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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 10 September 2008, vol. 24:2
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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10 September 2008 Stanford Vol. 24, No. 2
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A weekly publication of the
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Stanford University, Cordura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4101
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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ACTIVITIES FROM 10 SEPTEMBER 2008 TO 19 SEPTEMBER 2008
WEDNESDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2008
4:00pm Berkeley School of Information Distinguished Lecture [10-Sep-08]
110 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Digital Exhibitionism: The Future of Relationships"
Andreas Weigend
Amazon
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
7:00pm San Francisco Ask A Scientist [10-Sep-08]
Axis Cafe, 1201 8th Street (btw. 16th & Irwin) San Francisco
"How Computers Look at Art"
David Stork
Ricoh Innovations
http://www.askascientistsf.com/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [11-Sep-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Afghanistan and the War for Hearts and Minds"
Budd MacKenzie
Founder, Trust in Education
http://www.parc.com/forum/
FRIDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2008
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [12-Sep-08]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Toward human level machine intelligence---is it achievable?
The need for a paradigm shift"
Lotfi Zadeh
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
12:30pm UC Berkeley HWNI Student Seminar [12-Sep-08]
101 LSA (Berkeley)
"Smell: From body odor to insect repellents"
Leslie Vosshall
The Rockefeller University:
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [12-Sep-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Stewardship and Cultural Memory Organizations in the Digital Age"
Clifford Lynch.
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2008
all day Bay Area Vision Research Day [13-Sep-08]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Vision related research in psychophysics, neuroscience,
biology and computer vision"
http://cornea.berkeley.edu/bavrd/
Free, rsvp requested by September 5
MONDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2008
4:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium [15-Sep-08]
182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
"Language acquisition and the poverty of the stimulus"
Terry Regier
UC Berkeley and U Chicago
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 2008
WEDNESDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2008
12 noon Berkeley Redwood Seminar [17-Sep-08]
508-20 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
"Time and visual computation: how precision is generated in
the visual pathway"
Dan Butts
Institute of Computational Biomedicine, Cornell
http://redwood.berkeley.edu/seminars.php
4:00pm UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Colloquium [17-Sep-08]
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall (Berkeley)
"What is Wrong with Modern Economics?"
Anthony Lawson
University of Cambridge
http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
6:30pm SF Bay ACM Talk [17-Sep-08]
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
"Information for People"
Laura Haas
IBM Almaden Research Center
http://sfbayacm.org/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [18-Sep-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Residual Categories: Silence, Absence and Being an Other"
Susan Leigh Star
Santa Clara University
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2008
12:30pm UC Berkeley HWNI Seminar [19-Sep-08]
101 LSA (Berkeley)
"Molecular mechanisms of innate behavior; why males fight when
females relax"
Lisa Stowers
The Scripps Research Institute
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [19-Sep-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"The Semantic Web and Wikis"
Thomas Tunsch
National Museums in Berlin
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
4:00pm UC Berkeley Oxyopia Lecture [19-Sep-08]
489 Minor Hall (UC Berkeley)
title to be announced
Miguel Eckstein
Psychology, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/eckstein/
http://optometry.berkeley.edu/opt_txtpp/ce/oxyopias.html
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Media-X
Two September Workshops and a Fall Course
Media X is pleased to announce two September workshops and to call your
attention to a Fall quarter course.
The course, The Secret Sauce of Innovation, will be taught by Chuck
House and Martha Russell and is offered through Stanford Continuing
Studies. It will run from September 24 to December
3. http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/course/BUS184.asp
The International Conference on Distributed Camera Systems, organized
by Media X researcher, Dr. Hamid Aghajan, will take place September
7-11. http://www.icdsc.org/
The Workshop on Workgroup Processes for Teams, led by Media X Visiting
Scholar, Dr. Stanley Rosenschein, will take place on September 26th.
Registration is now open. http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/wpnt.html
UC Berkeley CIS Seminar
The Berkeley CIS Seminar is looking for suggestions for speakers.
Please send Charles Sutton (casutton cs.berkeley.edu) any suggestions
that you have for potential speakers. Local speakers (or those who
are already visiting for other reasons) are
preferred. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~casutton/
The seminar will be on Thursdays 4-5pm in Room 320.
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SAN FRANCISCO ASK A SCIENTIST
on Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 7:00pm
Axis Cafe, 1201 8th Street (btw. 16th & Irwin) San Francisco
http://www.askascientistsf.com/
"How Computers Look at Art"
David Stork
Ricoh Innovations
Thanks to cutting edge advancements in computer science, questions and
controversies in the study of art are now being answered in ways that
were not previously possible. For example, computer analysis is
currently being used to authenticate paintings attributed to artists
such as Jackson Pollock and Vincent Van Gogh. And analysis of
perspective, shading, color and form has thrown a wrench into David
Hockney's bold claim
<http://www.rii.ricoh.com/%7Estork/SciAmFinal.pdf> that as early as
1420, Renaissance artists employed optical devices such as concave
mirrors to project images onto their canvases. How do these computer
methods work? What can computers reveal about images that even the
best-trained connoisseurs, art historians and artist cannot? How much
more powerful and revealing will these methods become? In short, how
is computer image analysis changing our understanding of art? Come
find out.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 12 September 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
"Stewardship and Cultural Memory Organizations in the Digital Age"
Clifford Lynch.
