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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 30 April 2008, vol. 23:32
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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30 April 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 32
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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 30 APRIL 2008 TO 9 MAY 2008
WEDNESDAY, 30 APRIL 2008
12 noon UC Berkeley IPSR colloquium [30-Apr-08]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"The 'Working Through' Paradox: Distinguishing Reflective
Processing of Negative Emotions from Rumination"
Ozlem Ayduk
UC Berkeley
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ipsr/colloquia.html
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [30-Apr-08]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Neurodevelopmental underpinnings of preschollers' theory of mind"
Mark Sabbagh
Queen's University
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [30-Apr-08]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Looking at Others: Fear, Faces, and the Human"
Ralph Adolphs
Caltech
http://biology.caltech.edu/Members/Adolphs
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [30-Apr-08]
Gates B01
"Distributed Systems:
Computation With a Million Friends (and a Few Foes)"
Adam L. Beberg
Computer Science, Stanford University
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [1-May-08]
Cordura Hall 100
Title to be announced
Ken Taylor
Philosophy, Stanford
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
POSTPONED UNTIL 22 MAY
2:00pm Information Systems Seminar [1-May-08]
Packard 101
"Hybrid and explicit model predictive control"
Alberto Bemporad
Università di Siena
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
4:00pm PARC Forum [1-May-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Enhancing the Social Web through Augmented Social Cognition research"
Ed Chi
Manager of PARC's Augmented Social Cognition area
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [1-May-08]
Soda Hall 405 (UC Berkeley)
"Adaptive Algorithms for Online Convex Optimization"
Elad Hazan
IBM Research, Almaden
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ehazan/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [1-May-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Explaining explanation: why we answer "why?" the way we do"
Tania Lombrozo
Psychology, UC Berkeley
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
5:30pm Stanford Psychology of Language Tea (SPLaT!) [1-May-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Probability sensitive production at many levels of
linguistics representation"
Florian Jaeger
University of Rochester
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/newsletter/
FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
all day Fifth Annual QP Fest [2-May-08]
Cordura 100
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [2-May-08]
Gates B01
"Automatically Generating Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces"
Krzysztof Gajos
University of Washington
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [2-May-08]
Gates 120
"Multi-imager camera arrays for panoramas and 3D capture"
Harlyn Baker
HP Labs
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [2-May-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Mobile Phones in Rural Uganda"
Jenna Burrell
"Case Studies in Contextualizing Digital Resources: An Irish
Studies Digital Library and the Emma Goldman Lecture Tours"
Ryan Shaw.
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s08/schedule.html
Abstract for first talk below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [2-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Effects of distinctiveness and shape variability in the
neural response to faces"
Nick Davidenko
Stanford Neuroscience
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
12 noon Work, Technology and Organization Colloquium [5-May-08]
Terman 217
Title to be announced
Paul Dourish
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/
3:15pm Stanford Phonology Workshop [5-May-08]
Linguistics Chair's office, Margaret Jacks Hall
"Presentation on phonological features based on brain research"
Patrick Suppes
Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University (Emeritus)
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
4:00pm Berkeley CiBER Seminar [5-May-08]
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Helen Greiner
iRobot Corp
http://ciber.berkeley.edu/
RSVP requested
6:00pm Media X Spring Lecture Series [5-May-08]
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160:124)
"Technologies for Collaborative Democracy"
Beth Noveck
New York Law School
http://mediax.stanford.edu/
TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [6-May-08]
Soda Hall 405 (UC Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Eric Xing
CMU
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
4:15pm Wasow Visiting Scholar Lecture [6-May-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Google Brain"
Terrence J. Sejnowski
UCSD, Salk Institute, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Mathematical Logic Seminar [6-May-08]
Bldg. 80:115
"Logic Programming and the Logic of Here-and-There"
Vladimir Lifschitz
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~vl/
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
