Xerox researchers appear at several scientific conferences worldwide. Below is
a list of some past presentations.
2003 Conferences Archive
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January
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25th Annual McMaster World Congress
January 15, Hamilton, Ontario
Rafik Loutfy, VP, Xerox Research Centre of Canada, will give a talk on Competing through Knowledge.
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IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging
January 18 - 22, San Jose, CA
Charles Hains has been invited to give a keynote for the session on "The 30-year Evolution of Digital Halftoning from the Viewpoint of a Participant". His presentation will give a history of digital halftone technology development within Xerox with an emphasis on the evolution in complexity.
Helen Shin, Edul Dalal and Rene Rasmussen will present a paper describing the prediction of customer preference from analytical image quality attributes for monochrome products.
Zhigang Fan will give a talk on Information Embedding Using Two-Layer Conjugate Screening
John Andrews will summarize work on a number of microfluidic devices that Xerox has made over the years using laser micromachining.
John Handley will give three talks at this conference, topics include:
- Scanned color document image segmentation using the EM Algorithm
- Minimal-memory bit vector architecture for computational mathematical morphology.
- Experimental congruence of interval scale production from paired comparisons and ranking for image evaluation (work done in collaboration with RIT)
Gaurav Sharam and Shen-ge-Wang will discuss "Show-through Watermarking of Duplex Printed Documents" and addtionally, "Stochastic Screens Robust to Mis-registration in Multi-pass Printing"
Jeng-nan Shiau, in collaboration with David Metcalfe from Eastman Kodak, will discuss the modification of image rendering techniques using error diffusion or threshholding to take advantage of high addressability.
Jeng-nan Shiau will discuss work on a fast and accurate method for detecting angle and frequency of clustered halftone screen in a binary image using a XOR auto correlation function.
Raja Bala and Karen Braun will be discussing their paper on Color to Grayscale Conversion to Maintain Discriminability. In addition, Raja will also present on two-dimensional transforms for device color calibration
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Pira International Conference
January 20 - 21, Orlando, Florida
Chu-heng Liu with give an introduction of Glossmar technology to an audience in the security document industry. The basic Glossmark principles will be briefly explained and the presentation will focus on the security features of Glossmark images.
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Photonics West 2004
January 24 - 29, San Jose, CA
Kristine German will present work on a silicon on isulator (SOI) platform for integrating MEMS latching optical waveguide switches with planar light circuits (PLCs) including a working example prototypes of chip scale integration of R-OADMs and lamda-routers.
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SPIE Conference on Microfluidics, BioMems, and Medical Microsystems
January 24 - 29, San Jose, CA
John Andrews summarizes work on a number of microfluidic devices that Xerox has made using laser micromachining.
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February
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CEIS University Technology Showcase
February 4, Rochester, NY
LK Mestha will give a talk on Novel Technologies for Generating Inverse Color Maps for Digital Color Printers. The Center for Electronic Imaging Systems ()CEIS) holds an annual forum to showcase current industry-sponsored research projects. The CEIS supports research in the following thematic areas:
- Image processing algorithms
- Image Quality, color and vision
- Imaging circuits, devices and materials
- Imaging system analysis, design and performance
- Optoelectronic materials, devices and circuits
- Optoelectronic system analysis, design and performance
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2004 ASTD Techknowledge Meeting
February 7 - 11, Anaheim, California
ISSUE AREA FOR FORUM:
Session Abstract: At Xerox, traditional centralized classroom delivery has evolved to an exciting new approach to fit the current business needs.
Our blended learning model uses a learning network where business groups coordinate and execute their learning strategies through content reuse and leverage of scarce subject matter expert (SME) knowledge. To drive this model, the Xerox Engineering Center has created the Virtual Learning Event (VLE) concept to capitalize on SME knowledge, e-learning systems, and learner characteristics and preferences. The session will demonstrate the results and benefits of the VLE approach, as well as lessons learned and practical how-to tips. Presenters: Eduardo Bascaran;Ron Cowan
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12th Annual Laser Printing Conference
February 9 - 11, Scottsdale, Arizona
Xerox presenters at this conference include Santokh Badesha, Tony Federico and George Gibson. Badesha will cover Material Challenges in Component Designs for Marking Subsystems; Fedrico will cover High Speed Color EP Using Tone-on-Tone Technology; Gibson will focus on the role of Liquid Toner in EP printing.
