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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 11 June 2008, vol. 23:38
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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11 June 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 38
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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 11 JUNE 2008 TO 20 JUNE 2008
WEDNESDAY, 11 JUNE 2008
12:15pm CS194: Computer Science Senior Projects [11-Jun-08]
Wallenberg Hall
"Software Faire"
students
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs194/
Information below
12:30pm NASA Demonstration [11-Jun-08]
CREST Facility, Bldg. 538c, NASA Ames, Moffet Field
"Spoken Dialog Systems"
Beth Ann Hockey and students/partners
UC Santa Cruz
http://people.ucsc.edu/~jchristi/LING160/demonstration.pdf
Abstract below
5:00pm Neuroscience, Law and Society Interest Group [11-Jun-08]
Location ??
"The Dynamic Mind: Neurochemical Modulation of Decision Making"
Molly Crockett
Cambridge University
http://stanfordlawneuroscienceandsociety.pbwiki.com/
ermurphy .. stanford.edu
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG [11-Jun-08]
SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
"Automated Dependency Discovery of Hosts and Network Services
in Distributed Systems"
Moises Goldszmidt
Microsoft Research
http://sfbayacm.org/dmsig.php
7:00pm San Francisco Ask A Scientist [11-Jun-08]
Axis Cafe, 1201 8th Street (btw. 16th & Irwin) San Francisco
"Birds, Bees, and Boids"
Craig Reynolds
Sony Computer Entertainment US R&D
http://www.askascientistsf.com/
Information below
THURSDAY, 12 JUNE 2008
FRIDAY, 13 JUNE 2008 - Triskadekaphobia day
all day Fifth Annual E-Commerce Best Practices Conference [13-Jun-08]
Stanford University
"How to Deal with the Uncertainties of Online Business"
http://lst.stanford.edu/best_practices
(registration and a fee are required, MCLE credit available)
12 noon Computer History Museum Lecture [13-Jun-08]
Computer History Museum (1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View)
"CSIRAC - The Only Intact First Generation Computers Left on
the Planet"
David Demant
Senior Curator Information and Communication at Museum Victoria
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/
(registration required)
SATURDAY, 14 JUNE 2008
all day First Transatlantic Information Law Symposium [14-Jun-08]
Stanford Law School
http://lst.stanford.edu/transatlantic
(registration required but free, MCLE credit available)
Information below
SUNDAY, 15 JUNE 2008
9:30am Stanford Commencement [15-Jun-08]
Stanford Stadium
Speaker is Oprah Winfrey
http://commencement.stanford.edu/
open to the public, no tickets needed
MONDAY, 16 JUNE 2008
TUESDAY, 17 JUNE 2008
1:00pm UC Berkeley ICBS Colloquium [17-Jun-08]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Volitional control of neural activity and recurrent
brain-computer interfaces"
Eberhard Fetz
University of Washington
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
6:30pm IEEE Talk [17-Jun-08]
California Public Utilities Commission (San Francisco)
"Ethical Hacking: Penetrating Web 2.0 Security"
Sam Bowne
City College of San Francisco
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/san_francisco/comsoc/
Abstract below
(free, rsvp required, see web page)
WEDNESDAY, 18 JUNE 2008
THURSDAY, 19 JUNE 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [19-Jun-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"SolFocus: Solar Start-up from Garage to Market via PARC"
Ty Jagerson
SolFocus
http://www.parc.com/forum/
6:30pm IEEE Talk [19-Jun-08]
Crown Plaza Hotel, San Francisco International Airport
"Location Based Technologies and Services"
Dave Reid, SiRF Technology Inc.
Jon Metzler, Rosum Corp.
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc/
Information below
(free, see web page)
FRIDAY, 20 JUNE 2008
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Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O, A-, B-, and AB-. 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. They are
particularly short of O-.
There will be a blood drive at the Cantor Arts Center (aka Stanford
Museum) on Thursday, 12 June, from 4:00pm until 8:00pm. This seems to
be an ongoing every other week event.
