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<div align="left"><big> Don't miss the following two lectures at
the School of Information tomorrow!<br>
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<div align="left"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20121106"><big><b>Designing
for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents</b></big></a><br>
With <b>Leila Takayama, Willow Garage</b><br>
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm<br>
202 South Hall<br>
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<i>This presentation is part of the Design Futures Lecture Series
presented by the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/">UC Berkeley Center for New
Media</a> and the School of Information.</i><br>
<p>We encounter and interact with robotic agents every day when
withdrawing cash from ATMs, driving cars with anti-lock brakes,
and tuning our thermostats. In the moment of those interactions,
we behave in ways that do not necessarily align with our belief
that these are just plain machines. Through a combination of
controlled experiments and field studies, this talk will examine
how people actually interact with (and through) robotic agents.
From these studies, we will draw out directions for explorations
into the largely uncharted design spaces of human-robot
interactions and robotic telepresence.</p>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20121106"><img src="cid:part5.04060708.01040609@ischool.berkeley.edu" alt="Leila Takayama" title="" align="left" height="191" border="0" width="140"></a>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.leilatakayama.org">Leila
Takayama</a> is a research scientist and manager at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.willowgarage.com">Willow
Garage</a> in the area of <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/research/human-robot-interaction">human-robot
interaction</a>. With a background in cognitive science,
psychology, and human-computer interaction, her current focus is
understanding human encounters with robots in terms of how they
perceive, understand, feel about, and interact with robots. Among
other things, she is working on teaching the robots some manners.
This year, she was named one of the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=1314">Tech
Review's 35 innovators under 35</a> as well as one of <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/most-creative-people/2012/leila-takayama">Fast
Company's 100 most creative people in business</a>.</p>
<p>Her research interests include embodied cognition and the social
and cognitive psychology of interacting with non-human agents. She
studies how people come to feel that their tools are
invisible-in-use (e.g., tele-operated robots) and potentially
change their perspectives on the world. She also studies how
people engage with non-human agents (e.g., autonomous robots).
Though her primary method of inquiry is controlled experiments,
she is constantly expanding her methodological toolkit by learning
and using field studies, surveys, interviews, archival studies,
etc., depending upon what is most effective for addressing the
research questions at hand.</p>
<p>Dr. Takayama completed her Ph.D. in the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://chime.stanford.edu/">Communication
between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) lab</a> at Stanford
University in 2008, advised by Professor Clifford Nass. She also
holds a Ph.D. minor in psychology from Stanford, an M.A. in
communication from Stanford, and B.A.s in psychology and cognitive
science from UC Berkeley (2003). During her graduate studies, she
was a research assistant in the User Interface Research (UIR)
group at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.parc.com">Palo
Alto Research Center (PARC)</a>. Her thesis, <i>Throwing
Voices: Investigating the Psychological Effects of the Spatial
Location of Projected Voices</i>, won the Nathan Maccoby
outstanding dissertation award. Before joining Willow Garage, she
was a research scientist at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://research.nokia.com/locations/paloalto">Nokia
Research Center</a>.</p>
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More information: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20121106">http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20121106</a><br>
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<div align="left"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20121106mikeolsoncloudera"><big><b>The
Future of Data: We Depend on You!</b></big></a><br>
With <b>Mike Olson, CEO, Cloudera</b><br>
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm<br>
210 South Hall<br>
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<p><strong>Sponsored by <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.sisense.com/">SiSense</a></strong></p>
<p>In this informal and interactive session, <strong>Mike Olson</strong>
will talk with Bruno Aziza, vice president of marketing at
SiSense, about the changes in the industry over the last quarter
century, including the advent of open source software, business
models that have evolved to commercialize it, the changing
ecosystem for starting and running a company in the Silicon
Valley, the confluence of cloud computing, mobile technology and
big data platforms, and the likely future of information
management for the industry and for society at large. Audience
members should bring questions!</p>
<p>Advance registration is required. <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.meetup.com/Future-BI/events/86707932/">Sign up
online.</a></p>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20121106mikeolsoncloudera"><img src="cid:part19.05090809.06070909@ischool.berkeley.edu" alt="Mike Olson" title="" align="left" height="194" border="0" width="140"></a>
<p><strong>Mike Olson</strong> has worked in the Bay Area technology
industry and in academia since 1986. Over that time, he has
contributed to open source software projects (the 4BSD Unix
distribution from Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group,
Postgres and Berkeley DB); built and sold commercial products for
vendors including Illustra, Informix, Sleepycat, and Oracle; and
worked as an early-stage employee at small startup companies and
at large, established vendors. Mike is currently the CEO of
Cloudera, the company he co-founded in 2008 with engineers from
Google, Facebook, and Yahoo!</p>
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More information: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20121106mikeolsoncloudera">http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20121106mikeolsoncloudera</a><br>
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<hr size="1" width="100%"><small> <b>More upcoming events at the I
School:</b><br>
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<span class="date-display-single">November 28, 2012</span> - "<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20121128polochau">Data
Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense of Large Graphs</a>", Dean's
Lecture with Polo Chau<span class="date-display-single"></span><br>
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<span class="date-display-single">December 4, 2012</span> - "<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20121204scottdooley">Lo-Fi
& Hi-Touch in the Age of Hi-Tech</a>", Design Futures
Lecture with Scott Doorley, Creative Director, Stanford d.school<span class="date-display-single"></span><br>
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