Message 3966: From: calendar@almaden.ibm.com Wed Jun 29 14:32:38 1994 Subject: IBM ARC Computer Science seminars 04 - 8 JUL 94 (93 lines) More? [ynq] IBM Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120-6099 CALENDAR July 4-8, 1994 07/06 - CHINESE INFORMATION PROCESSING AND RETRIEVAL Prof. V. Y. Lum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Comp. Sci. Sem. Wed., July 6 11:00 a.m. Room: Aud. A In recent years, the world has seen a tremendous increase in the use of computers in China for both research and business. This creates great opportunities for vendors, developers, and researchers in both hardware and software. While the Chinese University of Hong Kong has always been strong in its tie to the Chinese culture and studies, its Faculty of Systems Engineering has been very active in research of Chinese computer processing since its establishment in 1991. The speaker is directing three major projects in this area: a Chinese database management system, a Chinese information retrieval system, and a resource planning and scheduling system. After a general discussion setting the background that led to the projects and a brief discussion of their goals, the speaker will go into some depth on the Chinese Information Retrieval Project, which is being developed on a DECmpp with over 8,000 processors. Due to the complexity of the Chinese language per se, conventional English based information retrieval techniques are generally not suitable. Furthermore, because of the long history of the Chinese culture, the information or document base is huge. The massively parallel processing machine was therefore conceived to be the right tool for this purpose. In this seminar the overall architecture of the system will be discussed and the application of parallel searching techniques for retrieval and term extraction will be described. The seminar will conclude with the status of the prototype system and some preliminary assessments based on the experience thus far. Host: K. Wong 07/08 - SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM - THREE-FOIL FORUM M. Philpott, H. Wendt, C. Brown, and M. Toney, Science & Technology, ARC Sci. Colloq. Fri., July 8 10:30 a.m. Room: Aud. A The following talks are presented as part of our summer series of short Forums. Each presentation will be a brief talk with the main points emphasized by a maximum of three foils. The presentations will be followed by informal discussion. 1. Michael Philpott--Screening of Charged Electrodes 2. H. R. Wendt and C. A. Brown--A New, High-efficiency Low-cost Breather Filter for Small DASD Products 3. Michael Toney--Polymers in the Buff: The Effect of Buffing on the Near Surface Structure of Polyimide The next Three-Foil Forum will be on Friday, August 5th. Host: J. Hoffnagle ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information on individual talks, please contact the host listed above. Visitors, please arrive 15 minutes early. IBM's Almaden Research Center (ARC) is located adjacent to Santa Teresa County Park, between Almaden Expressway and U.S. 101, about 10 miles south of Interstate 280. From U.S. 101, exit at Bernal Road, and follow Bernal Road west past Santa Teresa Blvd. into the hills (ignoring the left turn for Santa Teresa Park). Alternatively, follow Almaden Expressway to its southern terminus, turn left onto Harry Road, then go right at the ARC entrance (about a quarter of a mile later) and go up the hill. For more detailed directions, please phone the ARC receptionist at (408) 927-1080. IBM Almaden Research Center electronically distributes both its complete calendar of seminars and a subset of Computer Science seminars only. Send requests for inclusion in either electronic mailing list to CALENDAR@ALMADEN.IBM.COM (CALENDAR at ALMADEN on BITNET), specifying either the complete calendar or the Computer Science subset. ----- From Peter.Nurkse@Eng.Sun.COM Wed Sep 21 08:03:41 1994 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA24203 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 1994 08:03:39 -0700 Received: from Sun.COM (Sun.COM [192.9.9.1]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id IAA18035 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 1994 08:03:37 -0700 Received: from Eng.Sun.COM (zigzag.Eng.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (sun-barr.Sun.COM) id AA04474; Wed, 21 Sep 94 07:55:06 PDT Received: from landfill.eng.sun.com by Eng.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24498; Wed, 21 Sep 94 07:57:33 PDT Received: by landfill.eng.sun.com (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA01786; Wed, 21 Sep 1994 07:55:10 +0800 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 07:55:10 +0800 From: Peter.Nurkse@Eng.Sun.COM (Peter Nurkse) Message-Id: <9409211455.AA01786@landfill.eng.sun.com> To: distribution@landfill.Eng.Sun.COM Subject: Utah Graphics in the Bay Area Content-Length: 2590 Status: RO A Joint Program of Silicon Valley ACM/SIGGRAPH and Bay Area Computer History Perspectives "Utah Graphics in the Bay Area" Ed Catmull, CEO, Pixar Frank Crow, Distinguished Scientist and ATG Graphics Lab Manager, Apple Computer Lance Williams, Research Scientist Apple Computer 8:00 PM, Tuesday, Sept. 27 (doors open at 7:30 pm, come early & visit) Auditorium Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto >From the late 1960's through the 1970's the University of Utah was a leading center for 3-D graphics development. Pioneering research was accomplished in the fundamentals of 3D rendering, head-mounted virtual reality displays, the concept of anti-aliasing to remove jaggies from images, curved surface display, texture mapping, and procedural modeling. These techniques are today used in applications from medical visualization, to auto design, to video games. Many U of U staff and graduates from that era have contributed further significant advances, especially here in the Bay area. Our speakers this evening include Ed Catmull, who went on to found Pixar, and Frank Crow and Lance Williams from Apple Computer. This program is an opportunity to hear these pioneers reflect on their experience at Utah and the effect on their later work, and also the Utah influence on computer graphics development overall. Other local staff and alumni include Martin Newell (Ashlar), Jim Clark (formerly Silicon Graphics), John Warnock (Adobe Systems), and Jim Blinn, a leading researcher in the field. This program is free and open to the public. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions to Xerox PARC in Palo Alto: >From Highway 280, take the Page Mill Road exit. Go east one mile on Page Mill, and then turn right on Coyote Hill Road (no light). Proceed 1/2 mile up Coyote Hill, over the top of the hill, and PARC will be on your left. Follow the signs to the auditorium. >From 101, take the Oregon Expressway exit west 2 miles to El Camino Real. Oregon Expressway becomes Page Mill Road at El Camino Real. Follow Page Mill Road another 1.7 miles to Coyote Hill Road (no light), just past Foothill Expwy, and turn left. Proceed 1/2 mile up Coyote Hill Road, over the top of the hill, to PARC. Follow the signs to the auditorium. From seminar-request Tue Oct 25 10:32:08 1994 Received: from cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.122.12]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA09087; Tue, 25 Oct 1994 10:30:40 -0700 Received: from [128.32.122.3] (babbitt.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU) by cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (4.1/1.42) id AA14574; Tue, 25 Oct 94 10:18:04 PDT Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 10:18:03 PDT Message-Id: <9410251718.AA14574@cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU> X-Sender: guy@cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: users@cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU, muscom@mills.edu, econcert@charles.ucdavis.edu, everyone@ccrma.stanford.edu, furman%SJSUVM1.BITNET@cmsa.berkeley.edu, seminar@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, nishio@CS.Berkeley.EDU, fish@musclefish.com, js%timbre.uucp@nbn.com, timis@opcode.com, timper@holonet.net, muellerg@inf.ethz.ch, concus@csr.lbl.gov, scotgl@csuhayward.edu, darius@rgp.hpl.hp.com, blanchar@cimsim.berkeley.edu, teeters@llnl.gov, csmsgs@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, parsons@roma.berkeley.edu, edosborn@netcom.com, lynou@garnet.berkeley.edu, tash@math.berkeley.edu, dej@cats.ucsc.edu, schank@garnet.berkeley.edu, schiff@CS.Berkeley.EDU, nj@CS.Berkeley.EDU, gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu, bilmes@cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU, stretto@well.sf.ca.us, lee.boynton@firstperson.com, evanchen@uclink.berkeley.edu, eileen@garnet.berkeley.edu, baird@math.berkeley.edu, jcatalan@library.berkeley.edu, steves@fm.com, studer@applelink.apple.com, fen@imagine.comedia.com, charly@hal.com, ruth@eecs.berkeley.edu, rww@sgi.com, flange@netcom.com, sk1@uclink.berkeley.edu, olson@uclink.berkeley.edu, r.strizich@genie.geis.com, wendt@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu, mab@dolby.com, wcooper@violet.berkeley.edu, audette@cs.unm.edu, efrem@netcom.com, johnt@blt.berkeley.ca.us, clt@pa.urel.berkeley.edu, rreimers@uclink.berkeley.edu From: guy@cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Guy E. Garnett) Subject: New Music Technology Colloquium Status: R ***************************************************************** * * * * * New Music Technology Colloquium * * * * Thursday, October 27, 1994, 7:30 PM * * FREE * * * * The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies * * (CNMAT) * * University of California, Berkeley * * 1750 Arch Street * * Berkeley, CA, 94709 * * 510-643-9990 * * * ***************************************************************** Roberto Morales-Manzanares Director, Laboratorio de Informatica Musical Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico Roberto Morales-Manzanares has written music for theater, dance, movies, TV and radio, and has participated during the last five years in the International Forum of New and Electroacoustic Music as well as in the Festival Internacional Cervantino. As an interpreter Morales-Manzanares has performed on his own and with other composers in forums of jazz, popular and new music, including tours to Europe and