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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 19 March 2008, vol. 23:26
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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19 MARCH 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 26
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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
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ACTIVITIES FROM 19 MARCH 2008 TO 28 MARCH 2008
WEDNESDAY, 19 MARCH 2008
4:00pm UC Berkeley School of Information Lecture [19-Mar-08]
110 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Is the Web a Threat to Our Culture?"
Andrew Keen and Paul Duguid
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events/dls20080319
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [19-Mar-08]
Oak Room, Building 48, Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
"Large Scale Processing and Searching of Engineering
Design Content Using Open Source Technologies"
Mike Haley
Autodesk, Inc.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/451738/?ps=5
http://sfbayacm.org/events/2008-03-19.php
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 20 MARCH 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [20-Mar-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Open Education: Stepping into New Collaborative Processes"
Lisa Petrides
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
http://www.iskme.org/about-us/team
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [20-Mar-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"Building a Reference Architecture for
Service Oriented Architecture"
Frank McCabe
OASIS SOA RM Reference Architecture
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/detail.php?id=244
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:15pm Neurobiology of Disease Seminar Series [20-Mar-08]
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman B060
"Modification of cerebral cortex by experience"
Mark Bear
MIT
http://web.mit.edu/bcs/people/bear.shtml
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
FRIDAY, 21 MARCH 2008
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [21-Mar-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Review of the 2008 `i-School conference'"
Annalee Saxenian and others
UC Berkeley
www.ischools.org/oc/conference08/index.html
ALSO:
"Cultural heritage: Tradition, Museums and Wikis"
Thomas Tunsch
National Museums in Berlin
http://museums.wikia.com/
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s08/schedule.html
Abstracts below
TUESDAY, 25 MARCH 2008
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [25-Mar-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"Computational Creativity: Three Generations and Beyond"
Debasis Mitra
Florida Institute of Technology
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/detail.php?id=239
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:15pm Mathematical Logic Seminar [25-Mar-08]
Bldg. 60:119
"Building the Dodd-Jensen Core Model with
a Simplified Fine Structure"
Peter Koepke
Bonn
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/Abstracts/Seminar/Winter08.html#Koepke
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 27 MARCH 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [27-Mar-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"FREE! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business"
Chris Anderson
Wired magazine
http://www.parc.com/forum/
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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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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 6:30pm
Oak Room, Building 48, Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
(directions at <http://sfbayacm.org/logistics.html>)
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"Large Scale Processing and Searching of Engineering
Design Content Using Open Source Technologies"
Mike Haley
Autodesk, Inc.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/451738/?ps=5
http://sfbayacm.org/events/2008-03-19.php
A common issue faced by the over 8 million users of Autodesk's design
tools is finding good reusable design content. As CAD has evolved
over the last 15 years, it has transitioned from being about lines,
arcs and circles to being a more object-oriented process. By this we
mean that the designers building a model generally construct the model
from already available parts. Typically the designs for these parts
may either be generic placeholders for the real world part or they may
actually be manufacturer specific designs. The latter is becoming a
lot more common today as architects and engineers strive for greater
efficiencies. Given the enormous variations on all parts representing
real world objects, the process of finding the correct design file for
a part is becoming an enormous burden for the majority of our users.
The Autodesk Content Search solution is a new product targeted at
solving this problem. Content Search is a vertical search engine with
parametric and ontology aware filtering capabilities for rapidly
finding appropriate part information and design content. In building
this solution we were faced with numerous challenges ranging from
building the core parametric search technology to processing and
analyzing large quantities of metadata and CAD content in a scalable
fashion. The development team managed to turn around a first version
of this product in only 4 months largely due to using open-source
technologies such as: Lucene, Hadoop, DWR, and Active-MQ. We are now
beginning to make extensive use of the Amazon compute-cloud and
storage services for scaling out the storage and processing
capabilities. In this talk I will present the architecture of this
solution, describe many of the key choices we made with respect to OSS
technology and finish with a brief demonstration of the system.
About the Speaker: Mike Haley directs the engineering of Content
Search and distributed systems technology at Autodesk. He leads an
engineering team focused on scalable computing solutions, search and
indexing techniques, machine learning and contemporary web
technologies all focused at producing an effective solution for
Autodesk customers to find and use design information online.
