentations, see
http://cll.stanford.edu/symposia/creativity
The symposium will take place on Saturday, March 29, and Sunday, March
30, just after the AAAI Spring Symposia, at Stanford University's
Center for the Study and Language and Information. Attendance will be
by invitation only, but there will be no registration fee. Fifteen
invited speakers will present their research over two days and we will
have space for a number of non-presenting attendees. If you would like
to attend, please send email to
scacs-08 (at) csli.stanford.edu
with a paragraph describing your interest in scientific creativity and
your past work in relevant areas (e.g., reasoning, learning,
discovery) from the perspective of any discipline.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B03
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"When computers look at art: Computer vision and image
analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts"
David G. Stork
Ricoh Innovations, Visiting Stanford Computer Science
New computer methods have been used to shed light on a number of
recent controversies in the study of art. For example, computer
fractal analysis has been used in authentication studies of paintings
attributed to Jackson Pollock recently discovered by Alex
Matter. Computer wavelet analysis has been used for attribution of the
contributors in Perugino's Holy Family. An international group of
computer and image scientists is studying the brushstrokes in
paintings by van Gogh for detecting forgeries. Sophisticated computer
analysis of perspective, shading, color and form has shed light on
David Hockney's bold claim that as early as 1420, Renaissance artists
employed optical devices such as concave mirrors to project images
onto their canvases.
This profusely illustrate lecture for non-scientists will include
works by Jackson Pollock, Vincent van Gogh, Jan van Eyck, Hans
Memling, Lorenzo Lotto, and others. You may never see paintings the
same way again.
About the Speaker: Dr. David G. Stork is Chief Scientist of Ricoh
Innovations and has held appointments, taught, and sat on dissertation
committees at Stanford University frequently over the last 17 years in
the departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
Statistics, Psychology and Art and Art History. He will teach CS 379
next spring, "Computer image analysis in the visual arts."
He has published in optics and art for over two decades, including
Seeing the Light: Optics in nature, photography, color, vision and
holography (Wiley), the leading textbook on optics in the arts.
A graduate in physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
the University of Maryland at College Park, he also studied art
history at Wellesley College and was Artist-in-Residence through the
New York State Council of the Arts. His anamorphic photographs and
graphics (based on late Renaissance methods) have appeared in small
art journals as well as Optics and Photonics News and Scientific
American magazine. He has taught courses such as "Light, color and
visual phenomena," "The physics of aesthetics and perception," and
"Optics, perspective and Renaissance painting" over the last quarter
century variously at leading liberal arts and research universities
such as Wellesley College, Swarthmore College, Clark University and
Stanford University. He is a member of the International Foundation
for Art Research and co-editor of Computer image analysis in the study
of art (SPIE 2008, forthcoming), the first symposium volume on the
topic. He holds 35 US patents and has published numerous technical
papers on human and machine learning and perception of patterns,
physiological optics, image understanding, concurrency theory,
theoretical mechanics, optics, image processing, as well as five
books, including Pattern Classification (2nd ed.), the world's
all-time best-selling textbook in the field, used in courses in over
250 universities worldwide. He has served on the editorial boards of
five international journals and has delivered over 45 plenary, invited
or distinguished lectures at universities and conferences (atop nearly
200 traditional invited colloquia and seminars).
He created the PBS television documentary 2001: HAL's Legacy, based on
his book HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality (MIT). He
was one of four scientists invited to comment on Mr. Hockney's theory
at the December 2001 "Art and Optics" Symposium at the New York
Institute for the Humanities and one of two scientists invited to
present a lecture in the symposium exploring the possible use of
optics by Renaissance painters at the Optical Society of America's
Annual Meeting in Rochester, NY, October 2004.
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 6 March 2008, 11:30am
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
"The Interaction of Cognitive Function with Hearing Aid Signal Processing"
Brent Edwards
Starkey Hearing
One of the big unsolved problems in auditory perception is the loss of
functionality as we grow older and lose the ability to understand and
pick out voices in a complicated auditory environment. Conventional
hearing aids don't fix this problem. What can we do better?
Complex processing in the brain plays an important role in hearing.
