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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 30 July 2008, vol. 23:45
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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30 July 2008 Stanford Vol. 23, No. 45
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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 30 JULY 2008 TO 15 AUGUST 2008
WEDNESDAY, 30 JULY 2008
THURSDAY, 31 JULY 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [31-Jul-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Earthwatch: Volunteering for Science"
Tom Davis
Retired Founder/Principal Scientist at Silicon Graphics
http://www.parc.com/forum/
FRIDAY, 1 AUGUST 2008
MONDAY, 4 AUGUST 2008
TUESDAY, 5 AUGUST 2008
WEDNESDAY, 6 AUGUST 2008
7:00pm San Francisco Ask A Scientist [6-Aug-08]
Axis Cafe, 1201 8th Street (btw. 16th & Irwin) San Francisco
"Robots"
David Calkins
Computer & Electrical Engineering at SF State University
http://www.askascientistsf.com/
THURSDAY, 7 AUGUST 2008
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [7-Aug-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"State of Semantic MediaWiki"
Rudi Studer
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [7-Aug-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"A New PARC: Capturing Business Value from Research Innovation"
Mark Bernstein
Palo Alto Research Center President and Center Director
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
7:00pm Summer Science Lecture [7-Aug-08]
Cantor Arts Center Lawn
"Wired for Speech:
How Voice Activates Interactions with People and Computers"
Clifford Nass
Communication, Stanford
http://oso.stanford.edu/lectures.html
(There is a blood drive beforehand)
FRIDAY, 8 AUGUST 2008
7:00pm Long Now Foundation Talk [8-Aug-08]
Fort Mason Conference Center, San Francisco
"Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality"
Daniel Suarez (aka author Leinad Zeraus)
http://www.longnow.org/
(donation of $10 welcome)
Abstract below
MONDAY, 11 AUGUST 2008
TUESDAY, 12 AUGUST 2008
7:30pm BayCHI [12-Aug-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"In The Moment: UX Research About Life Instead of Just Interfaces"
Nate Bolt
Bolt | Peters
"Knocking Down the Barriers to Search Innovation with Open Search"
Larry Cornett
Yahoo!
http://www.baychi.org/program/
Abstracts below
WEDNESDAY, 13 AUGUST 2008
12 noon Berkeley talk [13-Aug-08]
508-20 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Joshua Vogelstein
Johns Hopkins University
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
http://redwood.berkeley.edu/seminar-info.php?id=98
THURSDAY, 14 AUGUST 2008
FRIDAY, 15 AUGUST 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.
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NOTE
Since I'm taking some time off, the next calendar will appear on
August 13. This Calendar covers a extra week of events (not I can
find too much going on.)
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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.
Stanford High Performance Computing Conference IV
August 28th & 29th 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
James H. Clark Center
(for Stanford students, staff, faculty, affiliates, free)
The fourth annual Stanford HPC Conference is rapidly approaching,
brought to you by Bio-X, Flow Physics & Computational Engineering and
Stanford ITS.
Registration is now open. Breaks and Lunch Provided
http://hpcc.stanford.edu/conference/index.html
Some of the sessions are:
* Matlab Training
* TotalView Training
* Hands-on Cluster Building
* Rocks System Administration Classes
* Stanford HPC Experiences
* Facilities Challenges
There are a number of great research presentations from many
departments on campus and SLAC, in addition to outside research
institutions.
As always, the conference is free of charge, fully-funded by our sponsors!
Be sure to sign up now: http://hpcc.stanford.edu/conference/
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 7 August 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"State of Semantic MediaWiki"
Rudi Studer
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
Semantic MediaWiki is an extension to MediaWiki -- the wiki engine
used by Wikipedia -- that enables to add structure to the knowledge
within the wiki and thus make it processable by machines. This talk
will introduce Semantic MediaWiki and present how it is used on the
Web today in numerous sites. It will present current development work,
that allows the user-friendly input of data and introduces a newly
implemented way to formulate more expressive, conceptual knowledge
within the wiki in an easy, wiki-like manner.
