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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 21 May 2008, vol. 23:35
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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21 May 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 35
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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 21 May 2008 TO 30 MAY 2008
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
9:00am Stanford University Oral Examination [22-May-08]
Clark Center S360
no title but on neural circuits computing motor plans
Afsheen Afshar
Electrical Engineering
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=YWtuNmhnNmdrNWg4a2tydmxibjgyYWNrdTAgZm9ydW1zdGFuZm9yZEBt&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
Abstract below
11:00am CCRMA Hearing Seminar [22-May-08]
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
"Sparse codes for natural sounds"
Vivienne Ming
Stanford Psychology & Redwood Center, UC Berkeley
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract 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/
2:00pm Information Systems Seminar [22-May-08]
Packard 101
"Quantum state redistribution - an optimal approach to quantum
source coding with quantum side information:
John Yard
Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
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 noon Mathematical Logic Seminar [23-May-08]
Bldg. 160:315
"Consistency of Strictly Impredicative NF"
Sergei Tupailo
Tallinn, Stanford
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
Abstract below
12 noon Ethics@Noon [23-May-08]
Bldg. 110, 1st floor seminar room
"Ideological Competition in the U.S. Environmental Movement"
Bill Barnett
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Woods Institute for the Environment
https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultybios/biomain.asp?id=03698206
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_ethics.html
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
2:00pm GRAI Seminar [23-May-08]
Gates 104
` "From Eye-Balls to Ball-Games: Pushing the Limits of Motion Capture"
Chris Bregler
Computer Science, New York University
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [23-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:050
"Development"
Bob Dougherty
Stanford Neuroscience
http://sirl.stanford.edu/~bob/
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
MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008 - Memorial day
TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
4:00pm Wireless Communications Alliance Discussion [27-May-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"How LBS is Enabling Auto-Based Exploration"
http://www.wca.org/
(Cost: $10 at the door)
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [28-May-08]
Gates B01
to be announced
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
5:30pm Wesson Lectures on Problems of Democracy [28-May-08]
Bldg. 370:370
"Rethinking Justice for Multilingual Entities"
Philippe Van Parijs
Universite catholique de Louvain
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/homepage.html
THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
12 noon CSLI CogLunch [29-May-08]
Cordura Hall 100
Title to be announced
Pat Suppes
Philosophy, Stanford
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
12:15pm Stanford Networking Seminar [29-May-08]
Packard 101
Title to be announced
Fabio Maino
Cisco
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/
3:30pm SRI AI Seminar Series [29-May-08]
Enterprise Room, Bldg. E, SRI International
"There Aren't Any Real BDI Theories/Models Out There"
David J Israel
SRI
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [29-May-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"The Magitti Activity-Aware Leisure Guide: Opportunity Discovery,
Innovation and New Technology Platform Development at PARC"
Bo Begole and Victoria Bellotti
Palo Alto Research Center
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [29-May-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Tangible Bits: Beyond Pixels"
Hiroshi Ishii
MIT Media Lab &
Thomas A. Wasow Visiting Scholar in Symbolic Systems
http://web.media.mit.edu/~ishii/
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [29-May-08]
Packard 101
"Erasure networks: Capacity, impact of feedback and secrecy"
Sriram Vishwanath
University of Texas at Austin
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
5:30pm Wesson Lectures on Problems of Democracy [29-May-08]
Bldg. 370:370
"Institutional Design for Multilingual Democracies"
Philippe Van Parijs
Universite catholique de Louvain
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/homepage.html
FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [30-May-08]
Gates B01
"Tangible Media for Design and Inspiration"
Hiroshi Ishii
MIT Media Lab
http://web.media.mit.edu/~ishii/
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
1:00pm Wesson Lectures on Problems of Democracy [30-May-08]
Bldg. 460:426
Discussion seminar
Philippe Van Parijs
Universite catholique de Louvain
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/homepage.html
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar [30-May-08]
Jordan Hall 420:050
Title to be announced
Angela Kessell
Stanford Cognition
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~akessell/
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/events_cognitive.html
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [30-May-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Undergraduate honors presentations"
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/
SATURDAY, 31 MAY 2008
all day Tribute to Jim Grey [31-May-08]
Zellerbach hall (UC Berkeley)
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/JimGrayTribute/
all day Philosophy Workshop [31-May-08]
Cordura 100
"Epistemology Meets Logic, Informally"
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/fmep/
Information below
SUNDAY, 1 JUNE 2008
all day Philosophy Workshop [1-Jun-08]
Cordura 100
"Epistemology Meets Logic, Informally"
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/fmep/
Information below
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O, A+, and B-. For an appointment:
<http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/> or call 650-723-7831. It only
takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.
