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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 9 July 2008, vol. 23:42
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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9 July 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 42
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ACTIVITIES FROM 9 JULY 2008 TO 18 JULY 2008
WEDNESDAY, 9 JULY 2008
all day Berkeley Collective Intentionality VI Conference
UC Berkeley
"Social Change"
http://socialontology.berkeley.edu/
Information below
7:00pm IEEE Robotics and Automation
Moffett Field, Mountain View
"Sun SPOT and its Applications"
Roger Meike, Arshan Poursohi, Randall (Randy) Smith, Stephen
(Steve) Uhler
Sun Microsystems
http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ras
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 10 JULY 2008
all day Berkeley Collective Intentionality VI Conference
UC Berkeley
"Social Change"
http://socialontology.berkeley.edu/
Information below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series
EJ228, SRI International
"Measuring Mind: Event-Specific Knowledge, Narration,
Metaphor and Referential Activity"
Hans Steiner
Stanford University School of Medicine)
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"The Physical Environment - The Interface We Move Through"
Matthew Moore
Hipbone Design
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
7:00pm Summer Science Lecture
Cantor Arts Center Lawn
"Why is Earthquake Prediction so Difficult?"
Gregory C. Beroza
Geophysics, Stanford
http://oso.stanford.edu/lectures.html
FRIDAY, 11 JULY 2008
all day Berkeley Collective Intentionality VI Conference
UC Berkeley
"Social Change"
http://socialontology.berkeley.edu/
Information below
MONDAY, 14 JULY 2008
TUESDAY, 15 JULY 2008
WEDNESDAY, 16 JULY 2008
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Talk
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
"The Next Wave of Computing: Injecting Intelligence into the
Real World"
Joe Polastre
Sentilla Corp.
http://sfbayacm.org/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 17 JULY 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
Biomedical Technology at PARC"
Richard Bruce
PARC and Scripps-PARC Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences
http://www.parc.com/forum/
FRIDAY, 18 JULY 2008
SATURDAY, 19 JULY 2008
all day IEEE/NATEA Conference
Cubberley Auditorium (or else Braun, conflicting info)
"Cloud Computing-the New Face of Computing-Promises and Challenges"
http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/computer/nfic/nfic2008.html
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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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UPCOMING
The Summer Institute at Wallenberg Hall 2008
http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/
In 2008, the Institute offers several independent but related one
and two-day workshops over three weeks between July 28 and August 15;
participants register for each workshop independently. Depending on
your area of interest you can attend just one, or several! Attendance
is capped in each session, guaranteeing a personal learning experience
for all.
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NOTES
Stanford alumni with children 10 and over, might want to look at the
Camp EDAY: Robots, Racers & Rockets on July 12. See
http://soe.stanford.edu/eday08/index.html
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BERKELEY COLLECTIVE INTENTIONALITY VI CONFERENCE
on Tuesday - Friday, 8-11 July 2008, all day
UC Berkeley
http://socialontology.berkeley.edu/
"Social Change"
Preliminary Schedule
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
12:30 - 13:30 Opening Address and Keynote: John R. Searle
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Session A IIS Room
Session B John Harris Room
Session C Howison Library
13:40 - 14:20 Session A: "The Social Brain" Hudin
13:40 - 14:20 Session B: "On Virtual Communities: Individual
Motivations, We-Rationality and Collective
Intentionality" Arena & Conein
13:40 - 14:20 Session C: "Do Artworks Look at You?" Kobow
14:30 - 15:10 Session A: "Collective Intentionality, Methodological
Solipsism, and Current Neurosciences" Vicari
14:30 - 15:10 Session B: "Institutions,Information and Communication
Technology" Miller, S.