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NOTE
Best wishes to Stanford student graduating. The commencement ceremony
on Sunday at 9:30am (actual speeches start at about 10:00am) is open
to the public. No tickets required. Bring sunhat and sun screen.
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UPCOMING LOCAL CONFERENCE
Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing
DIAC-2008
26-29 June 2008, UC Berkeley
http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/
At the dawn of the 21st century humankind faces challenges of profound
proportions. The ability of people around the world to discuss, work,
make decisions, and take action collaboratively is one of the most
important capabilities for addressing these challenges.
Researchers, scholars, activists, advocates, artists, educators,
technologists, designers, students, policy-makers, entrepreneurs,
journalists and citizens are rising to these challenges in many ways,
including, devising new communication technologies that build on the
opportunities afforded by the Internet and other new (as well as old)
media. The interactions between technological and social systems are
of special and central importance in this area.
DIAC-08 combines CPSR's 11th DIAC symposium with the third Conference
on Online Deliberation. The joint conference is intended to provide a
platform and a forum for highlighting socio-technological
opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls in the area of community and
civic action. Technology enhanced community action ranges from
informal communities of practice to democratic governance of formal
organizations to large social movements.
Important Dates
May 15 - June 21, 2008 Regular registration begins
June 22 - June 29, 2008 Late registration begins
June 26 - June 29, 2008 DIAC-2008 / OD2008
June 29, 2008 A Tools for Participation Agenda, Open Space Session Open to
the public!
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CS194: COMPUTER SCIENCE SENIOR PROJECTS
on Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 12:15pm-3:15pm
Wallenberg Hall
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs194/
"Software Faire"
students
What is the Software Faire?
In CS194, Stanford's Senior Project Course, student teams design and
implement a significant software project of their own choosing. It is
the capstone course--a chance for them to show us what they have
learned and demonstrate that they can work with the intensity that
will be required after graduation.
At the end of the quarter, we hold a Software Faire. It's like a small
trade show, with nonstop demonstrations of all the projects. It's a
fun event, with lots of people and prizes for the best projects. The
students get very excited about showing off their work, especially to
visitors from industry.
Who is invited?
Everyone is invited to attend the Faire. This is a great opportunity
for people outside of Stanford to see what our seniors in Computer
Science are capable of producing in a short 10 weeks!
What are the projects like?
The projects cover a very wide range of topics. Please visit
<http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs194/> for a brief description of last
year's projects, as well as previous quarters.
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NASA CREST DEMONSTRATION
on Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 12:30pm-2:00pm
CREST Facility, Bldg. 538c, NASA Ames, Moffet Field
"Spoken Dialog Systems"
Beth Ann Hockey and students/partners
UC Santa Cruz
http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/people/index.php?ID=8116
What happens when Linguistics students tackle Computer Science?
* Making robots move with the sound of your voice!
* Learning English through language immersion...in a virtual world!
* Student tools---assignment calendars, self-quizzing---using your
cell phone!
Project partners are:
* Qtech, which produces the ReQall telephone based reminder system
<http://www.reqall.com/>
* Paideia Computing, which works on language teaching in virtual
worlds <http://01f6616.netsolhost.com/contactus.html>
* Dr. Christoper Kitts, of Associate Professor at Santa Clara
University <http://www.scu.edu/engineering/me/people/kitts.cfm>,
and director of The Center for Robotic Exploration and Space
Technology (CREST) <http://www.crestnrp.org/>.
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SAN FRANCISCO ASK A SCIENTIST
on Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 7:00pm
Axis Cafe, 1201 8th Street (btw. 16th & Irwin) San Francisco
http://www.askascientistsf.com/
"Birds, Bees, and Boids"
Craig Reynolds
Sony Computer Entertainment US R&D
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/
Everyone's seen birds flying, ants foraging, bees working, and fish
swimming --- all with the apparent purpose and coordination of a
single conscious organism. But with no leader, no centralized
management, how does each individual participant know what to do and
where to go? The collective behavior of such animals --- each
oblivious to the master plan, but contributing to the group's goals
and success --- is what's known as swarm intelligence. Researchers
have found that such self-organizing systems function through constant
interactions between individuals, each of which is following simple
rules. In 1986, computer graphics researcher Craig Reynolds created a
steering program called boids, in which life-like graphical objects
follow three basic rules of motion. The result looks awfully
familiar. He is now a leader in the field of computer animated crowd
simulation, doing research on visual effects for films and video
games. Tonight Craig will talk with us about his work and how it
relates to biology, society, business, robots, and more!