About the Speaker: Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany &
FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe & Ontoprise
GmbH, Karlsruhe Rudi Studer is Full Professor in Applied Informatics
at the University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB
<http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS>. His research interests
include knowledge management, Semantic Web technologies and
applications, ontology management, data and text mining,
service-oriented architectures, peer-to-peer systems, and Semantic
Grid.
He obtained a Diploma in Computer Science at the University of
Stuttgart in 1975. In 1982 he was awarded a Doctors degree in
Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, and
in 1985 he obtained his Habilitation in Computer Science at the
University of Stuttgart.
From 1977 to 1985 he worked as a research scientist at the University
of Stuttgart. From 1985 to 1989 he was project leader and manager at
the Scientific Center of IBM Germany.
Rudi Studer is also director in the research department Information
Process Engineering at the FZI Research Center for Information
Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe <http://www.fzi.de/ipe>
and one of the presidents of the
FZI Research Center as well as co-founder of the spin-off company
ontoprise GmbH <http://www.ontoprise.de/> that develops semantic
applications.
He is engaged in various national and international cooperation
projects being funded by e.g. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG),
the European Commission, the German Ministry of Education and
Research, and industry. He is president of the Semantic Web Science
Association (www.iswsa.org) and Editor-in-chief of the journal Web
Semantics: Science, Services, and Agents on the World Wide Web
<http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/>.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 7 August 2008, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
(directions at <http://www.parc.com/directions>)
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"A New PARC: Capturing Business Value from Research Innovation"
Mark Bernstein
Palo Alto Research Center President and Center Director
PARC is at work developing a model that optimally couples its unique
class of research innovation with multiple potential paths for
creating business value. In the transition from corporate lab, there
have been new choices made that seek to balance the research we want
to do with the revenue we need to generate. This talk will touch on
the business values that have shaped research directions and how the
research has generated business opportunities.
About the Speaker: Mark Bernstein has led one of the world's premier
centers of innovation since 2001. He was named President and Center
Director at this time to lead PARC in its transition from Xerox
research division to independent research company. Under Bernstein's
leadership, PARC has broadened its research agenda and developed areas
of commercial focus while retaining close strategic ties with Xerox
Corporation.
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LONG NOW FOUNDATION TALK
on Friday, 8 August 2008, 7:00pm
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Conference Center, San Francisco
http://www.longnow.org/
"Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality"
Daniel Suarez (aka author Leinad Zeraus)
The viral success story of the year is a techno-thriller called
Daemon. Software developer Suarez printed the book himself after
being turned down by mainstream publishers. Blog raves, Amazon raves,
and a brief item in Wired magazine turned the book deservedly into a
runaway hit.
In this presentation, his first on the subject, Suarez spells out the
ideas behind Daemon and its forthcoming sequel, Freedom: "'Bots' are
simple software programs designed to automate tasks - such as finding,
retrieving, or acting upon information. Bots set loose on the Internet
have been the catalyst behind many revolutionary Web 2.0
technologies. However, the unintended consequences of activating
millions of bots in our networks -- bots that wield increasing
influence over the activities and opportunities of human beings - may
have serious consequences for society."
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BAYCHI
on Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.baychi.org/program/
"In The Moment: UX Research About Life Instead of Just Interfaces"
Nate Bolt
Bolt | Peters
Not all UX research is about the interface. It's about the habits,
moods, location, and motivations of the people using your
interface. Unfortunately, that mess is unpredictable and difficult to
measure, but can make or break the accuracy of your research. Here are
three examples of how we've structured research to uncover where
peoples' real lives meet technology:
* Web Apps. Live intercepts and remote research. Get on the user's
time, instead of forcing participants to follow your time as a researcher.
* Video Games. Simulated native environment testing and six-on-one
moderation with TeamSpeak. Sounds crazy, and it is. We'll show a
short documentary on what all that means and how much better it is
than standard video game research.
* Cars. Getting into people's cars to film them while they drive,
smoke a cigarette, flip open their laptop, check traffic, and then
play an iPod. Also, how to double-check safety and liability
waivers.
