The Smart Internet Technology Research Group has a weekly meeting where informal presentation, progress reports and discussions are held. There are also some open seminars scheduled.
These presentations are usually on Wednesdays at 11.00am in G92, Madsen Building in the Adolph Basser Seminar Roon - G92. The presentations scheduled to be given in 2002 are listed below:
Short Bio:
Stephen E. Cross is the Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The SEI is a United States
Department of Defense sponsored Federally Funded Research and
Development Center (FFRDC) situated as a college level unit at Carnegie
Mellon University. He was appointed to this position on November 1,
1996. He also holds an appointment in Carnegie Mellon's School of
Computer Science as a Principal Research Scientist in the Robotics
Institute. Dr. Cross is a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory
Board and is the past chairman of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) panel. He has
published more than 50 papers on technology transition and the
applications of advanced information processing technology. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, his M.S.E.E. from the Air
Force Institute of Technology, and his B.S.E.E. from the University of
Cincinnati. In addition, he is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force (USAF)
Test Pilot School (Flight Test Engineer Program), the Air War College,
and the National Defense University. In 2002, Dr. Cross was selected as
a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
and a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Cincinnati College of
Engineering.
The slides for the presentation can be found here.
For more inforamtion on the content of this presentation, please follow the following link:
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~edo/
Bjorn's web site can be found at:
http://www.landfeldt.com
Our perspective on KM is human-centered - focusing not on knowledge as information stored in repositories, but rather on a continual process in which knowledge is created as a by-product of work, integrated in an open and evolving repository, and then disseminated to others in the organization when it is relevant to their work. Our work is grounded in supporting creative design in different domains. Creative design, leading to large-scale design projects of long duration involving many stakeholders is one of the most challenging and most interesting domains for knowledge management.
The fundamental assumptions of our approach are:
In this talk I will review the problems and promises of knowledge management from this perspective, and illustrate how our work is creating conceptual frameworks and prototype systems in support of knowledge creation, integration, and dissemination.
Short Bio:
Gerhard Fischer (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/) is a professor of Computer Science, a fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the director of the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Current research interests include new media supporting lifelong learning, human-human and human-computer collaboration, (software) design, domain-oriented design environments and universal design (assistive technologies). More information about the (L3D) center can be found at:http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/
Short Bio:
Rafael Calvo is a Lecturer and course developer in E-commerce at the
University of Sydney - Sccool of Electrical and Information Engineering.
He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence applied to automatic document
classification (e.g. web site classification). He has taught at several
Universities, high schools and professional training institutions. He
has worked at Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and Universidad Nacional de
Rosario (Argentina), and as an Internet consultant for projects in
Australia, Brasil,USA and Argentina. Rafael is author of a book and
several publications in the field.
Those analyses typically involve a wide range of activities such as statistical, computational and visual analysis. These activities are often carried out in the separate software tools or packages, and they are bounded by the intermediate results each software produces. The fundamental goal of this work is to provide an environment that integrates those software tools and packages in order to better integrate human-based and computationally-based expertise, and so ultimately improve scientific outcomes. The project addresses this challenging issue by providing the visual programming environment built on the basis of Component-Oriented Software Engineering.
The primary goal in 2002, as proposed in the Department of Education Science and Training (DEST) funding contract for the IMS Australia - Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services (COLIS) - Testbed, was to develop a distributed systems framework for online learning and information services which would demonstrate the following:
The interaction between the partners in the COLIS project has been a learning experience in its own right. Understanding the implications of interoperability in the learning/information space is still in its embryonic stages, particularly with reference to the management, delivery and use of learning objects. This workshop will explore the issues arising from the COLIS project, and the prospects for future development.
The slides for this presentation can be found here.
Title: Web Services, we've come a long way in a short time
Short Bio:
Previously Kelvin was heavily involved in the prototyping and development
of several projects based on Java (tm) Technology and more recently XML
based technologies. Kelvin has also been heavily involved in the
definition of internet standards and was the IBM representative to
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0
working group, which defined the industry standard XML grammar for
transmitting graphical documents over the internet. In the last three
years Kelvin has worked extensively with XML and Java and other emerging
technologies and has spent a lot of time teaching and lecturing on topics
such as XML, Java programming computer graphics, user interfaces and
e-business.