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OF NOTE
Ben Shneiderman is giving a series of talks this week as the Symbolic
Systems Distinguished Speaker.
Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction
Laboratory <http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/> at the University of
Maryland. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Ben is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer
and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface:
Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th ed. 2004)
<http://www.awl.com/DTUI/>. He pioneered the highlighted textual link
in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the web. His
move into information visualization helped spawn the successful
company Spotfire <http://www.spotfire.com/>. He is a technical advisor
for the HiveGroup and Groxis. With S Card and J. Mackinlay, he
co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to
Think (1999). His books include Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and
the New Computing Technologies (MIT Press), which won the IEEE
Distinguished Literary Contribution award in 2004.
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Many of you may be familiar with Stanford itunes
<http://itunes.stanford.edu/> which has many Stanford talks available
for public listening (and in a few cases watching). Those of you who
are Stanford students, faculty, and staff can also access the Stanford
Community itunes which has lectures available for internal consumption
such as the "Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching" series. See
<http://itunes.stanford.edu/community/> for more information.
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UPCOMING WORKSHOP
NF in the BAY AREA
Stanford University, USA
June 25 - 27, 2008
http://www.stanford.edu/~tupailo/nfbayarea08.html
The workshop is devoted to Quine's "New Foundations" axiomatic set
theory and associated topics. Both open questions and new results are
likely to be discussed. The subjects involved include Model Theory,
Proof Theory, and Set Theory.
Financial Support
* Morgan Phoa Family Fund
Confirmed Participants
* Solomon Feferman (Stanford University)
* Thomas Forster (University of Cambridge)
* Randall Holmes (Boise State University)
* Grigori Mints (Stanford University)
* Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University and Berkeley)
* Sergei Tupailo (Stanford University)
Possible Other Participants
Michael Beeson, ...
Participation is welcome. Further information: sergei.tupailo .. stanford.edu
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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 throughout 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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STANFORD UNIVERSITY ORAL EXAMINATION
on Thursday, 22 May 2008, 9:00am
Clark Center S360
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=YWtuNmhnNmdrNWg4a2tydmxibjgyYWNrdTAgZm9ydW1zdGFuZm9yZEBt&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
no title but on neural circuits computing motor plans
Afsheen Afshar
Electrical Engineering
People make thousands of voluntary movements a day, almost all of them
effortlessly. However, every time they do, the brain solves a very
difficult control problem: it computes the exact series of commands
necessary so that the body performs the desired physical movement. We
know that this process is complex enough that the brain takes a short
while prior to the initiation of every movement to plan it. We don't
know, though, how this plan is formed or precisely how it relates to
the upcoming movement. We shed light on these questions in three
domains in this thesis:
1) By finding correlates of different aspects of individual movements
using neural activity prior to their execution, we show for the
first time that neural dynamics exhibit many properties of physical
systems, including smoothness and inertia. We propose a model of
motor planning called the 'optimal trajectory hypothesis' to
explain these results.
2) By helping to create a communication prosthesis that allows its
user to select keys at the highest information rate to date and by
improving upon it to allow users to choose when to type without
much performance degradation.
3) And by enabling the improved study of motor planning and execution
by directly recording for the first time from cortical neurons in
patients with Parkinson's Disease while they perform
precisely-recorded arm movements and by providing rudimentary
analysis of the effects of micro-electrode array implantation on
the brain.
Taken together, we foresee our results informing the understanding of
how neural circuits compute motor plans as well as how to make better
neural prostheses for those in need.
