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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 7 May 2008, vol. 23:33
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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7 May 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 33
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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 7 May 2008 TO 16 MAY 2008
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
3:00pm Berkeley Distinguished Faculty Lecture in Psychology [7-May-08]
159 Mulford Hall (Berkeley)
"Learning to Think for Speaking: Snapshots of A Career and
Research Program"
Dan I. Slobin
Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/news/colloquia.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
"Dynamic Languages Strike Back:
Addressing the tools and performance issues head-on"
Steve Yegge
Google
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
5:30pm Immanuel 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
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar [8-May-08]
Packard 202
"An Integrated Approach to Network Security"
Stephen Hanna
Juniper
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
1:30pm Behavioral and Functional Neuroscience Laboratory Open House [8-May-08]
Palo Alto Medical Fdn., Ames Research Bldg, 795 El Camino Real
http://med.stanford.edu/seminars/eventDetails.do?semid=13289
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)
"STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project"
Andrew Ng
Stanford University
http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ang/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
Abstract below
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
5:15pm CS302: Techlaw with Progressive Minds [8-May-08]
Landau Economics 140
"The impact of intellectual property law on technological innovation"
Bruce Sewell
general counsel, Intel Corporation
http://xenon.stanford.edu/~ruchika/
rsvp requested
5:30pm Immanuel 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
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [9-May-08]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Sleep to Remember - Learning, Memory and Brain Plasticity
Or Beyond Consolidation - The Role of Sleep in Integration and
Regulation (Audience Choice)"
Matt Walker
UC Berkeley
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
12 noon STS Seminar [9-May-08]
E207, Encina Hall
"News at work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance"
Pablo Boczkowski
Northwestern University
http://www.stanford.edu/group/STS/
RSVP requested to connors .. stanford.edu by Wednesday
(STS for some odd reason have their schedule only in pdf)
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
12:30pm UC Berkeley HWNI Seminar [9-May-08]
101 LSA (Berkeley)
"Epigenetic Regulation of the Synaptic AMPA Receptor Phenotype"
Suzanne Zukin
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [9-May-08]
Gates 104
"e-Heritage Project and Arts and Robots Project"
Katsushi Ikeuchi
Computer Vision lab, University of Tokyo
http://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ki/
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
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 [10-May-08]
Stevenson College Fireside Lounge (UC Santa Cruz)
Trilateral Linguistics Weekend
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Information below
MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
3:15pm Stanford Phonology Workshop [12-May-08]
Linguistics Chair's office, Margaret Jacks Hall
Title to be announced
Diana Archangeli
University of Arizona and CASBS
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
4:00pm UC Berkeley Ear Club [12-May-08]
3105 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Encoding task performance, rules, and objectives in
auditory and (pre) frontal cortex"
Shihab Shamma
Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Maryland
http://ear.berkeley.edu/ear-club-schedule.html
TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
2:00pm UC Berkeley HWNI Talk [13-May-08]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"High-fidelity electromagnetic brain imaging of intention and
introspection"
Sri Nagarajan
UCSF
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
4:00pm Stanford Algorithms Seminar [13-May-08]
Gates 498
"Online Auctions, Matroids and Secretary Problems"
Moshe Babaioff
Microsoft Research
http://theory.stanford.edu/~aflb/
Abstract below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [13-May-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"Lexical Semantic Relatedness with Random Graph Walks"
Daniel Ramage
Stanford
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:15pm Mathematical Logic Seminar [13-May-08]
Bldg. 80:115
"Abstract Model Theory for Extensions of Modal Logic"
Balder ten Cate
Amsterdam; on leave visiting IBM-Almaden
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~bcate/
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
Abstract below
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar [13-May-08]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Fixing Services Oriented Architectures"
Alan Karp
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
5:15pm Syntax Workshop [13-May-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Chamorro Possessives, Subjects, and Negation"
Sandra Chung
UC Santa Cruz
http://people.ucsc.edu/~schung/