Latin America with folkloric music. In 1988 he was co-founder of the first Computer Music Studio in Mexico at the Escuela Superior de Musica. He received a grant from the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes to compose a piece for Computer and Orchestra in 1990. In 1992 he founded LIM (Laboratorio de Informatica Musical) the first computer music studio at Guanajuato, Mexico, where he is the director and also works as an associate researcher at CIMAT (Center for Mathematics Research) in Guanajuato. He is currently collaborating with both CNMAT and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UC San Diego, as part of a residency and exchange program on a UC MEXUS grant. Also: ** CONCERT ** ------ Sunday November 13, 1994, 8PM: Roberto Morales-Manzanares in concert at CNMAT ***************************************************************** * * * For more information on these colloquia, * * to be added or removed from this list, * * for more information on CNMAT * * please contact: * * * * Guy E. Garnett * * Music and Technology Coordinator * * The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies * * 510-642-8731 * * guy@cnmat.berkeley.edu * * * ***************************************************************** From seminar-request Mon Nov 28 13:47:51 1994 Received: from Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Sunburn.Stanford.EDU [36.8.0.178]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA10046 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 1994 13:47:36 -0800 Received: by Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (5.67b/25-SUNBURN-eef) id AA08475; Mon, 28 Nov 1994 13:47:35 -0800 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 13:47:34 PST From: Phyllis Winkler Reply-To: winkler@CS.Stanford.EDU To: seminar@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Knuth lecture Message-Id: Status: R ########################################################## # # # # # COMPUTER MUSINGS # # # # a series of impromptu talks by # # # # Don Knuth # # # # --------------- # # # # # # More Fun with Binary Trees # # recursive arithmetic on gigantic numbers # # # # # # # # Tuesday, Dec. 6 4:15pm # # Bldg 420 Room 040 # # Stanford University # # # # # # @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # # @ EVERYBODY WELCOME @ # # @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # # # ########################################################## From seminar-request Tue Jan 17 10:51:23 1995 Received: from Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Sunburn.Stanford.EDU [36.8.0.178]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA21653 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:51:03 -0800 Received: by Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (5.67b/25-SUNBURN-eef) id AA19731; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:51:00 -0800 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 10:51:00 PST From: Phyllis Winkler Reply-To: winkler@CS.Stanford.EDU To: su-events@CS.Stanford.EDU Cc: seminar@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Knuth lecture Message-Id: Status: R ########################################################## # # # # # COMPUTER MUSINGS # # # # a series of impromptu talks by # # # # Don Knuth # # # # --------------- # # # # # # Stable Allocation # # and its relation to uniform hashing # # # # # # # # Tuesday, January 24 4:15pm # # Bldg 420 Room 040 # # Stanford University # # # # # # @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # # @ EVERYBODY WELCOME @ # # @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # # # ########################################################## From csgrad-request Wed Feb 1 13:17:43 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA05958 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:17:25 -0800 Received: from atlantis.CS.Berkeley.EDU (atlantis.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.37.43]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id NAA28941; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:17:21 -0800 Received: by atlantis.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/1.42) id NAA08069; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:17:19 -0800 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:17:19 -0800 From: antoniet@atlantis.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Antonieta Garcia) Message-Id: <199502012117.NAA08069@atlantis.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: csgrad@cs.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Seminar Feb. 8th Cc: eklee@pa.dec.com, tea@cs.Berkeley.EDU Status: R Scalable Network Storage Edward K. Lee Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center Wednesday, 8 February 1995 4:00pm - 5:30pm 373 Soda Hall Abstract Applications such as enterprise-wide storage systems, regional medical information systems, large-scale video-on-demand, and electronic libraries are placing greater demands on the availa- bility, performance and manageability of storage systems. Be- cause these applications require around-the-clock access to many terabytes of shared information by tens of thousands to milions of users, they are poorly served by existing storage systems. In this talk, I propose techniques for designing scalable storage systems with improved availability, performance, and manageabili- ty in comparison to existing large-scale storage systems. In ad- dition, I briefly describe our first scalable storage prototype, implemented using Alpha/OSF workstations and the AN1 switched network. I conclude with future directions for the project. From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Mon Feb 13 09:38:17 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA17148; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:38:15 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id JAA24452; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:38:05 -0800 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA17100 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:37:48 -0800 Received: from rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.104]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id JAA24443; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:37:45 -0800 Received: from rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA21814; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:30:47 -0800 From: Robert Untiedt Message-Id: <199502131730.JAA21814@rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: faculty@cs.Berkeley.EDU, eefaculty@eecs.Berkeley.EDU, faculty@physics.Berkeley.EDU, faculty@math.Berkeley.EDU cc: Bob Untiedt Subject: Presentation tomorrow Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:30:46 -0800 Status: R Fred Gustavson of IBM Watson Lab will speak on: "A Performance Analysis of the Subroutines in the ESSL/LAPACK/CCI High Performance Linear Algebra Library for the IBM RS 6000" This presentation will occur in Room 606 of Soda Hall, from 2-3pm on Tuesday, February 14. From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Mon Feb 13 11:03:03 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA23843; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:02:53 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id LAA25900; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:02:43 -0800 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA23821 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:02:33 -0800 Received: from cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (cogsci.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.211.5]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id LAA25890; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:02:14 -0800 Received: by cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA07830; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:43:20 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:43:20 -0800 From: lindae@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Linda E. Daetwyler) Message-Id: <9502131843.AA07830@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU> To: cogsci-friends@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Cognitive Science Seminar, Feb. 24, Ernest Lepore Status: R BERKELEY COGNITIVE SCIENCE PROGRAM Spring 1995 Cognitive Science Seminar - IDS 237 -- Friday, February 24, 1995, 11:00-12:00 p.m. -- 306 Soda Hall "The Red Herring and the Pet Fish: Why Concepts Still Can't be Prototypes" Ernest Lepore Department of Philosophy Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University There is a Standard Objection to the idea that concepts might be prototypes (or exemplars, or stereotypes): Because they are productive, concepts must be compositional. Prototypes aren't com- positional, so concepts can't be prototypes. However, two recent papers (Osherson and Smith, 1988; Kamp and Partee, 1995) reconsider this consensus. They suggest that, although the Standard Objection is probably right in the long run, the cases where prototypes fail to exhibit compositionality are relatively exotic and involve phenomena which any account of compositionality is likely to find hard to deal with; for example, the effects of quantifiers, indexi- cals, contextual constraints, etc. Kamp and Partee are even prepared to indulge a guarded optimism: "... when a suitably rich compositional theory... is developed, prototypes will be seen not as incompatible with the logic of vague concepts, but as one pro- perty among many which only when taken altogether can support a compositional theory of combination" (p. 56). In this talk, I'll argue that the Standard Objection to prototype theory was right after all: The problems about compositionality are insuperable in even the most trivial sorts of examples; it is therefore as near to certain as anything in cognitive science ever gets that the struc- ture of concepts is not statistical. Theories of categorization, concept acquisition, lexical meaning and the like, which assume the contrary simply don't work. Kamp, H. and Partee, B. "Prototype theory and compositionality," Cognition. Forthcoming. Osherson, D.N. and Smith, E. E. (1988). "Conceptual combination with prototype concepts," in Collins A. and Smith, E. (eds.) Readings in Cognitive Science, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc.: San Mateo, CA. