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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 29 October 2008, vol. 24:9
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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29 October 2008 Stanford Vol. 24, No. 9
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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 29 OCTOBER 2008 TO 7 NOVEMBER 2008
WEDNESDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2008
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [29-Oct-08]
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Using Psychology and the Internet to Reduce Health
Disparities Worldwide"
Ricardo Muñoz
UC San Francisco
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [29-Oct-08]
Gates B03
"Exploring Synergy with Industry: Media X research at Stanford"
Chuck House
Stanford Media X and HSTAR
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
5:30pm Tanner Lecture I [29-Oct-08]
Levinthal Hall, Humanities Center
"Ontogenetic Origins of Human Altruism"
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/tanner-lectures/
6:00pm Berkeley Design Futures Lecture [29-Oct-08]
BCNM Common, Moffit Library (UC Berkeley)
"Into the Wild: Breathing New Life Into Collections"
George Oates
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2008
10:00am Tanner Lecture Discussion I [30-Oct-08]
Landau Economics Bldg, SIEPR A
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Carol Dweck, Stanford Psychology
Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard Psychology
http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/tanner-lectures/
3:00pm Bio-X Seminar [30-Oct-08]
Clark Center Auditorium
"Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind"
Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~seyfarth/Baboon%20research/
Abstract below
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [30-Oct-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"Managing Personal Tasks with Time Constraints and Preferences"
Ioannis Refanidis
University of Macedonia
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:00pm PARC Forum [30-Oct-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"How Advances in Science are Made"
Douglas D. Osheroff
Stanford University (1996 Nobel Laureate in Physics)
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [30-Oct-08]
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
"Discriminative Methods with Structure"
Simon Lacoste-Julien
UC Berkeley
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIS/seminars/seminars.html
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [30-Oct-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Web Access to Voting Records: Motivations and Issues"
Todd Davies
Symbolic Systems Program
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Abstract below
5:30pm Tanner Lecture II [30-Oct-08]
Levinthal Hall, Humanities Center
"Phylogenetic Origins of Human Collaboration"
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/tanner-lectures/
FRIDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2008 - Halloween
10:00am Tanner Lecture Discussion II [31-Oct-08]
Landau Economics Bldg, SIEPR A
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Joan Silk, UCLA Anthropology
Brian Skyrms, Stanford Philosophy
http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/tanner-lectures/
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [31-Oct-08]
Gates B01
"Building Theories: People's Interaction with Computers"
Justine Cassell
Northwestern University
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [31-Oct-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"The Extent of Geographic Resources Available on the Web"
Robert Pasley
Sheffield Univ., U.K.
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [31-Oct-08]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Emotional Choice and Rational Choice"
Jon Elster
Columbia University
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
MONDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2008
4:10pm Logical Methods in the Humanities [3-Nov-08]
Bldg 90:92Q
"Belief revision and the logic of campaigning"
Rohit Parikh
CUNY
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/lmh/
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2008 - ELECTION DAY
4:00pm Media X Lecture Series [4-Nov-08]
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160:124)
"Enabling Innovation through Collaboration Technologies"
Vidar Hepso, StaOil, and Felicia Byrch
Cisco
Co-sponsored with Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering
http://mediax.stanford.edu/
4:15pm Mathematical Logic Seminar [4-Nov-08]
Bldg. 160:319
"An Ordinal-free Proof of the Cut Elimination Theorem for
Pi^1_1-Analysis with omega-rule"
Ryota Akiyoshi
Tokyo
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2008
4:00pm Berkeley School of Information Distinguished Lecture [5-Nov-08]
110 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Modeling & Managing Complex Systems: A Case Study of
Healthcare Delivery Distinguished Lecture"
Bill Rouse
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [5-Nov-08]
Gates B03
"The Google AppEngine"
Guido van Rossum
Google
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