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
12 noon UC Berkeley HWNI Talk [14-May-08]
508-20 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
"Contrast-invariant orientation tuning in simple cells of
visual cortex"
Nick Priebe
Univ. of Texas, Austin
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [14-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:102
Title to be announced
Lisa Oakes
UC Davis
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
2:00pm Information Systems Seminar [14-May-08]
Packard 202
"A bit of network information theory"
Suhas Diggavi
EPFL
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
4:00pm CIS/SLATA [14-May-08]
Law School 271
"Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal
Copyright"
Rufus Pollock
Cambridge University
URL: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5635
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [14-May-08]
Gates B01
To be announced
The Asus eee PC
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [14-May-08]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Mining Quotations for Links and Ideas"
Okan Kolak and Bill Schilit
Google
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
1:00pm Digital Media Conference [15-May-08]
Law School
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
"Legal Frontiers in Digital Media"
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5686
Registration required
Information below
3:00pm UC Berkeley Thesis Seminar [15-May-08]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"The role of emotion in orienting and attention"
Cathrine Dam
Knight Lab
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
4:00pm PARC Forum [15-May-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"The Near-Term Approach to the Artificial Pancreas"
Geoff McGarraugh
Abbott Diabetes Care
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [15-May-08]
Soda Hall 405 (UC Berkeley)
"Learning Rules with Adaptor Grammars"
Mark Johnson
Brown University
http://www.cog.brown.edu/~mj/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [15-May-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Virtual Identity and Social Transformation"
Jeremy Bailenson
Communication, Stanford
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [15-May-08]
Packard 101
"Lossy compression via Markov Chain Monte Carlo"
Tsachy Weissman
Stanford University and Technion
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
5:15pm CS302: Techlaw with Progressive Minds [15-May-08]
Landau Economics 140
"File-Sharing Lawsuits"
Fred von Lohmann
Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://xenon.stanford.edu/~ruchika/
rsvp requested
6:30pm Santa Clara University Panel [15-May-08]
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
"The World That Wikipedia Made:
The Ethics and Values of Public Knowledge"
Mike Godwin, general counsel, Wikimedia Foundation
Carl Hewitt, emeritus, EE and Computer Science, MIT
Pedro Hernandez-Ramos, associate director, Center for Science,
Technology, and Society, moderator.
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/technology/wikipedia-panel.htm
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
all day Digital Media Conference [16-May-08]
Law School
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
"Legal Frontiers in Digital Media"
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5686
Registration required
Information below
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [16-May-08]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Competition, Interference, and Cognitive Control in Picture Naming"
Myrna Schwartz
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [16-May-08]
Gates B01
"Automating & Customizing the Web With Keyword Programming"
Rob Miller
MIT CSAIL
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rcm/
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [16-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Memory"
Janice Chen
Stanford Neuroscience
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [16-May-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
Title to be announced
Judith Irvine
Michigan
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
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takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.
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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.
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UPCOMING WORKSHOP
Epistemology Meets Logic, Informally
31 May and 1 June 2008
Cordura 100
The Stanford University Philosophy Department is planning an informal
event where philosophers and logicians will gather to discuss a
variety of issues in epistemology. The goal of the meeting is to
provide an opportunity for fruitful interaction between 'formal' and
'mainstream' epistemologists. Besides general talks on the use of
formal tools (epistemic logic, proof theory, probability) in
epistemology, we will focus on the following themes:
* Justification, evidence, and proofs
* Information dynamics and action
* Interfaces between probability and logic
* Connections of epistemology with other disciplines
We hope that by focusing on these themes with discussion-oriented talks
by logicians and epistemologists from Stanford and congenial places
elsewhere, the workshop will become a catalyst for collaboration between
researchers using formal and non-formal methods to study similar
epistemic issues.