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 22 May 2008, 11:00am
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Vivienne is a Mike Lewicki student, working on matching pursuit and
audio coding. Matching pursuit is an important precursor to
compressed-domain sampling and could help us find representations
useful in the brain. I think this will be an interesting combination
of topics interesting to students of perception, the brain, and audio.
Bring your own auditory coders, and we'll talk about what the spikes
mean. - Malcolm Slaney
"Sparse codes for natural sounds"
Vivienne Ming
Stanford Psychology & Redwood Center, UC Berkeley
The auditory neural code must serve a wide range of tasks that require
great sensitivity in time and frequency and be effective over the
diverse array of sounds present in natural acoustic environments. It
has been suggested (Barlow, 1961; Atick, 1992; Simoncelli & Olshausen,
2001; Laughlin & Sejnowski, 2003) that sensory systems might have
evolved highly efficient coding strategies to maximize the information
conveyed to the brain while minimizing the required energy and neural
resources. In this talk, I will show that, for natural sounds, the
complete acoustic waveform can be represented efficiently with a
nonlinear model based on a population spike code. In this model,
idealized spikes encode the precise temporal positions and magnitudes
of underlying acoustic features. We find that when the features are
optimized for coding either natural sounds or speech, they show
striking similarities to time-domain cochlear filter estimates, have a
frequency-bandwidth dependence similar to that of auditory nerve
fibers, and yield significantly greater coding efficiency than
conventional signal representations. These results indicate that the
auditory code might approach an information theoretic optimum and that
the acoustic structure of speech might be adapted to the coding
capacity of the mammalian auditory system.
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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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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC SEMINAR
on Friday, 23 May 2008, 12 noon
Bldg. 160:315
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
"Consistency of Strictly Impredicative NF"
Sergei Tupailo
Tallinn, Stanford
An instance of Stratified Comprehension
A x_1 ... A x_n E y A x (x in y <--> phi(x,x_1,...,x_n))
is called *strictly impredicative* iff, under minimal stratification,
the type of x is 0. Using the technology of forcing, we prove that the
fragment of NF based on strictly impredicative Stratified
Comprehension is consistent. A crucial part in this proof, namely
showing genericity of a certain symmetric filter, is due to Robert
Solovay.
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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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GRAI SEMINAR
on Friday, 23 May 2008, 2:00-3:30pm
Gates 104
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/theobalt/GRAI.html
"From Eye-Balls to Ball-Games: Pushing the Limits of Motion Capture"
Chris Bregler
Computer Science, New York University
This talk will cover several research projects centered around the use
of vision and motion capture for animation, recognition,
entertainment, and gaming. This includes human movements as diverse as
subtle eye-blinks, lip-motions, spine-deformations, body-language
during speaking, and symmetries during dancing. In addition to the
survey, I will focus on the adventures and near-death experiences
during the production of the "Wii for the Thousands": Squidball.net,
the largest motion capture game to date.
About the Speaker: Chris Bregler is an Associate Professor of Computer
Science at NYU's Courant Institute. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in
Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1995 and 1998 and his Diplom
from Karlsruhe University in 1993. Prior to NYU he was on the faculty
at Stanford University and worked for several companies including
Hewlett Packard, Interval, Disney Feature Animation, and Lucasfilm's
ILM. His current research interests are in Computer Vision, Motion
Capture, Graphics, Animation, Interactive Media, and Gaming.
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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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WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ALLIANCE DISCUSSION
on Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
http://www.wca.org/
"How LBS is Enabling Auto-Based Exploration"
We are accustomed to using our cars to explore the world around us. As
LBS matures and new applications emerge, how are these two
technologies converging and reinforcing each other? We are taking a
look at what is here now, what is near, and what is farther down the
road. Join us in a discussion including perspectives from
ground-breaking research in dynamic traffic and routing, safety and
new auto applications.
-- David Nishijima, Toyota
-- Chris Butler, Dash Navigation
-- Chris Wilson, TeleAtlas (and former member of Daimler-Chrysler R&D)
-- Richard Fuller, 3SI (moderator)
Cost: $10 at the door
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 29 May 2008, 3:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"There Aren't Any Real BDI Theories/Models Out There"
David J Israel
SRI
"Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning," by Martha Pollack,
Michael Bratman and myself was recently honored as one of two
influential papers in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems by the International Foundation for AAMAS. This is a deeply
gratifying award, .... on the other hand.... and here's where I look
this particular gift-horse in the mouth.