Kelvin has been very active in the XML community and he chaired the XML
One conferences in London in 2000 and 2001 Kelvin's background and
prior work focus is in the area of computer operating systems with a
particular focus on graphical user interfaces and computer graphics
subsystems. Kelvin has written numerous articles on a variety of
related topics and has presented programming lectures all over the world
and is currently coauthoring a book on SVG to be published later this year by
Manning Publications.
Kelvin has filed in excess of 75 patents in areas such as computer
operating systems, mobile devices, and human computer interfaces that
have been filed in the United States and elsewhere. Kelvin has also been
recently recognized as an IBM Master Inventor.
Kelvin has been with IBM in a variety of differing roles since
1986. He was born, raised and educated in England. He joined IBM UK in
1986 working at the Hursley Laboratory. He transferred full time to the
United States in 1990. Kelvin holds an Honours degree in Computer Science
from Brighton University in England.
The goal of my research is to create a reusable toolset for TC in the
form of a software framework, drawing on the most applicable TC methods
from published research and demonstrating their applicability in
real-world applications. The framework is being implemented as an
object-oriented hierarchy in Perl, which allows for extremely rapid
application development or integration with existing applications.
The seminar will consist of an introduction to the field of TC, a
discussion of the design of the framework, and example applications.
The slides for this presentation are available at:
This talk describes a study we conducted to help
understand what is a natural interfaces for meeting organisation
and the implications for the design and implementation
of a smart meeting personal assistant.
Title: Applied Workflow Technology in the educational documents delivery to
reduce information overload
Algorithms for the visualization of abstract relational information, which
tends to reveal that natural clusters in data tend not to scale well due to
the high computational cost of determining element placement. This talk
presents a series of efficient algorithms, for the two and three-dimensional
layout of large graphs with thousands of elements. These algorithms are based
on a hierarchical clustering of the nodes, codified in a graph model. This
model is inspired by space decomposition approaches from N-body particle
physics and plasma flow modelling. Within this talk Dr. Quigley will outline
the results of two case studies, which demonstrate the models, measures and
methods of the FADE paradigm. The large data sets used in these case studies
are from the Matrix Market at NIST and resource flow graphs from the Bauhaus
Project produced by partial RIGI analysis.
Short Bio:
Dr. Quigley, a native of Dublin Ireland, completed his Ph.D. in 2001 in
Computer Science while on faculty as an Associate Lecturer in the University
of Newcastle, Australia. He received his B.A. (mod) and subsequent M.A. in
Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 1995. He recently spent time
working as a Postdoctoral Visiting Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research
Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge Massachusetts. Dr. Quigley has previously
spent time working in Ireland, Japan, Germany, and the USA and is the
recipient of an Institute of Engineers Australia Excellence in Engineering
Award for the University of Newcastle.
His current web page resides at http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/~aquigley
We will present our system designed to help the teachers discover problems
their students are having as well as to gain insight into their
developing understanding of their course. The work exploits ontologies
to capture the content of student's informal messages between
themselves in forums such as message boards.
After a brief overview of the system, we will present our work and
explain advantages and possible enhancements.
Keywords: Semantic Web, Ontology, RDF(S).
Title: Verified Concept Mapping for Eliciting Conceptual Understanding
Concept mapping is a valuable technique for education evaluation. This
paper describes a system which supports teachers in creating concept
mapping tasks which are intended to capture the student's understanding of
the ontology of a small domain. A novel feature of our work is that the
system verifies that the student intended the map elements that will be
used to infer student understanding and misconceptions.
The presentation will also include a demo of the program.
Title: An Investigation into Intelligent E-mail Filtering Agents
We now live in the Internet age where information, services and even intellectual properties (software, books, music, video, photographic images
and more) are delivered digitally. The use of the Internet is likely to grow, especially with the growth broadband, 3rd Generation (3G) mobile
devices and powerful Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). With the growth of the Internet, a special problem arises. Digital information is merely bits
and bytes that can be duplicated flawlessly and easily. As such, it is very difficult for authors to protect their intellectual properties from piracy.
Without the ability to protect their digital property rights, there are no incentives for authors to produce intellectual properties. That in turn
would be detrimental to society in the long run. Therefore, the solution to this problem is Digital Rights Management (DRM).
