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New Paradigms in Using Computers 2004
| August 4, 2004 - What
can I do
with WAY too much
information? |
Here is information on the confirmed speakers and their talks for NPUC
2004.
Andreas S. Weigend
People and Data:
Understanding Customer Behavior
Andreas Weigend, who served as Amazon.com's Chief Scientist until early
2004, shares insights into the behavior of customers on the web. He
discusses sources of data in e-business, and shows probabilistic models
of user intent that are based on click data. He emphasizes the
importance of experiments, and presents a framework for predicting the
long-term effects of actions such as promotions. The talk applies
social networks theory and behavioral economics to optimize incentives.
Examples are given from online retail, online advertising, and online
dating sites.
Further information is at http://www.weigend.com.
Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D.
Andreas Weigend has a unique career bridging between the disciplines of
computer science, statistics and business in the areas of data mining,
machine learning, and time series prediction. His recent work focuses
on behavioral modeling in e-business and finance.
As Amazon.com's Chief Scientist, he directed research in data mining,
statistical learning, and computational marketing. In 1999, he
co-founded Moodlogic and built the prototype for the system that was
voted "best music organizer" by C|NET in 2003. He also was the Chief
Scientist of Shockmarket Corporation, funded by D.E. Shaw and Deutsche
Bank, to create information products and trading models based on
real-time data from online brokerages, leveraging principles of
behavioral finance.
He has published more than one hundred scientific papers and
co-authored six books, including Time Series Prediction (1993) and
Computational Finance (1999). He teaches Data Mining and Electronic
Business at Stanford University, as well as executive courses on
e-commerce and quantitative methods. He currently holds academic
positions in the US at Stanford University and at the University of
Washington, and in Asia at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and at the
National University of Singapore. Previously, he was full-time faculty
at New York University's Stern School of Business and at the University
of Colorado at Boulder.
He serves on the advisory boards of several startups and hedge funds.
His clients include Acxiom, Bank of America, BVCapital, Eventmonitor,
Goldman Sachs, Macrovision, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Nikko
Securities, PlanetOut, Siemens, UBS, and Yahoo. Details are at
www.weigend.com.
Andreas Weigend studied electrical engineering, physics, and philosophy
at Karlsruhe, Cambridge (Trinity College), and Bonn University. He
received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in physics, and was a
researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and at the Santa
Fe Institute.
Andrew
Tomkins (IBM Research - Almaden)
IBM WebFountain:
Approaches to Coping with Way Too Much Web
WebFountain is a platform for analysis of large-scale unstructured data
sources including the World Wide Web. The platform includes
infrastructure to acquire billions of documents including web pages,
netnews, weblogs, bulletin boards, newspapers, magazines, press
releases, and so forth. Based on user-specific contextual
information, these documents can then be analyzed at the page level
(for example, by extracting names and locations, or translating between
languages), and at the collection level (for example by determining
aggregate properties of web sites, or by coalescing and mining all
references to a particular company). The resulting data
structures may contain new insights gleaned from the corpus, but users
require new approaches to gain access to these insights. This
talk will present an overview of the architecture and mining chain, and
a discussion of some of the difficulties that arise in surfacing the
new capabilities.
Andrew Tomkins
Andrew Tomkins' work focuses on analysis, measurement, and modeling of
large-scale unstructured collections such as the world wide web.
He
manages IBM's Information Management Principles group at the Almaden
Research Center in San Jose, CA. Concurrently, he is Chief
Scientist
of WebFountain, an IBM "Emerging Business Opportunity" focused on
extending business intelligence by exploiting the vast collections of
unstructured information available outside the enterprise.
Dr. Tomkins received his BSc degrees in mathematics and computer
science from MIT in 1989, and his PhD in computer science from CMU in
1997. He has published some 50+ scientific articles in web
analysis,
theoretical computer science, handwriting analysis, and disk
prefetching. Awards include two best paper awards from the World
Wide
Web Conference, one for the "bow tie" structure of the web, and another
for large-scale automated semantic annotation.
