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C00003 00002	From: Tom Binford <binford@su-whitney.ARPA>
C00005 00003	  Barbara Grosz
C00010 00004	From: Ernst W. Mayr <MAYR@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
C00013 00005	Date: Fri 21 Feb 86 14:43:42-PST
C00014 00006	From: Carolyn Tajnai <TAJNAI@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
C00015 00007	AI "Gurus"
C00017 00008	Received: by su-whitney.arpa with Sendmail Tue, 9 Sep 86 15:44:35 pdt
C00021 00009	Please send in your nominations for speakers in the Computer Science
C00022 00010	Dear X:
C00023 00011	Subject: Stanford Computer Science Colloquium
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From: Tom Binford <binford@su-whitney.ARPA>
To: floyd@score
Subject: colloquium


Dear Bob:

Here is the edited version of the file.  At the end is
a letter which was sent to speakers.

Tom






Mary Shaw; CMU Software Technology Institute 412-268-7731
Nov 11 ok; will be in Los Angeles Nov 12, 13 (Wed and Thurs)
Reddy; can arrange for fall;
Eustace Mendis who is in charge of the computer exhibit at The Technology
	Center, Toronto Museum




  Barbara Grosz
! Dr. Saul Amarel; 202-694-5922; yes
*  Dr. Robert Noyce (Gibbons) 408-987-8080 No, too busy now
* Dr. Gordon Moore (Gibbons) 408-987-8167
  Dr. J.M. Brady; 011-44-865-62264; does not have a ready topic
* Dr. Raj Reddy; RR29@a.cs.cmu.edu; 412-268-2597; out of country until Apr 1;
* Prof Marvin Minsky
* Prof Alan Newell
* Prof Simon



		Graphics
  Lauren Carpenter; Pixel; 415-499-3600; no, too busy
! Alvie Ray Smith; Pixel; 415-499-3600; scheduled
* Dr. James Blinn; 818-577-9699; 9051; mechanical universe;  wait; possibly May
  contact again; very busy until Oct.
* Ken Perlin; 212-239-6767; Ara Greenberg Assoc; NY
! Carl Rosendahl; Pacific Data Images; 408-745-6755
* Al Barr; Caltech
* Jim Kajiya; Caltech
* Brian Barsky; UCB
* NASA Ames; flight simulators and supercomputers


		Geometric Modeling
* Greenberg, Cornell
* Wesley, IBM



* Ira Goldstein
* Mark Stefik
* Miro Benda, Boeing;
* de Kleer
* Byron Davies


* Bob Kahn;
* Larry Roberts

		Software Center-CMU
** software center-CMU
*  NFS-Sun Bill Keating

		AI
Mike Georgeff, SRI
Yoav Shoam; Yale; recent PhD
Kurt Konolige; resource-limited reasoning
John Laird - Xerox - SOAR architecture
Paul Rosenbloom  - SOAR architecture
Ramesh Patil - causal models of physiology; now VLSI
Yumi Iwasaki - working with Simon; formalization of causality


		Robotics
* ALV
* Steve Jacobsen
* Kanade
* Hopcroft
* Mumford
* Mundy
* Hinton - connectionism
* Scott Fahlman - connectionism


* Alan Kay
* Irene Greif-MIT-office automation



		Theory
! Steven Smael; linear programming; 415-642-4367; math Berkeley
* McGiddow; linear programming
* Umesh Vazirani (Andy Yao); statistical sampling and CS
* Dr. Joseph Goguen; SRI; assumes too much background


		Manufacturing
Dan DeBra


		Natural language
Barbara Grosz
Ray Perrault
Bob Berwick, MIT


		Hardware:  Parallel Computers; Commercial
Sequent
* Ousterhout; new design; Berkeley
* Kurzweil
* Xerox: Dragon, notebook
  Graham Nudd; no, returned to England

* Cal Quaite; ultradense memories; 
  is he a good speaker

Tilak Agerwala's group at Yorktown; 