6:00pm Berkeley Design Futures Lecture [5-Nov-08]
BCNM Common, Moffit Library (UC Berkeley)
"Deconstructing Networks"
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Trinity College, Dublin
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2008
4:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Department Colloquium [6-Nov-08]
310 Hearst Mining (Berkeley)
"Borrowing verbs: Formal and functional aspects"
Yaron Matras
The University of Manchester
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [6-Nov-08]
Soda Hall 310 (Berkeley)
Moises Goldszmidt
Microsoft Research
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIS/seminars/seminars.html
4:30pm Stanford Libraries Discussion [6-Nov-08]
Cubberley Auditorium
"Discussion on the Digital Information Technologies in the
Research Library Environment Report"
http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/
(for Stanford people)
Information below
6:00pm Media X Lecture Series [6-Nov-08]
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160:124)
"Video in Your Pocket"
Brian Sathianathan
Avot Media
Co-sponsored with Persuasive Technologies Lab
http://mediax.stanford.edu/
FRIDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2008
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [7-Nov-08]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Continuous Temporal Dynamics in Real-time Cognition"
Michael Spivey
Cognitive Science, UC Merced
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [7-Nov-08]
Gates B01
"SearchTogether and CoSearch: New Tools for Enabling
Collaborative Web Search"
Merrie Morris
Microsoft Research
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [7-Nov-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"'Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents' Revisited"
David S. H. Rosenthal
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [7-Nov-08]
Bldg. 90:92Q
"Holism, Weight, and Undercutting"
Mark Schroeder
USC
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B01
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Exploring Synergy with Industry: Media X research at Stanford"
Chuck House
Stanford Media X and HSTAR
MediaX at Stanford connects Industrial Affiliates and Stanford faculty
and students via RFPs on interesting topics. Over 100 projects have
been completed, on the "edge" of interdisciplinary studies. This brief
overview will review some relevant findings and suggest some current
"hot topics"
About the Speaker: Ex-ACM President Chuck House is Executive Director
of MediaX (since 2006), after forty years in industry (Intel,
Dialogic, Veritas, Informix, HP). Author of an upcoming book about
Hewlett-Packard's strategic business history, his current research is
focused on collaborative systems and their organizational,
institutional, and societal impact.
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BERKELEY DESIGN FUTURES LECTURE
on Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 6:00pm
BCNM Common, Moffit Library (Berkeley)
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
"Into the Wild: Breathing New Life Into Collections"
George Oates
Using 'The Commons' project as the basis for this presentation,
George Oates will show how this innovative pilot program, whereby
cultural heritage institutions are invited to share content from their
photographic archives on Flickr, can dramatically increase an
institution's profile and online positioning. The motives are
straightforward: to increase access to these historic photographs, and
to elicit general information and additional context from interested
members of the Flickr community. Launched in January 2008, 'The
Commons' on Flickr has already attracted worldwide attention, and is
growing fast. In addition to outlining the program in general, George
will talk about some of the new ideas and challenges for museums that
are spurred by participation in 'The Commons'. What does it mean for
museums to engage so directly in such an open communication channel?
What sort of information has the program generated so far? How can
this new interaction and activity be useful?
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BIO-X SEMINAR
on Thursday, 30 October 2008, 3:00pm
Clark Center Auditorium
contact: Russ Fernald, rfernald .. stanford.edu
"Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind"
Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~seyfarth/Baboon%20research/
Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney have collaborated on insightful
experiments in two different primate species. Their early work on
social behavior and vocal communication of vervet monkeys in Kenya
resulted in the publication "How Monkeys See the World" which
elucidated the role of vision in the complexities of this society.
For the past 16 years, they have worked on behavior, communication,
and cognition among baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana
summarized in their book, Baboon Metaphysics (2007) which will be the
basis of their talk.
In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, "He who understands
baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke." Baboon
Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth's fascinating
response to Darwin's challenge.
Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where
they could intimately observe baboons and their social world. Baboons
live in groups of up to 150, including a handful of males and eight or
nine matrilineal families of females. Such numbers force baboons to
form a complicated mix of short-term bonds for mating and longer-term
friendships based on careful calculations of status and individual
need.
"Through ingenious playback experiments . . . Cheney and Seyfarth have
worked out many aspects of what baboons used their minds for, along
with their limitations. Reading a baboon's mind affords an excellent
grasp of the dynamics of baboon society. But more than that, it bears
on the evolution of the human mind and the nature of human existence."
--Nicholas Wade, New York Times
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Thursday, 30 October 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Managing Personal Tasks with Time Constraints and Preferences"
Ioannis Refanidis
University of Macedonia
This talk presents work on solving the problem of managing personal
tasks on top of an electronic calendar application. To solve this
problem, we adopted the Squeaky Wheel Optimization (SWO) framework,
enhanced with powerful heuristics and full constraint propagation. The
scheduling problem involves preemptive and non-preemptive tasks, with
extra constraints imposed on the sizes of and the distances between
the parts of each preemptive task. Travelling times are imposed by
the alternative localization possibilities of each task. Ordering
constraints are imposed by the producer-consumer relations between
tasks. The user may have preferences regarding scheduling options of
single tasks or pairs of tasks. Higher degree time constraints and
preferences could be implemented as well. SWO allows for fast
scheduling and rescheduling. Several heuristics are proposed to
estimate the difficulty to schedule each task and to compensate with
the degree of the user's satisfaction. A prototype system, called
SelfPlanner, has been implemented using a client-server three tier
architecture and embedding Google Calendar and Google Maps
applications.
About the Speaker: Ioannis Refanidis is an assistant professor at the
Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia. He
received his Ph.D. in "Heuristic Planning Systems" from Aristotle
University in 2001. His research interests include planning,
scheduling and constraint satisfaction. His work can be divided in two
areas: The first one concerns heuristic planning systems and resulted
in the GRT planner and several variations of it, whereas the second
one (and more recent) concerns personal time management, which
resulted in the SelfPlanner system. He has published in
ECP/AIPS/ICAPS, ECAI, JAIR and AIJ. In the past he has been involved
in the organization of several ICAPS conferences, as well as the 6th
International Planning Competition, whereas he was PC member at
several main conferences. Currently he serves as conference chair of
ICAPS-2009.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 30 October 2008, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIS/seminars/seminars.html
"Discriminative Methods with Structure"
Simon Lacoste-Julien
UC Berkeley
Real world problems such as machine translation involve complex
dependencies. Generative models have provided an elegant and flexible
framework to model those dependencies, but they appear to lack
robustness to model misspecification compared to discriminative models
for classification. In this talk, we present methods for leveraging
the advantages of generative models in the discriminative framework.
In the first part of the talk, we tackle the word alignment problem
from natural language processing. We formulate it as a weighted
bipartite matching problem and show how to learn the weights by using
a large-margin approach for structured prediction. By providing a
flexible discriminative modeling framework, we were able to cut the
Alignment Error Rate in half compared to the previous best performing
generative models for word alignment.
In the second part of the talk, we study probabilistic topic models
which have been popular for modeling latent structures in text
documents (as bag of words) or images (as bag of visual words). They
are usually trained as generative models with maximum likelihood
estimation, though this could be suboptimal if one is interested in
doing classification. In contrast, we present a discriminative version
of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model which attempts to
uncover the latent structure in the documents while optimizing its
predictive power for the task of classification. We show positive
results on the 20 Newsgroup dataset for document classification.