All three examples preserve the authenticity of users' moods and
behaviors by maintaining a native environment, allowing us to
understand relevant background information about a user, and using a
relaxed, non-sterile environment to conduct the research-preferably,
the comfort of their own homes (or cars). Users also have a much
bigger role in choosing their tasks and structuring the interview than
the researchers. We'll talk about splitting our scripts into
passionate themes and backup questions, watch actual video and audio
from recent research and explain what we found.
About the Speaker: Nate Bolt is fascinated by the personal, social,
and cultural role of technology, and how research and design can
transform those roles. After pioneering and directing the User
Experience department at Clear Ink in 1999, which included the
construction of Natural Environment and Remote Observation
laboratories, Nate co-founded Bolt | Peters. He now serves as
president and CEO where he has overseen hundreds of user research
studies for Hallmark, Oracle, Time Warner, Levi's, Restoration
Hardware, and others. Beginning in 2003, he led the creation of the
first moderated remote user research software, Ethnio, which is being
used around the world to recruit live participants for research on web
sites and applications.
Nate regularly gives presentations on native environment research
methods in both commercial and academic settings. Working with faculty
at the University of California, San Diego, he created a degree titled
"Digital Technology and Society," which focused on the intersection of
technology and mass population usage. He also completed a year of
communications studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was jailed
briefly for playing drums in public without a license.
"Knocking Down the Barriers to Search Innovation with Open Search"
Larry Cornett
Yahoo!
Consumer choice is a key tenet of life on the Internet today. But with
a vast sea of content at our fingertips, how do we navigate the Web in
a useful and efficient way? What innovations can developers and site
owners take advantage of to make it easier to deliver the best results
with the most complete information to their users?
One recent innovation that will help cut through the sheer volume of
information on the Web is "open search." Opening up search technology
creates an ecosystem of new advancements that will benefit users, as
well as developers and site owners. With open search, any developer
can create new applications and innovative uses of Web search. In
addition, site owners can provide enhanced data that enables more
relevant results on search experiences. The outcome of each of these
search innovations is that users benefit from richer, more germane,
and visually compelling results that get them from "to do" to "done"
in one search. Today, users have three major search engines to choose
from for all their Web search needs, but open search enables companies
and developers, big and small, to design and develop next-gen Web
search experiences that will give users more choice on the Web.
Yahoo! is leading this charge with several open initiatives: Yahoo!'s
SearchMonkey gives site owners and developers control over the
appearance of Yahoo! Search results by leveraging the massive amounts
of useful data previously buried in Web sites. Yahoo! Search BOSS
(Build Your Own Search Service) is an open Web services platform that
enables companies and developers to leverage the Yahoo! Search
infrastructure to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search
results for the very first time. Both of these open innovations fuel
new, custom search experiences.
This session will explore the potential created when search becomes
open to developers, ultimately creating more choices for
users. Dr. Larry Cornett, vice president of consumer products for
Yahoo! Search, heads up the team responsible for creating search
experiences, including new open search products like Yahoo! Search
BOSS and SearchMonkey. He will provide an in-depth overview of why
open search is important, detail how site owners and developers can
best leverage the next generation of search, and show how users will
benefit directly from enhanced search results on Yahoo!, as well as
entirely new search experiences across the Web.
About the Speaker: Dr. Larry Cornett is the vice president of the
Yahoo! Search consumer products division. In this capacity, he is
primarily responsible for the Yahoo! web search experience and heads
up a multinational team of product managers, designers, and developers
focused on creating a world-class search experience.
Prior to this role, Dr. Cornett was a Director at eBay, where his team
focused on multiple products for Tailored Shopping Experiences,
Platform, and International sites. Earlier in his career, he was a
designer at Apple Computer, where he worked on the Finder, OS, and
International software; and IBM, where he worked on database and
development tools. He was also the principal consultant for MindSpan
Design, an interaction design agency where he worked on desktop, web,
and mobile solutions for a variety of clients.
Dr. Cornett received his Ph.D. from Rice University, where he designed
and developed a coaching system for training software users. He holds
multiple patents, which include design work on web-based products and
hardware solutions.
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