14:30 - 15:10 Session C: "Andreas Gursky, Google Earth, and the
Achievement of the World Picture" Moisey
15:20 - 16:00 Session A: "Why Nature and Development go together in
Naturalizing Collective Intentionality" Gallotti
15:20 - 16:00 Session B: "Re-Expressing Normative Pragmatism in the
Medium of Computation" Evans
15:20 - 16:00 Session C: "The Social Ontology of Musical Works" Blackwell
16:10 - 16:50 Session A: "Deceptive Properties and Modeling Social
Change" Epstein
16:10 - 16:50 Session B: "Autonomy and the Net" Giovagnoli
16:10 - 16:50 Session C: "Jazz and Collective Intentionality" Kronfeld
17:00 - 18:00 Invited Speaker: Margaret Gilbert, "Commands and their
Practical Import"
Howison Library
http://socialontology.berkeley.edu/abstracts/Gilbert.pdf
18:30 Reception at the Women's Faculty Club
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
08:30- 09:30 Keynote: Frans De Waal, "Individual and Group Level
Cooperation in Other Primates"
Howison Library
Session D Howison Library
Session E IIS Room
Session F John Harris Room
09:40 - 10:20 Session D: "Human Kinds as Conferred Kinds" Sveinsdottir
09:40 - 10:20 Session E: "Mutual Reinforcement and the Stability of
Shared Intention" Alonso
09:40 - 10:20 Session F: "Social Knowledge, Citizenship and
Non-Domination in the Age of Experts" Wierzchoslawski
10:30 - 11:10 Session D: "Race as an Institutional Fact" Mathiesen
10:30 - 11:10 Session E: "Collective Reasoning and Commitment" Miller, Kaarlo
10:30 - 11:10 Session F: "Collective Intentionality and Oppressive
Societies" Moltchanova
11:20 - 12:00 Session D: "Value-guided and Problem-guided Collective
Intentions" Menendez-Viso
11:20 - 12:00 Session E: "Reasoning About Collectives" Hindriks/Schweikard
11:20 - 12:00 Session F: "We-Intentionality at the Core of Human
Perception" Henning
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Invited Speaker: Georg Meggle, "Meaning as a Social Fact"
Howison Library
Session D Howison Library
Session E IIS Room
Session F John Harris Room
14:40 - 15:20 Session D: "Young Children's Social Categories and the
Development of Discrimination" Kalish
14:40 - 15:20 Session E: "Mapping the Study of Collective
Intentionality" Hakli & Mäkelä
14:40 - 15:20 Session F: "The Role of the Background in the Creation,
Maintenance and Collapse of Institutions" Schmitz
15:30 - 16:10 Session D: "Language and Institution in Searle's The
Construction of Social Reality" Moural
15:30 - 16:10 Session E: "Collective Intentionality and Methodological
Individualism" Schmid
15:30 - 16:10 Session F: "Further Elaborations on Searle's Concept of
the Background of Collective Intentionality" Durt
16:20 - 17:00 Session D: "Natural Things vs. Social Existences and
Natural vs. Social Kinds" Psarros
16:20 - 17:00 Session E: "From the Mental to the Social; Collective
Intentionality's Double Role" Kaldis
16:20 - 17:00 Session F: "Economics Modeling and the Background" Passinksy
Thursday, 10 July 2008
08:30 - 09:30 Keynote: Philip Pettit, "Real Pattern and Group Agency"
Howison Library
(at this point the original's session's names became a bit odd, I've
renamed them)
Session G Howison Library
Session H IIS Room
Session I John Harris Room
09:40 - 10:20 Session G: "Shared Emotions" Salmela
09:40 - 10:20 Session H: "We Intentions as Intentions of Individuals" Lang
09:40 - 10:20 Session I: "Autonomy, the Democratic Attitude and Social
Change" Swindler
10:30 - 11:10 Session G: "Shared Feeling and Affective Contagion" Konzelmann
10:30 - 11:10 Session H: "Joining In" Smith
10:30 - 11:10 Session I: "The Social Ontology of Freedom" Hindriks
11.20 - 12:00 Session G: "'Me' against 'We,' Collective Emotions and
Individual Reactions to Ingroup Misdeeds" Piff &
Martinez
11.20 - 12:00 Session H: "Collective Action and Proxy Agency" Ludwig
11.20 - 12:00 Session I: "How is Social Ontology Possible?" Hällström
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Invited Speaker: Sally Haslanger, "Race, Gender and
Ideological Construction
Howison Library
Session G Howison Library
Session H IIS Room
Session I John Harris Room
14:40 - 15:20 Session G: "The Status Function of Art" Vega
14:40 - 15:20 Session H: "Agent Causation and Collective Agency"
Schulte-Ostermann
14:40 - 15:20 Session I: "Collective Ethnic Identities as Status
Function" Saaristo & Kreander
15:30 - 16:10 Session G: "Collective Perception, Feelings and Trust" Seemann
15:30 - 16:10 Session H: "Shared Intention, Joint Action and Joint
Authorship" Tollefsen
15:30 - 16:10 Session I: "Public History as Collective Action" Lapointe
16:20 - 17:00 Session G: "Collective Intentionality and the Kingdom of
Ends" Sadler
16:20 - 17:00 Session H: "Defining Minimal Cooperation" Paternotte
16:20 - 17:00 Session I: "Governments and Social Change" Gusejnova
Friday, 11 July 2008
08:30 - 09:30 Keynote: Tony Lawson, "Two Approaches to Social
Ontology: Competitors, Complements or Basically the Same Thing?