Bonnie DeVarco
& Paul Hansen (Geofusion)
GeoCommunication -
A New Generation of Location-Aware Visualization
Tools
In the past ten years, we have seen the rapid evolution of
visualization technologies: social network visualization, knowledge
domain "mapping" and other methods of visually aggregating abstract
information. At the same time, geospatial imagery and geo-visualization
technologies have also increased in sophistication. Both types of tools
bring with them the potential to allow users to sift through vast
amounts of data to see patterns on any scale. What would happen if
location-based and abstract information allowed seamless views of
cultural patterns, social networks and Earth information all at once?
Bonnie DeVarco will review next generation knowledge domain
visualization tools, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial
multimedia and display environments for geo-located information. This
will set the stage to introduce a "case-study" -- WorldLink's
Interactive Earth Project, whose goal is use the best of
geovisualization and innovative curriculum to understand Earth Systems
Science and human impact on Earth. Paul Hansen and Chuck Stein founders
of GeoFusion, will demonstrate a potential solution, a dynamic
spherical environment that allows users to manipulate a digital Earth
as a multi-dimensional space for a broad range of data. The Geomatrix
engine is the key innovation of GeoFusion, that has the ability to
"funnel" huge amounts of data into a viewer's screen, using the
background of a fly-through’ scale-independent and ultimately intuitive
"natural" environment – Earth. See http://www.geofusion.com or http://earth.telascience.org/public/Interactive_Earth.pdf
Bonnie DeVarco
Bonnie DeVarco regularly writes and lectures on emerging technologies
in education, virtual worlds, next generation geographic information
systems, information visualization and the culture of cyberspace. She
is currently Senior Researcher and Project Coordinator for the NSF
funded Interactive Earth 2 Project, a next generation interactive for
Earth Systems Science led by WorldLink Media, TERC, NASA Goddard and
the World Resources Institute (WRI). And for the past five years, she
developed and co-directed LinkWorld, a 3D multi-user world for high
school students, as part of the Borderlink Project, a federally funded
Technology Innovation Challenge Grant.
Ms. DeVarco has served as an education technology consultant to
non-profit, corporate and educational organizations for the past 16
years (this list includes PBS, Stanford University, the Center for
Innovative Learning Technologies, San Diego and James Burke's Knowledge
Web, UC Santa Cruz, UCOP, Smithsonian Institute, DigitalSpace and
others). She has helped develop multi-institutional programs for
distance and media enhanced learning for the University of California
Office of the President and the K-12 as a research and development
consultant for the UC College Prep Initiative, one of the first
statewide virtual high school programs since 1998.
As a member of the Board of Directors for the Contact Consortium Ms.
DeVarco founded the VLearn3D initiative in 1998. Vlearn3D is an
international networking hub for educators using multi-user
environments to enhance the learning process. She has regularly
produced educational events in cyberspace and in distributed physical
locations through Vlearn3D.org, UC Santa Cruz's "Tech Innovation"
program, UCLA, the Los Angeles Festival, Telascience and the
Buckminster Fuller Institute. From 1989 to 1995 she was chief archivist
for the Buckminster Fuller Archives, recently acquired by Stanford
University. Through Planetwork.org, Telascience.org and other non
profit organizations and educational institutions, Ms. DeVarco leads
efforts to research, explore and develop new opportunities for
telecollaboration, visualization, education and environmental action
using advanced satellite and network technologies, visualization and
open source tools.
Paul Hansen
Paul Hansen has 20 years experience designing, optimizing, and testing
hardware and software systems. Mr. Hansen worked as a graphics
software engineer at Silicon Graphics for ten years, and wrote
microchip simulations for design verification. He simulated the raster
engine for the Elan/Extreme graphics system (RE4), and two chips for
the Impact graphics system, the texture engine (TE1) and texture ram
(TR1). The experience from these projects gave him an in-depth
understanding of computer graphics rendering and texture-mapping
processes, as well as a highly developed capacity for extreme
optimization. This, along with strong interests in geometry and
geography, was a basis for his later invention of the GeoMatrix digital
earth system and co-founding of GeoFusion, Inc.