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FIRST TRANSATLANTIC INFORMATION LAW SYMPOSIUM
on Saturday, 14 June 2008, 8:45am - 5:30pm
Stanford Law School
http://lst.stanford.edu/transatlantic
(registration required but free, MCLE credit available)
In the twelve years since the publication of the paper "Law and
Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace" by David G. Post and David
Johnson, lawmakers and courts in the United States and European Union
have had to address numerous new questions arising from new
information technologies and online activities. What have we learned
applying existing legal principles to new Internet phenomena? What new
principles have been established and what new concepts underlie these
principles? What role will new regulatory models and regimes play in
the future?
The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) and the Freeman Spogli
Institute for International Studies (FSI) will host the first
Transatlantic Information Law Symposium on June 14, 2008 at Stanford
Law School. The goal of the symposium is to bring together the leading
experts from the United States and European Union to discuss current
issues in information law and to promote mutual understanding of the
different approaches.
The symposium will address the following topics:
-Constitutional Rights and IT in the EU
-The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in EU Law
-The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in US Law
-Freedom of Speech and the Internet in US Law
-Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under US Law
-Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under EU Law
-The Future of Regulating Cyberspace - Open Discussion
This event is free and open to the public.
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UC BERKELEY ICBS COLLOQUIUM
on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 1:00pm
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"Volitional control of neural activity and recurrent
brain-computer interfaces"
Eberhard Fetz
University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/pbiopage/people_fac_page.php?fac_ID=12
A variety of brain-computer interfaces [BCI] have been developed to
transform neural activity into signals that control a computer cursor
or other external devices. Effective BCI control depends significantly
on the ability of the subject to modify neural activity appropriately.
Volitional modulation of neural activity is evident in many
conventional experimental paradigms, and the degree of neural control
has been directly tested in biofeedback experiments and BCI
applications. While the usual BCI paradigm involves brain control of
external devices, a recurrent BCI [R-BCI] generates output that is fed
back into the nervous system or muscles. We are investigating an
implantable R-BCI consisting of autonomously operating electronic
circuitry, including a computer chip that interacts continuously with
the brain of a monkey. The so-called "Neurochip" can document the
activity of motor cortex cells and arm muscles during free behavior
and sleep, storing this activity for subsequent download via an
infrared port. In a recurrent mode, the Neurochip can convert cell
activity to electrical stimuli delivered back to the spinal cord or
muscles, implementing neurally controlled functional electrical
stimulation. When the R-BCI converted motor cortex cell activity into
stimuli delivered at an adjacent cortical site continuous operation of
such spike-triggered stimulation for a day generated long-lasting
changes in connections between the synchronized sites. Looking ahead,
two applications of the R-BCI have therapeutic potential for treating
movement disorders or stroke. First, the artificial recurrent
connection could bridge impaired biological connections and allow the
subject to learn to generate the neural activity that is appropriate
to compensate for the lost pathway. Second, by delivering stimuli
synchronized with cell activity, continuous operation of the R-BCI can
strengthen weak existing biological connections through Hebbian
mechanisms. The R-BCI paradigm has numerous potential applications,
depending on the input signals, the computed transform and the output
targets.
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IEEE TALK
on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 6:30pm
California Public Utitlies Commission (San Francisco)
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/san_francisco/comsoc/
(free, rsvp required, see web page)
"Ethical Hacking: Penetrating Web 2.0 Security"
Sam Bowne
City College of San Francisco
Web 2.0 makes the viewer a contributor to the site, and is everywhere
on the Internet but this raises serious new security risks. More than
half of Web 2.0 sites are vulnerable to SQL Injection, Cross-Site
Scripting, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Application-Layer Denial of
Service, and other attacks. These attacks will be explained and
demonstrated, with risk assessment and discussion countermeasures.