Howison Library
Session J Howison Library
Session K IIS Room
Session L John Harris Room
09:40 - 10:20 Session J: "Hayek's Legal Knowledge" Wedman
09:40 - 10:20 Session K: "The Ontology of Corporations" Derstine
09:40 - 10:20 Session L: "Apes, Babies, and Collective Intentionality" Fusco
10:30 - 11:10 Session J: "Living Together in a Legal Practice" Bernal
10:30 - 11:10 Session K: "Who or What is the Company Man?" Roth
10:30 - 11:10 Session L: "Hoofed Mammals & Elephants Consciousness,
Ontology and Collective Intentionality" Kiley-Worthington
11:20 - 12:00 Session J: "Legislative Intentionalism by Proxy" MacPherson
11:20 - 12:00 Session K: "Where the Distribution Problem Ends and
'Real' Collective Responsibility Begins" Chant
11:20 - 12:00 Session L: "Reciprocal Normativity, Deontic Power and
Shared Valuing" Gloor
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Invited speaker: Raimo Tuomela, "Group Thinking"
Howison Library
Session J Howison Library
Session K IIS Room
Session L John Harris Room
14:40 - 15:20 Session J: "On the Identity of Technological Objects and
User Innovation in Function" Faulkner & Runde
14:40 - 15:20 Session K: "Violence as an Intentional Act" Salice
14:40 - 15:20 Session L: "Rules, Collective Intentionality, Identity
and Social Ontology" Martins
15:30 - 16:10 Session J: "Power, Collective Acceptance and Recognition" Stahl
15:30 - 16:10 Session K: "A Specification of Searle's Theory of
Institutions in the Realm of Politics" Gran
15:30 - 16:10 Session L: "Collective Intentions as Effects of
Influence" Anton
20:00 Dinner & Party at the Bancroft Hotel (fee required)
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IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
on Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 7:00pm
CMU West, Moffett Field, Mountain View
http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ras
"Sun SPOT and its Applications"
Roger Meike, Arshan Poursohi, Randall (Randy) Smith, Stephen (Steve) Uhler
Sun Microsystems
The Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT) is a small,
wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed
almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create
projects that used to require specialized embedded system development
skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as
well as the ability to easily interface to external devices. Both the
hardware and software are open sourced.
This talk describes the Sun SPOT and its applications.
About the Speakers: Roger Meike is Senior Director, Area 51 and
Director of Operations, Sun Microsystems Laboratories. His background
is in cognitive science and his career has lead him back and forth
between new start companies and large research organizations. While
his background is mostly in software, he also enjoys consorting with
hardware folks. He has been accused of being many things including
photo enthusiast, sailor, ham radio operator, musician and
techno-geek/nerd.
Arshan Poursohi is a Researcher for Sun Microsystems Laboratories,
working on the Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT)
project. His research interests include Advanced Network
Applications, biologically-inspired computing, Distributed Systems,
Intermittently-connected devices, Linux, Mobile Computing, Multi-user
cooperative environments, Networking, Peer to peer, practical
automated reasoning and Multi-Agent Systems.