12 noon UC Berkeley IPSR colloquium [7-May-08]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Emotion-specific neural activation during compassion, awe,
pride and reward"
Emiliana Simon-Thomas
UC Berkeley
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ipsr/colloquia.html
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [7-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:102
"Online language processing in 2-year-old vs 20-year-old
language learners"
Casey Lew-Williams,
Stanford
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [7-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Positive Emotions Broaden Minds and Build Resources"
Barbara Fredrickson
University of North Carolina
http://www.unc.edu/peplab/barb_fredrickson_page.html
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_colloquium.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [7-May-08]
Gates B01
Title to be announced
Steve Yegge
Google
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
5:30pm Imanuel Kant Lecture 1 [7-May-08]
Bldg. 260:113
"Vagueness and Transcendence"
Kit Fine
New York University
http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/kitfine
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
6:00pm Media X Spring Lecture Series [7-May-08]
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160:124)
"Uniting the Digital Workforce"
Karen Sobel-Lojeski
Virtual Distance International
http://mediax.stanford.edu/
THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [8-May-08]
Cordura Hall 100
"Development of Logic Programming: What went wrong, What was
done about it, and What it might mean for the future"
Carl Hewitt
MIT
http://www.carlhewitt.info/
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [8-May-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Combining X-ray, Fragment Screening and Chemi-Informatics to
Discover New Drugs"
Duncan McRee
ActiveSight
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [8-May-08]
Soda Hall 405 (UC Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Andrew Ng
Stanford University
http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ang/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [8-May-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Computational Law"
Michael Genesereth and Harry Surden
CodeX: The Stanford Center for Computers and Law
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
5:30pm Imanuel Kant Lecture 2 [8-May-08]
Bldg. 370:370
"Vagueness and Transcendence"
Kit Fine
New York University
http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/kitfine
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [9-May-08]
Gates B01
"MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies"
Dan Morris
Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/users/dan
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [9-May-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"A Broad and Complementary Document Model and its Application
within Software- and Information Systems Engineering"
Bernt Ivar Olsen, Tromso & UC Davis
"Final Progress Report"
Bernt Wahl.
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s08/schedule.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Imanuel Kant Lecture Discussion [9-May-08]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Vagueness and Transcendence"
Kit Fine
New York University
http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/kitfine
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [9-May-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"What Speakers Do and Don't Do to Successfully Communicate"
Victor Ferreira
UCSD
http://lpl.ucsd.edu/LabPage/LPL.html
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 10 MAY 2008
all day TREND (at Santa Cruz) [10-May-08]
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O, A+, and B-. For an appointment:
<http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/> or call 650-723-7831. It only
takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.
Stanford staff should note that there will be the Stanford Blood
Mobile at the Wellness Fair on Thursday, 1 May 2008, from 10am until
3pm. Please register (if you are eligible and willing to donate) for
a time by going to <http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/>. Search by city
and find Stanford, then schedule your time.
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NOTE
Best wishes to our colleagues across the Bay as they finish up the
school year. Final exams for Berkeley start May 15.
Also the CogLunch by Ken Taylor that was scheduled this week has been
postponed to 22 May 2008.
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NOTE
Berkeley's CiBER (Center for [Interdisciplinary
Bio-inspiration|Integrative Biomechanics] in Education and Research)
has a monthly seminar that people might be interested in. This
month's talk will feature Helen Greiner, Co-founder and Chairman of
iRobot Corp., who will speak on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 4:00pm. "iRobot
designs behavior-based, artificially intelligent robots. Powered by
iRobot's proprietary AWARETM Robot Intelligence Systems, these robots
are designed to navigate through complex and dynamic real-world
situations, from maneuvering around furniture to searching abandoned
buildings."
They request an RSVP by April 28, 2008 to Debra Jacob, Industry
Affiliates Manager, PartnerWithCIBER .. berkeley.edu or
510-642-3398. Event is free. Admittedly the deadline is already
past.