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Information Management Institute - Toner and Imaging Chemicals Conference
February 11 - 13, Scottsdale, Arizona
Jim Mayo will present detals on how Solid Ink Printing works and some print characteristic data comparing it to xerography.
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Information Management Institute - Liquid Toner Conference
February 15 - 15, Scottsdale, Arizona
George Gibson and Jim Larson will give a technical paper on the Role of Liquid Toner in EP Printing.
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National Science Foundation
February 23 - 24, Arlington, Virginia
LK Mestha has been invited to serve on a Control Review Panel, as a reviewer from Industry, for the Dynamic Systems and Control Program. This panel reviews proposals on controls submitted to the Dynamic Systems and Control (DSC) program for NSF at the national level. The panel consists of leading researchers in Dynamics and Controls areas from MIT, University of Illinois, Duke University, Virgina Tech, Xerox Corporation, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Minnesota, Purdue University, UCLA and Ohio State University.
Proposals reviewed are in the area of control, diagnositcs and sensing of broad class of dynamical systems; thermal processes, transportation systems, flexible robotic structures, disk drives, ultrasound medical scanning devices, Human-Operated Physical systems, distributed MEMS actuators and sensors, vibrations in Magneto-Rheological Tuned Mass Dampers, health monitoring devices, smart sensors for structural and material damage identification, and earth quake engineering.
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March
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JADT 2004, 7èmes journées internationales analyse statistique des données textuelles
March 10 - 12, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Generative vs Discriminative approaches to entity extraction from label deficient data - Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Eric Gaussier, Hervé Déjean
Presentation by Cyril Goutte:
Annotating biomedical text for Named Entity Recognition (NER) is usually a tedious and expensive process, while unannotated data is freely available in large quantities. It therefore seems relevant to address biomedical NER using Machine Learning techniques that learn from a combination of labelled and unlabelled data. We consider two approaches: one is discriminative, using Support Vector Machines, the other generative, using mixture models. We compare the two on a biomedical NER task with various levels of annotation, and different similarity measures. We also investigate the use of Fisher kernels as
a way to leverage the strength of both approaches. Overall the discriminative approach using standard similarity measures seems to out-perform both the generative approach and the Fisher kernels.
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ACM 2004 Symposium on Applied Computing
March 14 - 17, Nicosia, Cyprus
Learning query languages of web interfaces
Andre Bergholz, Boris Chidlovskii
Boris Chidlovskii will present this paper which studies the problem of automatic acquisition of the query languages supported by a Web information resource. The system automatically probes the search interface of a resource with a set of test queries and analyses the returned pages to recognize supported query operators. The automatic acquisition assumes the availability of the number of matches the resource returns for a submitted query. The match numbers are used to train a learning system and to generate classification rules that recognize the query operators supported by a provider and their syntactic encodings. These classification rules are employed during the automatic probing of new providers to determine query operators they support. We report on the results of experiments with a set of real Web resources.
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IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
March 14 - 17, Orlando, Florida
Learning to detect user activity and availability from a variety of sensor data - Martin Muehlenbrock, Oliver Brdiczka, Dave Snowdon, Jean-Luc Meunier
On the basis of a networked infrastructure of easily available sensors and context-processing components, we are developing applications for the support of workplace interactions. Notions of activity and availability are learned from labeled sensor data by using a Bayesian approach. The higher-level information on the users that is then automatically derived from low-level sensor information is used to facilitate informal ad hoc communications between peers.
Peer to peer determination of proximity using wireless network data
Jean-Luc Meunier
Observing that some applications require device location information only for calculating relative distances to each other, we propose a proximity measurement algorithm based on wireless network signal strength that requires no calibration and operates in a peer-to-peer way with low overhead. In this paper, we describe this method and report its precision and recall.
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American Physical Society
March 22 - 26, Montreal, Quebec
Charles B. Duke will give a talk on "Getting Value from Researhc: From Research Knowledge to Profitable Products. This presentation deals with the motivation for firms performing research, the changing environment in which research s performed, how research topics are selected, and how value is extracted from research activities.