This project will investigate the issues confronting the consumers and owners of intellectual properties that use DRM. It will also look into which
aspects of DRM that have the most relevance to computer security. Investigation will be carried out to find out to what degree are some of the
above-mentioned aspects of DRM possible, comprehensive or desirable. Also, it will investigate and evaluate possible and existing techniques that can
be used for some of the above-mentioned aspects of DRM. Finally, a very simple DRM system will be implemented to illustrate the concepts and ideas
presented in this project.
Title: Peer-to-peer wireless ad-hoc networks
Keywords : Semantic Web, Metadata, Resource Description Framework, ontology.
Title: A tool for teacher's feedback
Keywords : Semantic Web, Metadata, Resource Description Framework, ontology.
Title: Email as conversations
The Science Lectureships
webforce
project began in 2000 and is a three year
collaboration between Monash, Queensland and Sydney Universities. Its
goal is to develop teaching resources for the internet programmers. It
funds the work of Tony Greening, Joe Thurbon and 51% of Kapila
Wimalaratne. The speaker is John Bell, who is overall manager of the
project and is located at Monash University. He has supervised the
development of a repository which will support teachers in browsing and
searching the resources developed in the programme.
Title:Peer Review
This talk will introduce the PEER REVIEW system. As a starting point,
critical movie reviews will be analysed for information which can be
used to develop a user model of the reviewer and their beliefs about
the movie. The analysis will initially involve a manual study of the
text and, with the aid of an interface that will be designed and
implemented, collation of the user modelling information based on the
views contained within it. This will then be coupled with conventional
(bland) metadata about the movie. The resulting heightened
(Judgemental) metadata created will then form the basis of a scrutable
recommender which will potentially perform better than those which use
only bland metadata. This theory will be experimentally tested and the
system then extended to other areas such as teaching resources and peer
reviews of journal papers.
Title: Generic machine learning framework
Traditionally, when a machine learning algorithm is employed, it is
designed and implemented to serve a specific task. Though these
algorithms may be employed for a myriad of problems, they are often
re-implemented to solve the problem at hand. The general consensus is
that every problem is slightly different and therefore requires a
slightly different implementation to achieve better performance. Though
several tools have been developed to facilitate machine learning (such
as C5, C4.5, ID3, Matlab's Neural Network Toolkit, etc), the amount of
work that is typically duplicated to employ machine learning is
significant.
This talk provides an overview to the conceptualization of a generic
machine learning framework and attempts to identify the challenges
involved in its construction.
Title: Concept mapping for building conceptual user models
Since its development by Prof. Joseph Novak at Cornell University in
the 1960s, Concept Mapping has been used for several purposes such as
generation of ideas or design of complex structure. Another very
interesting use is to represent the knowledge of someone in a specific
domain (precise or not) with the aim to assess understanding and
diagnose misunderstanding. This could be a new tool supporting the
teacher-student relationship: the teacher builds the entire concept map
of his domain and submits only a part (which can be nil) of it to the
student who tries to complete the graph with his knowledge. The
comparison of the two graphs will provide the understandings and also
the misunderstandings of the student. In addition to concept mapping,
I will present the program I am writing which allows the teacher to draw
a graph and put rules on relations and student to assess their
knowledge.
In the last couple of years, the area of flexible learning has become
increasingly popular. However, the confusion remains about what all
these
terms such as flexible learning, flexible delivery, on-line delivery,
e-learning etc. really mean and if and how they differ. As a starting
point, this presentation adopts the following definition: "Flexible
teaching and learning is that mixture of educational philosophy,
pedagogical strategies, delivery modalities and administrative
structures
which allows maximum choice for differences in student learning needs,
styles and circumstances" (Lundin, 1997).
For many educators, flexible learning is seen as a direct consequence of
the ways that information technologies are changing education.
Unfortunately, that usually results in technology centered educational
model where too much emphasis is placed on technology and delivery of
instructions and content rather than on the learning process. At the
same
time, educational technologies are still lingering behind current
developments in IT industry. They are still task-oriented rather than
process-oriented.
Currently one of the most influential business information technologies
is
workflow technology. Workflows are process-oriented business information
systems that offer the right tasks at the right point of time to the
right
people along with the resources needed to perform these tasks.
In this presentation, the speaker will talk about her experience in
implementation of an innovative workflow-supported learning environment
and
share the lessons learnt both from technical and educational
perspectives.