Formerly he was the architect of the Buzzsaw Collaborative Project
Management system at Autodesk now used by over 150000 people to manage
construction projects worldwide. Prior to joining Autodesk he has
worked in the fields of multimedia networking, medical computer
graphics, embedded systems and large scale telephony systems. He has
over 10 years of experience in server technology and an extensive
background covering 20 years of work in software design, computer
graphics, networking and real-time computing. Mike holds an MS in
Computer Science with distinction from the University of Cape Town,
South Africa.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 20 March 2008, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
(directions at <http://www.parc.com/directions>)
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Open Education: Stepping into New Collaborative Processes"
Lisa Petrides
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)
http://www.iskme.org/about-us/team
The open content movement -- which involves the aggregation, sharing,
and collaborative enrichment of free educational materials over the
Internet -- is re-energizing teaching and learning efforts and making
educational resources more dynamic through a cross-pollination of
ideas and expertise. This Forum will discuss open education efforts
worldwide, including ISKME's online network, OER Commons. OER Commons
aggregates open educational resources (OER) within a social networking
environment to stimulate engagement of diverse populations in
accessing and using these resources. Drawing on insights from ISKME's
OER Commons initiative, as well as its research on online
collaborative learning environments, this Forum will discuss: (1) how
the open education movement is fundamentally about strengthening
scholarship and teaching through collaboration -- and developing
technologies to make that happen; and (2) how this nascent movement is
addressing the technical and cultural challenges that impact its
widespread adoption.
About the Speaker: Lisa Petrides, Ph.D., is president and founder
of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
(ISKME), an independent non-profit educational research institute
located in Half Moon Bay, California. ISKME's work includes applied
research, innovative projects, and field-building initiatives in the
area of knowledge sharing in education. Petrides has led the OER
Commons initiative, an open source teaching and learning network,
which focuses on supporting teachers and learners to facilitate the
creation and adaptation of dynamic and evolving open educational
resources. A former professor in the Department of Organization and
Leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College, Petrides received
her Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University; MBA from Sonoma
State University; and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Educational
Policy Research Division at Educational Testing Service. Petrides is
also a painter and sheet metal artist who exhibits her work throughout
the San Francisco Bay Area.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 20 March 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Building a Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture"
Frank McCabe
OASIS SOA RM Reference Architecture
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/detail.php?id=244
The OASIS Reference Architecture for SOA builds on the Reference Model
and lays a foundation for establishing large scale SOA-based systems.
The RA is an abstract architecture -- as specified it is not directly
implementable. However, it addresses three key questions: what is
really involved in 'doing business' in the context of a SOA, what is
involved in realizing a SOA-based system and what are the issues in
owning SOA-based systems.
Rather than identifying a single-point solution to building out a SOA,
we try to look for the general case and establish criteria for
solutions.
We view SOA-based systems to be closer to ecosystems than hierarchic
software applications. Multiple participants typically use a
SOA-based system in order to further their own goals as well as
supporting community or enterprise goals. In effect, a SOA-based
system can be viewed as a medium that supports 'action at a distance';
especially over ownership boundaries.
The RA models the relationship between participants and SOA-based
systems in terms of actions that people perform, the social
relationships supported by SOA-based systems.
The RA models some of the important aspects of realizing SOA-based
systems, the kinds of descriptions needed, the role of messages and
the role of policies and contracts. While not going into complete
detail, we do try to identify the key architectural implications of
the various models of the RA.
The RA models the governance processes that are needed for successful
deployment of SOA-based systems. It also models the security features
that are relevant and the management features that are particular to
SOA-based systems. Our focus is not to redo governance, security and
management; but to highlight those aspects that seem to relate to
SOA-based systems, as opposed to general governance, security and
management of IT systems generally.
About the Speaker: Frank McCabe is the chair of the OASIS SOA RM
Reference Architecture sub-committee. He has worked in agent-based
systems, logic programming systems, ontology-driven web applications.
Apart from the work on SOA, he is currently working on a language for
expressing complex event processing applications that uses concepts
from the Event Calculus and will be deployed on large-scale parallel
architectures.
Note for Visitors to SRI: Please arrive at least 10 minutes early
in order to sign in and be escorted to the conference room. SRI is
located at 333 Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park. Visitors may park in
the visitors lot in front of Building E, and should follow the
instructions by the lobby phone to be escorted to the meeting room.
