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Article #200CS Colloquium for Brian Dennis 4/17/03
From: Ruth Covington
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:02
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:02
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_009C_01C303EE.7ADD5050 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Computer Science ECOT 717 Engineering Center Campus Box 430 Boulder, Colorado 80309-0430 (303) 492-7514, FAX (303) 492-2844 CS COLLOQUIUM Building an Ubiquitous, Adaptive Newspaper Brian M. Dennis Northwestern University Thursday, 17 April 2003 3:30 - 4:30 PM Engineering Center Classroom 265 Refreshments will be served afterwards in ECOT 832 Current trends in wireless connectivity, handheld computing, and = computational power put "keeping informed" in a new light. Imagine the = entire editorial staff of The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal = devoted specifically to you. Further, imagine tapping that staff any = time, any place, for a custom edition adapted to temporal context, = physical context, and social context. Two principal challenges will be = addressed by this talk: giving a computational system editorial judgment = and sensing social context.=20 To address the first problem an evolutionary framework is used to = explore the vast space of potential editions will be presented. Physical = and social context guides survival in a competition to generate the most = fit custom "newspaper" for an individual. Regarding the second issue, = capturing social context can be difficult in an open environment. This = talk will also focus on a Web friendly infrastructure that makes = newsreading communities visible to computation. The infrastructure, = focusing on reading behavior, is straightforward to use, low cost to = join, and supports mechanisms for maintaining security and privacy. = Working prototype implementations of these ideas will be presented as = well.=20 Brian M. Dennis is jointly appointed at Northwestern University as an = Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of the McCormick = School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the New Media Program of = the Medill School of Journalism. As a graduate student in Computer = Science at UC Berkeley he caught the newsroom bug working on a = journalism minor and has been interested in the intersection of media = and technology ever since.=20 Host: Clarence (Skip) Ellis ------------------------------ http://www.cs.colorado.edu/department/events/colloquia/colloquia.html =20 Sign Language Interpreters Available Upon Request. Please contact Ruth = Covington, Department of=20 Computer Science, Engineering ECOT 717, 303-492-7514, at least five = days prior to the colloquium. ************************************* Ruth Covington Main Office Reception University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Computer Science Engineering Center ECOT 717 Phone: 303-492-7514 Fax: 303-492-2844 ************************************* ------=_NextPart_000_009C_01C303EE.7ADD5050 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000080 size=3D2> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000080 size=3D2> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>University of Colorado at Boulder</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Department of Computer Science</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>ECOT 717 Engineering Center</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Campus Box 430</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Boulder, Colorado 80309-0430</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>(303) 492-7514, FAX (303) 492-2844</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>CS COLLOQUIUM</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Building an Ubiquitous, Adaptive Newspaper</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Brian M. Dennis</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Northwestern University</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Thursday, 17 April 2003</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>3:30 - 4:30 PM</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Engineering Center Classroom 265</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Refreshments will be served afterwards in ECOT = 832</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>Current trends in wireless connectivity, handheld computing, = and=20 computational power put "keeping informed" in a new light. Imagine the = entire=20 editorial staff of The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal devoted = specifically to you. Further, imagine tapping that staff any time, any = place,=20 for a custom edition adapted to temporal context, physical context, and = social=20 context. Two principal challenges will be addressed by this talk: giving = a=20 computational system editorial judgment and sensing social context.=20 <?xml:namespace prefix =3D o ns =3D = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"=20 /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20 size=3D3>To address the first problem an evolutionary framework is used = to explore=20 the vast space of potential editions will be presented. Physical and = social=20 context guides survival in a competition to generate the most fit custom = "newspaper" for an individual. Regarding the second issue, capturing = social=20 context can be difficult in an open environment. This talk will also = focus on a=20 Web friendly infrastructure that makes newsreading communities visible = to=20 computation. The infrastructure, focusing on reading behavior, is=20 straightforward to use, low cost to join, and supports mechanisms for=20 maintaining security and privacy. Working prototype implementations of = these=20 ideas will be presented as well. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: = auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT=20 size=3D3><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Brian=20 M. Dennis is jointly appointed at </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix =3D st1 = ns =3D=20 "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = /><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Northwestern</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">=20 </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: = 12.0pt">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN=20 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">=20 as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of the = McCormick=20 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the New Media Program of = the=20 Medill School of Journalism. As a graduate student in Computer Science = at UC=20 Berkeley he caught the newsroom bug working on a journalism minor and = has been=20 interested in the intersection of media and technology ever since.=20 <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center"=20 align=3Dcenter><FONT face=3DTimes color=3D#000000 size=3D3>Host:<SPAN=20 style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Clarence (Skip) = Ellis</FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center"=20 align=3Dcenter><B style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT = face=3DTimes=20 color=3D#000000 size=3D3>------------------------------</FONT></B></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center"=20 align=3Dcenter><FONT face=3DTimes color=3D#000000=20 size=3D3>http://www.cs.colorado.edu/department/events/colloquia/colloquia= .html</FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal=20 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center"=20 align=3Dcenter><o:p><FONT face=3DTimes color=3D#000000 = size=3D3> </FONT></o:p></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: = normal"><FONT=20 face=3DTimes color=3D#000000 size=3D3>Sign Language Interpreters = Available Upon=20 Request.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please contact = Ruth=20 Covington, Department of </FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: = normal"><FONT=20 face=3DTimes color=3D#000000 size=3D3>Computer Science, Engineering<SPAN = style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ECOT 717, 303-492-7514, at = least five=20 days prior to the colloquium.</FONT></P></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000080 = size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000080 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000080 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000080=20 size=3D2> *************************************<BR>Ruth = Covington<BR>Main=20 Office Reception<BR>University of Colorado at Boulder<BR>Department of = Computer=20 Science<BR>Engineering Center ECOT 717<BR>Phone: 303-492-7514 Fax:=20 303-492-2844<BR>*************************************<BR></DIV></FONT></B= ODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_009C_01C303EE.7ADD5050-- _______________________________________________ cscolloq mailing list cscolloq@cs.colorado.edu http://www.cs.colorado.edu/mailman/listinfo/cscolloq
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