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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 14 May 2008, vol. 23:34
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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14 May 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 34
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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 14 May 2008 TO 23 MAY 2008
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
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [14-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Health Disparities: A Psychological Perspective"
Nancy Adler,
UCSF
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_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
"The Next Big Things--The Challenge of Small Form Factor:
The ASUS Eee PC"
Jerry Dien
Asus Computer
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
2:00pm NASA CoLab Open House [15-May-08]
Building 17 at NASA Ames Research Center, Room 114
The NASA CoLab develops and supports online and offline
communities collaborating with NASA
http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/events/2008/colab_5_15.html
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
Abstract below
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"
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 noon Seminar on Science, Technology and Society [16-May-08]
Encina Hall East, rm E207
"Imprints of the Modern Self:
Writing Technology from Franklin to Gaddis"
Klaus Benesch
American Studies, English, Ludwig-Maximilians-University,
Munich, Germany
http://www.stanford.edu/group/STS
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
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [16-May-08]
Bldg. 90:92Q
Title to be announced
Fourth Year Graduate Students
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [16-May-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"How Mr. Taylor lost his footing:
The Sociolinguistics of Stance in a Colonial Encounter"
Judith Irvine
University of Michigan
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
Abstract below
MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
3:15pm Stanford Phonology Workshop [19-May-08]
Linguistics Chair's office, Margaret Jacks Hall
to be announced
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
6:00pm Media X Spring Lecture Series [19-May-08]
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160:124)
"Digital Diplomacy: Building Influence and Developing a
Global Mindset in Cyber space"
Cari Guittard
Business for Diplomatic Action
http://mediax.stanford.edu/
TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
1:00pm NLP Reading Group [20-May-08]
Gates 159
"Scalable Models of Real Graphs"
Jenny Finkel
http://nlp.stanford.edu/read/
4:15pm Mathematical Logic Seminar [20-May-08]
Bldg. 80:115
"Evolution of the Proof Concept"
Steven Krantz
AIM, WUSTL
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
Abstract below
6:00pm MIT/Stanford Venture Lab [20-May-08]
Bishop Auditorium, Graduate School of Business
"The Rise of Crowdsourcing: Creative Wisdom of the Crowd"
Panel: Michael Sikorsky, CEO & Founder, Cambrian House
Mike Agnich, Co-Founder & CTO, Predictify
Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Mitchell B. Fox, President & Chief Executive Officer, 8020 Publishing
Saar Gur, Venture Capitalist, Charles River Ventures
Moderator: Jeff Howe, Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine
http://www.vlab.org/
(registration strongly suggested, not free)
Information below
7:00pm Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker Series [20-May-08]
Annenberg Auditorium, Cubberley Art Bldg.
"Information Visualization for Insight & Communication"
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science, University of Maryland
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
all day Fifth Conference on Innovation Journalism [21-May-08]
Tresidder
http://ij5.innovationjournalism.org/
Information below
12 noon Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker Series [21-May-08]
bldg. 420:041
"Visual Analytics for Collaborative Knowledge Discovery"
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science, University of Maryland
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
12:15pm Psychology Developmental Brownbags [21-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:102
Title to be announced
Wei Quin Yow
Stanford
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_developmental.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [21-May-08]
Gates B01
"Spookytechnology and Society: The progress and implications
of quantum information science and technology"
Charles Tahan
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
6:00pm Luna Philosophie [21-May-08]
Yahoo! Brickhouse, 500 3rd St, in San Francisco
"Open Source at NASA: 3D Visualization with NASA World Wind"
Patrick Hogan and Randy Kim
NASA World Wind (an open source 3D interactive world viewer)
http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/luna
(rsvp as space is limited)
Abstract below
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Talk [21-May-08]
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
"Blue Ruby The Ruby way to talk to SAP Business Applications"
Juergen Schmerder
SAP
http://sfbayacm.org/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
all day Fifth Conference on Innovation Journalism [22-May-08]
Tresidder
http://ij5.innovationjournalism.org/
Information below
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [22-May-08]
Cordura Hall 100
"The Psychology of Normativity"
Kenneth Taylor
Philosophy, Stanford
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/fss/kt.html
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar [22-May-08]
Packard 101
Title to be announced
Will Eatherton
Cisco
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [22-May-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"Unsupervised Discovery of Narratives from Text"
Nate Chambers
Stanford University
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [22-May-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"MEMS based ultrasonic transducers in medical imaging, therapy
and sensing"
B. T. Kuri-Yakub
Stanford University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:15pm Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker Series [22-May-08]
Bldg. 380:380C
"Creativity Support Tools: Individual and Social"
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science, University of Maryland
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:30pm Stanford Security Seminar [22-May-08]
Gates 4B center area (opposite 490)
"Traitor Tracing for Anonymous Attack in AACS Content Protection"
Hongxia Jin
IBM Almaden
http://theory.stanford.edu/seclab/sem.html
FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
all day Fifth Conference on Innovation Journalism [23-May-08]
Tresidder
http://ij5.innovationjournalism.org/
Information below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [23-May-08]
Gates B01
"Science 2.0: The Design Science of Collaboration"
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science, University of Maryland
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
(Also Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker: Lecture 4)
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [23-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Development"
Bob Dougherty
Stanford Neuroscience
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:30pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [23-May-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Pragmatic Enrichment Via Expressive Content"
Chris Potts
UMass, Amherst
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [23-May-08]
Bldg. 90:92Q
Title to be announced
Fourth Year Graduate Students
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O and A. 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.
