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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 3 September 2008, vol. 24:1
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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3 September 2008 Stanford Vol. 24, No. 1
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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 3 SEPTEMBER 2008 TO 12 SEPTEMBER 2008
WEDNESDAY, 3 SEPTEMBER 2008
THURSDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 2008
12 noon Berkeley Redwood Seminar [4-Sep-08]
508-20 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
Title to be announced
Dan Butts
Cornell Medical School
http://physiology.med.cornell.edu/people/butts/
http://redwood.berkeley.edu/seminars.php
4:00pm PARC Forum [4-Sep-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Navigating the Network of Knowledge: Mining quotations from
massive-scale digital libraries of books"
Bill Schilit
Google Research
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
7:00pm IEEE Robotics and Automation [4-Sep-08]
Moffett Field, Mountain View
"Servo Systems: A Tale of Three Actuators"
Daniel Abramovitch
Agilent
http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ras
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2008
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [5-Sep-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Taking the Scholars' Perspective on Scholarly Archiving"
Cathy Marshall
Microsoft Research
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
Abstract below
MONDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER 2008
4:00pm UC Berkeley Ear Club [8-Sep-08]
3105 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Untangling the effects of divided and selective attention in
multi-talker listening"
Valeriy Shafiro
Com. Disorders and Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
http://ear.berkeley.edu/ear-club-schedule.html
TUESDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 2008
7:30pm BayCHI [9-Sep-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Creating Adaptive and Personalized User Experiences"
Niall Kennedy
Widget Summit
"Sketching Metaphors"
Bill Verplank
CCRMA at Stanford
http://www.baychi.org/program/
Abstracts below
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
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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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ANNOUNCEMENT
Robo Development Conference and Expo, 2008
November 18-19, 2008
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
http://www.robodevelopment.com/
RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition is the first robotics industry
event focused on the design and development of commercially viable personal,
service and intelligent mobile robotics products -- products that are to be
used outside of laboratory environments and sold at a profit.
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 4 September 2008, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
(directions at <http://www.parc.com/directions>)
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Navigating the Network of Knowledge: Mining quotations from
massive-scale digital libraries of books"
Bill Schilit
Google Research
Scanning books, magazines, and newspapers is widespread because people
believe a great deal of the world's information still resides
off-line. In general, after works are scanned they are indexed for
search and processed to add links. In this talk I will describe a new
approach to automatically add links by mining repeated passages. This
technique connects elements that are semantically rich, so strong
relations are made. Moreover, link targets point within rather than to
the entire work, facilitating navigation. Our system has been run on a
digital library of over 1 million books (Google Book Search), has been
used by thousands of people, and has generated the world's largest
collection of quotations. I will also present a follow-on project
based on the theory that authors copy passages from book to book
because these quotations capture an idea particularly well: Jefferson
on liberty; Stanton on women's rights; and Gibson on cyberpunk. These
projects suggest that mining quotations for links and ideas are an
important mechanism for understanding the knowledge contained in
books. This work is in collaboration with Okan Kolak, Google
Research.
Bill Schilit is a researcher at Google. Before joining Google, Schilit
was principal scientist with Intel's Digital Home Product Group,
co-director of Intel Research Seattle, managed personal computing
research at Fuji-Xerox (FXPAL), worked on networked systems at AT&T's
Bell Labs, and was part of the team that invented ubiquitous computing
at PARC from 1992-1995. His interest is ubiquitous information with a
focus on the development of personal and mobile technologies
supporting knowledge work. Schilit received a PhD in computer science
from Columbia University. He is an associate editor in chief of
Computer, a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. Contact
him at schilit@computer.org.
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IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
on Thursday, 4 September 2008, 7:00pm
CMU West, Moffett Field, Mountain View
http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ras
"Servo Systems: A Tale of Three Actuators"
Daniel Abramovitch
Agilent
Students studying control problems often learn a lot of wondrous
algorithms that impart near mythical properties to the systems that
they are applied to. At least this is how it works in theory and
simulation. In practice, however, a thorough understanding of the
system, the use model, and the market is often far more important than
the differences between any two optimization algorithms. Knowing when
and where a particular algorithm is useful is typically at the heart
of real control problems.
This talk will focus on three servo systems with which the speaker has
had considerable experience: hard disks, optical disks, and atomic
force microscopes. By examining how the particulars of these three
systems affect the use of control algorithms, the speaker will try to
extract some general lessons.
About the Speaker: Daniel Abramovitch was born in Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan and grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He earned degrees in
Electrical Engineering from Clemson (BS) and Stanford (MS and Ph.D.),
doing his doctoral work under the direction of Gene Franklin. Upon
graduation, and after a brief stay at Ford Aerospace, he accepted a
job at Hewlett-Packard Labs, working on control issues for optical and
magnetic disk drives for 11 1/2 years. He moved to Agilent
Laboratories shortly after the spin off from Hewlett-Packard, where he
has spent the last 8 years working on test and measurement systems.