The brain builds up a representation of the world by sophisticated
analysis of signals from the cochlea, and from this representation it
focuses attention on the auditory objects that it wishes to analyze
and interpret. Understanding how hearing impairment and hearing aids
affect such cognitive ability is critical to better design and fit
hearing aids, and to better counsel hearing aid wearers. This talk
will review cognitive issues from the perspective of how to provide
benefit to hearing impaired individuals. An overview will be presented
on how the brain interprets sound to create a representation of the
world around the listener through Auditory Scene Analysis (ASA), and
how hearing impairment and hearing aids may affect this
ability. Experimental data will be presented that demonstrate the
impact of hearing aid processing on ASA ability as it relates to
speech perception and on cognitive function in general.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 6 March 2008, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"How the languages we speak shape the ways we think"
Lera Boroditsky
Psychology, Stanford University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~lera/
How do languages we speak shape the ways we think? Do speakers of
different languages think differently? Does learning new languages
change the way you think? Do bilinguals think differently when
speaking different languages? Does language shape our thinking only
when we're speaking or does it shape our attentional and cognitive
patterns more broadly? In this talk I will describe several lines of
research looking at how speakers of Indonesian, Spanish, Mandarin,
Greek, Kuuk Thaayorre and English talk about and think about events,
causality, and (if there's time) time. The results show that
languages help construct our representations of the world, yielding
predictably different representations in speakers of different
languages.
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS
on Thursday, 6 March 2008, 12 noon - 1:30pm
Jordan Hall 420:041
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Innovation Goes Public"
Bruce Perens
Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many of
the world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch,
Google, Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York, and probably you --
although you might not know it. Innovative products like Linux,
Firefox, and Apache are the market-leaders in their sectors, but there
are tens of thousands of Open Source programs, used for just about
everything. But the economics of Open Source are non-intuitive: how
can you make money by giving software away? Why did IBM de-emphasize
AIX, after spending Billions, in favor of Linux, the product of a
loose collaboration of programmers that it can never control? How can
the world's greatest city trust Open Source to help manage its jails?
Perens will show how Open Source is often the most effective strategy
for creating and utilizing new innovation. He will explain the
economics of Open Source and how it works for profit-generating
companies. His talk will be clear to beginners yet informative even
for Open Source pros.
This talk is co-sponsored by the ATS program, Symbolic Systems and IT
Services.
About the Speaker: Bruce Perens is a leader in the Free Software and
Open Source community. He advises large corporations and several
national governments on Open Source policy. He is creator of the Open
Source Definition, the manifesto of the Open Source movement in
Software. Perens is a vice president at Sourcelabs, a venture-funded
company that provides Open Source services to Wall Street. He is a
visiting researcher at Agder University in Norway, funded by a
national grant. He was HP's first Senior Global Strategist for Linux
and Open Source, and was Senior Research Scientist for Open Source
with George Washington University's Cyber Security Policy Research
Institute. The Bruce Perens' Open Source Series from Prentice Hall
published 24 titles with Perens as series editor. Perens previously
spent 20 years in the computer graphic animation industry, 12 of them
at Pixar Animation Studios. He has a credit on the films A Bug's Life
and Toy Story II.
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STANFORD NETWORKING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 6 March 2008, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Packard 101
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
"The Role of Prices in Peer-Assisted Content Distribution"
Ramesh Johari
Stanford University
Peer-assisted content distribution matches user demand for content
with available supply at other peers in the network. Inspired by this
supply-and-demand interpretation of the nature of content sharing, we
employ price theory to study peer-assisted content distribution. In
this approach, the market-clearing prices are those which exactly
align supply and demand, and the system is studied through the
characterization of price equilibria. Our work provides two separate
steps forward. First, we rigorously analyze the efficiency and
robustness gains that are enabled by price-based multilateral
exchange. We show that multilateral exchanges satisfy several
desirable efficiency and robustness properties that bilateral
exchanges such as BitTorrent do not, particularly when considering
multiple files. Second, we propose and evaluate a system design that
realizes many of the benefits of a price-based multilateral exchange;
our design encourages sharing of desirable content and
network-friendly resource utilization. Bilateral barter-based systems
such as BitTorrent have been attractive in large part because of their
simplicity; however, little attention has been devoted to studying the
efficiency and robustness lost in return for this simplicity. Our
research takes a significant step in filling this gap, both through
formal analysis and system design. This is joint work with Christina
Aperjis (Stanford) and Mike Freedman (Princeton).
