Event

ICSI Research Review

ICSI Research Staff

ICSI

Friday, October 16, 2009
1:55

Featured talks by ICSI research staff highlighting some of our latest results and new directions in computer science research. Talks will be given in the 6th floor lecture hall.

Agenda:

1:55	Introduction
	Prof. Nelson Morgan
	ICSI Executive Director
2:00	"The Hesperian Digital Commons: Toward Healthcare Information For All"
	Prof. Srini Narayanan
	Artificial Intelligence Group Leader
3:00	"Recent Advances in Visual Recognition"
	Prof. Trevor Darrell
	Vision Group Leader
4:00	Break
4:15	"The Future of Networking"
	Prof. Scott Shenker
	Networking Group Leader

Abstracts:

"The Hesperian Digital Commons: Toward Healthcare Information for All"

There are considerable inequalities in health, particularly between rich and poor. These inequalities stem from income disparities, and from a lack of access to health services, clean water, sanitation, and education. Hesperian Foundation (http://www.hesperian.org) is a publisher of books and educational materials that help people in developing regions take the lead in their own health care and organize to improve health conditions in their communities.
This talk will describe recent collaborative efforts with Hesperian Foundation to design and implement a Hesperian Digital Commons (HDC). The HDC uses web-based semantic information representation, management, and collaboration technologies and is an open source, searchable, multi-lingual, and multimedia (text, video, audio) digital health resource of Hesperian materials. Part of the development involves an iterative design and evaluation cycle based on field testing in multiple countries with Hesperian community health care partners.

"Recent Advances in Visual Recognition"

In this talk, Professor Trevor Darrell will review recent progress and future directions in computational visual recognition, specifically focusing on robotic recognition. He will contrast learning and sensing-centric paradigms, and describe key challenges for optimally exploiting both. The talk will cover specific recent results on multi-kernel learning with Gaussian Processes, multimodal disambiguation, and representations suitable for transparent objects.

"The Future of Networking"

What this talk is not about: Internet architecture, Internet protocols, Internet applications, or research (i.e., the usual things the speaker bloviates about). What this talk is about: four trends in commercial networking that will shape the hardware and software used to build future networks. These trends suggest that soon (perhaps five years) networks and the networking industry will look quite different than they do today, and we consider that good news for almost everyone.