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NOTE
I've got two events by NASA this week. The first is an open house at
the NASA CoLab whose mission is to develop and support online and
offline communities collaborating with NASA, and to support NASA
projects in becoming more collaborative with those outside of NASA.
The open house will be on 15 May 2008 from 2pm to 6pm at NASA Ames
(Bldg. 17).
According to the invite:
Come learn about how NASA CoLab can make your work more collaborative
and open.
* Second Life Demo Station Ð Experience the virtual world of Second
Life at NASA CoLab Island. Fly around the facility and check out the
sights and sounds of the digital CoLab atmosphere.
* NASA CoLab Community Website Station Ð Browse our community website,
a p dynamic conference community space and a place where anyone with
an interest in space exploration can participate in collaborative NASA
communities and projects.
* Collaborative, Open Space Station Ð Bring your laptops, bring your
ideas, bring your conversation! Group discussions are encouraged
here. NASA CoLab HQ is officially open as a physical space for those
interested in group collaboration and participation!
Snacks and Drinks will be provided. Bring your laptops and a cup for
beverages.
The second is the Luna Philosophie a creative initiative of NASA CoLab
that will occur on (or close to) every Full Moon, in San Francisco, as
part of CoLab's efforts to bring NASA and space to the dynamic
creative communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. Each Luna
Philosophie meeting will have a different theme, and will involve a
presentation and open discussion for philosophizing. Anyone who is
interested in an open, creative dialog on human, space related
topics is encouraged to attend!
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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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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 15 May 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Virtual Identity and Social Transformation"
Jeremy Bailenson
Communication, Stanford
Over time, our mode of remote communication has evolved from written
letters to telephones, email, internet chat rooms, and
videoconferences. Similarly, collaborative virtual environments (CVEs)
promise to further change the nature of remote interaction. CVEs are
systems which track verbal and nonverbal signals of multiple
interactants and render those signals onto avatars, three-dimensional,
digital representations of people in a shared digital space. In this
talk, I describe a series of projects that explore the manners in
which CVEs qualitatively change the nature of remote
communication. Unlike telephone conversations and videoconferences,
interactants in CVEs have the ability to systematically filter the
physical appearance and behavioral actions of their avatars in the
eyes of their conversational partners, amplifying or suppressing
features and nonverbal signals in real-time for strategic
purposes. These transformations have a drastic impact on interactants?
persuasive and instructional abilities. Furthermore, using CVEs,
behavioral researchers can use this mismatch between performed and
perceived behavior as a tool to examine complex patterns of nonverbal
behavior with nearly perfect experimental control.
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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
(Originally Mike Godwin from Wikimedia was to be a participant but he
will not be present).
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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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 16 May 2008, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
"How Mr. Taylor lost his footing:
The Sociolinguistics of Stance in a Colonial Encounter"
Judith Irvine
University of Michigan
How can materials from a nineteenth-century archive shed light on a
concept of "stance," an emerging topic of sociolinguistic research?
While "stance" has many intellectual genealogies, its application in
sociolinguistics seems to focus mainly on a speaker's acts of
self-positioning vis-a-vis interlocutors and objects in discourse,
especially in face-to-face interaction. This paper concerns a more
distant time and place, and considers how those distances, and the
multiple mediations that intervene between the original events and
interpretations of them today, might contribute to our ideas about
stance. Finally, I reflect on how theories of stance relate to other
concepts that have been more prominent in linguistic anthropology:
footing and language ideology.