About CiBER:
"The Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-Inspiration in Education and
Research (CiBER) proposes to discover fundamental principles from
biology that inspire novel design in engineering and train the next
generation of scientists and engineers to collaborate in mutually
beneficial relationships. This nature-inspired approach can
instruct us how to best use new materials and manufacturing
processes developed by engineers to address current and future
problems. Bringing unique knowledge to this interdisciplinary
approach are over 25 faculty members from these seven departments:
Integrative Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Bioengineering,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical
Engineering, Civil Engineering, Psychology and the Berkeley Natural
History Museums. The result is innovative education and research
that create an exciting platform for transformative discoveries and
creative industry applications."
<http://ciber.berkeley.edu/>
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B01
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Distributed Systems:
Computation With a Million Friends (and a Few Foes)"
Adam L. Beberg
Computer Science, Stanford University
The largest distributed systems involved the art of gathering vast
amounts of computing resources from many people and organizations to
channel them into something that is often not practical by other
means. At the intersection of software, economics, and sociology, they
involve both exciting technology, and the complexities of human
motivation and interaction. While currently centralization and
consolidation rule the buzzword space, distributed systems provide
powerful capabilities to those willing to embrace the uncertainty
involved. This talk will explore the current methods for constructing
these systems, the 35 years of history they draw upon, and active work
integrating massive storage and on-demand post-processing into a
volunteer-powered system dubbed Storage@home to augment Folding@home.
About the Speaker: Adam L. Beberg has been building distributed
systems since 1990. He founded Mithral Communications & Design in
1995, which is the home of the Cosm distributed computing tools. In
1997 he was a founder and president of distributed.net until 1999,
during which RC5 was cracked once and DES was cracked twice - the
second time in 22 hours with the additional help of the EFF's Deep
Crack. In 1999 he met Vijay Pande and collaborated on Folding@home,
leading to the use of Cosm as the network library in Folding@home. He
was also honored as one of MIT Technology Review's TR100 top young
innovators of 1999. He has worked and spoken extensively in the areas
of distributed computing, storage, and computer security. With a B.S.
in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, he has
been at Stanford since 2004 working on a PhD in Vijay Pande's lab
working on next generation distributed computing methodologies, after
which he will find a nice day job in academia and start his epic quest
for tenure.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 1 May 2008, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
(directions at <http://www.parc.com/directions>)
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Enhancing the Social Web through Augmented Social Cognition research"
Ed Chi
Manager of PARC's Augmented Social Cognition area
We are experiencing the new Social Web, where people share,
communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced
by Wikipedia and <http://del.icio.us/>, Web 2.0 environments are
turning people into social information foragers and sharers. Users
interact to resolve conflicts and jointly make sense of topic areas
from "Obama vs. Clinton" to "Islam."
PARC's Augmented Social Cognition researchers -- who come from
cognitive psychology, computer science, HCI, sociology, and other
disciplines -- focus on understanding how to "enhance a group of
people's ability to remember, think, and reason". Through Web 2.0
systems like social tagging, blogs, Wikis, and more, we can finally
study, in detail, these types of enhancements on a very large scale.
In this Forum, we summarize recent PARC work and early findings on:
(1) how conflict and coordination have played out in Wikipedia, and
how social transparency might affect reader trust; (2) how decreasing
interaction costs might change participation in social tagging
systems; and (3) how computation can help organize user-generated
content and metadata.
About the Speaker: Ed H. Chi is a senior research scientist and area
manager of PARC's Augmented Social Cognition group. His previous work
includes understanding Information Scent (how users navigate and make
sense of information environments like the Web), as well as developing
information visualizations such as the "Spreadsheet for Visualization"
(which allows users to explore data through a spreadsheet metaphor
where each cell holds an entire data set with a full-fledged
visualization). He has also worked on computational molecular biology,
ubiquitous computing systems, and recommendation and personalized
search engines. Ed has over 19 patents and has been conducting
research on user interface software systems since 1993. He has been
quoted in the Economist, Time Magazine, LA Times, Slate, and the
Associated Press. Ed completed his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from
the University of Minnesota between 1992 and 1999. In his spare time,
he is an avid Taekwondo black belt, photographer, and snowboarder.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 1 May 2008, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Soda Hall 405 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
"Adaptive Algorithms for Online Convex Optimization"
Elad Hazan
IBM Research, Almaden
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ehazan/
In this talk we study the notion of learning in an oblivious changing
environment. Existing online learning algorithms which minimize regret
are shown to converge to the average of all locally optimal
solutions. We propose a new performance metric, strengthening the
standard metric of regret, to capture convergence to locally optimal
solutions. We then describe a series of reductions which transform
algorithms for minimizing (standard) regret into adaptive algorithms
albeit incurring only poly-logarithmic computational overhead. These
efficiency preserving reductions are based on data streaming and
sketching techniques which are new to online learning.