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ELSEWHERE ON CAMPUS Cognitive Psychology Seminar, Friday, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Beach Room, Tolman: February 24: Patti Schank, Department of Education, University of California at Berkeley, on "Prescriptive and Descriptive Aspects of Explanatory Coherence." March 10: Endel Tulving, University of Washington, on Pet Studies of Memory." Philosophy Department Seminar, Thursday, 4:10-6:00 p.m., Howison Library, Moses Hall: February 23: Robert Adams, Yale University, on "Things in Themselves." March 16: Colin McGinn, Rutgers University, on "Another Look at Color." Linguistics Colloquium, Wednesday, 4:00-6:00 p.m., 182 Dwinelle: March 15: Arnold Zwicky, OSU/Stanford, on "Conditions in Conflict." SESAME Colloquium, Monday, 4:00-6:00 p.m., 2515 Tolman: February 27: Angelica Stacy, Department of Chemistry, Univer- sity of California at Berkeley, TBA. March 13: Jean Lave, Department of Education, University of California at Berkeley, TBA. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From seminar-request Mon Feb 13 11:11:50 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA24401 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:09:15 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id LAA26004 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:09:14 -0800 Received: (from crystal@localhost) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA24394 for seminar@cs; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:09:12 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:09:12 -0800 From: Crystal Williams Message-Id: <199502131909.LAA24394@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: seminar@CS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Cog Sci Seminar, 3/3/95, 11-12:30 Status: R BERKELEY COGNITIVE SCIENCE PROGRAM Spring 1995 Cognitive Science Seminar - IDS 237 -- Friday, March 3, 1995, 11:00-12:30 p.m. -- 306 Soda Hall "The Wake-Sleep Algorithm for Unsupervised Neural Networks" Geoffrey Hinton Department of Computer Science University of Toronto I shall describe an unsupervised learning algorithm for a mul- tilayer network of stochastic neurons. Bottom-up ``recognition'' connections convert the input into representations in successive hidden layers and top-down ``generative'' connections reconstruct the representation in one layer from the representation in the layer above. In the ``wake'' phase, neurons are driven bottom-up by recognition connections, and generative connections are adapted to increase the probability that they would reconstruct the correct activity vector in the layer below. In the ``sleep'' phase, neu- rons are driven top-down by generative connections and recognition connections are adapted to increase the probability that they would produce the correct activity vector in the layer above. When trained on images of badly written digits the algorithm does very well at capturing the variations in the style of a digit. This talk will describe joint work with Peter Dayan, Brendan Frey, and Radford Neal. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ELSEWHERE ON CAMPUS Cognitive Psychology Seminar, Friday, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Beach Room, Tolman: February 24: Patti Schank, Department of Education, University of California at Berkeley, on "Prescriptive and Descriptive Aspects of Explanatory Coherence." March 10: Endel Tulving, University of Washington, on Pet Studies of Memory." Philosophy Department Seminar, Thursday, 4:10-6:00 p.m., Howison Library, Moses Hall: February 23: Robert Adams, Yale University, on "Things in Themselves." March 16: Colin McGinn, Rutgers University, on "Another Look at Color." Linguistics Colloquium, Wednesday, 4:00-6:00 p.m., 182 Dwinelle: March 15: Arnold Zwicky, OSU/Stanford, on "Conditions in Conflict." SESAME Colloquium, Monday, 4:00-6:00 p.m., 2515 Tolman: February 27: Angelica Stacy, Department of Chemistry, Univer- sity of California at Berkeley, TBA. March 13: Jean Lave, Department of Education, University of California at Berkeley, TBA. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From csgrad-request Sun Jan 29 18:20:26 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA13679 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 1995 18:20:16 -0800 Received: from tagore.CS.Berkeley.EDU (tagore.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.35.111]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id SAA28199; Sun, 29 Jan 1995 18:20:14 -0800 Received: from tagore.CS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by tagore.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA02309; Sun, 29 Jan 1995 18:20:08 -0800 From: Robert Wilensky Message-Id: <199501300220.SAA02309@tagore.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: elib-seminar@CS.Berkeley.EDU cc: csgrads@CS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Forthcoming Digital Library Seminar activities Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 21:20:07 -0500 Status: RO For the next three weeks, the Digital Library Seminar (Monday, 2-3:30, 505 Soda), will comprise "show and tell" sessions, in which project participants will make short presentations of their recent research and present their plans for the short term. The scedule is as follows: Jan 30: Robert Twiss (A discussion of our image data) Gary Kopec/Richard Fateman (Document analysis and processing) Robert Wilensky (Natural language processing for information access) Feb 6: Michael Stonebraker Ginger Ogle (CHABOT) Michael Buckland (Distributed search) Feb 13: Nancy Van House (User needs accessment) Jitendra Malik/David Forsyth (computer vision for information access) Martin Vetterli (multiresolution compression for image browsing) - --OAA27009.791419611/orodruin.CS.Berkeley.EDU-- ------- End of Forwarded Message From csgrad-request Mon Jan 30 10:15:51 1995 Received: (from heather@localhost) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA04558; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 10:15:28 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 10:15:28 -0800 From: Heather Brown Message-Id: <199501301815.KAA04558@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: heather Subject: Panel on Teaching and Technology Status: RO Graduate Division's GSI Teaching and Resource Center The Forum presents Technology, Learning and Ethics moderated by David Elderbrock and Steve Thorne of the Instruction Technology Program's Humanities Focus Group Critical Perspectives on the Convergence of Technology and Formal Education The first FORUM of the Spring Semester will include a panel of GSIs who have experience with and/or opinions about computer and network technologies. The session will be an interactive dialogue and your participations is encouraged. We will be discussing a variety of issues, including: examples of successful and unsuccessful technologies equity and parity issues for students effects on reading and literacy changing notions of literary as mediated by technology hypertext e-mail virtual environments as sites for distance learning (MOOs and MUDs) Please come with your questions and opinions. All views are welcome! Place: 301 Sproul Date: Thursday, February 2 Time: Noon - 1:30 p.m. Refreshments provided. Wheelchair accessible. For disability related accomodations, call (510) 642-4456 as soon as possible. From csgrad-request Mon Jan 30 15:25:48 1995 Received: (from crystal@localhost) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA27302; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 15:23:39 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 15:23:39 -0800 From: Crystal Williams Message-Id: <199501302323.PAA27302@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: csdivfac, csgrads Subject: Spring CS Colloquia Schedule Cc: csmsgs, seminars Status: RO Feb. 1 - Mike Jordan - 1011 Evans Feb. 8 - Michael Luby - 306 Soda Feb. 15- Alan Smith/Stuart Russell - 306 Soda Feb. 22- Avi Wigderson - 306 Soda Mar. 1 - Jim Gray - 306 Soda Mar. 8 - Geoff Hinton - 1011 Evans (COE ILP week) Mar. 15- John Mayo - 306 Soda Mar. 22- Len Adelman - 1011 Evans Mar. 29- SPRING RECESS Apr. 5 - Trevor Hastie - 306 Soda (CS faculty retreat week) Apr. 12- Jim Gray - 306 Soda Apr. 19- Yann LeCun - 1011 Evans Apr. 26- Jim Gray - 306 Soda May 3 - Dave Donoho - 306 Soda Individual announcements will precede each event. From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Mon Feb 13 14:17:18 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA07585; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 14:17:14 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id OAA29228; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 14:17:04 -0800 Received: (from duer@localhost) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA07555 for coefaculty; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 14:16:52 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 14:16:52 -0800 From: David Duer Message-Id: <199502132216.OAA07555@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: coefaculty@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Intel Distinguished Lecture Status: R To: Engineering Faculty Please share the following announcement with your graduate and undergraduate students who may be interested. INTEL CORPORATION 1995 DISTINGUISHED LECTURES IN TECHNOLOGY Co-Sponsored by the College of Engineering, the College of Chemistry, and the Department of Physics TECHNOLOGY FUTURES FOR THE IC INDUSTRY Tuesday, February 28, 1995 Bechtel Engineering Center, Sibley Auditorium 10 - 11 a.m. A Lecture by Craig R. Barrett Executive VP & Chief Operating Officer For Intel Corporation The Berkeley Campus Community is Invited to Attend For Further Information E-Mail to ilpinfo@coe From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Mon Feb 13 09:38:17 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA17148; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:38:15 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id JAA24452; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:38:05 -0800 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA17100 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:37:48 -0800 Received: from rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.104]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id JAA24443; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:37:45 -0800 Received: from rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA21814; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:30:47 -0800 From: Robert Untiedt Message-Id: <199502131730.JAA21814@rosewood.