The events in question involve a dispute among missionaries in Onitsha
(a town in what is now eastern Nigeria) that erupted in violence in
October 1868. A flurry of letters ensued, with much fault-finding,
local rushing about, appeals to authorities (mission and Onitshan),
and eventual consequences for the mission personnel. The drama's
central figure, John Christian Taylor, is known today mainly for his
early descriptions of life in Onitsha and his work on Igbo linguistics
-- work that contributed, if indirectly, to his troubles in the
aftermath of the quarrel.
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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 80:115
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
"Evolution of the Proof Concept"
Steven Krantz
AIM, WUSTL
The genesis of the notion of proof in mathematics seems to be lost in
the sands of time. We remark on how mathematical proof developed, and
what it is today.
Of particular interest is how our idea of proof has changed in the
past 50 years. The Appel-Haken proof of the four color theorem,
Hales's proof of the Kepler sphere-packing problem, Perelman's proof
of the Poincare conjecture, Thurston's proof of the geometrization
program, and many others suggest that our accepted concept of proof
continues to evolve. These changes have taken place alongside an
increased communication among mathematicians, engineers, physicists,
and biomedical researchers. Probably this is not a coincidence, and
the causality is worth exploring.
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MIT/STANFORD VENTURE LAB
on Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 6:00pm (talk at 7:00pm)
Bishop Auditorium, Graduate School of Business
http://www.vlab.org/
"The Rise of Crowdsourcing: Creative Wisdom of the Crowd"
Panel: Michael Sikorsky, CEO & Founder, Cambrian House
Mike Agnich, Co-Founder & CTO, Predictify
Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Mitchell B. Fox, President & Chief Executive Officer, 8020 Publishing
Saar Gur, Venture Capitalist, Charles River Ventures
Moderator: Jeff Howe, Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine
Peer production is about more than sitting down and having a nice
conversation... It's about harnessing a new mode of production to take
innovation and wealth creation to new levels." -- Eric Schmidt, CEO
Google.
Wikipedia does it. So does Yelp, Amazon and Digg. Millions of
customers have eagerly helped to build up reviews, ratings and other
content for the most popular sites on the web. CEOs, founders and VCs
talk up the growing number of opportunities in crowdsourcing and
answer questions such as: How can you get your customers to work for
you? What rewards do they need? How do you deal with the issue of
accuracy and reliability of the information? What are the trials and
tribulations of crowdsourcing? Who's making money and what are the
business models?
Come join us to find out about the next wave of customer driven
companies and see how entrepreneurs are letting customers take charge
in order to help change the world.
Registration on web page. Free for Stanford students (minus
reception), $15 for students including non-Stanford (with reception),
$35 for others ($40 at the door).
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES
on Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 7:00pm
Annenberg Auditorium, Cubberley Art Bldg.
http://symsys.stanford.edu/
"Information Visualization for Insight & Communication"
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science, University of Maryland
(this is part 1 of the Distinguished Speaker series)
The rise of interactive information visualization tools provides
researchers and analysts with remarkable capabilities to support
discovery and communication. They begin with an overview, zoom in on
areas of interest, filter out unwanted items, and then click for
details-on-demand. The growing commercial success stories such as
<http://www.spotfire.com>, <http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap> and
<http://www.hivegroup.com> are only the start. Research prototypes for
large time series data are being applied to financial, medical, and
genomic data <http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher>). At the same
time, data sharing websites such as ManyEyes or Swivel and
journalistic triumphs, such as the excellent interactive presentations
of the New York Times, are helping to promote widespread interactive
visual literacy.
7:00-7:30pm Tea, Coffee, Socializing, Joining BayCHI
7:30-9:00pm Information Visualization for Insight & Communication
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FIFTH CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM
on Wednesday-Friday, 21-23 May 2008, all day
Tresidder
http://ij5.innovationjournalism.org/
registration required
The conference is a yearly event, centered around the Innovation
Journalism Fellowship Program at Stanford, run by SCIL and VINNOVA.
The Conference on Innovation Journalism is a gathering for
professionals to discuss the interaction between journalism and
innovation, including how to cover innovation in the news, how
innovation is changing the profession and business of journalism, and
how journalism links innovation with society. Target participants for
the conference included journalists, professionals connected to the
media/communications industry, innovation experts, students, and
researchers.