(joint work with Fei Sha, Ben Taskar, Dan Klein and Michael I. Jordan)
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 30 October 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"Web Access to Voting Records: Motivations and Issues"
Todd Davies
Symbolic Systems Program
I will describe the thinking behind Who Voted?, a new website where
voter histories that are legally available to the public can be
uploaded and viewed by anyone with an Internet connection. The Who
Voted site complements advocacy aimed at ensuring auditable paper
ballots, addressing the aspect of secret ballot election integrity
that relies on verification of the list of those who voted. It also
aims to promote voting, by making the list of those who voted (but not
who they voted for) easier to see. The road to producing this site
was long, and provoked criticism from some privacy advocates, which in
turn affected the design of the site and what information it makes
available. I will review the reasoning behind the site, and describe
the issues it raises as well as how it addresses them. One issue is
that voter histories for some but not all states can be posted legally
on the Internet, but even those states where the information is public
generally do not post it on the Web. I will discuss this why this is
so, and describe the case for Web access to voting records. (Joint
work with Jeffrey Gerard, Gordon Lyon, and Reid Chandler)
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 31 October 2008, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Building Theories: People's Interaction with Computers"
Justine Cassell
Northwestern University
http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/justine/
How do we build an HCI that contributes equally to social theory and
engineering practice? On the one hand, how do we maximize the
benefits that theory can bring to actual artifacts that improve
health, well-being, learning, and self-efficacy? On the other hand,
how do we maximize the use of technological artifacts in pushing the
boundaries of social theory? In sum, how do we understand human
behavior with, through, and in response to new technologies, and how
do we design new technologies shaped by this understanding?
In this talk, I use my recent research to illustrate dimensions of
these questions. By referencing a range of work that depends
intrinsically on both social theory and engineering practice, I point
to ways that HCI can contribute to both. Specifically, I'll draw from
work exploring the nature of rapport between people as well as between
people and computers, investigating civic engagement and leadership
among young people online, delving into the neuroscientific evidence
for how we interact with virtual humans, and translating this
knowledge into tools to scaffold learning and help young people with
developmental disorders. As these topics suggest, my own work
reflects my perspective on the power and promise of HCI research to
make significant contributions to social theory and to engineering
practice, and the power and promise of a partnership between social
theory and engineering practice to build a stronger HCI for tomorrow.
About the Speaker: Justine Cassell holds the AT&T Research Chair and
is a full professor in the departments of Communication Studies and
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern
University, with courtesy appointments in Linguistics and Learning
Science. She is also the director of the Northwestern Center for
Technology and Social Behavior. Before coming to Northwestern,
Cassell was a tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab where she
directed the Gesture and Narrative Language Research Group. In 2001,
Cassell was awarded the Edgerton Faculty Award at MIT; in 2008 she was
awarded the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Leadership Award.
Cassell's research builds on her multidisciplinary background: she
holds undergraduate degrees in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth
and in Lettres Modernes from the Universite de Besançon (France). She
holds a M.Phil in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh
(Scotland) and a double Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in
Linguistics and Psychology. After having spent ten years studying
verbal and non-verbal aspects of human communication through
microanalysis of videotaped data she began to bring her knowledge of
human conversation to the design of computational systems. Cassell's
research concentrates on better understanding everyday kinds of
conversation and social interaction as practiced by children and
adults, and on building computational systems that simulate, mediate,
and facilitate those everyday kinds of activities. These
technologies, such as Embodied Conversational Agents, Story Listening
Systems, and Online Communities, in turn allow her to study the nature
of human interaction with and through technology.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 31 October 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
"The Extent of Geographic Resources Available on the Web"
Robert Pasley
Sheffield Univ., U.K.
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the extent of
geographic resources available on the web without the need for
secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by
randomly selecting toponyms from the Ordnance Survey 50K gazetteer to
create search queries and thus gather document counts from various web
sources for Great Britain. The same gazetteer is then used to geo-code
the results and enable mapping. To validate our approach, and
demonstrate the effects of geo/non-geo and geo/geo ambiguity, we
mapped the selected toponyms to Geograph, a community project that
contains user generated geo-tagged photographs of the UK. Although
success varies with resolution, the proposed approach is likely
sufficient to be reliably used by applications exploring the
geographic coverage of the web for cases where references to
settlements are likely to be common. In our case, we applied the
method to produce maps of web coverage for a range of sources at a
resolution of 30km.