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: faculty@cs.Berkeley.EDU, eefaculty@eecs.Berkeley.EDU, faculty@physics.Berkeley.EDU, faculty@math.Berkeley.EDU cc: Bob Untiedt Subject: Presentation tomorrow Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:30:46 -0800 Status: RO Fred Gustavson of IBM Watson Lab will speak on: "A Performance Analysis of the Subroutines in the ESSL/LAPACK/CCI High Performance Linear Algebra Library for the IBM RS 6000" This presentation will occur in Room 606 of Soda Hall, from 2-3pm on Tuesday, February 14. From jlevels@euler.berkeley.edu Wed Feb 15 17:11:24 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA21372 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:11:23 -0800 Received: from cimsim.Berkeley.EDU (cimsim.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.142.138]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id RAA28146; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:10:48 -0800 Received: from euler.Berkeley.EDU by cimsim.Berkeley.EDU (4.1/1.28) id AA24986; Wed, 15 Feb 95 16:58:26 PST Received: from [128.32.125.30] by euler.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/1.28) id QAA21293; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 16:57:50 -0800 Message-Id: <199502160057.QAA21293@euler.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:15:41 +0500 To: seminars@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, faculty@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, grads@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, staff@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, minton@ptolemy-ethernet.arc.nasa.gov From: jlevels@euler.berkeley.edu (Joyce Levels) Subject: IEOR Special Seminar Status: RO >Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:12:38 +0500 >To: jlevels@euler.Berkeley.EDU >From: jlevels@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Joyce Levels) >Subject: IEOR Special Seminar > > Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research > *** SPECIAL SEMINAR *** > > > Synthesizing Heuristic Search Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems > > Steven Minton > NASA Ames Research Center > >A great variety of heuristic search algorithms have been proposed for >solving combinatorial problems. Selecting the "right algorithm for the >problem" can make a tremendous difference in the time required to find a >solution. Unfortunately, it is rarely clear which method will perform best >for a given problem. We have found that in many cases, even experts may >find it difficult to select a suitable algorithm. > >In this talk, I'll describe Multi-TAC (Multi-Tactic Analytic Compiler), a >system that automatically synthesizes combinatorial search programs. >Multi-TAC uses machine learning techniques to specialize a library of >generic algorithms and heuristics, producing a complete >application-specific search program. The use of learning techniques >enables Multi-TAC to synthesize a heuristic algorithm that is well suited >to the distribution of instances that the system is expected to encounter. >I'll present a case study where we compared programs generated by Multi-TAC >to programs written by NASA scientists. We found that the programs >synthesized by the system performed on par with, and sometimes better than, >the hand-coded programs. I'll also describe recent work on a graphical >"specification-by-demonstration" interface for Multi-TAC. The interface is >intended to allow relatively unsophisticated users to describe a wide >variety of combinatorial problems, including scheduling and resource >allocation problems. > > > > Wednesday, February 22, 1995 > 3:30 - 5:00 P.M. > 3110 Etcheverry Hall > > From jlevels@euler.berkeley.edu Thu Feb 16 15:03:32 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA06942 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:03:31 -0800 Received: from cimsim.Berkeley.EDU (cimsim.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.142.138]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id PAA08060; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:03:29 -0800 Received: from euler.Berkeley.EDU by cimsim.Berkeley.EDU (4.1/1.28) id AA01123; Thu, 16 Feb 95 14:55:59 PST Received: from [128.32.125.34] by euler.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/1.28) id OAA08414; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 14:55:21 -0800 Message-Id: <199502162255.OAA08414@euler.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:13:15 +0500 To: seminars@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, faculty@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, grads@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, minton@ptolemy-ethernet.arc.nasa.gov From: jlevels@euler.berkeley.edu (Joyce Levels) Subject: ***IEOR Special Seminar*** please note: Time Change!! Status: RO > Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research > *** SPECIAL SEMINAR *** > > > Synthesizing Heuristic Search Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems > > Steven Minton > NASA Ames Research Center > >A great variety of heuristic search algorithms have been proposed for >solving combinatorial problems. Selecting the "right algorithm for the >problem" can make a tremendous difference in the time required to find a >solution. Unfortunately, it is rarely clear which method will perform best >for a given problem. We have found that in many cases, even experts may >find it difficult to select a suitable algorithm. > >In this talk, I'll describe Multi-TAC (Multi-Tactic Analytic Compiler), a >system that automatically synthesizes combinatorial search programs. >Multi-TAC uses machine learning techniques to specialize a library of >generic algorithms and heuristics, producing a complete >application-specific search program. The use of learning techniques >enables Multi-TAC to synthesize a heuristic algorithm that is well suited >to the distribution of instances that the system is expected to encounter. >I'll present a case study where we compared programs generated by Multi-TAC >to programs written by NASA scientists. We found that the programs >synthesized by the system performed on par with, and sometimes better than, >the hand-coded programs. I'll also describe recent work on a graphical >"specification-by-demonstration" interface for Multi-TAC. The interface is >intended to allow relatively unsophisticated users to describe a wide >variety of combinatorial problems, including scheduling and resource >allocation problems. > > > > Wednesday, February 22, 1995 > 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. > 3110 Etcheverry Hall Refreshments at 3:30 > > From seminar-request Tue Feb 21 13:32:02 1995 Received: from Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Sunburn.Stanford.EDU [36.8.0.178]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA05454 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 13:30:51 -0800 Received: by Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (5.67b/25-SUNBURN-eef) id AA11588; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 13:30:49 -0800 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 13:30:48 PST From: Phyllis Winkler Reply-To: winkler@CS.Stanford.EDU To: seminar@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Knuth lecture Message-Id: Status: R ########################################################## # # # # # COMPUTER MUSINGS # # # # a series of impromptu talks by # # # # Don Knuth # # # # --------------- # # # # # # Generalized Determinants # # and their relation to perfect matchings # # # # # # # # Tuesday, February 28 4:15pm # # Bldg 420 Room 040 # # Stanford University # # # # # # @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # # @ EVERYBODY WELCOME @ # # @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # # # ########################################################## From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Thu Feb 23 11:17:05 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA05168; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:17:02 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id LAA12909; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:16:50 -0800 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA05060 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:16:47 -0800 Received: from cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (cogsci.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.211.5]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id LAA12900; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:16:29 -0800 Received: by cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA08418; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:02:54 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:02:54 -0800 From: lindae@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Linda E. Daetwyler) Message-Id: <9502231902.AA08418@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU> To: cogsci-friends@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Talk - Dr. John Maunsell, Baylor University, 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23. Status: RO Dr. John Maunsell of Baylor University will talk on "Neural representations of attended visual targets in monkey visual cortex" at 4:00 p.m., Thurs, 2/23, in the Beach Room (3105 Tolman). Anyone interested in meeting with Dr. Maunsell should contact me, Marc Breedlove x28615. There are a few slots open. Thanks, Marc Breedlove From csgrad-request Thu Feb 23 14:13:33 1995 Received: (from fuller@localhost) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) id OAA19169; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 14:13:09 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 14:13:09 -0800 From: Anne Fuller Message-Id: <199502232213.OAA19169@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: csfaculty, csgrads Subject: Logic Colloqium Status: R From: catalina@math.berkeley.edu (Catalina Cordoba) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:25:21 -0800 Group in LOGIC AND THE METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE University of California at Berkeley LOGIC COLLOQUIUM Robert F. St\"{a}rk Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation and Visiting scholar in Mathematics, Stanford University will speak on On the foundations of logic programming on Friday, March 3, 1995 in 60 Evans Hall at 4:10 p.m. The biweekly LOGIC TEA will be held in the Alfred Tarski Room (727 Evans Hall) immediately following the colloquium. ABSTRACT The standard theory of logic programming is not applicable to Prolog programs, not even to pure code. One of the reasons for the gap between theory and practice is that Prolog uses a fixed search strategy. On one side, this gives Prolog users the possibility of writing efficient programs, on the other side, completeness gets lost. It is possible that a goal formula is a logical consequence of a program but Prolog does not find a proof of the formula. Another problem is the nonstandard treatment of negation. In Prolog, negation is usually interpreted as ``negation by finite failure''. This form of negation differs from classical or intuitionistic negation. In this talk we present new solutions to these old problems of logic programming. Starting from a calculus of G. Mints and J. C. Shepherdson we develop a new completion of a logic program. The completion is formulated in a first-order language in which one can express success, finite failure, and strong termination of goal formulas.It turns out the the new completion is a sound and complete axiomatization of the Prolog depth-first search for programs and goal formulas that satisfy certain natural syntactic conditions. As an application of our completeness result we show how one can prove termination and equivalence of pure Prolog programs using the inductive definitions of the predicates only without referring to the operational meaning of the clauses. From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Mon Feb 27 10:06:27 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA08675; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:06:22 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id KAA15592; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:06:12 -0800 Received: (from duer@localhost) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) id KAA08522 for coefaculty; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:05:43 -0800 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:05:43 -0800 From: David Duer Message-Id: <199502271805.KAA08522@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: coefaculty@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Intel Lecture Status: R REMINDER - INTEL LECTURE TOMORROW (TUESDAY) To: Engineering Faculty Please share the following announcement with your graduate and undergraduate students who may be interested. INTEL CORPORATION 1995 DISTINGUISHED LECTURES IN TECHNOLOGY Co-Sponsored by the College of Engineering, the College of Chemistry, and the Department of Physics TECHNOLOGY FUTURES FOR THE IC INDUSTRY Tuesday, February 28, 1995 Bechtel Engineering Center, Sibley Auditorium 10 - 11 a.m. A Lecture by Craig R. Barrett Executive VP & Chief Operating Officer For Intel Corporation The Berkeley Campus Community is Invited to Attend For Further Information E-Mail to ilpinfo@coe From jlevels@euler.berkeley.edu Mon Feb 27 11:13:59 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA29760 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:13:55 -0800 Received: from cimsim.Berkeley.EDU (cimsim.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.142.138]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id LAA16689; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:13:47 -0800 Received: from euler.Berkeley.EDU by cimsim.Berkeley.EDU (4.1/1.28) id AA20868; Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:04:50 PST Received: from [128.32.125.33] by euler.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/1.28) id LAA12824; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:04:10 -0800 Message-Id: <199502271904.LAA12824@euler.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:22:25 +0500 To: seminars@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, staff@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, grads@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, faculty@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, hodges@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, erika@or.stanford.edu From: jlevels@euler.berkeley.edu (Joyce Levels) Subject: *** IEOR Monday Seminar - Special Seminar *** Status: R > > Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research > *** SPECIAL SEMINAR *** > > > > Optimal Production Process Design > > Erika Schraner > > Department of Operations Research > > Stanford University > > > >Product and process design are powerful means to enable a company >to gain control of inventory and service. This paper develops a modeling >framework to study optimum operations sequencing/re-sequencing as a >technique to improve the performance of multi-echelon production systems. >For pure make-to-stock systems, we establish the optimal production >operations sequencing pattern and determine simple criteria for production >operation re-sequencing. We present a graphical interpretation of our >results through Cost-Time Profiling, a method used at Westinghouse Electric >Corporation to perform cycle-time reduction Our analysis formalizes >Cost-Time Profiling and shows its application in production re-sequencing >for make-to-stock production systems. For systems with work-in-progress >safety stock inventories, we derive insights on how re-sequencing affects >the location and levels of safety stock inventories. For specific cases >we establish the optimum sequencing. > > > > > > > Wednesday, March 1, 1995 > 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. > 3110 Etcheverry Hall > > Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. > > Please Note: Time and Room Change > > From csgrad-request Tue Feb 28 15:10:45 1995 Received: from mail.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (mail.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.137]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA22453 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:05:16 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by mail.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id PAA01157 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:05:14 -0800 Received: (from humphrys@localhost) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) id PAA22438 for eecsgrads@eecs; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:05:13 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:05:13 -0800 From: Sheila Humphreys Message-Id: <199502282305.PAA22438@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: eecsgrads@EECS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Reminder: "Writing Conference and Journal Papers" Status: R Today 4-5 pm 310 Soda Hall A Panel Discussion on the topic of: "Getting Your Ideas Across: Writing Conference and Journal Papers" Professor Charles Desoer, Eric Boskin, Gitanjali Swamy, and Dr. Joe Weber From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Tue Feb 28 15:28:48 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA29981; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:28:44 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id PAA03586; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:28:27 -0800 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA29832 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:28:24 -0800 Received: from cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (cogsci.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.211.5]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id PAA03582; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:28:12 -0800 Received: by cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA16009; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:47:05 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:47:05 -0800 From: lindae@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Linda E. Daetwyler) Message-Id: <9502282147.AA16009@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU> To: cogsci-friends@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU Subject: CORRECTION on previous Cognitive Science Mailing - David Rummelhart's Status: R talk will be taking place March 3, 4-5:30 p.m. in 100 Genetics and Plant Biology. In the recent Cognitive Science Seminar announcement it was incorrectly listed as occuring in two different places simultaneously. I apologize profusely for the confusion. Linda. From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Tue Feb 28 15:28:48 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA29981; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:28:44 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id PAA03586; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:28:27 -0800 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA29832 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:28:24 -0800 Received: from cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (cogsci.