The aim of the conference is to improve the understanding of how
journalism and innovation drive each other, and to identify the key
components of innovation journalism. This will involve looking at the
innovation ecosystem as a playing field for journalism and choosing
strategies that will allow media outlets to deliver quality news using
the latest technology and to thrive in a competitive marketplace.
The concept of innovation journalism was coined in 2003, with the
creation of the program.
Wednesday May 21
8:30am Registration
9:00am Welcome to Stanford University
Professor Stig Hagström, Stanford University
9:10am IJ-5 Opening
Conference Chair David Nordfors, Director, Innovation
Journalism Program at Stanford.
INNOVATION TRENDS
9:20am Innovation trends
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson
9:40am How do we innovate?
Moderator: Violeta Bulc, President, Vibacom;
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Charles W. Wessner, Director, Technology, Innovation and
Entrepreneurship,The National Academies
Richard Horning, Principal, Fish & Richardson
Marc Ventresca, Lecturer, Saïd Business School, Oxford University
Arthur Bayhan, President, The Competitiveness Support Fund
Lars Gatenbeck, Chairman, General Partner GZ Group
Eric Muller, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, The Kauffman Fellows Program
10:30am PAUSE
MEDIA AND SOCIETY
11:00am A new WEF Council under preparation:'The Role of Media in Society'
Michele Petochi, World Economic Forum
David Nordfors, Director, Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford.
11:30am Innovation, intellectual freedom, internet and its implication on
global media organizations
Zafar Siddiqi, Chairman & CEO CNBC Arabiya, Chairman CNBC Africa.
Joel Brinkley, Professor of Journalism, Stanford University
David Nordfors, Director, Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford
Wilfried Rütten, Director, European Journalism Center in
Maastricht, EU
Turo Uskali, Head of Finnish Injo Program, University of
Jyväskylä, Finland
12 noon LUNCH
INNOVATION JOURNALISM
1:30pm How do we as journalists keep a critical perspective, when reporting
on innovation?
Erik Mellgren, Injo Fellow from Ny Teknik, hosted by Xconomy
Fredrik Wass, blogger (bisonblog.se) and freelancer, Sweden
Michael Kanellos, Editor-at-large, CNET
2:00pm How early can we write about innovations and startups without
creating a bubble?
Hanna Sistek, Injo Fellow from Dagens Industri, hosted by CNET News.com
Michael Kanellos, Editor-at-large, CNET;
Peter Fellman, Managing Editor, Dagens Industri
Turo Uskali, Head of Information Business Research group,
University of Jyväskylä
2:30pm The role of local media in covering innovation in rural areas.
Challenges vs. Best practice
Kajsa Linnarsson, Injo Fellow hosted by PC World
Thomas Frostberg, Editor-in-chief, Rapidus
Stephen Trousdale, Business Editor, San Jose Mercury News
Matt Wenger, President of PacketFront Inc.
3:00pm PAUSE
3:30pm How does authenticity develop in online media?
Khaleeq Kiani, Injo Fellow hosted by Bloomberg
Jeffrey Taylor, Editor and Bureau Chief, Bloomberg San Francisco
Ian King, senior correspondent, Bloomberg SFO
Osama A. Hashmi, technology blogger 'Green & White', Pakistan
4:00pm How social networking innovations change the way people consume
news? How does it change the way innovation journalism is done?
Irina Haltsonen, Injo Fellow hosted by GigaOm
Carolyn Pritchard, Managing Director, GigaOM
Harry McCracken, Editor-in-Chief, PC World
4:30pm Innovation in broadcast journalism for the 21st century - a
vision on how the first program on covering innovation can be made.
Faisal Rehman Malik, Injo Fellow hosted by AlwaysOn
5:00pm CASE: Positioning PC World in the Innovation Economy
Harry McCracken, Editor-in-Chief, PC World
5:15pm MIXER
Thursday May 22
INNOVATION JOURNALISM
9:00am Registration
9:30am Attention Work: Selling eyeballs in the innovation economy.
David Nordfors, Director Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford.
10:00am Keynote Panel: How can the news industry succeed in the innovation
economy?