About the Speaker: Ramesh Johari is an Assistant Professor at Stanford
University, with a full-time appointment in the Department of
Management Science and Engineering (MS&E), and courtesy appointments
in the Departments of Computer Science (CS) and Electrical Engineering
(EE). He is a member of the Operations Research group in MS&E, and the
Information Systems Laboratory in EE. He is also a member of the
advisory board of the Stanford Clean Slate Internet Program. He
received an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard (1998), a Certificate of
Advanced Study in Mathematics from Cambridge (1999), and a Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (2004). He is the
recipient of a British Marshall Scholarship (1998), First Place in the
INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition (2003), the
George M. Sprowls Award for the best doctoral thesis in computer
science at MIT (2004), Honorable Mention for the ACM Doctoral
Dissertation Award (2004), the Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2005),
the MS&E Graduate Teaching Award (2005), the INFORMS
Telecommunications Section Doctoral Dissertation Award (2006), and the
NSF CAREER Award (2007). He has served on the program committees of
IEEE Infocom (2007, 2008), ACM SIGCOMM (2006), ACM SIGMETRICS (2008),
and ACM EC (2007).
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 6 March 2008, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Innovation Strategies in a Global Economy"
Sophie Vandebroek
Xerox Corporation, Xerox Innovation Group
Last summer, Xerox received the National Medal of Technology for its
rich heritage of innovation - which includes xerography, laser
printing, solid-state lasers, the modern computer workstation, organic
materials, print-on-demand digital production systems, linguistic
technologies, and more. In this Forum talk, Dr. Sophie Vandebroek will
share how Xerox researchers are connecting with their customers today
to enable the next generation of marking, materials, systems, and
services. This talk will: (1) provide a glimpse of how a company with
globally dispersed, multidisciplinary research labs is innovating in
its core markets while creating future markets; and (2) share examples
of successful open-innovation collaborations with other companies,
universities, and government labs. Dr. Vandebroek will also discuss
technologies such as nanotech for printing and high-volume
personalized applications, green technologies like erasable paper, and
smart document technologies at the core of Xerox's growing global
services business.
About the Speaker: As Xerox's Chief Technology Officer and President
of the Xerox Innovation Group, Dr. Sophie Vandebroek is responsible
for overseeing Xerox's worldwide research centers and for maximizing
the company's return on investments in research and
technology. Previously, Vandebroek was responsible for coordinating
Xerox's engineering efficiency and effectiveness as Chief Engineer of
Xerox Corporation and Vice President of the Xerox Engineering
Center. Prior to that, she served as Chief Technology Officer at
Carrier Corp. From 1991 until 2000, Vandebroek held a number of roles
at Xerox including technical advisor to Xerox's chief operating
officer and director of the Xerox Research Centre of
Canada. Vandebroek is a member of PARC Inc.'s Board of Directors, and
currently serves on several university and professional advisory
boards.
Vandebroek's awards and honors include: Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Fulbright Fellow; Fellow of
the Belgian-American Educational Foundation; and numerous awards from
Xerox, IBM, HP, Monsanto, the Belgium National Science Foundation,
Semiconductor Research Corporation, IEEE, and Cornell University. She
holds 12 U.S.patents.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 6 March 2008, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Truth in Fiction"
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
French Department
Why is it that for many of us some fictional characters have more
reality and play a more important role in our lives than real persons?
In some extreme cases, it may seem to us that our very life is
inscribed in such or such fiction that has impressed us most.
One thing is certain: you won't find the answers to these disturbing
questions in the seminal paper published by David K. Lewis in 1983,
"Truth in Fiction," which remains the Bible of analytic philosophy
of fiction. Lewis analyzes the kind of convention that binds the
narrator and the reader (or spectator). He admits to the existence of
cases in which the narrator breaks the convention. About those cases,
which represent arguably the essence of literature (or film), Lewis
has, by his own admission, no solution to offer.
The talk will propose a radically different interpretation of truth in
fiction, illustrated by the analysis of Jorge Luis Borges' Fictions,
Camus' The Stranger, Hitchcock's Vertigo, Ian McEwan's Atonement
and a few other classic masterpieces.
The talk will be self-contained, even for those who haven't read or
seen the classics in question. They must promise not to be mad at the
speaker for spoiling their pleasure if, on hearing the talk, they rush
out to buy the books or the DVDs.