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.211.5]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id PAA03582; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:28:12 -0800 Received: by cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA16009; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:47:05 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:47:05 -0800 From: lindae@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Linda E. Daetwyler) Message-Id: <9502282147.AA16009@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU> To: cogsci-friends@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU Subject: CORRECTION on previous Cognitive Science Mailing - David Rummelhart's Status: R talk will be taking place March 3, 4-5:30 p.m. in 100 Genetics and Plant Biology. In the recent Cognitive Science Seminar announcement it was incorrectly listed as occuring in two different places simultaneously. I apologize profusely for the confusion. Linda. From asah@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Tue Feb 28 12:49:33 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA03387 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:49:32 -0800 Received: from ginsberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU (ginsberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.37.55]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id MAA01192; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:48:57 -0800 Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by ginsberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.3) with SMTP id MAA15496 for net.cool; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:50:44 -0800 Message-Id: <199502282050.MAA15496@ginsberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: ginsberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost.Berkeley.EDU didn't use HELO protocol To: net.cool@ginsberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: UCB: Andrew ("Mr. Undocumented") Schulman Talk at UCB Win95/WinNT User Group Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 12:50:43 -0800 From: Adam Sah X-Mts: smtp Status: R This is an event not to be missed. The undocumented interfaces are, in many ways, at the core of the current antitrust suit(s) against Microsoft. I'm also told that he's a terrific speaker. adam ------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:44:50 -0800 From: Jon Forrest Message-Id: <199502281944.LAA17290@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: micronet@tuna.berkeley.edu, nt-users@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Andrew ("Mr. Undocumented") Schulman Talk at UCB Win95/WinNT User Group -- Special Seminar -- Windows 95 : The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Andrew Schulman Author "Unauthorized Windows 95" & "Undocumented Windows" March 13 12:30 - 2:00 Soda Hall 306 The UCB Windows NT/Windows 95 Technical User's Group is pleased to present the renowned Andrew Schulman live and unplugged. Andrew will amaze us with his tales about how he's been able to uncover the deepest darkest secrets of Windows 95, what he's found, and what it all means. He'll probably even have a few well chosen words about the differences between what he's found and what Microsoft is claiming about Windows 95. Andrew is perhaps best known for his work which claims that Microsoft uses undocumented interfaces in their Windows application programs. If there's ever been anything about the Windows or Windows 95 operating systems that you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, here's your chance. Andrew has agreed to stay and answer questions after the talk. Andrew Schulman is a programmer and writer based in Santa Rosa CA. He is the coauthor of the books "Undocumented DOS" and "Undocumented Windows" (Addison-Wesley), and author of the new book, "Unauthorized Windows 95" (IDG). His software package, "Windows Source" (V Communications), is a disassembly and reverse-engineering toolkit for Windows. He is frequently involved in reverse engineering of Microsoft operating systems, and frequently writes on software controversies such the FTC and Justice Dept. investigations of Microsoft, the Stac v. Microsoft lawsuit, the Intel Pentium FDIV bug, and the recent Apple v. Canyon/Intel/Microsoft lawsuit. Andrew attended but never graduated from UC/Berkeley during 1975-1977. (For questions about this seminar contact forrest@cs.berkeley.edu) ------- End of Forwarded Message From seminar-request Wed Mar 1 08:29:25 1995 Received: (from crystal@localhost) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) id IAA09658 for seminars@hera; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 08:28:53 -0800 Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 08:28:53 -0800 From: Crystal Williams Message-Id: <199503011628.IAA09658@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: seminars@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Cog Sci seminar correction Status: R Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:47:05 -0800 From: lindae@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Linda E. Daetwyler) Message-Id: <9502282147.AA16009@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU> To: cogsci-friends@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU Subject: CORRECTION on previous Cognitive Science Mailing - David Rummelhart's Status: RO talk will be taking place March 3, 4-5:30 p.m. in 100 Genetics and Plant Biology. In the recent Cognitive Science Seminar announcement it was incorrectly listed as occuring in two different places simultaneously. I apologize profusely for the confusion. Linda. From syu@uclink.berkeley.edu Thu Mar 2 17:44:24 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA09137 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 17:44:23 -0800 Received: from cimsim.Berkeley.EDU (cimsim.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.142.138]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id RAA29791; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 17:44:21 -0800 Received: from uclink.berkeley.edu by cimsim.Berkeley.EDU (4.1/1.28) id AA19645; Thu, 2 Mar 95 17:38:30 PST Received: by uclink.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/1.33(web)-OV4) id RAA17304; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 17:37:54 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 17:37:52 -0800 (PST) From: Susy Yu Subject: IEOR MONDAY SEMINAR for 3/13 To: IEOR Monday Seminar , grads@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, seminars@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU, staff@cimsim.Berkeley.EDU Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO IEOR 298-1 MONDAY SEMINAR March 13, 1995 PROFESSOR MICHAEL H. ROTHKOPF School of Business and RUTCOR Rutgers University "BIDDING THEORY: A Critical Overview and Some New Results" Abstract: This talk will first give a critical overview of bidding theory, arguing that modeling matters affects "the answers." It will then discuss briefly several separate topics upon which we have new results. These include a model of oral auctions in which the auctioneer alternates between a pair of bidders until one of them drops out, modeling of time use in oral auctions, and computational issues related to the evaluation of combinatorial bids in the simultaneous sale of multiple items. Most of the material covered is joint work with Ronald M. Harstad, and some of it with Aleksandar Pekec and Nathan Weisman. Note, Professor Rothkopf will be available for follow up conversations on any of these topics. In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of Interfaces, and will be glad to discuss the journal or potential publications in it. 3108 Etcheverry Hall 3:30 - 5:00pm refreshments 3:00-3:30pm From csgrad-request Fri Mar 10 18:15:16 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA02096 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 18:13:43 -0800 Received: from mayhem.CS.Berkeley.EDU (mayhem.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.33.56]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id SAA28192 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 18:13:42 -0800 Received: from mayhem.CS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by mayhem.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA07005 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 18:13:40 -0800 From: "Kimberly K. Keeton" Message-Id: <199503110213.SAA07005@mayhem.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: eecsgrads@CS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Next week's lecture in "A Guide to Thriving as a Grad Student" series Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 18:13:38 -0800 Status: R **************************************** * * * Striking a Balance: Time Management * * for Graduate Students * * * * Tuesday, March 14 * * 4:00 pm * * 310 Soda Hall * * * * Speaker: Chris McLean, * * Tang Center * * * **************************************** The life of a grad student is filled with many activities: research, teaching, taking classes, going to meetings, helping others, etc. How should we strike a balance between all the things we need to do? This lecture will focus on time management topics for grad students, such as: - How to efficiently use your time while you're at school - How to manage deadlines without becoming completely stressed - How to avoid procrastination when it comes to research - How to make time for your personal life while you're a grad student This lecture is part of WICSE's series called "A Guide to Thriving as a Grad Student." The series is sponsored by WICSE and EECS Excellence and Diversity Student Programs with support from TCSI, Inc. Stay tuned for more details on additional upcoming seminars. From csgrad-request Mon Mar 13 16:20:34 1995 Received: from vyasa.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (vyasa.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.239.120]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA13299 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 16:17:15 -0800 Received: (from ananth@localhost) by vyasa.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA11862; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 16:17:12 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 16:17:12 -0800 From: Venkat Anantharam Message-Id: <199503140017.QAA11862@vyasa.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: eecsgrads@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: seminar 3/14 2.00 - 3.00 p.m. Cc: scott@cafe.eecs.nwu.edu, svenkat@eclair.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, ihsu@eclair.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, nickm@eecs.Berkeley.EDU, praveen@eclair.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, qin@andante.eecs.Berkeley.EDU, tetiana@andante.eecs.Berkeley.EDU, vigyan@ic.eecs.Berkeley.EDU, siler@eecs.Berkeley.EDU, rchua@eecs.Berkeley.EDU, pettyk@eecs.Berkeley.EDU, farokh@eecs.Berkeley.EDU, wlr@vyasa.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, varaiya@vyasa.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, ananth@vyasa.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, edell@eecs.Berkeley.EDU, sjgsha@garnet.Berkeley.EDU, spyros@vyasa.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, zhuang@cory.eecs.Berkeley.EDU, hyongla@cory.eecs.Berkeley.EDU, akash@vyasa.