Moderator: Jan Sandred, Program Director, VINNOVA
Panelists: John Markoff, New York Times
Matt Marshall, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, VentureBeat
Michael Kanellos, Editor-at-Large CNET News.com
Tony Perkins,Founder & CEO, AlwaysOn-Network
Guido Baumhauer, Director Strategy, Market & Distribution,
Deutsche Welle
Peter Fellman, Managing Editor, Dagens Industri.
11:00am PAUSE
11:30am Reporting on technology and innovation – a comparison between
different business sections of Swedish and American morning newspapers
Ann Fernholm, Injo Fellow hosted by SF Chronicle
Åsa Tillberg, Business Editor, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)
Al Saracevic OR Suzanne Herel (one of them), SF Chronicle
12 noon What are the consequences of the lack of foreign correspondents in
Silicon Valley and California?
Cecilia Aronsson, Injo Fellow from Swedish Business Week,
hosted by VentureBeat
David Demarest, Vice President of Public Affairs, Stanford University
Michael Zielenziger, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Helene Laube, West Coast correspondent Financial Times Germany
12:30pm CASE: Deutsche Welle - the new multi-platform strategy and
innovation projects
Guido Baumhauer, Director Strategy, Market & Distribution,
Deutsche Welle
Wilfried Runde, Head of Innovation Projects, Deutsche Welle
12:45pm LUNCH
2:15pm CASE: Venture Beat gets investors
Matt Marshall, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, VentureBeat
Eric Eldon, VentureBeat
2:30pm Are startup media companies better at covering innovation than
traditional newspapers and magazines?
Johan Anderberg, Injo Fellow
hosted by Fortune
Anders Olofsson, Director, Digital Media Sydsvenska Dagbladet
Thomas Frostberg, Editor-in-Chief, Rapidus
Tom Foremski, Founder Silicon Valley Watcher
G. Pascal Zachary
3:00pm The World Market and Pakistan
Sayid Khaled Mustafa, Injo Fellow
Mamoon Hamid, US Venture Partners
Amir Jahangir, Competitiveness Support Fund
3:30pm PAUSE
4:00pm Innovation within broadcasting in a third world country:
Need or push?
Phyza Jameel, Injo Fellow hosted by AlwaysOn
Amir Jahangir, Competitiveness Support Fund (Pakistan)
Tony Perkins (prel), Founder & CEO, AlwaysOn-Network
Zafar Siddiqi (to be asked.), Chairman & CEO CNBC Arabiya,
Chairman CNBC Africa.
4:30pm Towards Open-Source Politics - really? The impact of technological
innovations on Democratic Processes
Tanja Aitamurto, Injo Fellow hosted by VentureBeat
Josh Harkinson, reporter in Mother Jones, San Francisco
Michael Weiksner, Founder and chairman of E-thePeople
5:00pm Journalism and innovation in Africa G. Pascal Zachary
5:15pm MIXER
Friday May 23
INNOVATION JOURNALISM INITIATIVES AROUND THE WORLD
9:00am Overview of the state of the innovation journalism initiative at
Stanford + Global perspective
David Nordfors, Program Director Innovation Journalism, Stanford
9:30am Swedish InJo initiative
Jan Sandred, Program Manager, VINNOVA
9:45am Finnish InJo initiative
Turo Uskali, University of Jyväskylä
10:00am Slovenian InJo initiative
Violeta Bulc, CEO Vibacom
10:15am Pakistan InJo initiative
Amir Jahangir, Competitiveness Support Fund
10:30am BREAK
11:00am InJo at the European Journalism Centre in Maastricht
Wilfried Rütten, Director EJC
11:15am Prospects for Injo in the Asian region
Stephen Quinn, Prof. Journalism, Deakin University
11:30am Next Generation Media: A senior management workshop for the news
industry run by SRI International, EDG and IIIJ
Lisa Friedman, co-founder, Enterprise Development Group
David Nordfors, Director, Innovation journalism Program at
Stanford, founder IIIJ.