About the speaker: Dr. Olivera Marjanovic is currently working as a
Senior
lecturer at the University of NSW within the School of Information
Systems,
Technology and Management. Olivera completed her PhD in Information
Systems
at the University of Queensland, Department of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering in the area of workflow technology. She also
completed a GradCert Education at the same university in the area of
flexible learning. Olivera has over 13 years of professional experience
in
the area of IT both in industry and at four universities. Her current
research interests include: workflow technology, advanced learning
technologies, e-services and knowledge management technologies.
Joseph Davis, Judy Kay, Kalina Yacef - Just-in-time workplace training
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Speaker: Kelvin Lawrence
In a few short years, a simple specification for the marking up data,
namely XML, has spawned a number of exciting new technologies. Perhaps
none more influential and with greater potential than Web Services. In his
talk today Kelvin will look at where we have come from and where we are
going with Web Services. Kelvin will discuss some of the current ongoing
work in the industry to address the two biggest hurdles to widespread
adoption of the technology. These are interoperability between
implementations and the provision of adequate security such that secure
web services transactions can be performed. He will also discuss a number
of recent developments in the Web Services standards area and talk about
his current work focus as part of the effort to make web services secure.
Based in Austin, Texas, Kelvin Lawrence is IBM's CTO of Dynamic e-business
Technologies. Kelvin is also an IBM Distinguished Engineer and a member of
the IBM Academy of Technology. He is currently focussed on the advancement
and deployment of Web Services technologies. One current focus is the
addition of security technologies to Web Services. Kelvin is the co-Chair
of a newly formed Web Services Security Technical Committee at
OASIS. Prior to this Kelvin was IBM's CTO for XML Technology. In that role
Kelvin was focussed on the development and deployment (in IBM products and
services offerings) of XML technology (including parsers, style sheet
engines and web services components).
Title: A Framework for Text Categorization
Speaker: Ken Williams
The field of Text Categorization (TC) emerged in the early '90s
as an active field of academic study motivated by strong application
needs. TC is a broad-based discipline, drawing inspiration from the
Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, and Linguistics communities. It
is seen as a key component of Knowledge Management in large businesses,
as well as a helpful tool for individuals and smaller organizations.
http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~kenw/
Title: Meeting Personal Assistants
Speaker: Sarah Kummerfeld
The organisation of meetings is a common task in the workplace.
Tools have been developed to assist with meeting scheduling.
However, these systems are quite inflexible, requiring
each user to keep an electronic diary that is compatible
with the system.
Speaker: Ken Lin
Workflow is a valuable technology. It is also a discipline, practice, and
concept. It can be used to re-engineer system processes and increase
efficiency. It can also provide Just-in-time resources delivery within an
organization. In the University, a new staff or research student will
receive hundred of pages documents within the first a few days. Most of the
documents, he or she actually don't need to know at the beginning. My
research will be applying the workflow technology in the educational
documents delivery to reduce this kind of information overload.
Title: Research Background and the FADE Paradigm
Speaker: Aaron Quigley
In this talk Dr. Quigley will give an overview of his teaching, academic, and
industrial research activities to date. He will also outline the plan for his
role as a Senior Research Fellow within the Smart Internet Technology Research
Group (SITRG). He will then describe one project in depth on his FADE paradigm
for large-scale relational information visualization, clustering, and
abstraction.
Dr. Aaron Quigley will soon join the School of Information Technologies at the
University of Sydney as a Senior Research Fellow in the SITRG. Dr. Quigley's
research and teaching interests span issues in software engineering, data
mining, web engineering, software visualisation, distributed systems, online
societies and adaptive interfaces. He has written several peer-reviewed papers
on his work, edited a book, and has a patent pending. Along giving many
invited talks on his research work he was recently a program committee member
for VisSoft02 and WGV02.
Title: Using RDF for Knowledge Representation in a Teaching Context
Speakers: Kevin Carillo and Antoine Girard
Only a few applications have been designed in order to help the
teachers to be aware of students' understanding and the problems they
have met related to a specific course.
Speaker: Laurent Cimolin
This presentation will be based on the paper sent for the WBES conference in New
Zealand.
Title: Content Selection in SITS
Speaker: Sam Holden
A look at the "instructional paths" generated via per-resource metadata
in SITS.