I assume that the paper is considered influential for being one of the
first fairly clear arguments for and statements of the BDI approach to
autonomous agents. And certainly there has been a large body of work
advertising itself as in the BDI line, much of it citing our
paper. But, I think much of that is false (though not dishonest!)
advertising. In my mind, at least, "BDI" was and still is to be parsed
as "(BD)I"; that is, though we argued for the insufficiency of
Decision Theory (BD-theory), we did not at all argue for its
non-necessity. My starting point then and now was (some form or other
of) Decision Theory, a theory of action choice under uncertainty with
outcomes at the very least ordered by desirability. But much of the
work in the so-called BDI tradition deals only flat-out beliefs and
flat-out goals. If we call flat-out beliefs "acceptances", then we
can say that much of this work is really in a AGI tradition. Maybe
that is the tradition to be working in, but AGI ain't BDI.
The talk will even include a sketch of a (Heaven Help Us!) BADI
account.
N.B. Just as my co-authors were largely responsible for the clarity
and felicity of the prose of the original paper and most of the good
ideas, as well, I am wholly responsible for this take on our work and,
as the French would say, on its Re-ception.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 29 May 2008, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
(directions at <http://www.parc.com/directions>)
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"The Magitti Activity-Aware Leisure Guide: Opportunity Discovery,
Innovation and New Technology Platform Development at PARC"
Bo Begole and Victoria Bellotti
Palo Alto Research Center
In this presentation, we describe a project undertaken at PARC for Dai
Nippon Printing Co. Ltd., to assist them in developing a new business
opportunity beyond their traditional printing. The solution, codenamed
Magitti, was designed to be synergistic with DNP's existing strengths
in the publishing industry whilst incorporating the latest in context-
and activity-aware computing techniques to recommend published
content. We cover market and opportunity discovery fieldwork, as well
as the system components and user experience and, very briefly, an
early field evaluation in which users tested a prototype in Palo Alto
and surrounding neighborhoods in California.
Magitti is an electronic mobile leisure guide for when you are out and
about and want to know what a neighborhood has to offer. It presents
options for things to do, filtered by how well they match your current
activity and interests. You don't have to tell Magitti what you are
doing; it uses an inference engine to figure this out for itself. Your
interests are then inferred from your time, location, past behavior
and predicted activity type (i.e., dining, shopping, seeing or
doing). Taste profiles and preferences can be dynamically adjusted if
you wish to improve the recommendations further. For example, you can
tell Magitti that you prefer vegetarian food in general, but right now
you are looking for fast food. Each recommendation comes with user
reviews and ratings which also determine how likely it is that an item
will be recommended. Magitti always assumes that you want to see the
best offerings in each category first and over time it learns from
your behavior so that recommendations keep getting better.
About the Speaker: Victoria Bellotti is a Principal Scientist and
manager of the Socio-Technical and Interaction Research (STIR) group
at PARC. She studies people to understand their practices, problems
and requirements for future technology. She also designs and analyzes
systems, focusing on user needs and experience and is an inventor on
multiple patents and pending patent applications. Her past work
encompasses domains such as transportation, process control,
computer-mediated communication, collaboration and ubiquitous
computing. Victoria is best known for her research on personal
information management and task management. However, more recently,
she has been focusing on user-centered design of context- and
activity-aware computing systems.
Victoria received a B.S. in Psychology in 1982, an M.S. in Ergonomics
in 1983 from University College, London UK and a Ph.D. in Human
Computer Interaction from Queen Mary and Westfield College, London UK
in 1991. Bo Begole is Manager of the Ubiquitous Computing Research
Area at PARC. He is an applied computer scientist who creates
technologies for novel end-user applications. His past work includes
systems that provide synchronous collaboration of single-user
applications, computer-mediated communication, distributed
interpersonal awareness, sensor-based interruptibility detection,
temporal pattern modeling and prediction, media device
interoperability, and context-aware mobile information retrieval. He
is a co-Chair of the 2008 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative
Work (CSCW 2008 <http://www.cscw2008.org/>), to be held in San Diego,
CA, USA on 8-12 Nov 2008.