11:45am Knowledge 4 Innovation: an initiative for the European innovation
agenda
Roland Strauss, Founder, Knowledge4Innovation initiative
12:00pm Prospects for Injo in Mexico
Jorge Zavala
12:15pm LUNCH
INNOVATION JOURNALISM RESEARCH
1:45pm The Experiences of the Innovation Journalism Fellowship
Program 2004 - 2008
David Nordfors, Program Director Innovation Journalism, Stanford
Jan Sandred, Vinnova & Turo Uskali, University of Jyväskylä,
2:00pm An exercise on the Future of Science and Innovation Journalism
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Research director, Institute for the
Future, Senior research scholar, Program in STS, Stanford University
2:30pm The Missing Link – Communication Studies and Economic Growth Theory
Carl-Gustav Lindén, InJo Fellow from YLE TV,
hosted by CNET News.com
Lance Knobel, Independent Writer and Strategist, Former
Advisor, Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, London
David Nordfors, Director, Innovation journalism Program at Stanford
3:00pm Weak Signals in Journalism -The Lessons of "Subprime" Innovation
Marc Ventresca, SBS, Oxford & Turo Uskali, University of Jyväskylä
3:30pm Speaking with One Voice - Listening with Multiple Ears: Towards an
Integrated Corporate Innovation Communication
Simone Huck-Sandhu & Tobias Kupczyk, University of Hohenheim,
Vilma Luoma-aho, Ph D, University of Jyväskylä
4:00pm Asia's Media Innovators
Stephen Quinn, Prof. Journalism, Deakin University
4:30pm New Media for Innovation Communication: Potential Uses of Weblogs
and Podcasts throughout the Innovation Process
Tobias Kupczyk, University of Hohenheim, Germany Vilma
Luoma-aho, Ph D, University of Jyväskylä
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES
on Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 12 noon
Bldg. 420:041
http://symsys.stanford.edu/
"Visual Analytics for Collaborative Knowledge Discovery"
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science, University of Maryland
(this is part 2 of the Distinguished Speaker Lecture series)
As information visualization gains acceptance, the integration with
efficient data mining algorithms supports collaborative knowledge
discovery. Statistical methods enable users to find key features such
as trends, clusters, gaps, and outliers in large databases. The
Hierarchical Clustering Explorer (<http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hce>)
lets users chose ranking criteria for low-dimensional axis-parallel
projections, so they can locate desired features in higher dimensional
spaces. This strategy of integrating statistics with visualization is
applied to network data in SocialAction that extends the
force-directed layout method
(<http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/socialaction>) and in NVSS that promotes
the novel approach of semantic substrates with fixed node locations
based on node attributes (<http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/nvss>). Case
studies of Supreme Court citations, U.S. Senate voting patterns,
terror networks, and bibliographic citations will be shown.
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LUNA PHILOSOPHIE
on Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 6:00pm (talk at 7:00pm)
Yahoo! Brickhouse, 500 3rd St, in San Francisco
http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/luna
(rsvp as space is limited)
"Open Source at NASA: 3D Visualization with NASA World Wind"
Patrick Hogan and Randy Kim
NASA World Wind (an open source 3D interactive world viewer)
Some Topics for discussion:
- The extraordinary and unwieldy nature of open source. Why does the magic
work sometimes and then other times just fizzle?
NASA's role in advancing technology to help us better understand our planet.
How can we do better?
- NASA World Wind and your future. How best can we help?
In this discussion, Patrick and Randy will demo NASA World Wind, an
open source software package that allows you to zoom from the distance
of an orbiting satellite into any place on Earth. World Wind
incorporates Landsat satellite imagery, Blue Marble (true-color Earth
image), and USGS (United States Geological Survey) data, to bring
together a texturally, visually accurate digital desk globe. After the
demo, conversation will be held about NASA's role in advancing
technology such as World Wind and how open source projects such as
this can improve our working knowledge of the beautiful planet Earth.
6:00 - 6:30 PM Socializing
6:30 - 7:00 PM Presentation by Randy Kim and Patrick Hogan
7:00 - 7:30 PM Discussion
7:30 - 8:00 PM Socializing
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SF BAY ACM TALK
on Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
http://sfbayacm.org/
"Blue Ruby The Ruby way to talk to SAP Business Applications"
Juergen Schmerder
SAP
Dynamic languages like Ruby are getting more and more attention and
have proven that they allow to build programs faster and more
effectively in an agile environment than traditional strong-typed
languages. Ruby has a great potential to become a next-generation
application programming language. At least there is a wide-spread
opinion, that whatever will be the next-generation language, it will
be very close to what Ruby is today. With Blue Ruby, SAP Research
wants to establish an environment, which will allow to develop and
execute Ruby programs in business applications as effective and robust
as today's SAP's proprietary ABAP programs, but combined with the
agile and light-weight methodologies, which you would expect with a
dynamic language.