Title: Context Aware Framework Built Upon a Spread Toolkit
Speaker: Mark Assad
Context aware systems allow the computer to be more involved with
today's world. They will play a leading role in the development of
ubiquitous, handheld, and wearable computer applications. In order for
these systems to function, they must be able to commutation between each
other in a common way. To this end it must be simple for application
developers to construct compatible programs. The vast amount of context
must also be communicated in an efficient way. This thesis attempts to
describe a generic development framework for such context aware systems.
Speaker: James Clark
We are all aware of the growing tide of email messages arriving in our
mailboxes. The email that you are reading now will be one of several that you
may receive today, and one of the hundreds you might receive in a month.
Increasingly, email is used as a communication medium for all aspects of our
lives. The rate at which we are getting new mail will only increase.
With such a large amount of email messages, many people prefer to sort their
mail into categories, depending on the content. It is quite common for people
to divide their correspondence between work items and personal messages. Most
modern email client software allows the user to automate this process through
the use of filtering rules.
However, such rules can have holes. They cannot hope to predict the content of
all the messages that will be arriving in our inboxes. It is from this need
that current research seeks to create "Intelligent" email filtering agents;
advanced machine learning algorithms to classify emails automatically. It is
this area of research that I shall be summarising and presenting. From my
review, I will draw some conclusions about what steps the current research
could take in the future.
Title: Programmable Virtual Private Networking: Combining MPLS and Active Networks
Speaker: Adam Hudson
Virtual Private Networking is a valuable technique which allows for a network provider to partition their infrastructure into subnetworks, through
the use of various tunneling protocols and security procedures. One such tunneling protocol in use today is Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
While powerful and flexible, MPLS can be time consuming for subnetwork managers to configure, as they must ask the network provider to make any
changes for them. Active Networking can be harnessed to provide an environment for subnetwork managers to directly interface with node
switching hardware, thereby cutting these configuration times. This presentation will discuss how Active Networking can be combined with MPLS to
create programmable VPNs and look at some of the advantages that this can provide over conventional VPNs.
Title: Digital Rights Management
Speaker: Terence Kam
Title: Mining of Microarray Gene Expression Data
Speaker: Ehremin Avila
The advent of microarray technologies have allowed biologists to
detect and monitor simultaneously the activities of thousands of
genes. This produces large amounts of data that need to be analyzed
further and the challenge is how to interpret such massive and complex
data. The aim of this project is to develop data mining methods and
tools
for analysis, interpretation and visualization of microarray gene
expression data.
Speaker: Annie Ding
Napster and Gnutella are very popular applications in the internet
today.
It is the high demand for information sharing which is pushing the
development of Peer-to-Peer Network. Peer-to-Peer applications based on
mobile ad hoc network can potentially provide much flexibility in
network
organization and dynamic delivery of services. Much of the research on
peer-to-peer ad hoc networks concentrates on the architecture and
routing
optimization for these networks. The result will benefit the
performance of
the Wireless Peer-to-Peer network. This talk will survey the current
state-of-the-art in research in peer-to-peer wireless ad-hoc networks.
Title: Movie Recommender Systems Using Learning for Text Categorization
Speaker: Harry Mak
This is an honours thesis project examining the potential of using
reviews and summaries in text form to recommend movies to users. User
preferences indicated by rating movies are the basis for a system to
classify movies which the user has not seen. The implementation will
draw its sources from text categorization, information retrieval and
machine learning techniques and will use the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).
Speakers: Carillo Kevin and Antoine Girard
Web technologies provide a large range of tools and applications for
teaching. Most of them allow teacher-student or student-student
communication. However, only a few enable student-teacher exchanges
that can provide the teacher with valuable feedback from his students.
The Semantic Web allows the definition of precise knowledge
representations. With the aid of metadata, it can support the use of
relevant ontologies to create and update student profiles. The aim of
this project is to retrieve and update student profiles from student
inputs such as emails, newsgroups, chatrooms but also from quizes and
exercises in order to build student models which the teacher could
consult.
Speaker: Jyot Boparai
Email has become a widespread means of communication and a most popular
application of the Internet. The success of email has also encouraged
its use as a medium for conversation and task management. This means it
is being used for purposes beyond those it was intended for and this
exacerbates information overload through email. Current techniques
provide poor support for conversations conducted via email. This talk
provides an overview of a method for managing conversations and
explores its application to the a real world task of scheduling
meetings.
