Hi MCN-ers:
I thought I would pass this information along, since I've told several
people about it recently. Stanford University's Center for the Study of
Language and Information sends out a weekly calender of lectures
relating to language, information, and technology. There's usually a
very wide range of topics presented in any given week, ranging from the
practical ("Managing Office Buildings in the 21st Century") to the
esoteric ("The Semantics-Pragmatics Interplay, and Its Cultural
Logic")*, but often there are lectures which relate to cultural heritage
issues or IT, such as a lecture on Friday the 2nd of February entitled,
"Sourcemix: An Environment for Collaborative Web Programming"**
If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area or are going to be visiting,
check it out. Most weeks there's not a whole lot for the cultural
heritage crowd, but that topic does seem to come up on a regular basis.
*dates/times below
**abstract below
Perian Sully
Collection Database and Records Administrator
Judah L. Magnes Museum
Berkeley, CA
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*THURSDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 2007
4:00pm PARC Forum [1-Feb-07]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Managing Office Buildings for the 21st Century"
George Denise
CFM, CPM, FMA, RPA, General Manager, Cushman & Wakefield
http://www.parc.com/forum/
WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2007
1:00pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [7-Feb-07]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"The Semantics-Pragmatics Interplay, and Its Cultural Logic"
N. J. Enfield
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
**SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Friday, 2 February 2007, 3:30pm
EK255, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"Sourcemix: An Environment for Collaborative Web Programming"
Joshua Levy
SRI
Popular use of the Web has evolved rapidly over the past two years, as
applications shift from the desktop to the Web, and as Web sites become
increasingly social and collaborative. This talk explores how these Web
2.0 trends might extend to the process of building software. I will
describe recent work on Sourcemix, a new JavaScript-based programming
environment for collaboratively building Web applications, services, and
mashups. The environment offers wiki-like code editing,
sandboxed script execution, shared storage for code and data, tools for
accessing and publishing Web content, and simple composition of
services. I will give an overview of the system and its underlying
technologies, demonstrate the Sourcemix portal and some applications
built in it, and discuss connections with current issues in Web
interoperability, semantic annotation, and programming languages.