PROGRAM
Saturday May 31
Coffee: 9:15-9:30
Opening: 9:30-9:40
Morning session: Justification, evidence and proof
9:40-10:20 Talk by Bryan Renne (CUNY)
10:25-11:05 Talk by Sherrilyn Roush (Berkeley)
11:10-11:50 Talk by Branden Fitelson (Berkeley)
11:55-12:25 Discussions led by Johan van Benthem (Stanford/UvA)
Lunch
Afternoon session: Probability and logic
14:00-14:40 Talk by Alistair Isaac (Stanford)
14:45-15:25 Talk by Kenny Easwaran (Berkeley)
15:30-16:10 Talk by Brian Skyrms (Stanford/Irvine)
16:15-16:45 Discussions led by Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
Dinner Reception At CSLI from 17:30
Sunday June 1
Coffee: 9:15-9:30
First Session
Information dynamics and action
9:30-10:10 Talk by Tomohiro Hoshi (Stanford)
10:15-10:55 Talk by Eric Pacuit (Stanford)
Break: 10:55-11:30
Second Session
11:30-12:10 Talk by Alexandru Baltag (Oxford)
12:15-12:55 Talk by John Perry (Stanford)
13:00-13:30 Discussions led by David Israel (SRI International)
Closing: 13:30-13:40
Lunch Reception from 13:45
Supporting Organizations
- CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information)
- Stanford Logic Group
- Stanford Philosophy Department
Advisory Committee
- Johan van Benthem (Stanford/Amsterdam, Philosophy, johan .. csli.stanford.edu)
- Krista Lawlor (Stanford, Philosophy, klawlor .. stanford.edu)
- John Perry (Stanford, Philosophy, john .. csli.stanford.edu)
- Yoav Shoham (Stanford, CS)
Organizational Committee
- Tomohiro Hoshi (Stanford, Philosophy, thoshi .. stanford.edu)
- Eric Pacuit (Stanford, CS, epacuit .. stanford.edu)
- Assaf Sharon (Stanford, Philosophy, assafsh .. stanford.edu)
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B01
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Dynamic Languages Strike Back:
Addressing the tools and performance issues head-on"
Steve Yegge
Google
Dynamically typed programming languages such as Perl, Python and Ruby
have been gradually gaining popularity and momentum for the past
fifteen years. However, dynamic languages are also arguably the
biggest source of controversy in the industry, primarily over concerns
about their performance, maintainability and tools support. In this
talk, I will debunk some of the issues considered central to the
debate, and then show you some novel techniques people are using to
produce static-quality tools and performance in dynamic languages.
About the speaker: Steve Yegge is a Staff Software Engineer at Google,
currently working on programming language analysis tools. Prior to
joining Google, he spent seven years at Amazon.com as a Senior
Software Development Manager, and before that, five years at Geoworks
working on assembly-language operating systems. Steve received his
B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
Steve is the author of an internationally famous technical blog about
programming languages, extensible systems, productivity, and the
problems posed by software religion.
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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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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 8 May 2008, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Soda Hall 405 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
"STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project"
Andrew Ng
Stanford University
http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ang/
This talk will describe the STAIR home assistant robot project, and
several satellite projects that led to key STAIR components such as
(i) robotic grasping of previously unknown objects, (ii) depth
perception from a single still image, and (iii) multi-modal robotic
perception.
Since its birth in 1956, the AI dream has been to build systems that
exhibit broad-spectrum competence and intelligence. STAIR revisits
this dream, and seeks to integrate onto a single robot platform tools
drawn from all areas of AI including learning, vision, navigation,
manipulation, planning, and speech/NLP. This is in distinct contrast
to, and also represents an attempt to reverse, the 30 year old trend
of working on fragmented AI sub-fields. STAIR's goal is a useful home
assistant robot, and over the long term, we envision a single robot
that can perform tasks such as tidying up a room, using a dishwasher,
fetching and delivering items, and preparing meals.
In this talk I'll describe on our progress on having STAIR fetch items
from around the office. Specifically, I'll describe: (i) learning to
grasp previously unseen objects (including its application to
unloading items from a dishwasher); (ii) probabilistic
multi-resolution maps, which enable the robot to open/use doors; (iii)
a robotic foveal+peripheral vision system for object recognition and
tracking. I'll also outline some of the main technical ideas---such
as learning 3-d reconstructions from a single still image, and
reinforcement learning algorithms for robotic control---that played
key roles in enabling these STAIR components.
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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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GRAI SEMINAR
on Friday, 9 May 2008, 2:00pm
Gates 104
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
"e-Heritage Project and Arts and Robots Project"
Katsushi Ikeuchi
Computer Vision lab, University of Tokyo
http://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ki/
1) e-Heritage Project
Enjoying amazing ancient structures through Internet technologies is
one of the most promising methods to promote our culture and cultural
heritage. These technologies involve sensing, transmission, and
display. In this talk, I will briefly explain these three aspects,
and then focus on sensing issues, in particular, the technical
challenges presented by sensing huge outdoor structures. I will
describe the technical challenges and how we solved them as we
confronted the difficult task of modeling the huge Bayon Temple in the
Angkor ruin in Cambodia. I will show the digital data we obtained,
including the entire structure of the temple, the hundred and
seventy-three faces of deities, and the hidden pediments. I will also
explain some of the technical issues involved in displaying the data
we obtained, using our virtual Aska as an example.