We describe applications of this technique to various well studied
online problems, such as online routing, portfolio management and the
tree update problem. In all cases we explain how previous algorithms
perform suboptimally and how the reduction technique gives adaptive
algorithms.
This talk is self-contained - no prior knowledge in machine learning
or optimization is required.
Joint work with C. Seshadhri, Princeton University
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 1 May 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Explaining explanation: why we answer "why?" the way we do"
Tania Lombrozo
Psychology, UC Berkeley
Many scientific and everyday inferences involve the generation and
evaluation of candidate explanations. Does Mercury trace epicycles
around the earth or follow an elliptical orbit around the sun? Is your
congestion due to allergies or an imminent cold? One proposal from
philosophy and psychology is that in cases such as these, we make an
"inference to the best explanation": we evaluate the quality of
explanations as a way to assess their probability. In this talk I'll
present evidence for the role of inference to the best explanation in
human cognition. Specifically, I'll suggest that simpler explanations
are regarded as better and more probable than complex alternatives.
This has the consequence that disproportionate probabilistic evidence
is required before a complex explanation is preferred over a simpler
alternative. I'll present data from adults and from children, and will
consider how inference to the best explanation relates to normative
accounts of probabilistic inference.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 2 May 2008, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Automatically Generating Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces"
Krzysztof Gajos
University of Washington
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kgajos/
User Interfaces delivered with today's software are usually created in
a one-size-fits-all manner, making implicit assumptions about the
needs, abilities, and preferences of the "average user" and the
characteristics of the "average device." I argue that personalized
user interfaces, which are adapted to a persons devices, tasks,
preferences, and abilities, can improve user satisfaction and
performance. In this talk, I focus on the portion of my research,
which demonstrates how this approach benefits people with motor
impairments. I present three concrete systems:
-- SUPPLE, which uses decision-theoretic optimization to automatically
generate user interfaces adapted to a persons device;
-- ARNAULD, which allows optimization-based systems to be adapted to users
preferences; and
-- SUPPLE++, a system that first performs a one-time assessment of a
persons motor capabilities and then automatically generates user
interfaces adapted to that user.
My experiments show that these automatically generated, personalized
user interfaces significantly improve speed, accuracy, and
satisfaction for users with motor impairments compared to
manufacturers' default interfaces.
About the Speaker: Krzysztof Gajos is a doctoral candidate in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of
Washington, working with professors Daniel Weld and Jacob
Wobbrock. His research interests include human-computer interaction,
artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He was a recipient of
a Microsoft Graduate Research Fellowship and he has also been a
visiting faculty member at the Ashesi University in Ghana where he
designed and taught an introductory course in artificial
intelligence. Krzysztof received his B.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in
Computer Science from MIT. Prior to attending University of
Washington, he was a research scientist at the MIT Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, where he managed The Intelligent Room
Project.
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GRAI SEMINAR
on Friday, 2 May 2008, 2:00pm
Gates 120
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
"Multi-imager camera arrays for panoramas and 3D capture"
Harlyn Baker
HP Labs
Advances in building high-performance camera arrays have opened the
opportunity - and challenge - of using these devices for synchronized
3D and multi-viewpoint capture. In this vein, we present a
high-bandwidth multi-imager camera array supporting 72 wide-VGA
imagers in simultaneous synchronized uncompressed 30 Hz operation to a
single PC. A requirement of using camera arrays for metric work is
that their relative poses be known. With a structured array - that
is, one whose imagers' intrinsics and relative positions do not change
- it is feasible to perform this calibration once, before any use. We
present progress in developing a new approach to this calibration that
capitalizes on high quality homographies between pairs of imagers --
used in mosaic construction -- to develop a global optimal solution
delivering epipoles and fundamental matrices simultaneously for the
entire system. The method exploits what we identify as the
Rank-One-Perturbation-of-Identity (ROPI) structure of homologies in
posing a unified SVD estimator for the parameters. We summarize the
theory, and present both qualitative depictions and quantitative
assessments of our results.