He grew up near a farm outside of New Zealand, at an early age he
learned to use tools and speak using words. Following that he went on
to develop systems for locomotion and chemical digestion of organic
matter. Then he worked on various models social interaction in small
and large groups, which he continues to use today. sometimes.
Stephen Uhler is the Principal Investigator of the Enterprise PDA
project. Before Enterprise PDA, Uhler was the PI for the Brazil
project, which included an experimental web application development
environment ideal for web-enabling devices, aggregating content from
other web applications, and building personal web portals that filter
and modify aggregated content.
Prior to that, Uhler was the creator of the reverse-proxy, a key
component of the sun.net product, the architect and designer of the
supplier.net secure supply chain integration system, and a member of
the SunLabs TCL project, where he pioneered the TCL embedded web
server technology.
Randy Smith is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems
Laboratories, where he has been principal investigator in several
areas, including projects in visualization technologies and radio
frequency ID tags. He previously worked on the Kansas project, a 2D
virtual world for creating multi-user simulations. Kansas was part of
the world's largest study of distributed synchronous small group
learning, another research project he lead. He was formerly co-leader
of the Self project. Before joining Sun, he worked at Xerox PARC for
eight years, where he developed a virtual world programming
environment called the Alternate Reality Kit, and, with David Ungar,
designed the Self language. His Ph.D. is in theoretical physics from
the University of California at San Diego.
His hobbies include playing trumpet and jazz piano. He is the trumpet
player in the jazz octet Octobop, whose recent CD is available online.
Randy recently represented Sun at the Santa Fe Institute's Complex
Systems Summer School where he worked on a model of migrating
computational agents. He is proud winner of the Bottle Of TESCO
Champagne Award for best essay at the 1997 UNESCO Workshop on Learning
Environments!
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 10 July 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Measuring Mind: Event-Specific Knowledge, Narration,
Metaphor and Referential Activity"
Hans Steiner
Stanford University School of Medicine)
Much of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment depends on the hermeneutic
approach to behavior patterns and narrated events. The content of
mental activity is challenging to measure reliably and validly.
Surveys, questionnaires and projective tests all have major
limitations; imaging methods at the present time cannot capture
complex, layered mental states. New approaches have to be found.
Examining narratives offers an opportunity, especially if hermeneutic
analyses can be computerized to remove observer bias.
We will present data on the DAAP Referential Activity Measure by Bucci
and Maskit; the Temporal Juncture Method by Nelson; and the Metaphor
Approach described by Lakoff.
About the Speaker: Hans Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria and
received his Doctor medicinae universalis (Dr. med. univ. = M.D.) from
the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1972. He
completed his residency in adult Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical
Center, his child and adolescent psychiatry residency at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Currently, Dr. Steiner is
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child Psychiatry and
Human Development at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is
a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA),
a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(AACAP), and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM). He is an
invited member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP).
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 10 July 2008, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
(directions at <http://www.parc.com/directions>)
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"The Physical Environment - The Interface We Move Through"
Matthew Moore
Hipbone Design
The most consistently interactive experience we have in the modern
world is moving through space, making choices about where we look,
what we do, and how we interact with people around us. In designing
retail spaces, museums, and other public places I am constantly struck
by the sense that the environment being created sets a mood/feel and
then acts as an interface that allows the user to make informed
choices and act at the appropriate moments. Three rooms accessible
from a center room vs. three rooms accessed sequentially very simply
illustrates how space arrangement can act as an interface that affects
experience. In retail design we frequently talk about how customers
experience things at 100, 15, and 2 feet - and how the appropriate
information and choices vary at each distance. In this forum we will
look at how the design of physical environments with their inherently
extreme bandwidth can be looked at through the lens of the language of
interface. We will also investigate how the broad interface of the
physical environment affects increasingly pervasive computer
interfaces and vice versa.
About the Speaker: As a generalist in the realm of communicating ideas
and emotions and a specialist in the design of built environments,
Matthew Moore has worked over 20 years with leadership in major
cultural institutions, Fortune 500 companies, as well as leading
architects, engineers, and designers creating projects ranging from
new museums to sign spectaculars in Times Square to big box retail to
outdoor site installations.