Reference
K. Ikeuchi et. al. "The great Buddha project: Digitally archiving,
restoring, and analyzing cultural heritage objects," International
Journal of Computer Vision, 75(1): 189-208, 2007.
K. Ikeuchi and D. Miyazaki, Digitally Achieving Cultural Heritage
Objects, Springer, 2008.
2) Art and Robotics
Currently, we are conducting a project to develop artistic robots. In
the first half of my talk, I will overview our previous project on
humanoid robots that learn how to dance through observing human
performance. Human dance motions are recorded using optical or
magnetic motion-capture systems. These captured motions are segmented
into tasks using motion analysis, music information, task models, and
skill models. We can characterize personal differences of dance using
these models. Then, we can map these motion models onto robot motions
by considering dynamic and structural differences between human and
robot bodies. As a demonstration of our system, I will show a video in
which a humanoid robot performs two Japanese folk dances,
Jongara-bushi and Aizu-bandaisan-odori.
In the second half of my talk, I will present our ongoing painter
robot project. Although the humanoid robot can dance a folk dance,
these performances are only replays of pre-learned motion. The robot
itself does not have a desire to dance nor to improve its
performance. In order to address this issue, we began a project to
develop a painter robot with high-level visual feedback that promotes
intention to check its performance. We are currently designing a robot
that wants to create an artistic drawing based on its judgment and to
improve its performance by observing its own drawings
Reference
Task models: K. Ikeuchi and T. Suehiro, "Toward an Assembly Plan from
Observation," IEEE Trans. R&A, 10(3), 1994.
System overview: K. Ikeuchi, et. al. "Robots that learn to dance from
observation," IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(2):74-76, 2008
Leg task models: S. Nakaoka, et. al., "Learning from Observation
Paradigm: Leg Task Models for Enabling a Biped Humanoid Robot to Imitate
Human Dances", The Inter. J. of Robotics Research, 26(8), pp.
829-844,2007. <http://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kudoh/nakaoka07_IJRR.pdf>
Key-pose extraction: T. Shiratori, A. Nakazawa, K. Ikeuchi, "Detecting
Dance Motion Structure using Motion Capture and Musical Information", In
System overview: K. Ikeuchi, et. al. "Robots that learn to dance from
observation," IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(2):74-76, 2008
Leg task models: S. Nakaoka, et. al., "Learning from Observation
Paradigm: Leg Task Models for Enabling a Biped Humanoid Robot to Imitate
Human Dances", The Inter. J. of Robotics Research, 26(8), pp.
829-844,2007. <http://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kudoh/nakaoka07_IJRR.pdf>
Key-pose extraction: T. Shiratori, A. Nakazawa, K. Ikeuchi, "Detecting
Dance Motion Structure using Motion Capture and Musical Information", In
Proc. Intl. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), 2004.
<http://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~siratori/pub/VSMM2004shiratori.pdf>
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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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TREND
on Saturday, 10 May 2008, all day
Stevenson College Fireside Lounge (UC Santa Cruz)
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Trilateral Linguistics Weekend
9:30 Coffee, bagels, and welcome
10:00 Scott AnderBois, UC Santa Cruz
"Strong Positions and Laryngeal Features in Yukatek Maya"
10:40 Russell Rhodes, UC Berkeley
"Vowel Harmony as Agreement by Correspondence: The Case of
Khalkha Mongolian Rounding Harmony"
11:20 Doug Ball, Stanford
"Clause Structure in Tongan: Insights into Verb-Initiality"
12:00 Lunch Break
1:30 Olga Dmitrieva, Stanford
"The gradient phonotactics of English CVC syllables"
2:10 Karen Sullivan, UC Berkeley
"Processing metaphoric and non-metaphoric polysemous verbs"
2:50 Break
3:05 Keith Johnson & Sam Tilsen, UC Berkeley
"Measuring spoken rhythm"
3:45 Ryan Bennett, UC Santa Cruz
"English resumptive pronouns and the highest-subject
restriction: a corpus study"
4:25 Break
4:40 Abby Kaplan, UC Santa Cruz
"Perceptual and Articulatory Influences on Phonological
Alternations"
5:20 Paul Kiparsky, Stanford
"Compensatory Lengthening: New evidence for Stratal OT"
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STANFORD ALGORITHMS SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 4:00pm
Gates 498
http://theory.stanford.edu/~aflb/
"Online Auctions, Matroids and Secretary Problems"
Moshe Babaioff
Microsoft Research
We consider the problem of online auction design (e.g. Priceline.com).