Bo received a B.S. in 1992 in Mathematics from Virginia Commonwealth
University, an M.S. in 1994 and a Ph.D. in 1998 in Computer Science
from Virginia Tech. Prior to his studies, Bo served in the US Army as
an Arabic language translator specializing in Egyptian, Libyan and
Iraqi dialects. Bo is glad he switched careers when he did.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 29 May 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Tangible Bits: Beyond Pixels"
Hiroshi Ishii
MIT Media Lab &
Thomas A. Wasow Visiting Scholar in Symbolic Systems
http://web.media.mit.edu/~ishii/
Where the sea meets the land, life has blossomed into a myriad of
unique forms in the turbulence of water, sand, and wind. At another
seashore between the land of atoms and the sea of bits, we are now
facing the challenge of reconciling our dual citizenships in the
physical and digital worlds. Windows to the digital world are confined
to flat square ubiquitous screens filled with pixels, or "painted
bits." Unfortunately, one can not feel and confirm the virtual
existence of this digital information through one's body.
Tangible Bits, our vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), seeks
to realize seamless interfaces between humans, digital information,
and the physical environment by giving physical form to digital
information, making bits directly manipulable and perceptible. Guided
by this vision, we are designing "tangible user interfaces" which
employ physical objects, surfaces, and spaces as tangible embodiments
of digital information. These involve foreground interactions with
graspable objects and augmented surfaces, exploiting the human senses
of touch and kinesthesia. We are also exploring background information
displays which use "ambient media." Here, we seek to communicate
digitally-mediated senses of activity and presence at the periphery of
human awareness. Our goal is to realize seamless interfaces taking
advantage of the richness of multimodal human senses and skills
developed through our lifetime of interaction with the physical world.
In this talk, I will present the design principles and a variety of
tangible user interfaces the Tangible Media Group has presented in
Media Arts, Design, and Science communities including ICC, Ars
Electronica, Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennale, ArtFutula, IDSA, ICSID,
AIGA, ACM CHI, SIGGRAPH, UIST, CSCW.
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PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP
on Saturday and Sunday, 31 May and 1 June 2008, all day
Cordura 100
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/fmep/
"Epistemology Meets Logic, Informally"
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.
Saturday, May 31 2008
9:15 - 9:30: Coffee
9:30 - 9:40: Opening
Morning session: Justification, evidence and proof
9:40 - 10:20 Bryan Renne, CUNY
"Reasoning About Evidence in Hypothetical Situations"
10:25 - 11:05 Sherrilyn Roush, UC Berkeley
TBA
11:10 - 11:50 Branden Fitelson, UC Berkeley
"Epistemological Critiques of 'Classical' Logic:
Two Case Studies"
11:55 - 12:25 Discussion led by Johan van Benthem, Stanford/UvA
Lunch
Afternoon session: Probability and logic
14:00 - 14:40 Alistair Isaac, Stanford
"Diachronic Dutch Book Arguments for Bounded
Rationality, case study: Sleeping Beauty"
14:45 - 15:25 Kenny Easwaran, UC Berkeley
TBA
15:30 - 16:10 Brian Skyrms, Stanford/Irvine
"Signals:Adaptive Dynamics and the Flow of information"
16:15 - 16:45 Discussion led by Persi Diaconis, Stanford
Dinner Reception at CSLI (starting at 17:30)
Sunday, June 1 2008
9:15 - 9:30: Coffee
Morning session 1: Information dynamics and action
9:30 - 10:10 Tomohiro Hoshi, Stanford
"Merging frameworks for interaction"
10:15 - 10:55 Eric Pacuit, Stanford
Morning session 2: Information dynamics and action
11:30 - 12:10 Alexandru Baltag, Oxford
"Belief Change, Information Merge and the Nature of
`Knowledge': A Social-Dynamic-Logical View on Epistemology"
12:15 - 12:55 John Perry, Stanford
"Epistemic Possibility and Reflexive Content"
13:00 - 13:30 Discussion led by David Israel, SRI International
13:30 - 13:40 Closing
Lunch Reception (starting at 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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