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, wli@viterbi.eecs.Berkeley.EDU, jokim@cory.eecs.Berkeley.EDU, beto@cory.eecs.Berkeley.EDU, chick@delft.Berkeley.EDU, karim@surya.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Status: R "A Framework for Connection Establishment in High Speed Networks" Prof. Scott Jordan Northwestern University Tuesday 3/14 264M Cory 2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. The evolving view of connection establishment for connection-oriented services involves two stages. The first stage consists of separate roles for the user and the network. The user agent must characterize the information streams that will be transmitted and her valuation of the service. Similarly, the network agent must determine the network's resources and its capabilities to accommodate various mixes of service types. The second stage involves negotiations between multiple network and user agents, in which the parties agree to set up connections to transmit the agreed information streams in a manner to guarantee the agreed quality of service, and at agreed prices. In this talk, the role of prices in combining user characterization, network resource allocation, and contract negotiation to form a complete connection establishment process will be discussed, and open problems will be suggested. From seminar-request Thu Mar 23 13:52:09 1995 Received: (from crystal@localhost) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) id NAA22735; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 13:50:38 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 13:50:38 -0800 From: Crystal Williams Message-Id: <199503232150.NAA22735@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Subject:mesg FOR seminar@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Status: RO REAL SUBJECT: Perpectives on Cog Sci from Music Cognition Cc: johnw@cs.Berkeley.EDU Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 13:02:38 -0800 From: palmer@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen E. Palmer) Message-Id: <9503232102.AA21210@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU> Subject:mesg FOR cogsci-friends@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU REAL SUBJECT: ICS Colloquium by Carol Krumhansl this Friday Status: RO I'm writing to call your attention to the colloquium this Friday, March 24, by Carol Krumhansl. Carol is a Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and is a candidate for the senior position in Cognitive Psychology. She is perhaps the foremost researcher on music perception and cognition in the world and will be talking about some truly fascinating experiments that make important connections between music and language in development. I urge you to find the time to come to her presentation, Perpectives on Cognitive Science from Music Cognition which will be held at the usual time and place: 11:00 - 12:30 306 Soda Hall (Hewlett-Packard Auditorium) For those of you who have not yet found Soda Hall, it is the big green Computer Science Building on Hearst Street just above (east) of Euclid Street. Carol is an excellent speaker, and I expect this to be a very interesting colloquium. I hope to see you there. From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Tue Mar 21 17:46:31 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA27531; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:46:28 -0800 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id RAA12268; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:46:23 -0800 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA27527 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:46:20 -0800 Received: from cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (cogsci.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.211.5]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id RAA12265; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:46:09 -0800 Received: by cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA07367; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:33:36 -0800 Received: from CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU by cmsa.Berkeley.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2326; Tue, 21 Mar 95 17:36:15 PST Received: from cmsa.Berkeley.EDU (NJE origin NAV-LIS@UCBCMSA) by CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3545; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:36:16 -0800 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 95 17:35:26 PST From: Nancy Van House Status: RO REAL SUBJECT: Ethics of the Internet--Conference (fwd) (fwd) (fwd) Subject:mesg FOR cogsci-friends@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU Message-Id: <950321.173614.PST.NAV-LIS@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU> Reposting -- corrected start time (10 not 10:15) and room # added (105 North Gate Hall). Feel free to repost. ****************************************** * ETHICS OF THE INTERNET -- A CONFERENCE * ****************************************** Saturday, April 8, 1995--105 North Gate Hall, U.C. Berkeley All sessions free and open to the public. For information call (510) 642-1464 or send e-mail to: YMB-LIS@CMSA.berkeley.edu THREE SESSIONS FOCUSING ON ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO THE USE OF THE INTERNET AND THE SERVICES AVAILABLE ON INTERACTIVE NETWORKS. 10:00-11:45 AM Introductions followed by Who Owns Internet Information?--Issues involving intellectual property, alteration, false attribution & plagiarism. Panel includes Tom Dolby (Headspace), Howard Besser (U.C. & U. Mich.), Phil Zimmerman (Pretty Good Privacy). 1:15-2:45 PM Children and Other Special Populations--Should children be a market segment? What should be the limits on pornography and violence? Panel includes Cindy Samuels. 3:00-4:30 PM Network Access & Democracy--What is needed to guarantee widespread access to the Internet and freedom of expression? Panel includes Terry Curtis (Chico State), Steve Arbus (IICS). (Not all speakers confirmed.) Conference presented by the School of Library & Information Studies and the Division of Undergraduate & Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of California, Berkeley ********************************************************************** Nancy Van House, Acting Dean School of Library and Information Studies 102 South Hall #4600 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 (510) 642-9980 fax (510)642-5814 ********************************************************************** Nancy Van House, Acting Dean School of Library and Information Studies 102 South Hall #4600 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 (510) 642-9980 fax (510)642-5814 From liza@cs.Berkeley.EDU Sun Apr 2 13:32:22 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA05627; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 13:32:20 -0700 Received: from hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.240.97]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with ESMTP id NAA17988; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 13:32:13 -0700 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA05624 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 13:32:11 -0700 Received: from cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (cogsci.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.211.5]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id NAA17985; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 13:31:57 -0700 Received: by cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA22646; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 13:18:34 -0700 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 13:18:34 -0700 From: lindae@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Linda E. Daetwyler) Message-Id: <9504022018.AA22646@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU> Subject:mesg FOR cogsci-friends@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU Status: R REAL SUBJECT: CORRECTION: Cognitive Science Seminar, April 14, James Townsend BERKELEY COGNITIVE SCIENCE PROGRAM Spring 1995 Cognitive Science Seminar - IDS 237 -- Friday, April 14, 1995, 11:00-12:30 p.m. -- 306 Soda Hall `How to Test for the Perceptual Independence of Cognitive Attributes of Objects' James T. Townsend Rudy Professor of Psychology Co-Director of Cognitive Modeling Training Program Indiana University The nature of perceptual attributes has occupied the attention of philosophers and natural scientists for hundreds of years. In the 19th century, the emerging science of psychology began to perform experiments that opened new doors on such questions. In particular one major topic was the relationship of different attributes (or dimensions, etc.) to one another perceptually. That is, although many attributes can be physically manipulated in a manner that is indepen- dent of one another, it by no means follows that their perception is independent. In fact, the opposite often appears to be the case. Such matters were also of interest to the Gestalt psychologists. In the mid-twentieth century, the theory of signal detection was developed by electrical engineers and psychologists and it revolution- ized the science of near-threshold perception. Two severe limitations with regard to the problem of perceptual independence have been the lack of an embedded theory of multidimensional and multi-signal-- multi-response perception. In a totally separate line of investiga- tion, Wendall Garner and his associates invented several ingenious methods to investigate these issues. However, it has only been recently that a new theory, the General Recognition Theory, was developed partly as a remedy to the lacuna in the realm of signal detection theory. General Recognition Theory has permitted a theoret- ically rigorous investigation of Garner's techniques and the develop- ment of new ones. This talk describes the branch of General Recognition Theory that pertains to perceptual independence, in non-technical terms, and presents an experimental application. It can be applied to many dif- ferent cognitive objects and situations and links up with classical work in psychological scaling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ELSEWHERE ON CAMPUS Cognitive Psychology Seminar, Friday, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Beach Room, Tol- man: April 7: Mike Webster, University of Nevada, on "Light Adap- tation, Contrast Adaptation, Color Constancy." April 14: Alan Gilcrest, Rutgers University, on "How Relative Area and Relative Luminance Combine to Anchor the Perception of Surface Lightness." April 21: Beth Wenzel, NASA, Ames, on "Development and Percep- tual Validation of Virtual Acoustic Environments." April 28: Duncan Luce, University of California at Irvine, on "How Does One Sum Several Things of Value?" Linguistics Colloquium, 4:00-6:00 p.m., 182 Dwinelle: April 5: Cleo Condoravdi and Mark Gawron, TBA. April 11: Keren Rice, University of Toronto, on "The Represen- tation of Place of Articulation in Vowels." (Please note change: Time - 7:30 p.m.) Philosophy Department Seminar, Wednesday, 4:10-6:00 p.m., Howison Library, Moses Hall: April 19: Susan Hurley, Oxford University, TBA. SESAME Colloquium, Monday, 4:00-6:00 p.m., 2515 Tolman: April 17: Mark Guzdial, Georgia Tech, TBA. Speech Communication Systems Colloquia, Wednesday, 12 noon, 46 Dwinelle: April 17: John Ohala, Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley, on "The Lower Larynx in Humans is not an Adaptation for Speech." April 24: Ji-Hye Shin, University of California at Berkeley, on "Acoustic Features Differentia- ting Korean Medial Lax and Tense Stops." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From seminar-request Tue Apr 11 11:08:33 1995 Received: from cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.122.12]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA02688; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 11:08:19 -0700 From: leslie@cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU Received: from [128.32.122.15] (sassy.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU) by cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (4.1/1.42) id AA21681; Tue, 11 Apr 95 11:04:47 PDT X-Sender: leslie@cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 10:07:33 -0800 Subject:mesg FOR leslie@cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU Status: RO *************************** CNMAT LECTURE **************************** FRANK PECUET, Ph.D University of Paris IV, Sorbonne Thursday April 13, 1995 5:30 p.m. The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies 1750 Arch Street Berkeley, CA Title Moving from acoustics to electronics: The treatment of ambivalent musical concepts. Abstract New technology raises different issues: First, on the notion of material, that is, technical sonor phenomena or operating technological processes; next, the technique - compositional thought, writing and notation and last, more generally, the new relationship between the composer and sound. "Lacking in intuitive representation," dedicated to new phenomenological experimentation, the work of the composer is subject to theoretical abstract conditions for which the composer must afterwards find a new equilibrium with his sensory intuition. This need for a new equilibrium is in order to render 'musical' that which may not remain speculative at the strict operating level of the machine. Biography After studying Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Paris, Frank Pecquet obtained a Ph.D in musicology (1982-1985) for his thesis on the study of repetition in musical structures under the supervision of Daniel Charles and Iannis Xenakis. Laureate of the Lavoisier grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1986 to 1988), he attended the University of California, San Diego (1987-1992) where he studied composition with Morton Feldman, Joji Yuasa and Brian Ferneyhough. In 1993, he was awarded the Ph.D. in Music from UCSD for his thesis on algorithmic methods in composition. In 1992, he returned to Paris to continue his research in computer composition at IRCAM. He is now teaching computer music classes at the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne. His work has been performed in Europe and America. From seminar-request Tue Apr 18 13:31:33 1995 Received: from clarinet.CS.Berkeley.EDU (clarinet.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.32.116]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA21384 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:31:07 -0700 Received: (from larsr@localhost) by clarinet.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA28498; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:31:06 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:31:06 -0700 From: Lars Rasmussen Message-Id: <199504182031.NAA28498@clarinet.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Subject:mesg FOR seminar@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU CC: larsr@clarinet.CS.Berkeley.EDU Status: R REAL SUBJECT: Special Theory Seminar TOMORROW: Sudan on approximating cliques. Special Theory Seminar Madhu Sudan IBM T.J. Watson Research Center ON THE (NON)APPROXIMABILITY OF THE CLIQUE. Wednesday, April 19, 1995 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. SODA 310 Ever since the striking discovery made by Feige, Goldwasser, Lovasz, Safra and Szegedy of the connection between efficient verification of proofs and the approximability of the clique size in graphs -- the non-approximability results have got steadily stronger. The first phase achieved this by strengthening the efficiency of the probabilistic verifier. A more recent (ongoing) phase shifts the focus to a more careful parametrization of the resources used by the probabilistic verifier. In this talk I will describe some of the new parameters that emerge in this study. The talk will then focus on 1) The need for this reparametrization - Why the old parameters would have been insufficient to get the best non-approximability results.) 2) The kind of results the new parametrization yields. - In particular we will show that approximating the clique to within a factor of N^1/3 in an N-vertex graph is hard. 3) How far these new parameters take us? - We show that these parameters could yield the best possible hardness results for the clique function. Joint work with Mihir Bellare (IBM) and Oded Goldreich (Weizmann). From seminar-request Tue Apr 18 09:28:12 1995 Received: from Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Sunburn.Stanford.EDU [36.8.0.178]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA05563 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:27:41 -0700 Received: by Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (5.67b/25-SUNBURN-eef) id AA11030; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:27:38 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 9:27:37 PDT From: Phyllis Winkler 꼧 Status: RO Ô¿§ Cc: seminars@sj.unisys.com REAL SUBJECT: Knuth lecture Message-Id: ########################################################## # # # # # COMPUTER MUSINGS # # # # a series of impromptu talks by # # # # Don Knuth # # # # --------------- # # # # # # Sorting by Shorting # # Knowlton and Graham's method for # # identifying wires in cables # # # # # # # # Tuesday, April 28 4:15pm # # Bldg 420 Room 040 # # Stanford University # # # # # # @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # # @ EVERYBODY WELCOME @ # # @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # # # ########################################################## From syu@uclink.berkeley.edu Wed Apr 26 21:24:59 1995 Received: from hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.35]) by hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA15451 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:24:57 -0700 Received: from cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU (cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.142.138]) by hofmann.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6.Beta11) with SMTP id VAA10430; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:24:55 -0700 Received: from uclink.berkeley.edu by cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU (4.1/1.28) id AA25379; Wed, 26 Apr 95 21:25:16 PDT Received: by uclink.berkeley.edu (8.6.10/1.33(web)-OV4) id VAA00954; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:24:30 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:24:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Susy Yu Status: R REAL SUBJECT: IEOR MONDAY SEMINAR for May 1, 1995 Subject:mesg FOR IEOR Monday Seminar , faculty@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU, grads@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU, seminars@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU, staff@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII IEOR 298-1 MONDAY SEMINAR presents GARY PARKER Professor Dept. of Math & Statistics Simon Fraser University "Pension Fund Modelling with Random Investment Performance" Abstract: In defined benefit pension plans, benefits do not depend on past investment performance. Instead, the risk associated with future returns on a fund's assets manifests itself through the contribution rate. The contribution rate must vary through time as the level of the fund fluctuates above and below its target level to prevent the fund from running out or growing out of control. A simple relationship exists between the contribution rate and the fund level when the spread method of amortization is used. That is when the contribution rate is adjusted by a proportion k of the unfunded liability. We consider a plan with stable membership and stable level of benefit outgo. Using d(t), the force of interest between times t-1 and t, we find that the level of the fund, F(t), satisfies a recursive equation of the form F(t) = e^(d(t)) [(1-k)F(t-1) + theta] We study the level of fund when d(t) is modelled by a Gaussian stochastic process (e.g. the AR(1) model). First we investigate the effect of the valuation basis and of the amortization period on the variability fo funding levels and contribution rates and this introduces the concept of the efficient frontier as a means of choosing an optimal funding strategy. Second we consider models with dependent rates of return and provide a sufficient condition for the funding level to be ergodic. Upon considering the AR(1) model we derive a recursive method for calculating the conditional distribution funding level and provide further insight into the main factors which influence the behaviour of the funding level. 3108 Etcheverry Hall 3:30 - 5:00pm refreshments served 3:00-3:30pm