Blue Ruby could be a potential extension mechanism for proprietary
business applications. The strong typed and less agile concepts of
ABAP allow to build the robust business application platform
components, which then could be combined in a light-weight,
loosely-coupled and agile manner using a dynamic language like
Ruby. In this talk, SAP Research Scientist Juergen Schmerder will
explain the Blue Ruby Virtual Machine and SAP Research's approach to
establishing a strong and secure package and isolation concept between
Ruby and ABAP programs. He'll show examples of how to call ABAP from
Ruby and vice versa, provide light-weight HTTP access to ABAP
Functions and also consume the Enterprise Services offered by SAP's
brand new Application Platform.
About the Speaker: Juergen has been working for SAP for a looooong
time since 1999. In September 2007, he packed his stuff and moved from
Heidelberg, Germany to the sunny Bay Area, where he joined SAP
Research to work on the application of dynamic languages in particular
Ruby to the SAP universe. Prior to that, he explored several groups
within SAP as a software architect. Before joining SAP he learned
about the SME market, working as a consultant for one of the ERP
solutions that turned out to compete with SAP: Microsoft
Navision. Somehow he managed not to loose his passion for simple
solutions thoughout the nine years of working in a company as complex
as he never imagined.
Juergen holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Augsburg,
Germany, a California driver's license and a FC Bayern Muenchen
membership. For those truly more interested in the talker than in the
talk, he will have a CV available.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 22 May 2008, 12 noon - 1:00pm
Cordura Hall 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"The Psychology of Normativity"
Kenneth Taylor
Philosophy, Stanford
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/fss/kt.html
I offer a naturalistic account of the source and nature of
normativity. My account has four main features. First, I offer a
purely psychologistic account of what I call the capacity for
normativity. Second I argue that in all likelihood this psychological
capacity for normativity is an evolved capacity, designed by natural
selection, that makes possible the existence of normative communities
among human beings. Third I argue that, even if the capacity for
normativity is not the result of selection, we can still see that it
is through, and only through, the exercise of the psychological
capacity that human beings constitute normative communities of varying
scope and duration. Finally, I argue that this psychologistic
naturalistic account of the capacity for normativity explains the
contingent and typically merely partial character of normative
communities. Moreover, it opens the way for a more systematic
exploration of the causal factors governing the growth and decay of
normative community over historical rather than evolutionary time.
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 22 May 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Unsupervised Discovery of Narratives from Text"
Nate Chambers
Stanford University
Hand-coded scripts were used in the 1970-80s as knowledge backbones
that enabled inference and other NLP tasks requiring deep semantic
knowledge. I'll describe a proposed unsupervised induction of similar
schemata called Narrative Event Chains from raw newswire text. A
narrative chain is a partially ordered set of events related by a
common protagonist. I'll describe a three step process to learning
narrative chains. The first uses unsupervised distributional methods
to learn narrative relations between events sharing coreferring entity
arguments. The second applies a temporal classifier to partially order
the connected events. Finally, the third prunes and clusters
self-contained chains from the space of events. Two evaluations are
introduced: the narrative cloze to evaluate event relatedness, and an
order coherence task to evaluate narrative order.
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES
on Thursday, 22 May 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C
http://symsys.stanford.edu/
"Creativity Support Tools: Individual and Social"
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science, University of Maryland
(this is part 3 of the Distinguished Speaker series)
Improved user interfaces are empowering individuals and groups in the
sciences and arts to go beyond productivity and be more creative.
Web-based systems have harnessed the giga-contribs of dedicated
individuals and the peta-collabs of emergent social creativity to
produce remarkable successes such as Wikipedia, FaceBook, and
flickr. Enhanced interfaces enable more effective Googling of
intellectual resources, improved collaboration among teams, and more
rapid discovery processes. These advanced interfaces also provide
potent support in goal setting, speedier exploration of alternatives,
improved sense-making through visualization, and faster dissemination
of results. This talk describes theories of creativity and suggests
how they lead to design guidelines for creativity support tools and to
novel research methods.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 23 May 2008, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Science 2.0: The Design Science of Collaboration"
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science, University of Maryland
(Also Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker: Lecture 4)
Studying individual sense-making, collaborative discovery, and social
creativity require new forms of science. The traditional sciences of
the natural world (lets call them Science 1.0) have brought
astonishing advances during the past 400 years. Science 1.0 will
continue to be important, but many modern interdisciplinary problems
such as emergency/disaster response, healthcare, environmental
protection, energy sustainability, and international development are
resistant to traditional reductionist thinking. Science 2.0 focuses on
the human-designed world in which the dynamics of trust, privacy,
responsibility, and empathy are determinants of success. Advancing
Science 2.0 will require a shift in priorities to promote intense
collaboration, integrative thinking, teamwork-based
education/training, and case study ethnographic research
methods. Science 2.0 will reduce the gulf between basic and applied
research, while bringing theory and practice closer together. This
talk lays out an ambitious vision that will impact research funding,
educational practices, and democratic principles.