This work was done in collaboration with Zeyu Li, studying at
UCBerkeley under Ruzena Bajcsy.
About the Speaker: Harlyn Baker has worked in the field of computer
vision for about three decades. From his early studies in Edinburgh,
addressing 3D stereo modeling and recognition, through his
dynamic-programming stereo work at Stanford, to his developments at
SRI, where he co-invented Epipolar Plane Image (EPI) Analysis and
created the first spatiotemporal manifold representation process, he
has been an innovator in multiple-image analysis. Applying his imaging
insights broadly, he has analyzed the structural implications of
fossil data (Lucy and her contemporaries), and performed the earliest
simulated surgical procedures/surface manipulations from acquired
imagery. While at SRI, Dr. Baker received one of the first government
contracts to model anatomy from the NIH's Visible Human Dataset. He
has served on journal editorial boards, numerous international
conference program committees, been the recipient of many
international speaking invitations, several keynotes, and been
published in major journals of his field. On leaving Interval
Research Corporation, Harlyn helped found a real-time stereo ranging
company (TYZX). A Senior Scientist in the Mobile and Media Systems
Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto California
since 2000, he was technical lead on an augmented-reality
multi-participant videoconferencing technology (Coliseum), and
developed camera systems in support of this and more recent
multi-viewpoint imaging systems. His current focus is on exploiting
massively redundant imaging for omnidirectional and multidimensional
visualization, spatial understanding, and development of 3D immersive
environments, including 3D TV.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 2 May 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s08/schedule.html
"Mobile Phones in Rural Uganda"
Jenna Burrell
I'll be talking about the two directions my mobile phone research is
taking and about my plans for additional fieldwork this summer. The
first is about the moral economy of the mobile phone. This focuses on
the mobile phone as a gift, as a device for transferring money, and as
a shared community resource. I ask, how are the benefits of mobile
phone access distributed in rural communities? The second focus is on
the concept of 'information' and to what extent it translates between
different languages and cultures. In rural Uganda there was the
possibility for new mobile phone services to deliver everything from
market prices to football scores. However, what information was needed
and under what circumstances it could be acted upon are some key
unanswered questions.
"Case Studies in Contextualizing Digital Resources:
An Irish Studies Digital Library and the Emma Goldman Lecture Tours"
Ryan Shaw.
I will present progress on two projects. The first is an experimental
interface to an Irish Studies Digital Library, which merges
fine-grained access to scanned texts, standoff annotation and linking,
and named entity web services to enable readers to relate any topic,
place, event or person mentioned in the texts to the best explanatory
resources available. The second is an web-based archive of materials
related to Emma Goldman's lecture tours, organized as a series of
linked events that can be viewed from various perspectives across
space and time.
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WASOW VISITING SCHOLAR LECTURE
on Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Google Brain"
Terrence J. Sejnowski
UCSD, Salk Institute, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
The brain is not just a computing device: It is also a powerful
communication network, with the total bandwidth of signaling between
neurons comparable to that of the entire World Wide Web. How is all
the traffic between brain areas regulated? How does the brain "google"
itself? The answers to these questions are being sought in the
temporal coherence of brain signals on a global scale.
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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 80:115
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
"Logic Programming and the Logic of Here-and-There"
Vladimir Lifschitz
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~vl/
The concept of a stable model was proposed twenty years ago as a tool
for defining a declarative semantics for logic programs with negation.