Maximizing welfare in such auctions is complicated by the fact that
decisions are instantaneous and irrevocable. The classic secretary
problem introduced by Dynkin (1963) can be used to design
approximately welfare-maximizing auctions in the simple single-unit
auction setting, when assuming that bidders arrive in a random
order. We generalized the problem to combinatorial settings,
specifically, we study matroid domains in which the sets of agents
which may be simultaneously satisfied constitute a matroid. We present
truthful O(log(k))-competitive auction for any rank k matroid, and
constant-competitive auctions for several specific matroids that are
of economic interest.
We then consider the discounted secretary problem. There is a
time-dependent ``discount'' factor d(t), and the benefit derived from
assigning the item at time t to agent e is d(t) times v(e). For this
problem, we show a lower bound of $\Omega(\frac{\log n}{\log \log
n})$, and a nearly-matching O(log n)-competitive truthful auction with
general (and possibly increasing) d(t). Additionally, we present a
constant-competitive truthful auction when the expected optimum is
known in advance, proving the large value of knowing this market
statistics.
This talk is based on joint work with Immorlica and Kleinberg (SODA
'07) and Dinitz, Gupta, Immorlica and Talwar (2008).
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Lexical Semantic Relatedness with Random Graph Walks"
Daniel Ramage
Stanford
Many systems for tasks such as question answering, multi-document
summarization, and information retrieval need robust numerical
measures of lexical relatedness. Standard thesaurus-based measures of
word pair similarity are based on only a single path between those
words in the thesaurus graph. By contrast, we propose a new model of
lexical semantic relatedness that incorporates information from every
explicit or implicit path connecting the two words in the entire
graph. Our model uses a random walk over nodes and edges derived from
WordNet links and corpus statistics. We treat the graph as a Markov
chain and compute a word-specific stationary distribution via a
generalized PageRank algorithm. Semantic relatedness of a word pair is
scored by a novel divergence measure, ZKL, that outperforms existing
measures on certain classes of distributions. In our experiments, the
resulting relatedness measure is the WordNet-based measure most highly
correlated with human similarity judgments by rank ordering at
rho.
About the Speaker: Daniel Ramage is a Computer Science PhD candidate
at Stanford University working with Prof Christopher Manning in the
Natural Language Processing group. He's interested in the intersection
of machine learning, NLP, and Information Retrieval. He's applied IR
techniques to NLP (random graph walks on Wordnet for lexical semantic
relatedness) and is currently exploring some applications of NLP
techniques to IR (an LDA-like model for clustering web documents that
jointly considers page text and del.icio.us tags).
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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 80:115
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
"Abstract Model Theory for Extensions of Modal Logic"
Balder ten Cate
Amsterdam; on leave visiting IBM-Almaden
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~bcate/
Many languages used in computer science (e.g., in knowledge
representation, XML querying, system verification) are extensions of
modal logic. But what does it mean to be an 'extension of modal
logic'? There are at least three different dimensions along which
basic modal logic can be extended:
* Axiomatic extensions (or, restricting the class of structures)
* Language extensions (or, increasing the expressive power)
* Signature extensions (or, changing the type of structures considered)
In this talk I will discuss each of these three dimensions, with a
special focus on the second, and I will also discuss some interesting
interactions between them. The central question is to what extent we
can extend modal logic while preserving its attractive model theoretic
and computational properties.
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SYNTAX WORKSHOP
on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 5:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
"Chamorro Possessives, Subjects, and Negation"
Sandra Chung
UC Santa Cruz
http://people.ucsc.edu/~schung/
One of the recurring issues at the syntax-semantics interface concerns
division of labor: should generalizations be explained in syntactic or
semantic-pragmatic terms? Take, for instance, Milsark's (1977)
generalization (in (1)) and what I call Horn's (1989) generalization
(in (2)).
(1) Milsark's Generalization (MG): Subjects of individual-level
predicates must be strong.
(2) Horn's Generalization (HG): Subjects tend to be interpreted
outside the pragmatic scope of sentential negation.