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 23 May 2008, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"Pragmatic Enrichment Via Expressive Content"
Chris Potts
UMass, Amherst
Pragmatics is central to the theory of linguistic meaning because, to
paraphrase Levinson 2000, the encoded content of the sentences we
utter is only the barest sketch of what we actually intend with those
utterances. If I say to you, "Sam's car is in the driveway", the
propositional content is straightforward to recover. But what do I
*mean*? Without guidance --- from me, from the context, from your
general knowledge of the world --- you might be left mired in
pragmatic indeterminacy.
Suppose I say instead "Sam's goddam car is in the friggin
driveway". In peppering my utterance with expressives, I provide clues
as to what I am saying and why it is important. This talk is about the
nature of this extra information and the role that it plays in
pragmatic enrichment. In the first part of the talk, I attempt to
come to terms with the diversity of expressive meanings, both across
languages and within the range of readings for specific items. I argue
that this seemingly disparate linguistic domain is united by the
properties described in Potts 2007, and I present a wide range of new
evidence for those properties, drawing on recent work on memory (Jay
et al. 2007), on linguistic matching constructions (Potts et
al. 2007), and on sentiment analysis (Pang and Lee 2004, 2005).
Expressives are emotionally charged, inextricably linked with their
conditions on use, and highly variable in their discourse
contributions. There is no tougher combination for the
semanticist. Thus, ever the pragmatist (and pragmaticist), I attempt
to make an end-run around meanings, focussing entirely on use (Kaplan
1999). Inspired by van Rooy 2003, I study expressives in the context
of conversational signaling games. The approach reveals that certain
pragmatic enrichments are naturally stable discourse strategies.
If the theory I develop is on the right track, then uttering an
expressive is an irrevocable act that can reverberate through the
discourse and, viscerally, through its participants. I close the talk
by addressing some of the ways in which this theoretical understanding
can inform issues and debates outside of linguistics.
References:
Jay, Timothy, Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Krista
King. 2008. Recalling taboo and nontaboo words. American Journal of
Psychology 121(1): 83-103.
Kaplan, David. 1999. What is meaning? Explorations in the theory of
Meaning as Use. Brief version --- draft 1, Ms, UCLA. (For a video
recording of Kaplan delivering a newer version:
<http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=8593>.)
Levinson, Stephen C. 2000. Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of
Generalized Conversational Implicature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pang, Bo and Lillian Lee. 2004. A sentimental education: sentiment
analysis using subjectivity summarization based on minimum cuts. In
Proceedings of the ACL.
Pang, Bo and Lillian Lee. 2005. Seeing stars: exploiting class
relationships for sentiment categorization with respect to rating
scales. In Proceedings of the ACL.
Potts, Christopher. 2007. The expressive dimension. Theoretical
Linguistics 33(2): 165-197.
Potts, Christopher, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Ash Asudeh, Rajesh Bhatt, Seth
Cable, Christopher Davis, Yurie Hara, Angelika Kratzer, Eric
McCready, Tom Roeper and Martin Walkow. 2007. Expressives and
identity conditions. URL
<http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/Tc5NjlkN/>. Ms., UMass
Amherst, UMass Boston, Carleton University, Kyoto University, and
Aoyama Gakuin University.
van Rooy, Robert. 2003. Being polite is a handicap: towards a game
theoretical analysis of polite linguistic behavior. In Moshe
Tennenholtz (ed.) Proceedings of TARK 9, 45-58. URL
<http://www.tark.org/proceedings/tark_jun20_03/proceedings.html>.
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People on many of the CSLI computers can type 'help csli-calendar' to
see the current issue.
The CSLI Calendar is also posted each week to the su.events usenet
newsgroup (only available from computers on the Stanford network)
Information about CSLI's research program is available at
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
For maps to the Stanford University rooms see
http://cslicalendar.stanford.edu/locations.shtml