Danny is a Senior Member of the IEEE and was Vice Chair for Industry
and Applications for the 2004 American Control Conference (ACC) in
Boston. He is Vice Chair for Workshops at the 2006 ACC in
Minneapolis, for Special Sessions at the 2007 ACC in New York, and for
Industry and Applications at the 2009 ACC in St. Louis. He has helped
organize conference tutorial sessions on topics as varied as disk
drives, atomic force microscopes, and phase-locked loops. He serves
as the Chair of the IEEE CSS History Committee. Danny is credited
with the original idea for the clocking mechanism behind the DVD+RW
optical disk format and is co-inventor on the fundamental patent. He
was on the team that prototyped Agilent's first 40Gbps Bit Error Rate
Tester (BERT) and was able to cite a Douglas Adams book in one of his
patents relating to that device. Along with his co-author, Gene
Franklin, he was awarded the 2003 IEEE Control Systems Magazine
Outstanding Paper Award. He currently is doing research on future
atomic force microscopes for Agilent. He has multiple publications
and patent applications in this area.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 5 September 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
"Taking the Scholars' Perspective on Scholarly Archiving"
Cathy Marshall
Microsoft Research
About a year ago, I undertook a qualitative field study of the
scholarly writing, collaboration, information management, and
long-term archiving practices of researchers in five related
subdisciplines. Fifteen generous participants allowed me to interview
them about the kinds of artifacts they create in the process of
writing a paper, how they exchange and store materials over the short
term, how they handle references and bibliographic resources, and the
strategies they use to guarantee the long term safety of their
scholarly materials. The findings revealed some surprising design
implications for collaboration infrastructure and personal scholarly
archives in addition to suggesting some ways to facilitate the deposit
of scholarly materials into institutional and disciplinary
repositories.
What did I learn? Come find out!
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BAYCHI
on Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.baychi.org/program/
"Creating Adaptive and Personalized User Experiences"
Niall Kennedy
Widget Summit
The Web browser provides a treasure trove of information about each
visitor if we would only listen. Who are you? Where are you? What do
you enjoy? What are the capabilities of your computer? Adhering to Web
standards is only the beginning, not an end game. Websites seeking a
truly engaging user experience need to listen, adapt, and change to
connect with their users and their complete computing experience. How
can we, as designers and developers, deliver a more compelling
experience to our visitors based on their unique interests and
capabilities? How can we, as creators, introduce out visitors to the
latest technologies and their full uses without overwhelming a novice
with too much information? Niall will share his work in user behavior
modeling on the Web and propose new ways to adapt Web presentation for
a diverse audience.
About the Speaker: Niall Kennedy is an independent consultant in San
Francisco specializing in syndicated content and widget
experiences. Niall is the producer of Widget Summit, an annual
conference on widget syndication across a growing list of
platforms. Niall is a web developer, author, and tinkerer who enjoys
pushing the Web to its limits. Niall formerly created syndicated
experiences at blog search site Technorati.com and was syndication
product lead in Microsoft's Windows Live Platform group. He has
designed and maintained feed services for the past 7 years in shopping
search, investment search, and blog search verticals.
"Sketching Metaphors"
Bill Verplank
CCRMA at Stanford
Bill Verplank will talk about his work on Sketching Metaphors. With
more than 30 years of experience in the field of interactive
computing, Bill has been around since the first days of the Xerox Star
and played a seminal role in the formation of modern interaction
design techniques.
In his presentation, Bill will explore some important themes about
today's world of experience design. He'll look at the systems we
create: Are they tools? An extension of our brain? Maybe they are a
vehicle to achieving a greater goal? Or a type of fashion?
Using a series of live sketches (something you have to see to
believe), Bill will explore each of these paradigms, look at how each
paradigm helps us see the products of our work a little differently
and, perhaps, with new insights we hadn't seen before.
Bill has always been interested in how we use metaphors in our work:
* Understanding vocabulary: "Kill the program."
* Inventing: "Cash cows."
* Organizing: "Desktop folders."
* Presenting: "Radio buttons."
Bill is interested in how we can use metaphor as a creative
machine---just attach a crank and churn out a new design.
You'll hear Bill's personal view of the history and future of
human-computer interaction. Along the way, you might pick up some
tricks for sketching, which he calls "thinking with a pencil."
About the Speaker: Bill Verplank is an expert interaction designer,
human factors engineer, and a visiting lecturer at Stanford
University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
Bill's focus is on interactions between humans and computers. He
studied mechanical engineering and product design at Stanford. His PhD
is from MIT in man-machine systems.
At Xerox, Bill participated in testing and refining the Xerox Star
graphical user interface. For seven years, he taught Graphical User
Interface Design, Graphic Invention for User Interfaces, and Scenerios
for Observation and Invention as tutorials at the ACM SIGCHI
conference. He has worked as a design consultant with Bill Moggridge
at IDTwo and IDEO to bring graphical user interfaces into the product
design world. At Interval Research, he directed research and design
for collaboration, tangibility and music. At Stanford during that
time, he worked with Terry Winograd to establish a studio course on
Human-Computer Interaction Design which he taught for five years and
taught an experimental course on input devices for music.
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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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