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Dom Massaro: Technology Assisted Reading Acquisition (TARA): Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally
Tue, Mar 26, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dom Massaro, University of California, Santa Cruz
Talk Title: Technology Assisted Reading Acquisition (TARA): Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally
Series: ICT Distinguished Lecture
Abstract: Society faces increasing challenges in the ability to support the infrastructure of a literate world. Virtual teachers, the internet, and the ceaseless access to information hold promise. To date, however, these potential solutions do not consider research in cognitive science and the potential of the learning brain. As background, the talk reviews our previous research, technology, and applications in speech perception and language learning using our computer-animated face, Baldi. Included is a project to enhance the ability of hearing-challenged and deaf persons to understand conversational speech in face-to-face spoken interactions. The talk offers the possibility of how universal literacy can be achieved with minimal cost, allowing a revolutionary new age that challenges the survival of our educational institutions and society as we know them. It questions the commonly held belief that written language requires formal instruction and schooling whereas spoken language is seamlessly acquired from birth onward by natural interactions with persons who talk. The objectives are to prototype physical systems that exploit developments in behavioral science and technology to a) automatically recognize speech, objects, and actions and b) to display corresponding written descriptions. The goal is to create an interactive system TARA to allow infants, toddlers, and preschool children to acquire literacy naturally.
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/people/dominic-massaro.html
Psyentific Mind
http://psyentificmind.com/
Biography: Dom Massaro is currently a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and has had an extended career of innovative language research with preschool and school children as well as adults. Dom has researched both reading and speech perception for four decades, and has advanced these fields empirically, theoretically, and technologically. He also has valuable experience of applying technology and behavioral science to real-world problems. He invented Kid Klok, an educational easy-to-read analog clock, available in both physical and software embodiments. Based on his scientific scholarship and his concomitant development of technology, he co-founded several companies which developed successful products for language learning for language-challenged children such as those with hearing loss and autism. Dom is currently president of Psyentific Mind, a company aimed at using technology and psychology to expand the reach of the human mind. His current focus is Technology Assisted Reading Acquisition (TARA).
Massaro (1989). Child's Easy-To-Read Timepiece. United Startes Patent Number 4,885,731. December 5,1989.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kid-klok/id461743662?mt=8
Massaro, D. W. (1998). Perceiving Talking Faces: From speech perception to a behavioral principle, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Massaro, D. W. (2011). Method And System For Acquisition Of Literacy. Patent Application Number 13/253,335, October 5, 2011. http://www.google.com/patents?id=AwAMAgAAEBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=13/253,335&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cz7fT4jEEqS42QXTwOmuDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA
Massaro, D. W. (2012). Acquiring Literacy Naturally: Behavioral science and technology could empower preschool children to learn to read naturally without instruction. American Scientist, 100, 324-333. http://mambo.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012-07MassaroFinal2.pdf
Massaro, D. W. (2012). Speech Perception and Reading: Two Parallel Modes of Understanding Language and Implications for Acquiring Literacy Naturally. American Journal Psychology, 125, 307-320.
Massaro, D. W. (2012). Method And System For Representing Capitalization Of Letters While Preserving Their Category Similarity To Lowercase Letters. Patent Application Number 13/669,522, November 6. 2012.
Host: Ari Shapiro
Location: Institute For Creative Technologies (ICT) - Theatre
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CS Colloquium: Prateek Mittal (UC Berkeley): Trustworthy Communications Using Network Science
Tue, Mar 26, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prateek Mittal, UC Berkeley
Talk Title: Trustworthy Communications Using Network Science
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Our online communications are plagued by increasing threats to security and privacy. Sophisticated surveillance technologies can compromise user privacy, and the insecurity of network protocols threatens the safety of our critical infrastructure. In this talk, I argue that network science can play an important role in cybersecurity by illustrating how understanding and manipulating structural properties of networks can inform the design of trustworthy communication systems.
First, I will discuss how network structure can be leveraged to detect and isolate malicious (Sybil) accounts in online social networks. The SybilInfer system that I developed uses this approach by exploiting differences in mixing properties between benign accounts and malicious accounts. SybilInfer demonstrates how graph theoretic machine learning techniques can be applied to security problems. Second, I will discuss how specially designed network structures can help protect users' privacy by enabling them to communicate anonymously. The ShadowWalker system that I developed for anonymous communication is built around a novel network topology, which is both fast mixing and inherently verifiable. This allows ShadowWalker to scale to millions of users while being resilient to attacks on user privacy. Finally, I will conclude by highlighting the potential of leveraging complex network structures in a broad range of security and privacy problems.
Biography: Prateek Mittal is a postdoctoral scholar in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on building secure and privacy-preserving systems, drawing on techniques from applied cryptography, distributed systems, large scale machine learning and network science. His work has influenced the design of widely-used systems such as the Tor network.
He received the M.E. Van Valkenburg graduate research award for outstanding doctoral research, the Rambus Computer Engineering fellowship, and the ACM CCS 2008 outstanding paper award. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Host: Ramesh Govindan
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