Chuck Stein
Chuck Stein co-founded GeoFusion, Inc. in June, 2001 bringing
together his interests in environmental data management, data
visualization, and Internet technology. He received his Bachelors
of Science and Masters degree in Computer and Information Science from
the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1986 and 1989. From
1990 through 1989 he provided consulting services to the Naval Research
Laboratory (NRL), NOAA, and other environmental-based
organizations. At NRL he was the Architect, Technical Lead, and
Software Development Manager for DoD's Master Environmental Library
(MEL) project, an internet-based DoD environmental data discovery and
access system (mel.dmso.mil) providing seamless access to Army, Navy,
Air Force, and government data centers. At NRL he also
participated in the design, development, and worldwide installations of
the Naval Environmental Operational Nowcasting System (NEONS)
Environmental Data Management System.
Dr. Kirk Bergstrom
Dr. Kirk Bergstrom is founder and President of WorldLink Media. As a
media and software designer, he has developed and produced
award-winning television, interactive multimedia, Web sites, museum
exhibits, and educational curricula. Dr. Bergstrom served as senior
designer of the Interactive Earth CD-ROM and senior editor of the
companion curriculum guide for secondary science and geography. He also
acted as senior designer of Eye on Earth, an interactive multimedia
exhibition on satellite remote sensing and visualization for The Tech
Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. His work in interactive
media originated in 1982 with the critically acclaimed Los Angeles
TeleVote, one of the first large-scale experiments in teledemocracy. In
1985, he was invited by Walt Disney Imagineering to participate in
designing future interactive facilities and exhibits for the EPCOT
theme park in Florida. Kirk recently wrote and directed the PBS special
Power Shift, a half-hour program on energy and sustainability. He also
directed and produced Spaceship Earth: Our Global Environment, winner
of two national Emmy Awards. Currently, he is directing Interactive
Earth 2.0, an NSF-sponsored DVD-ROM, web site, and curriculum project.
Brewster Kahle (Internet
Archives)
Universal Access to
All Knowledge
The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our
grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive
collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to
students and scholars all over the world. The current challenge
is establishing the roles, rights, and responsibilities of our
libraries and archives in providing public access to this
information. With these roles defined, our institutions
will help fulfill this epic opportunity of our digital age.
Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Director and Co-founder of the
Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org),
has been working to provide
universal access to all human knowledge for more than fifteen years.
Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing transformational
technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989
Kahle invented the Internet’s first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area
Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering
electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995.
In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, the largest publicly
accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world. At the same
time, he co-founded Alexa Internet in April 1996, which was sold to
Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of
Web browsers.
Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with
Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, Kahle helped start
Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as
lead engineer for six years. He is profiled in Digerati: Encounters
with the Cyber Elite (HardWired, 1996). He was selected as a member of
the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996 and 1997, and Computer
Week 100 in 1995.
Deborah L. McGuinness
(Stanford)
Explaining Information: Increasing Reliability, Trust, and Reuse
As users (humans and agents) retrieve more information from varied sources, the issue of information quality increases in importance.
When should we decide to use (and reuse) information that is obtained from sources such as unknown web applications?
This talk will address the issue of explaining answers obtained from diverse sources such as the web. We will describe the explanation needs we have gathered from applications for information analysts reviewing large collections of data that range from unreliable text sources to verified reasoning systems.
We will also introduce Inference Web - an explanation infrastructure aimed to increase understanding and trust of answers by providing access to abstractions, explanations, and provenance of information.
 Deborah L.
McGuinness
Deborah McGuinness is the associate director and senior research
scientist of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.
She has been working in knowledge
representation and reasoning environments for ontology creation and
maintenance for over 20 years.
