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ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013
Sat, Jul 20, 2013
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: ,
Talk Title: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013 (co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH Conference)
Series: ACM Symposium
Abstract: The ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013 is the first international symposium focused on the user interface challenges that appear when users interact in the space where the flat, two-dimensional, digital world meets the volumetric, physical, three-dimensional (3D) space we live in. This considers both spatial input and 3D output, with an emphasis on the issues around interaction between humans and systems.
Due to the advances in 3D technologies, spatial interaction is now more relevant than ever. Powerful graphics engines and high-resolution screens are now ubiquitous in everyday devices, such as tablets and mobile phones. Moreover, new forms of input, such as multi-touch, finger and body tracking technologies are now easily available. In this environment, spatial UIs are transitioning out of the research community and game industry. More and more commercial 3D systems with spatial interaction capabilities exist, many priced at the consumer level. Until now, the challenges, limitations, and advantages of using this third dimension for human-computer interfaces have not been well understood.
These questions will only become more relevant as the associated technologies continue to cross the barrier towards wide adoption.
The two-day symposium will be held at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) in Los Angeles, CA, July 20th-21st, 2013 just prior to the ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 conference. SUI 2013 will provide a shuttle bus to SIGGRAPH 2013 on Sunday evening.
ACM SUI 2013 is co-sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Groups on Graphics and Computer-Human Interaction (SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI).
http://www.sui-symposium.org
Host: Evan Suma
More Info: http://www.sui-symposium.org
Location: Institute For Creative Technologies (ICT) -
Audiences: Registration Required
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
Event Link: http://www.sui-symposium.org
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ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013
Sun, Jul 21, 2013
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: ,
Talk Title: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013 (co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH Conference)
Series: ACM Symposium
Abstract: The ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013 is the first international symposium focused on the user interface challenges that appear when users interact in the space where the flat, two-dimensional, digital world meets the volumetric, physical, three-dimensional (3D) space we live in. This considers both spatial input and 3D output, with an emphasis on the issues around interaction between humans and systems.
Due to the advances in 3D technologies, spatial interaction is now more relevant than ever. Powerful graphics engines and high-resolution screens are now ubiquitous in everyday devices, such as tablets and mobile phones. Moreover, new forms of input, such as multi-touch, finger and body tracking technologies are now easily available. In this environment, spatial UIs are transitioning out of the research community and game industry. More and more commercial 3D systems with spatial interaction capabilities exist, many priced at the consumer level. Until now, the challenges, limitations, and advantages of using this third dimension for human-computer interfaces have not been well understood.
These questions will only become more relevant as the associated technologies continue to cross the barrier towards wide adoption.
The two-day symposium will be held at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) in Los Angeles, CA, July 20th-21st, 2013 just prior to the ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 conference. SUI 2013 will provide a shuttle bus to SIGGRAPH 2013 on Sunday evening.
ACM SUI 2013 is co-sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Groups on Graphics and Computer-Human Interaction (SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI).
http://www.sui-symposium.org
Host: Evan Suma
More Info: http://www.sui-symposium.org
Location: Institute For Creative Technologies (ICT) -
Audiences: Registration Required
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
Event Link: http://www.sui-symposium.org
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Neural Network ReNNaissance: Jürgen Schmidhuber (Swiss AI Lab IDSIA)
Tue, Jul 23, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jürgen Schmidhuber, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA
Talk Title: Neural Network ReNNaissance
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Our fast, deep / recurrent neural networks won eight recent international pattern recognition competitions, and are the first machine learning methods to achieve human-competitive or superhuman performance on well-known benchmarks. We also can evolve big NN controllers without any supervision, using "compressed" encodings of NN weight matrices represented indirectly as a set of Fourier-type coefficients. Recently, the largest, evolved, vision-based NN controller to date, with over 1 million weights, learned to drive a car around a track using raw video images from the driver's perspective in the TORCS driving game. We are starting to use such methods in active, unsupervised, curious, creative systems of a type we introduced in 1990. They learn to sequentially shift attention towards informative inputs, not only solving externally posed tasks, but also their own self-generated tasks designed to improve their understanding of the world according to our Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity, which requires two interacting modules: (1) an adaptive predictor or compressor or model of the growing data history as the agent is interacting with its environment, and (2) a reinforcement learner. The learning progress of (1) is the FUN or intrinsic reward of (2). That is, (2) is motivated to invent skills leading to interesting or surprising novel patterns that (1) does not yet know but can easily learn (until they become boring). We discuss how this simple principle explains science & art & music & humour. Time permitting, I'll also briefly discuss the recent theoretically optimal universal problem solvers pioneered in our lab, such as Gödel machines and the asymptotically fastest algorithm for all well-defined problems.
Biography: Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber is with the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA & USI & SUPSI (ex-TUM CogBotLab &CU). Since age 15 or so his main scientific ambition has been to build an optimal scientist, then retire. This is driving his research on self-improving Artificial Intelligence. His team won many international competitions and awards, and pioneered the field of mathematically rigorous universal AI and optimal universal problem solvers. He also generalized the many-worlds theory of physics to a theory of all constructively computable universes - an algorithmic theory of everything. His formal theory of creativity & curiosity & fun (1990-2010) explains art, science, music, and humor.
Host: Stefan Schaal
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 422
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CS Colloquium: Alexander Egyed: Consistency and the Impact of Changes during Model-Driven Engineering
Wed, Jul 31, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University (JKU)
Talk Title: Consistency and the Impact of Changes during Model-Driven Engineering
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: To be held in KAP 156.
Design models describe different viewpoints of a software system - separating functionality, from structure, behavior, or usage. While these models are meant to be separate in their description, they are nonetheless related by manifold dependencies. After all, they describe the same system. Yet, this network of dependencies is also the most significant obstacle to model-driven engineering. It is the root cause for failure to propagate changes correctly and completely. Although change propagation as a whole is a daunting challenge to tackle, this talk suggests an approach for addressing this problem in context of model-driven engineering where incorrect or incomplete changes are detectable in form of the inconsistencies they cause. Understanding the impact of a model change is thus analogous to the detection and repairing of inconsistencies introduced by these changes.
Biography: Prof. Dr. Alexander Egyed is a Professor at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Austria and Head of the Institute for Software Systems Engineering (SSE). He received his Doctorate degree from the University of Southern California, USA under the mentorship of Dr. Barry Boehm in 2000 and, before joining the JKU in 2008, he worked as a Research Scientist for Teknowledge Corporation, USA (2000-2007) and then as a Research Fellow at the University College London, UK (2007-2008). He is most recognized for his work on software and systems modeling - particularly on consistency (=i.e., correctness and completeness) and traceability of models (i.e., where is information coming from, where is it being used?). Dr. Egyedââ¬â¢s work has been supported by research grants from Austria, Canada, European Union, UK, and USA and his work has been published at over a hundred refereed scientific books, journals, conferences, and workshops, with over 3000 citations to date. He was recognized as the 10th best scholar in software engineering in Communications of the ACM, was named an IBM Research Faculty Fellow in recognition to his contributions to consistency checking, received a Recognition of Service Award from the ACM, a Best Paper Award from COMPSAC, and an Outstanding Achievement Award from the USC. He has given many invited talks including four keynotes, served on scientific panels and countless program committees, and has served as program (co-) chair, steering committee member, and editorial board member of SoSyM and other journals. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and ACM SIGSOFT.
Host: Neno Medvidovic
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