About the Speaker: Jean-Pierre Dupuy is Professor of philosophy, Ecole
Polytechnique, Paris, and founding director of C.R.E.A. (Centre de
Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee), the philosophical research
group of the Ecole Polytechnique, and Full Professor (1/3rd time),
Departments of French and, by courtesy, Political Science, Stanford
University. He is also a Stanford C.S.L.I. Researcher, and is
affiliated with the Stanford Science, Technology, and Society Program,
the Symbolic Systems Forum, the Anthropology Department, and the
Religious Studies Department. He is a member of the French Academy of
Technology.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 7 March 2008, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Looking at Looking at Looking"
Golan Levin
Carnegie Mellon University
This talk will present a survey of Golan Levin's personal research
into the "medium of response", with consideration given to the
conditions that enable people to experience sustained creative
feedback with reactive systems; to the potential for audiovisual
abstraction to connect viewers to realities beyond language; and more
generally, to information visualization as a mode of art practice. The
talk concludes with a presentation of Levin's most recent attempts to
create engrossing and uncanny interactions structured by gaze: by
endowing responsive artworks with new perceptive capacities -- the
ability to know where we are looking -- and new expressive means,
through simulated eyes that can return and meet our own.
About the Speaker: Golan Levin's work combines equal measures of the
whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime in an exploration of
abstract communication and interactivity. Through performances,
digital artifacts, and responsive environments, Levin applies creative
twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with
machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and
explore the potential for non-verbal communication in cybernetic
systems. He is best known for performances and installation works
which generate real-time visualizations of their participants' speech
and gestures, and for interactive information visualizations which
offer new perspectives onto millions of online communications. His
current projects employ interactive robotics and machine vision to
explore the theme of gaze as a primary new mode for human-machine
communication. Levin is Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based
Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds Courtesy
Appointments in the School of Computer Science and the School of
Design.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 7 March 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s08/schedule.html
"Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies
for the Rural Developing World"
Tapan Parikh
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/news/topstories/parikh20070815
People living in the rural developing world have many information
needs that could, but are not, being met by information technology.
Technologies for this context must be low-cost, accessible to diverse
populations and appropriate for the local infrastructure, including
conditions of intermittent power and connectivity.
In this talk, drawing from the results of an extended design study
conducted with microfinance group members in rural India (many of whom
were semi-literate or illiterate), I outline a set of user interface
design guidelines for accessibility to such users. The results are
used to motivate the design of CAM, a mobile phone application toolkit
including support for paper-based interaction; multimedia input and
output; and disconnected operation. Through ekgaon technologies, a
company that I co-founded, over 10,000 microfinance group members in
India are now using CAM to maintain their monthly records. In Mexico,
we are conducting a pilot where over 1,000 small coffee farmers will
use CAM to document their compliance with organic certification
requirements. I will also discuss some of the more recent directions I
have been pursuing in collaboration with my students -- including
building mobile tools to improve the standard of health care delivery
in sub-Saharan Africa, and designing farmer-centric information
systems linking farmers to premium markets in South Asia.
About the Speaker: Tapan Parikh joined the faculty of the School of
Information this semester.
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CS545: STANFORD-HP INFOSEMINAR
on Friday, 7 March 2008, 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Gates B03
http://infolab.stanford.edu/infoseminar/
"Enabling Mobile 2.0: Data Management for User-Generated Services"
Christian Jensen
Aalborg University
Having recovered from the dot-com crash of the early 2000's, the
Internet now features an abundance of new, innovative technologies and
services. We are witnessing the rapid emergence of a communication and
computing infrastructure that enables the Internet to go mobile.
Indications are that the mobile Internet will be "bigger" than the
conventional Internet.
This talk describes the background, status, and goals of an ongoing
research project and evolving middleware system, called Streamspin,
that supports data management aspects of innovative mobile Internet
services, including push-based and context-aware services. Streamspin
aims to power sites that enable users to create and share services,
and that are capable of delivering services to millions of concurrent
users.
The talk briefly covers two geo-context services that are being
integrated into the system. The first aims to enable users to build
services that rely on the tracking of the continuously changing
positions of populations of mobile-service users. The second aims to
extend the geo-context of a user to include not only the user's
current location, but also the user's (anticipated) destination and
route towards that destination.