She has built and deployed numerous ontology environments and ontology
applications, including some that have been in continuous use for over
a decade at AT&T and Lucent. She is the co-editor of the W3C
Recommendation Ontology Markup Language (OWL) and co-author of the
predecessor languages: the DARPA agent markup language (DAML+OIL), OIL,
and CLASSIC.
She leads the Stanford Explanation
and Ontology
Evolution Environment efforts. She has published over 100 papers
and has authored granted patents in knowledge based systems, ontology
environments, configuration,
and search technology.
Deborah's consulting business helps
companies plan, develop, deploy, and maintain
semantic web applications. Some areas of recent work include:
ontology environments, search, eCommerce, eHealth, configuration,
and supply chain management.
She is on the advisory board for Network Inference, Radar Software,
Sandpiper Software,
and Buildfolio, and recently advised Applied Semantics and Guru
Worldwide prior
to their acquisitions.
Deborah is program chair for the 2004
American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference
and she is on the steering board for
some other academic organizations including
the international organization
for description logics(DL), the Semantic Web Science Foundation,
Ontology.org, the international organization for
knowledge representation and reasoning(KR inc.), and
the international conference on conceptual structures(ICCS).
Deborah received her Bachelors degree in math and computer science from
Duke University, her Masters degree in computer
science from Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
Gordon Bell and Jim
Gemmell (Microsoft Research)
Personal Lifetime
Storage with MyLifeBits
MyLifeBits is a lifetime store of everything. It is the fulfillment of
Vannevar Bush's 1945 Memex vision including full-text search, text
& audio annotations, and hyperlinks. MyLifeBits is both an
experiment in lifetime storage and a software research effort.
As an experiment, Gordon Bell has captured a lifetime's worth of
articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures,
presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, and voice recordings
and stored them digitally. He is now paperless, and is beginning to
capture phone calls, IM transcripts, television, and radio.
In this talk, we will demonstrate the software we have developed for
MyLifeBits, which leverages SQL server to support: hyperlinks,
annotations, reports, saved queries, pivoting, clustering, and fast
search. MyLifeBits is designed to make annotation easy, including gang
annotation on right click, voice annotation, and web browser
integration. It includes tools to record web pages, IM transcripts,
radio and television. The MyLifeBits screensaver supports annotation
and rating. We are beginning to explore features such as document
similarity ranking and faceted classification. We have collaborated
with the WWMX team to get a mapped UI, and with the SenseCam team to
digest and display SenseCam output. www.mylifebits.com
Gordon Bell
Gordon Bell has been involved with building computer systems since
1959, since graduating from M.I.T. In 1960 he joined Digital Equipment
Corporation and was responsible for the first minis and timeshared
computers, including the VAX. In 1987 he established the computing
directorate at the National Science Foundation and lead the
cross-agency group and plan for the first Internet. He is a founder of
The Computer History Museum-Mountain View, CA, a Fellow of various
professional organizations and a Member of the National Academy of
Engineering. Awards include the 1991 National Medal of Technology, an
honorary doctorate in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
and the 2001 Eta Kappa Nu Karapetoff Award for lifetime
accomplishments. He has written several books about computer systems,
and High Tech Ventures(1991) based on his involvement with about 80
startup companies. Since joining Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center
as a Senior Researcher in 1995, his work includes scalable computing,
telepresence, and cyberizing everything in the MyLifeBits project.
 Jim
Gemmell
Jim Gemmell is a researcher in the Microsoft Research Media Presence
Group at the Bay Area Research Center (BARC) in San Francisco. His
research interests include personal media management, telepresence, and
reliable multicast. He received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University
and his M. Math from the University of Waterloo. He produced the
on-line version of the ACM 97 conference and is a co-author of the PGM
reliable multicast RFC. Dr. Gemmell serves on the editorial advisory
board of Computer Communications. He is very proud to be organizing the
First ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal
Experiences (CARPE2004) http://research.microsoft.com/CARPE2004/
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