Do these generalizations flow ultimately from the syntax of Logical
Form, as Diesing (1992) claimed for MG? Or do they flow from a
semantics-pragmatics enriched by the Brentano-Marty-Kuroda theory of
judgement types--specifically, from the two-part nature of the
categorical judgement--as proposed by Ladusaw (1994) for MG and by
Horn (2001[1989]) and Ladusaw (1996) for HG?
In this case study, I investigate these questions for Chamorro, an
Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands, focusing in particular
on _bare possessives_. Possessive DP's in Chamorro have both a head
determiner and a possessor; in bare possessives, the head determiner
is the null indefinite article. After establishing that bare
possessives are indeed a species of indefinite, I show that their
ability to serve as subjects of individual-level predicates argues for
a semantic account of MG, in the style of Ladusaw. I then show that
the interaction of subjects with negation argues--perhaps
surprisingly--for a syntactic account of HG.
References
Diesing, Molly. 1992. Indefinites. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Horn, Laurence R. 2001[1989]. A natural history of negation. Stanford,
Calif.: CSLI Publications.
Ladusaw, William A. 1994. Thetic and categorical, stage and
individual, strong and weak. In: Proceedings of Semantics and
Linguistic Theory IV, ed. M. Harvey and L. Santelmann, 220-229. CLC
Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Ladusaw, William A. 1996. Negative concord and `mode of
judgement'. In: Negation: A notion in focus, ed. Heinrich Wansing,
127-143. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
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SF BAY ACM DATA MINING SIG
on Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
"Mining Quotations for Links and Ideas"
Okan Kolak and Bill Schilit
Google
Scanning books, magazines, and newspapers has become an widespread
activity because people believe that much of the worlds information
still resides off-line. In general after these works are scanned they
are indexed for search and processed to add links. In this talk we
will describes a new approach to automatically add links by mining
repeated passages. Our technique connects elements that are
semantically rich, so strong relations are made. Moreover, link
targets point within a work rather than to the entire work,
facilitating navigation. Our system has been run on a digital library
of over 1 million books, has been used by thousands of people, and has
generated the worlds largest collection of quotations. We will also
present a follow-on project based on the theory that authors copy
passages from book to book because these quotations capture an idea
particularly well: Jefferson on liberty; Stanton on women's rights; and
Gibson on cyberpunk. Our Key Ideas prototype provides an interaction
model where readers fluidly explore the library by viewing popular
quotations on a particular key term, and follow links to quotations on
related key terms.
About the Speakers: Okan Kolak is a researcher at Google, working on
text analysis and processing within the Book Search project. Before
joining Google, Dr. Kolak was a graduate student at University of
Maryland College Park, where he received his PhD in Computer Science
for contributions to rapid resource transfer for multi-lingual natural
language processing. He was a member of the Computational Linguistics
and Information Processing Lab, Language and Media Processing Lab, and
Center for Automation Research. His research involved statistical
modeling and methods, resource acquisition and transfer using parallel
corpora, machine translation, information retrieval, and optical
character
Bill Schilit is a researcher at Google. Before joining Google, Schilit
was principal scientist with Intel's Digital Home Product Group,
co-director of Intel Research Seattle, managed personal computing
research at Fuji-Xerox (FXPAL), worked on networked systems at AT&T's
Bell Labs, and was part of the team that invented ubiquitous computing
at PARC from 1992-1995. His interest is ubiquitous information with a
focus on the development of personal and mobile technologies
supporting knowledge work. Schilit received a PhD in computer science
from Columbia University. He is a associate editor in chief of
Computer, a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. Contact
him at schilit .. computer.org.
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DIGITAL MEDIA CONFERENCE
on Thursday and Friday, 15 and 16 May 2008
Law School
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5686
Registration required
http://publishingcourses.stanford.edu/legal-frontiers/
"Legal Frontiers in Digital Media"
A joint conference of:
The Media Law Resource Center
Stanford Publishing Courses
Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society
A conference on the emerging legal issues surrounding digital
publishing and content distribution.