This paper is also being presented at the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL
International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
(ACM GIS 2008).
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LOGICAL METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES
on Monday, 3 November 2008, 4:10pm
Bldg. 90:92Q
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/lmh/
(note special date, time, and location)
"Belief revision and the logic of campaigning"
Rohit Parikh
CUNY
The talk divides naturally into two halves. Both have to do with
belief revision but are otherwise distinct. The first half concerns
the AGM theory of belief revision and some results about language
splitting, relevance and some generalizations of Craig's lemma. The
results are by myself, Korousias and Makinson, and Peppas, Chopra and
Foo.
The second part concerns a theory of how voters see a candidate in
terms of things she has said in the past and what she might say next
to improve her standing in their eyes.
This is joint work with Walter Dean, a CUNY student who is graduating soon.
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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC SEMINAR
on Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 160:319
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/logic-seminar.html
"An Ordinal-free Proof of the Cuts Elimination Theorem for
Pi^1_1-Analysis with omega-rule"
Ryota Akiyoshi
Tokyo
In this talk, we present an ordinal-free proof of the cut-elimination
theorem for Pi^1_1-analysis with omega-rule using Buchholz's
Omega-rule. First we begin with a subsystem of Pi^1_1-analysis with
omega-rule, and explain how to extend our proof into the full
Pi^1_1-analysis with omega-rule.
This is joint work with Grigori Mints.
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BERKELEY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
on Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
110 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
"Modeling & Managing Complex Systems: A Case Study of
Healthcare Delivery Distinguished Lecture"
Bill Rouse
The challenges of designing and managing complex systems are
discussed. The ways in which mathematical and computational models can
inform both design and management are considered. The nature of these
challenges and use of models are illustrated in the context of
healthcare delivery. One illustration addresses the complexity of
healthcare and principles for managing this complexity. Another
example focuses on controlling healthcare costs and estimates the
levels of efficiency needed to constrain the growth of costs to track
increases of GDP.
About the Speaker: Bill Rouse is the Executive Director of the
Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This
university-wide center pursues a multi-disciplinary portfolio of
initiatives focused on research and education to provide knowledge and
skills that enable fundamental change of complex organizational
systems. He is also a professor in the College of Computing and School
of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His earlier positions include
Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, CEO of two
innovative software companies -- Enterprise Support Systems and Search
Technology -- and earlier faculty positions at Georgia Tech,
University of Illinois, Delft University of Technology, and Tufts
University.
Rouse has four decades of experience in research, education,
engineering, management, and marketing. His expertise includes
individual and organizational decision making and problem solving, as
well as design of organizations and information systems. In these
areas, he has consulted with well over one hundred large and small
enterprises in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he
has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers.
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BERKELEY DESIGN FUTURES LECTURE
on Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 5:00pm
BCNM Common, Moffit Library (Berkeley)
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
"Deconstructing Networks"
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Trinity College, Dublin
Jonah will discuss his projects and work in the theme of
"Deconstructing Networks" in both physical and online
instantiations. He will introduce his projects that attempt to
challenge and subvert accepted notions of network interaction from
software manipulation and rule-based systems to translating virtual
processes and conventions into the physical world. Some projects he
will discuss include "BumpList", an email community for the
determined, "Alerting Infrastructure!", a website hit counter that
destroys a building, "PoliceState" a fleet of radio controlled police
cars whose movements are dictated by keywords sniffed on a local
network, "Wifi-Hog" a portable system for regaining control of public
wireless networks, "Wifi-Liberator" an open source toolkit to
broadcast free access to pay-per-use wireless networks, "SimpleTEXT" a
dynamically generated performance that is controlled by participants
through texting messages from their mobile phones, and several more
projects.