This talk is a survey of recent research on the mathematics of stable
models. This work showed, in particular, that stable models are
closely related to a much older idea -- to the three-valued
superintuitionistic logic, called the logic of here-and-there, which
was invented by Heyting in 1930.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 8 May 2008, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"Development of Logic Programming: What went wrong, What was
done about it, and What it might mean for the future"
Carl Hewitt
MIT
http://www.carlhewitt.info/
Logic Programming can be broadly defined as "using logic to deduce
computational steps from existing propositions." The idea has a long
history, which went through many twists and turns. In these
developments important questions turned out to have surprising answers
including the following:
* Is computation reducible to logic?
* Are the laws of thought consistent?
This talk describes what went wrong at various points, what was done
about it, and what it might mean for the future of Logic Programming.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 8 May 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Computational Law"
Michael Genesereth and Harry Surden
CodeX: The Stanford Center for Computers and Law
Computational Law is that branch of legal informatics concerned with
the mechanization of legal reasoning. While the idea of automated
legal reasoning is not new, its prospects are better than ever due to
a convergence of technological trends - including the growth of the
Internet, the proliferation of embedded computer systems, and progress
in knowledge representation and automated reasoning. In this
presentation, we examine the concept of Computational Law, we
summarize its prospects and problems, and we examine its philosophical
and legal implications.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies"
Dan Morris
Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/users/dan
MySong is a system that automatically chooses chords to accompany a
vocal melody. A user with no musical experience can create a song
with instrumental accompaniment just by singing into a microphone, and
can experiment with different styles and chord patterns using
interactions designed to be intuitive to non-musicians. Our goal is
to let people with no training in chords or harmonization get a taste
of songwriting.
In this talk, I'll describe how MySong works, I'll discuss results
from a recent usability study, and I'll show lots of audio examples to
demonstrate that non-musicians are in fact able to use this system as
a powerful creative tool.
About the Speaker: Dan Morris is a researcher in the Computational
User Experiences (CUE) group at Microsoft Research, focusing on
human-computer interaction, with a particular emphasis on creativity
support and alternative input systems. He received his PhD from
Stanford, where he worked primarily on haptics and physical simulation
for virtual surgery. He has also worked on medical devices,
particularly human neural prosthetic systems, as an undergraduate at
Brown and later as a consulting engineer.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 9 May 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/s08/schedule.html
"A Broad and Complementary Document Model and its Application
within Software- and Information Systems Engineering"
Bernt Ivar Olsen, Tromso & UC Davis
In the last decade or so, I have been fortunate to observe the
discussion about what is a document and what is documentation as a
field of study. In my talk I will try to focus on the question: what
role can a document(tation)-view of systems play in the design of
systems and software? I will take Niels Windfeld Lund's document model
as the point of departure and try to reflect on what relation it has
to traditional design paradigms and fields of study within the broad
field of computer science.
"Final Progress Report"
Bernt Wahl.
no abstract
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 9 May 2008, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"What Speakers Do and Don't Do to Successfully Communicate"
Victor Ferreira
UCSD
http://lpl.ucsd.edu/LabPage/LPL.html
Accumulating evidence in the cognitive and linguistic sciences
suggests that people are often near-optimal actors, being exquisitely
tuned to the world around them. In contrast, I describe a range of
observations indicates that when producing language, speakers are
notably suboptimal and insensitive to many important features of their
linguistic expressions and communicative environments. For example,
speakers produce words based on factors other than what they mean;
they sometimes choose descriptions that ignore what their addressees
do and do not know and that violate their own communicative goals; and
they are largely insensitive to the linguistic ambiguity of their
utterances. These insensitivities arise at least partly because
speakers are responsive to their own cognitive needs: They choose
words and sentence structures that are readily accessible, and choose
descriptions referring to features that draw their attention. I argue
that speakers' productions show sensitivity to their own needs like
this because producing language is hard -- especially, it's harder
than understanding language. As such, it is not speakers who are
optimally tuned to their environment, but speakers and hearers
together, each making up for the challenges of the other, who exhibit
a division of labor for communicative success.
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