Designed for in-house and outside lawyers representing media and
digital content companies, as well as for Web publishing professionals
who need to understand emerging legal issues in digital publishing and
content distribution, this conference explores:
*liability of site owners for third-party content
*digital content licensing, copyright and fair use
*behavioral targeting, geo-targeting and related privacy issues
*legal issues surrounding online advertising and keyword buying
*ethics of geo-filtering, data-scraping and user-profiling
*emerging issues in mobile content distribution
Join legal experts from Google, YouTube, Disney, Microsoft, CBS,
Yahoo!, WashingtonPost/Newsweek Interactive, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, Stanford's Center for Internet & Society, UC Berkeley's
Center for Law & Technology and key law firms across the country,
among others, in a series of provocative discussions of the issues
arising from producing and distributing digital content in today's
multi-platform world.
This conference includes six sessions that run over one afternoon and
the following morning. A reception at the Stanford Faculty Club is
planned for all attendees at the end of the first day of the
conference.
Tuition for the conference is $285 and includes all course materials,
plus an Evening Reception at the Stanford Faculty Club. Payment
Deadline Tuition is due no later than May 8, 2008. For attorneys, 7.5
general MCLE credits are available for this conference.
Behind the Browser: What You Need to Know
About Current and Emerging Internet Technologies
A review of the technologies that power the Internet of today, and a
glimpse at the innovations that will shape the user experience of
tomorrow. Our technology experts will discuss how information is
delivered and displayed to users, how search engines find and index
that information, how data scrapers steal it, and how websites protect
it. We'll get a tutorial on web analytics, data mining, user
profiling, and behavioral targeting of ads. And we'll hear about the
technologies on the horizon that will shift the paradigm again.
How Safe Are the Safe Harbors?
Websites and other online intermediaries disseminate torrents of
user-generated content, some of which inevitably is unlawful. This
panel will explore legal risks that these intermediaries face, and
special protections they may enjoy, as platforms for all manner of
user-supplied content. Topics include:
* Have courts reached a consensus about the scope of immunities
created by the federal Communications Decency Act?
* Do websites forfeit CDA immunity by soliciting, channeling or
editing user-supplied material?
* Does the Digital Millenium Copyright Act adequately protect
copyright owners' rights, or does it unnecessarily squelch free
speech?
* Are social networking sites accountable for real-world harms that
may follow seemingly innocuous online liaisons?
Digital Privacy Protection and Liability:
Nobody Knows the Data I've Seen
Media and online experts will address privacy concerns, protections,
and potential liabilities. The panel will cover data collection
(including cookies, privacy policies, and FTC enforcement), data
security risks and requirements (phishing, spyware, inadvertent
disclosure), behavioral tracking & targeting (including the new FTC
"Online Behavioral Advertising Privacy Principles"), international
privacy requirements, subpoenas for user information, and more.
Content, Copyright and Fair Use
This panel will consider new and emerging content licensing
opportunities and whether a license is always necessary. With
potential exposures including copyright, trademark and right of
publicity infringements, the panel will discuss when it is most
appropriate to license content and when to rely on exceptions/defenses
such as fair use. The panel will consider the limits of such
exceptions and defenses as well as the ramifications of licensing
content.
Emerging Issues in Mobile Content Distribution
Via mobile devices, consumers are increasingly watching video, reading
the news, finding restaurant locations and reviews, blogging, and
consuming various other content and services. Recent development in
mobile service delivery is rapidly creating new content distribution
opportunities for carriers and new media companies alike. This session
addresses current business models for mobile content distribution, and
examines emerging content liability, advertising and licensing issues,
the explosion of mobile content, and the effect of mobile devices on
the new generation of "tweeners."
Advertising Rules of the Future
This session examines the legal issues that advertisers, counselors,
courts and policymakers will confront as online advertising models
change, and considers the key factual determinations that will - or
should - shape the online advertising rules of the future. Our panel
will look at emerging issues in keyword advertising, metatags,
behavioral advertising, ad syndication models and more with a focus on
how evidence about consumers' actual perception and interaction with
online advertising formats should determine legal rules and outcomes.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 15 May 2008, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Soda Hall 405 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rakhlin/cis-seminar
"Learning Rules with Adaptor Grammars"
Mark Johnson
Brown University
http://www.cog.brown.edu/~mj/
Nonparametric Bayesian methods are interesting because they may
provide a way of learning the appropriate units of generalization as
well as the generalization's probability or weight. Adaptor Grammars
are a framework for stating a variety of hierarchical nonparametric
Bayesian models, where the units of generalization can be viewed as
kinds of PCFG rules. This talk describes the mathematical and
computational properties of Adaptor Grammars and linguistic
applications such as word segmentation and syllabification.