Title: Wireless networks simulator
Speaker: Derek Corbett
Wireless networks encompass a large field of communications
technologies and devices. This thesis involves simulating wireless
networks specifically using third generation technologies such as WCDMA
and cdma2000. By simulating wireless networks it is possible to trial
the effects of changing different parameters without the cost of
building the hardware and the network infrastructure to trial an idea.
The use of a simulation environment overcomes many of the limitations
found with analytical models. To this end a Java (OO) based simulation
environment which can be used to examine, validate, and predict the
performance of mobile wireless network systems will be built. By
modelling the various components and their integration, the simulation
environment will be able to accurately predict the performance
bottlenecks of a multimedia wireless network running over a third
generation network layer. To ensure the coherency of this environment
with theory the data obtained from simulations will be validated
against queuing theory which is the underlying mathematical model of
the system.
Title: Learning objects repository
Speaker: John Bell
Two talks this week giving an overview of student research projects
Speaker: Sacha Groves
Two talks this week giving an overview of student research projects
Speaker: Daren Ler
Speaker: Laurent Cimolino
Title: Workflow technology in education
CRC Practice Talks
Bob Kummerfeld - Distribution and Management of Context Information
(where this project has also been proposed by Chris Johnson and Rene
Hexel
Michael Dowman:
Cognitive Modelling of Colour Words: Language Acquisition and Language
Typology
This research has investigated whether Bayesian inference can provide a
plausible explanation of colour term acquisition and typology. Bayesian
inference is a statistical procedure which allows inferences to be made
on
the basis of observed data, and the Bayesian model of colour term
acquisition tries to determine the correct denotations of colour terms
from
examples of their use. This reflects the circumstances in which children
must learn the colour terms of their own languages. The categories
learned
in this way display the prototype categories characteristic of colour
terms,
with colours closest to the centre of the category having the greatest
degree of membership, while degree of membership decreases gradually
towards
the category boundaries. In order to investigate whether the model could
also account for the typological patterns evident in the distribution of
colour term systems throughout the world's languages, innate biases were
added to the acquisitional model. It was hypothesised that the
neurophysiologically determined innate red, yellow, green and blue foci
would be more salient than other colours, and hence that language
learners
would be more likely to remember examples of these colours than non
focal
colours when learning colour words. Multiple copies of the model were
then
created to simulate a community of people, and these people would then
take
it in turns to name colours with which they were presented. Each time
they
would use the term which they thought most likely to be the correct name
for
the colour, given whatever colour words they had learned up to that
point.
This provided examples of the use of particular colour terms from which
another person could learn, and this process was repeated over several
generations of learners. Under these conditions, languages quickly
emerge
which consist of small sets of colour terms which roughly partition the
colour space. Furthermore, the colour term systems reflect many of the
typological patterns reported in the cross-linguistic literature on
colour
terms. For example terms with prototypes at the innate foci typically
emerge
very quickly, and terms without an innate focus tend to appear only in
systems with larger numbers of colour terms. It is concluded that these
simulations provide evidence that people learn colour term denotations
using
Bayesian inference, and that patterns observed in colour term typology
may
be a result of the effect of innate learning biases on the cultural
evolution of languages.
David Everitt:
Wireless Networks
This talk will give a broad survey of wireless networks past, present and
future. The talk will be high-level, and will not assume any wireless
knowledge. The should be a few pretty powerpoint slides.
Judy Kay:
Trip report - IUI, UK, Sweden
I will summarise some of the papers at
Intelligent User Interfaces.
(The web site has the papers and presentations.)
This conference is highly relevant to the CRC.
There were several papers about novel, ubiquitous computing interfaces
as well as `natural' interfaces like sketching.
Then I will briefly report on my short time in the UK visiting
the group at Leeds and Susan Bull at Birmingham.
Finally, I will give highlights of my amazing time in Sweden where
I saw, at first hand, some wonderful approaches to PhD programmes
and connected with Nahid Shahmehri's wonderful group.
I will also briefly describe the aspects of Juha Takkinen's very
interesting work on supporting users in email management.
Talks from 2001
Talks from 2000