Brent Hailpern		Smallworld
Tien Huyn		Architecture for Functional Programming
Ken Perry		Byzantine General's Problem
Harold Stone		Design of Cache Memory Systems
Jeanne Ferrante		Program Dependence Graphs
John Beetem		GF11 parallel processor
CN Liu			Advanced Image Presentation Techniques
Fran Allen		New directions in compilers/parallelism
Sanjaya Addanki		Paradigm for Problem Solving in AI









From: Ernst W. Mayr <MAYR@SU-SCORE.ARPA>


To: binford@SU-WHITNEY.ARPA

Tom,

As requested, here are some thoughts on the CS 500 process.

Once selection is made of the speakers for the quarter the following
steps should be taken:

1/ A list should be sent to Linda Zimmerman in TV for distribution to
   the TV students (including title and abstract for each).

2/ On Friday morning a memo should be given to Tina Contreras indicating
   speaker/title/abstract for the second week following (for example,
   on Feb. 14 she should have the speaker, etc. for the talk on Feb. 25)
   so that she can notify Campus Report and Stanford Daily. Based on this
   same memo she can add the talk to her colloquium message sent out weekly.

3/ Any handouts for the class should also be sent to Linda Zimmerman in TV
   for distribution to the TV students.

4/ For additional advertising, I sent out an electronic message to COLLOQ
   two weeks prior to the talk and one day prior to the talk with speaker/
   title/abstract.

5/ At 3:50 in the Lounge at MJH there is "cookie time" which is attended
   by the speaker -- for mingling with the students. This is arranged by
   the students.

6/ Notify Ben in TV of any equipment needs the speaker may have at least
   two days prior to the talk.

7/ TV has a "guideline" for guest speakers which should be sent to the
   speakers. (I'll put one in your mail slot.)

You might also want to check with Ernst Mayr for some input on this.
And if I think of anything else, I'll let you know.

-Anne
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Date: Fri 21 Feb 86 14:43:42-PST
From: Andrew Yao <YAO@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
Subject: colloquia

Tom, I heard that you will be coordinating the Department Colloquia for
the Spring.  I would like to recommend a speaker, Umesh Vazirani, for
giving a talk in the series, preferably early next quarter.  The talk
is about statistical sampling and computer science.  I can ask him to
give you a title and abstract, if you can accommodate him in your schedule.
Thanks.
-- Andy
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From: Carolyn Tajnai <TAJNAI@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
Subject: CS500 spring quarter


Tom, Dr. Byron Davies of Texas Instruments is a CIS Resident
Visitor; he has done a lot of research with the KSL.
I asked him if he would like to present a seminar
spring quarter and he said he would be happy to do so.

His subject is "Carel: A Visible Distributed Lisp"

Do you have an open date for spring quarter?

Carolyn
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AI "Gurus"

HP      Ira Goldstein runs AI lab
        Steve Rosenberg, Expert Systems

Sperry  a) Knowledge Systems Center
           Larry Walker  612/851-3100
            -The company-wide facilitator on AI.  About 50
             AI projects - don't know how many involve manufacturing.

        b) Research Lab for AI and Signal Processing
           Stu Brodsky

3M      Tim McCullough, CERC, Manager, Software R & D
         Bldg. 260-6A-08    612/733-9364

Boeing  Boeing Artifgicial Intelligence Center
        Miroslav Benda    206/763-5761

Douglas  C. W. Egberts    213/593-1184

FMC     Perry Thorndyke   AI Center Director
        Andy Chang        EECS Manager

GE      Ask Mel Simmons:  Bldg. Ka, Room 5C36
                          General Electric  
                          Schenectady, NY 12345
GM      Ruth Zarger  CAD/CAM    313/443-3152  (works with Teknowledge)

Lockheed 
       J.R. Zumsteg
       Advanced Softwrae Lab
      Lockheed Missiles and Space
       1801 Page MIll Road
       415/858-6718


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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 86 15:44:35 pdt
From: Premla Nangia <pam>
To: binford
Subject: Colloquium Letter

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Mr. Jim Blinn
Mail Station 510-110
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Dr
Pasadena, CA 91109

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@greeting(Dear Mr. Blinn:)

@begin(body)

The intent of the Colloquium series is to showcase technical 
lectures by distinguished speakers  for a high-level technical audience
of interested non-specialists. Speakers bring to the series their
own valuable scientific contributions: critical surveys of technical areas; 
new results and emerging concepts; intellectual issues for the future.
The goal is to communicate the technical issues and problems,
the scientific excitement, and the environment of computer science.