Detailed directions to SRI, as well as maps, are available from the
Visiting AIC web page.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 21 March 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s08/schedule.html
"Review of the 2008 `i-School conference'"
Annalee Saxenian and others
UC Berkeley
www.ischools.org/oc/conference08/index.html
ALSO:
"Cultural heritage: Tradition, Museums and Wikis"
Thomas Tunsch
National Museums in Berlin
http://museums.wikia.com/
Review of the 2008 "i-School conference"
Join us for an informal report and discussion of the recent Third
"i-school conference" at UCLA. Find out what the problems,
challenges and opportunities of schools like are thought to be!
Cultural heritage: Tradition, Museums and Wikis
Museums are institutional custodians of objects and information
about cultural heritage. Communication in the world of museums can
be seen as predominantly linear: from the research about objects or
intangible heritage to exhibitions and specific publications as
well as from one generation of museum professionals to the
following one. These chains of communication are sometimes
isolated from each other but there are often points of contact
between them. In fact every exhibition with loans from different
museums provides chances of new information exchange. The Wiki
technology supports the development of information networks,
because Wikis facilitate meaningful linking, efficient discussion
and organized collection of information. Existing Wikis like
Wikipedia and the MuseumsWiki (museums.wikia.com) will be examined
regarding the needs and resources of museums, museum communities
and museum professionals. ____________
SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Computational Creativity: Three Generations and Beyond"
Debasis Mitra
Florida Institute of Technology
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/detail.php?id=239
Create means to produce by imaginative skill and creativity means the
ability to create. [Webster dictionary] However, within computer
science any concept needs to be formalized and it is hard to formalize
creativity. As a result different problems are addressed within the
computational creativity area in different periods of time. In this
talk we will try to delineate three generations of research within
this field by citing examples and draw the lessons learnt in these
generations. We will also provide a broad overview of the background
of the work and point to some directions where computational
creativity may lead to. If we accept dynamically transforming
existing ontology to the new ones in producing the eureka as a
creative activity, then some relatively new branches of mathematics
may be of help. We will discuss this direction in the talk.
About the Speaker: Debasis Mitra is a faculty member at the Florida
Institute of Technology. He is a Ph.D. in Physics (Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur) and in Computer Science (Center For Advanced
Computer Studies, University of Louisiana). Debasis work has been
initiated by a CAREER award from the NSF. His current projects are on
studying creativity using constraint-based knowledge representation
(supported by NSF), and on developing algorithms for detecting
radioactive contraband using cosmic ray (supported by Department of
Homeland Security). Dr. Mitra is also interested in
Bio-informatics. In the past he has worked on Mathematical Physics,
and has industrial experience in seismic exploration.
Note for Visitors to SRI: Please arrive at least 10 minutes early
in order to sign in and be escorted to the conference room. SRI is
located at 333 Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park. Visitors may park in
the visitors lot in front of Building E, and should follow the
instructions by the lobby phone to be escorted to the meeting room.
Detailed directions to SRI, as well as maps, are available from the
Visiting AIC web page.
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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Bldg. 60:119
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
"Building the Dodd-Jensen Core Model with a Simplified Fine Structure"
Peter Koepke
Bonn
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/Abstracts/Seminar/Winter08.html#Koepke
The Dodd-Jensen core model is of the form K=L^{E} where E is a
sequence of measures. We structure the model L^{E} by a continuous
fine hierarchy (F^{E}_{@@})_{@@ in Ord}. Each F^{E}_{@@} is a
structure of the form F^{E}_{@@} = (F^{E}_{@@},@^@^@,E,S^{E},@^@@),
which contains a Skolem function S^{E} and other basic constructible
operations. The next level F^{E}_{@@+1} is the collection of all
subsets of F^{E}_{@@} which are definable over the structure
F^{E}_{@@} by quantifier-free formulas. The hierarchy satisfies
condensation theorems and other finestructural laws.
The sequence E consists of measures E_{@@} which are represented as
elementary maps extenders E_{@@}: F^{E}_{@@}@^@^@F^{E}_{@@}. Core
model theory can be developed with the fine hierarchy. One can
canonically define finestructural extensions (ultrapowers) of levels
F^{E}_{@@} by extenders in E. If all proper initial segments of
F^{E}_{@@} are finestructurally sound then this is inherited by
finestructural extensions. Iterated finestructural extensions can be
used to compare structures F^{E}_{@@} and F^{E'}_{@@'}. The unique
predicate E defining K consists of measures for which the formation of
finestructural extensions can be iterated arbitrarily (iterability).
The use of the fine hierarchy instead of standard fine structure
theory circumvents the complications of iterated projecta and reducts
and simplifies the construction of finestructural extensions.
[Note: @ = non-ascii character in the above abstract]
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