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
In this presentation, I'll begin a discussion of the changing nature
of cultural memory organizations in the digital world, examine some of
the convergences taking place among libraries, museums and archives,
and raise questions about the nature of good stewardship in the
digital age, and some of the legal and social challenges to this. The
approach will include some historical perspectives, as well as a look
at current developments. I'll also discuss some aspects of the nature
of cultural memory in the digital world (building in part on some of
Cathy Marshall's earlier presentation). I will include a number of
open research topics. It's likely that some topics here will be
continued to subsequent seminar sessions, depending on the specific
interests of the group.
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UC BERKELEY LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
on Monday, 15 September 2008, 4:00pm
182 Dwinelle Hall (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
"Language acquisition and the poverty of the stimulus"
Terry Regier
UC Berkeley and U Chicago
A classic argument holds that certain aspects of language structure
cannot be learned from the impoverished linguistic input that children
receive - and that children therefore must rely in part on innate
knowledge of language. I will argue for another possibility: that
children succeed at learning language because of domain-general biases
favoring simplicity and a close fit to the data. I will show that an
idealized learner with such biases, given realistic child-directed
speech, can acquire aspects of linguistic knowledge that have been
held to be necessarily innate. This is joint work with Stephani
Foraker, Naveen Khetarpal, Amy Perfors, and Joshua Tenenbaum.
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SF BAY ACM TALK
on Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room
http://sfbayacm.org/
"Information for People"
Laura Haas
IBM Almaden Research Center
Ordinary people have access to unprecedented volumes of information
today. Researchers in the fields of information management (IM) and
human-computer interaction (HCI) are reacting to this challenge from
their own unique perspectives. Having access to a billion records is
cool, but having access to a billion people is awesome. In this talk,
we look at recent research from both communities, and speculate on how
interactions between the communities could enhance the user experience
of information.
About the Speaker: Laura Haas is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and
Director of Computer Science at Almaden Research Center. Most
recently, she was responsible for Information Integration Solutions
(IIS) architecture in IBM's Software Group, after leading the IIS
development team through its first two years. Dr. Haas joined the
development team in 2001 as manager of DB2 UDB Query Compiler
development. Previously, Dr. Haas was a research staff member and
manager at IBM's Almaden Research Center for nearly twenty years. In
Research, she worked on and managed a number of exploratory projects
in distributed database systems. She is best known for her work on the
Starburst query processor (from which DB2 UDB was developed), on
Garlic, a system which allowed federation of heterogeneous data
sources, and on Clio, the first semi-automatic tool for heterogeneous
schema mapping. Garlic technology married with DB2 UDB query
processing is the basis for WebSphere Information Integrator's
federation capabilities, while Clio capabilities are a core
differentiator for the new Rational Data Architect. Dr. Haas is an
active member of the database community, serving as vice chair of ACM
SIGMOD from 1989-1997, and, currently, as Vice President of the VLDB
Board of Trustees, as well as on many program committees for technical
conferences. She has received several IBM awards for Outstanding
Technical Achievement, and an IBM Corporate Award for her work on
federated database technology. She is a member of the IBM Academy of
Technology, an ACM Fellow, and a member of the Board of Computing
Research Associates.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 18 September 2008, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
(directions at <http://www.parc.com/directions>)
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Residual Categories: Silence, Absence and Being an Other"
Susan Leigh Star
Santa Clara University
Residual categories (for example, none of the above; not elsewhere
categorized; not otherwise specified [NOS]; other) are ubiquitous in
all working classification systems. Where and how they appear, and are
used, changes historically and politically. Their presence also
reflects the nature of technical descriptions of nature: something
always escapes formal description. This has been noted by thinkers
including Gödel, Wittgenstein, Gregory Bateson, and John Dewey. Design
and technical concerns about how residual categories should be used in
classification systems have had two main axes statistical (especially
distributional, how not to lump all the other categories in one place)
and incidental (that is, the instance when an especially dangerous
item, person, or event even one should be closely examined). This talk
adds a third axis: the point of view of an individual or group classed
as other, and the idea of a lived residual category. This talk will
examine the analytic power of coming these three axes, and especially
what it might mean for quality of life.
About the Speaker: Susan Leigh Star is currently Professor of Science,
Technology and Society at Santa Clara University. She has been a
faculty member at the University of California, San Diego; University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and guest faculty at several European
universities. She is co-editor, with Martha Lampland, of a forthcoming
book, Standards and their Stories (Cornell, Fall 2008) and author,
with Geoffrey Bowker, of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its
Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. She is known for the
development of the concept of boundary objects. She received her PhD
in sociology of science from the University of California, San
Francisco, California. She is immediate past president of the Society
for the Social Study of Science (4S), and co-editor of Science,
Technology and Human Values.
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