He led the environmental design department as well as sat on the
executive strategy team during his 15 year tenure at ESI Design
Incorporated <http://www.esidesign.com>, one of the
leading experience design firms in the country. While there, he was
either the principal or the lead environmental designer on 40+
projects including the recently opened College Basketball Experience
and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City - a new
from the ground up facility that is redefining what a Hall of Fame
might be as well as being an entertainment destination in its own
right. Other recent work includes working closely with senior
management at Best Buy to develop new store concepts including the
store prototype to be rolled out this summer. In both these projects
besides wearing a traditional design "hat," Matthew worked with
marketing and business teams to develop the overall strategies that
these projects would fit into. Other major work includes being the
project designer for the all the interpretive elements in the Kennedy
Center for The Performing Arts last major renovation, the Pope John
Paul II Cultural Center in Washington DC, the Reuters Sign in Times
Square, and the American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis
Island in New York.
He is now the principal of Hipbone Design LLC
<http://www.hipbonedesign.com/> a company specializing in the creation
of dynamic public experiences in the museum, re-tail, and corporate
markets. Through this work and through teaching exhibit design at
Pratt Institute and the Fashion Institute of Technology (both in New
York City) Matthew has continued to develop overarching ideas of
connecting people in public places, the effect of cumulative details,
and design functionality (including aesthetic, emotional, and
inspirational functionality). His training was in scenic design for
the theater - under-graduate studies at the State University of New
York at Purchase and graduate studies at the Yale School of Drama.
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SF BAY ACM TALK
on Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
http://sfbayacm.org/
"The Next Wave of Computing: Injecting Intelligence into the
Real World"
Joe Polastre
Sentilla Corp.
Pervasive computing is about making the real world--and everything in
it--smarter through the use of small, wireless, battery-powered
computers that can be put anywhere or attached to anything. Pervasive
applications range from automatically watering your plants when they
need water to analyzing millions of containers as they move goods
throughout the world. Operating for years without intervention,
pervasive applications are making the real world smarter, safer,
greener, and more fun. Sentilla has brought pervasive computing into
the 21st century through an innovative Java software platform that
opens these embedded wireless systems up to millions of developers
that were previous off limits. Sentilla's software includes the
world's smallest Java platform and the only Java platform running on
8-bit and 16-bit embedded systems -- systems with only 10kB of RAM and
48kB of storage.
This talk contains three main components: and overview of pervasive
applications and their promise to solve the world's most pressing
problems, the technical innovation required to bring high 21st century
programming models (such as Java) to embedded computing, and tips and
techniques for building applications in this new domain. Application
scenarios include monitoring the flow of people, analyzing energy and
water use for conservation, and proactive detection and reporting of
potential failures and maintenance conditions, such as on bridges,
airplanes, and industrial equipment. To solve the needs of these
applications, a system architecture spanning from real world
intelligent objects objects through to the Internet is presented, and
the common object model that unifies such a wide range of computing
platforms. This talk also illustrates the importance of research
published almost 30 years ago when systems had similar capabilities to
today's embedded systems; and how these established techniques are
essential for the next wave of networked embedded systems.
About the Speaker: Joe Polastre, PhD is Co-founder and Chief
Technology Officer of Sentilla Corporation. Dr. Polastre is
responsible for defining and implementing the global technology
strategy and overseeing the product roadmap. Dr. Polastre's
experience with pervasive computing stems from his deep background
with wireless sensor networks, having deployed the first-ever
autonomous network on Great Duck Island, Maine, in 2002 to monitor the
patterns of elusive seabirds. In addition to his practical experience,
Dr. Polastre sits on numerous technical boards and commissions and is
a tireless evangelist for pervasive computing. He is also the author
of seminal work in the wireless sensor industry, including
communication abstractions, hardware designs, energy harvesting,
deployment experience, and system virtualization. Prior to Sentilla,
he held positions in software architecture and engineering at IBM,
Intel, and Microsoft. Dr. Polastre holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in
Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a
B.S in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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