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STANFORD LIBRARIES DISCUSSION
on Thursday, 6 November 2008, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Cubberley Auditorium
"Discussion on the Digital Information Technologies in the
Research Library Environment Report"
http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/
(for Stanford people)
The Faculty Senate Committee on Libraries invites faculty, graduate
students, and undergraduates to discuss the report of the Subcommittee
on Digital Information Technologies in the Research Library
Environment at Stanford. The report is based on detailed
considerations following inquires to many departments. The meeting
will be in a town hall format with a short presentation followed by
questions and comments.
The report proposes substantial changes in the digital and physical
infrastructure of the Stanford University Libraries. CLib will be
reporting to the Senate of the Academic Council on November 13 and
aims to ensure that faculty and student voices are heard in the
planning process. The meeting is a chance for you to speak.
You may view the report at http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/
The meeting will be held 4:30-6:00 pm on Thursday, November 6 in
Cubberley Auditorium.
Please make every effort to come.
John Bender
Chair, Committee on Libraries
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BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SEMINAR
on Friday, 7 November 2008, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"Continuous Temporal Dynamics in Real-time Cognition"
Michael Spivey
Cognitive Science, UC Merced
Rather than a sequence of logical operations performed on discrete
symbols, real-time cognition is better described as continuously
changing patterns of neuronal activity. The continuity in these
dynamics indicates that, in between describable states of mind, much
of our mental activity does not lend itself to the linguistic labels
relied on by much of psychology. I will discuss eye-tracking and
computer-mouse-tracking evidence for this temporal continuity in
spoken word recognition, sentence comprehension, categorization, and
even decision-making. I will also provide geometric visualizations of
mental activity depicted as a continuous trajectory through a neuronal
state space. In this theoretical framework, close visitations of
labeled attractors may constitute word recognition events and object
recognition events, but the majority of the mental trajectory
traverses unlabeled regions of state space, resulting in multifarious
mixtures of mental states.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 7 November 2008, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"SearchTogether and CoSearch: New Tools for Enabling
Collaborative Web Search"
Merrie Morris
Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/~merrie/
Today, Web search is a solitary experience. All major Web browsers and
search engine sites are designed to support a single user, working
alone. However, collaboration on information-seeking tasks is
actually quite commonplace! For example, students work together to
complete homework assignments, friends seek information about
entertainment opportunities, family members jointly plan vacation
travel, and colleagues jointly conduct research for their projects.
In this talk I'll discuss the findings of our surveys and interviews
that reveal the challenges users face when attempting to collaborate
on Web search using status quo technologies. Then, I will present two
systems, SearchTogether and CoSearch, that address these challenges.
SearchTogether is an augmented Web browser that enables collaboration
among groups of remote users via integrated chat, group query
histories, automatic division of labor, visitation awareness,
comments, ratings, and shared summaries. CoSearch is a system that
enables collaboration among groups of co-located users by enabling
users' mobile phones to augment a shared computer, then using a
browser with special queuing areas to manage query and URL requests
sent from the supplementary devices.
About the Speaker: Meredith Ringel Morris is a researcher in the
Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research. She is
also an affiliate assistant professor of computer science and
engineering at the University of Washington. Merrie's main research
areas are human-computer interaction and computer-supported
cooperative work. Her current research focus is on developing and
evaluating systems that support collaborative Web search. She earned
her SB in computer science from Brown University and her MS and PhD in
computer science from Stanford University, where her dissertation
introduced interaction techniques for supporting cooperative work
around tabletop displays.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 7 November 2008, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
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"'Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents' Revisited"
David S. H. Rosenthal
Jeff Rothenberg's seminal Scientific American article "Ensuring the
Longevity of Digital Documents" looks forward 50 years from 1995 to
ask whether the transition to digital media places society's memory at
risk. Now, more than a quarter of the way through Rothenberg's
scenario, it is time to review his contribution. It stands as a
monument to both the value and the risk of this kind of scholarship.
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