Joint work with Sharon Goldwater and Tom Griffiths.
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY PANEL
on Thursday, 15 May 2008, 6:30pm
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/technology/wikipedia-panel.htm
"The World That Wikipedia Made:
The Ethics and Values of Public Knowledge"
Panel
Wikipedia is ubiquitous on the Web. A search for any obscure
information is likely to wind up in a link to one of its entries (try
'sardines' or 'Transylvania' on Google for example). It is an
incredible boon: a huge information repository, which has been
generated in a few short years. But Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia
in the traditional sense; editors of articles are not always experts
(even for highly technical articles), and the project's consensus
editing model has its detractors. Entries on contested issues, such as
the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, have been the site of protracted
editing wars between opponents.
This panel will explore what works and what doesn't in the Wikipedia
editing model from the angles of ethics, expertise, education, and the
law. Come with questions and opinions: the discussion will be
lively. The program is free and open to the public
Mike Godwin has devoted his legal career to Internet issues. He was
the first in-house counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and
staff attorney and policy fellow for the Center for Democracy and
Technology. He joined Wikimedia as general counsel in 2007. To quote
from his biography in Wikipedia, which he freely admits to editing,
Godwin made this comment to the New York Times on the self-correcting
nature of the Wikipedia project: "The best answer for bad speech is
more speech."
Carl Hewitt is Emeritus in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for
his design of Planner, his work on concurrency (the Actor model), the
Scientific Community Metaphor, and, most recently, on strongly
paraconsistent logic.
Initially, Hewitt was excited about Wikipedia, but experience trying
to write for the site has led him to believe that it is unsuited for
such academic articles because of problems with "censorship by
Wikipedia Administrators, lack of accountability, dogmatism,
intolerance,and disrespect for expertise."
Pedro Hernández-Ramos, moderator, has a joint appointment at the
Center for Science, Technology, and Society, where he is associate
director, and the Department of Education, where he is an associate
professor and director of the MA emphasis on "Teaching & Learning with
Technology." Before joining the faculty at SCU in 2001, he held
positions in education and education marketing at Apple Computer, Acer
America, and Cisco Systems, and served as business development manager
for the IMS Global Learning Consortium.
"The World that Wikipedia Made" is co-sponsored by the Markkula Center
for Applied Ethics, the Center for Science, Technology, and Society,
and the High Tech Law Institute. It is the ninth event in an ongoing
series about technology, ethics, and the law.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 16 May 2008, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Automating & Customizing the Web With Keyword Programming"
Rob Miller
MIT CSAIL
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rcm/
The migration of applications to the World Wide Web opens up new
opportunities for user interface customization. Applications that
would have been uncustomizable on the desktop sprout numerous hooks
for customization when implemented in a web browser, without any
effort on the application developer's part. These hooks can be used
not only for automating web user interfaces (clicking links, filling
in forms, and extracting data) but also for customizing them (changing
appearance, rearranging components, and inserting or removing user
interface widgets or data). The openness and flexibility of the web
platform enables customizations that would not have been possible on
the desktop. Web browsers provide interfaces for scripting, but many
web users do not know how to write script commands. By drawing from
experience with search engines, however, we have found that users can
write a set of keywords expressing a command, such as "click I'm
Feeling Lucky button", "push the Lucky button", or even just "feeling
lucky", which an interpreter can convert into an appropriate script
command. We call this technique "keyword programming", since it
relies only on keywords, and not on formal syntax or even natural
language grammar. This talk will discuss some of our explorations
into keyword programming in the web automation domain, and also in
other domains such as Java development. One surprising result is that
programming language syntax often has relatively little information
content, and can be inferred automatically from only a handful of
keywords -- allowing us to design programming systems that reduce the
learning and complexity burdens on their users.
About the Speaker: Rob Miller is an associate professor in MIT's
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a
member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon
University in 2002, and his dissertation earned the CMU SCS
Distinguished Dissertation award and received an honorable mention in
the ACM Distinguished Dissertation competition. He received the NSF
CAREER award in 2005. His research interests span human-computer
interaction, user interfaces, software engineering, and artificial
intelligence. His current research focus lies at the intersection of
programming and user interfaces, with the goal of reducing the
complexity barriers that make programming difficult for novices and
experts alike.
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