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CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY TALK
on Saturday, 8 March 2008, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Law School 290
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
"Legal Futures Conference"
Chaired by Larry Kramer, Lawrence Lessig, Kent Walker
Registration: free, see web site
Google and Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society are
delighted to invite you to attend "Legal Futures": a conversation
between some of the world's leading thinkers about the future of
privacy, intellectual property, competition, innovation,
globalization, and other areas of the law undergoing rapid change due
to technological advancement. Because the invited conference speakers
will self-organize following the participant-structured model of
FooCamp and similar gatherings, exact topics and the day's schedule
will not be announced until the evening before the conference on this
website.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 13 March 2008, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Nora Suppes Hall 103
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"Explaining Experience in Nature: The Foundations
of Logic and Apprehension / A New Kind Of Positivism"
Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
I present the premises of my research program.
In the course of the discussion I shall defend Rudolf Carnap, praise
Charles Sanders Peirce and challenge Alan Turing, arguing finally for
a new kind of positivism; one founded upon a model that meets the
expectations of Carnap's liberal physicalism and is supported by
biophysical evidence.
In his seminal paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence Alan Turing
observed:
"I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery
about consciousness. There is, for instance, something of a paradox
connected with any attempt to localise it. But I do not think these
mysteries necessarily need to be solved before we can answer the
question with which we are concerned in this paper." Alan
Turing. Computing Machinery and Intelligence. (1950)
This neglect or mystification of manifest qualities is taken further
by contemporary authors Stephen Wolfram and Gregory Chaitin. Wolfram
states a "Principle of Computational Equivalence," a common though
flawed extension of Turing's position, and Chaitin has suggested
mystifying breaks in the chain of functional dependence. Meanwhile,
the apparent confirmation in quantum mechanics of a certain
non-locality, and conceptual failures in the physical sciences, has
led the fringe to draw associations that, some will argue, are no less
reasonable.
Certain contemporary philosophers have rejected manifest qualities
entirely, leaving us to face the necessary suspicion that there may
indeed be Zombies among us. Yet, in contradiction, we are confronted
by the expectations of populist computer science that machines will
"awaken," and that in doing so there will be born an intelligence more
capable and more profound than our own.
These breaks with traditional rigor have allowed the resurgence of
pseudoscience and old-fashioned metaphysics; they are desperate and
they are dangerous.
It is a surprising and remarkable fact that we can indeed imbue
computing machinery with aspects of our intelligent behavior, but this
is not sufficient to explain the presence of manifest qualities, of
what we will call "experience." Turing never asserted that it was.
I will focus upon the historical analysis that illustrates our neglect
of the issue. Essentially arguing that while the Turing model has
given us much to celebrate, we've become distracted by its
success. This point will, I hope, sow the seeds for a realization that
there are identifiable limits to Turing's model.
I will then introduce the premises of a new model, one in which the
basis of manifest qualities, experience, plays a role in the world, in
the formation of physical structures and their behavior. I will argue
that the failure of past models to identify such a role is a failure
in the foundations of science. I look to evidence in biophysics to
support the model.
The presented model has broad explanatory powers. It provides an
account of the introduction of complexity into the world, it
contributes to evolutionary theory and informs medicine. The model has
implications for the Foundations of Logic that extend to the
Foundations of Mathematics. It also provides the basis for the
construction of a new logical machinery, a proof of the theoretical
model in practice, and the development of machines that experience,
capable of recognition and motility.
I will discuss the development of the model, its current status and
remaining challenges; in particular I will discuss the challenges that
formalizing the model present.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 13 March 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Placebo effects, price, and consumption utility:
How price can change the taste of wine"
Aurelie Beaumel
Symbolic Systems Program
Despite the ubiquitous presence of marketing in consumers' lives, the
knowledge of the psychological mechanisms by which marketing actions
influence consumer behavior remains limited. A recent neuroeconomics
study showed that increasing the price of a wine increases reported
taste pleasantness of the wine and neural activity in the brain areas
known to encode pleasure. In this presentation, I will propose a
theory explaining the psychological underpinnings of this effect,
arguing that price influences quality expectations, which in turn
influences experienced pleasantness. To support this hypothesis,
I will also present studies showing that the effect of price on
experienced pleasantness can be increased by making the price-quality
relationship more salient, and decreased by providing information that
weakens beliefs in the price-quality relationship.
About the Speaker: Aurelie Beaumel is an M.S. candidate in the
Symbolic Systems Program.
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