The Colloquium of the Stanford Computer Science Department is held
at 4:15 pm, Tuesday during sessions, holidays excepted. 
Students arrange a meeting at 3:50 pm for the speaker to mingle with students;
cookies and refreshments are provided.

The local audience includes graduate students from first year to
advanced, faculty, and research staff from nearby research institutes
and companies.  The Colloquium is televised to local industry where it
reaches an audience involved with Stanford educational programs.



A set of guidelines for speakers for tv presentation is included.
Title and abstract are required two weeks in advance for distribution.
The tv staff need two days notice in advance for equipment needs.

We request speakers to sign a release to permit coverage of
the colloquium by television over the tv network to companies
in the immediate area, and to other divisions of these companies 
by videotape outside the Bay Area. 





@end(body)
Sincerely,





Thomas O. Binford




Please send in your nominations for speakers in the Computer Science
Colloquium series to Prof. Robert Floyd (RWF@sail, 723-1565; 493-5195).

Dear X:

You have been suggested as a speaker in our departmental colloquium
series, Tuesday afternoons at 4:15 PM. If you would like to discuss
the possibility, please call me at (415) 723-1565 or (415) 493-5195,
or send me E-mail.

Robert W. Floyd
Professor
Subject: Stanford Computer Science Colloquium
	 Tuesday, October 14, 1986, 4:15 PM
	 Terman Auditorium



THE INFORMATION LENS:  
AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION SHARING AND COORDINATION

Prof. Thomas W. Malone
LCS
M.I.T.
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA  02139
						
This talk will describe an intelligent system that (1) helps people filter, 
sort, and prioritize electronic messages they receive, (2) helps them find 
useful messages or other documents they would not otherwise have seen, and 
(3) supports common actions they may take on receiving certain kinds of 
messages.  The system exploits concepts from artificial intelligence such as 
frames, production rules, and inheritance networks, but it avoids the unsolved
problems of natural language understanding by providing users with a rich set 
of semi-structured message templates.  

In addition to electronic mail, bulletin boards, and conferencing, this basic 
framework supports a surprising variety of other applications including 
information retrieval, calendar management, and task tracking.  The user 
interface for the system is based on a  consistent set of "direct manipulation"
editors that expose the underlying knowledge representations in a way that is 
simple for non-programmers to use and that can be incrementally adopted and 
enhanced by members of a group.



Subject: Stanford Computer Science Colloquium
	 Tuesday, October 21, 1986, 4:15 PM
	 Terman Auditorium


NANOCOMPUTERS AND MOLECULAR ENGINEERING


K. ERIC DREXLER, Visiting Scholar; Research Affiliate, MIT Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory; Author, "Engines of Creation."

ABSTRACT: The broad outlines of future technology will be set by the
limits of physical law, if we can develop means for approaching those
limits. Today, because we cannot directly manipulate the atomic building
blocks of matter, we can make no more than a tiny fraction of the
physical structures permitted by natural law. But advances in
biotechnology and computational chemistry are opening a path to the
development of molecular assemblers able to build objects to complex
atomic specifications, removing this constraint and making possible
dramatic advances in many fields.  Among these advances will be
nanocomputers with parts of molecular size.  Mechanical nanocomputers --
molecular Babbage machines -- are amenable to design and analysis
with available techniques: this technology promises sub-micron computers
with gigahertz clock rates, nanowatt power dissipation, and RAM storage
densities in the hundreds of millions of terabits per cubic centimeter.