About the Speaker: Dr. Bowne has been teaching computer networking and
security classes at CCSF since 2000. He has given talks at DEFCON and
Toorcon on Ethical Hacking, and taught classes and seminars at many
other Bay Area schools and at the "Working Connections" conference in
Texas.
Dr. Bowne has a B.S. in Physics, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
and a Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His
Industry Certifications are: Certified Ethical Hacker, Microsoft: MCP,
MCDST, MCTS: Vista; Network+, Security+, Certified Fiber Optic
Technician.
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IEEE TALK
on Thursday, 19 June 2008, 6:30pm
Crown Plaza Hotel, San Francisco International Airport
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc/
(free, see web page)
"Location Based Technologies and Services"
Dave Reid, SiRF Technology Inc.
Jon Metzler, Rosum Corp.
Location-based advertising, e-commerce and social networking are
increasing the revenue opportunities for cellular carriers embedding
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and other tracking technologies into
their offering. As the social media market picks up momentum, there is
a huge opportunity for new services, based on a subscriber's location
and time of day. What are the technologies and services that will make
this possible?
This special IEEE ComSoc session examines some of the new and exciting
possibilities using GPS-enabled mobile phones and social networking
services. The two speakers did an excellent job of addressing these
topics at the Spring VONx conference earlier this year. Each speaker
will present for 30-35 minutes followed by a panel session and then an
open mike/ Q and A.
To stimulate interest, here are a few questions to ponder:
* What are the relevant technologies- is GPS the only game in town?
* What's this about using broadcast video channels for tracking location?
* Why has the use of cell towers to pinpoint location in a cell not used
more?
* Who are the new location based services targeted towards?
* What are the applications that are driving shared location services?
* When and where can we expect to see these new services to be rolled out?
Program
6:30 - 7:00PM Refreshments and Networking
7:00 - 7:10PM Welcome and Opening Remarks
7:10 - 8:10PM Panelists Presentation
* "Locations: Because Life Moves", by Dave Reid, SiRF Technology Inc.
* "When Location Becomes a Utility", by Jon Metzler, Rosum Corp.
8:10 - 8:50pm Panel Session: Q&A
8:50pm Concluding remarks and wrap up
About the Speakers: Dave Reid, Director of Business Development, SiRF
Technology Inc.
Dave Reid joined SiRF in June 2007, and is in charge of global
business development for the company's wireless segment. In this role,
Reid is responsible for identifying and developing new business
prospects for SiRF's wireless solutions, which include GPS chipsets
and carrier-grade software for use in handsets, smartphones, personal
locators, asset tracking devices, fleet management systems and carrier
infrastructure globally for location-based services (LBS) and mobile
resource management (MRM). Reid also develops new opportunities for
the SiRFecosystem, a comprehensive suite of products and services
designed to help the global LBS developer community more easily
develop, test, and market their location applications. Prior to SiRF,
Reid worked at Qualcomm and its SnapTrack subsidiary, which focuses on
hybrid A-GPS technology for E911, consumer and enterprise LBS
applications. While at Qualcomm, he served in lead product management
and business development roles in its SnapTrack, gpsOne, QPoint, BREW
and QChat product lines, where he worked closely with operators,
handset OEMs, infrastructure providers, systems integrators and
application providers around the globe.
Jon Metzler, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Rosum Corp.
Jon Metzler is Strategic Initiatives and Government Affairs Director
for Rosum Corporation. He is responsible for partnership development
in mobile TV markets, standards development, and regulatory advocacy
on public safety and broadcast TV issues. Prior to joining Rosum, Jon
was Vice President at Performance Analysis Inc, a services firm
specializing in business development in Asia for technology
companies. Prior to joining PAI, Jon was part of multiple successful
launches into the Japanese market, in the fields of technology,
services and media. Jon is a graduate of the MBA/MA-Asian Studies
program at UC-Berkeley. He is now an adviser to the UC-Berkeley
Management of Technology program. Jon also has a B.A. from the
University of Michigan . Jon publishes regularly on technology and
policy issues and is a member of the E911 Institute.
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