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IRI Six Sigma and DfSS in R&D Workshop
March 23 - 24, Corning, NY
Implementation of Lean Six Sigma in Xerox R&T
Greg Kovacs
Lean Six Sigma Deployment Manager,
Xerox Research and Technology
Xerox embarked on a Lean Six Sigma initiative in January 2003 and a common recipe for deployment was adopted across all operating units, including Xerox Research and Technology. The financial requirements for Black Belt certification in this recipe pose a major challenge for an R&T organization, since these organizations generally have no significant P&L responsibility. This presentation will describe the deployment strategy adopted by Xerox R&T in responding to this challenge. Development of this strategy started with benchmarking how other industrial companies implemented six sigma initiatives in R&T. The general types of projects being worked in Xerox R&T will be discussed along with the successes and challenges being faced in implementing the strategy. Finally the path forward in maintaining and extending the Lean Six Sigma initiative across the R&T community will be described.
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IBM Almaden Institute 2004 Annual Symposium
March 24 - 25, San Jose, CA
Graham Button, Director of research at the Xerox Research Centre Europe keynote speech on "Changing Ways of Working"
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WEST Showcase - Impact on Innovation through Intrapreneurship
March 27, Cambridge, MA
Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox Chief Engineer, will give the keynote address at this conference. The audience will mainly be women in science and engineering.
WEST has put together the largest event on its kind for women. This conference will provide a venue to explore the depth of the intrapreneurial spirit and share successful experiences from women in various industries.
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April
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2004 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
April 12 - 17, San Francisco, CA
Towards Printed Organic Electronics - Design of Enabling Materials for Low-cost Transistors
Beng Ong will discuss work in the area of design of enabling materials for low-cost transistors.
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IS&T Archiving Conference
April 18 - 21, San Antonio, Texas
Robert R. Buckley, General Chairperson
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TALN (Traduction Automatique du Langage Naturel) 2004
April 19 - 21, Fez, Morocco
Extraction d information en domaine restreint pour la génération multilingue de resumés ciblés
Caroline Brun, Caroline Hagège
Abstract: We will present an application of oriented multilingual summarization from domain specific texts. These summaries are oriented because the user has to define in a first step the kind of information he/she wants to be present in the final summary. In order to achieve this task, a first step of information extraction is performed.
This extracted information which corresponds to the user's specification is then the input of a multilingual generator that produces the desired summaries in three languages (English, French and Spanish) from an English input text.
NLP Applications based on weighted multi tape automata
Andre Kempe
Abstract: This article describes three practical applications of weighted multi tape automata (WMTAs) in Natural language processing, that demonstrate the augmented descriptive power of WMTAs compaired to weighted 1- and 2-tape automata. The three applications concern the preservation of intermediate results in transduction cascades, the work with mono and bi-lingual lexica, and the search of similar words in two languages. As a basis for these applications, the article proposes a number of operations on WMTAs. Among others, it (re)defines multi-tape intersections, where a number of tapes of one WMTA is intersected with the same number of tapes of another WMTA. In the proposed approach, multi-tape intersection does not appear
as an atomic operation but rather as a sequence of more elementary ones.
Une Grammaire XML
Claude Roux
Abstract: This article presents the embedding within a syntactic parser (Xerox Incremental Parser or XIP) of a specific document grammar which is used to link the grammatical analysis to the semantic of the XML mark up tags specific to a given document.
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Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
April 21, Brussels, Belgium
Speaker: Herve Gallaire
Topic: "A View from Industry" as part of the opening plenary session on Grand Challenges for Basic Research
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CHI 2004
April 24 - 29, Vienna, Austria
Broadcasting people availability on large screens
Antonietta Grasso, Frédéric Roulland
Abstract:
In this paper, we propose an application where semi-public work spaces are enriched with large screens broadcasting office activity including people's availability. After introducing the problem we want to solve and the related work, we present the model that we use to infer people availability and the system that we implemented. We finally describe how we integrated the information in this emerging type of interface.
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2004 AICHe Spring National Meeting
April 25 - 29, New Orleans, LA
Marko Saban, in conjunction with two University of Western Ontario researchers, will describe solubility studies and crystallization kinetics data on several model triarylamine molecules.
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May
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Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2004
May 2 - 5, Niagara Falls, Ontario
James Sweet will present a paper that covers a method of determining the extent of multi-page web documents via: the application of a two-phase iterative approach; the method to detect Intra-document links durng the 1st phase; and the method to detect inter-page similarity and document structure during he 2nd phase.
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CORM Annual Conference and Business Meeting
May 10 - 14, Gaithersburg, MD
Speaker: Karen Braun
Topic: Adjusting Skin Tones toward a Preferred Hue
An algorithm is described by which color space is squeezed toward the preferred hue for skin tones. This causes all colors in that region of color space (over some range of hues) to be closer to optimal skin tone color. The algorithm also works for other memory colors.
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The 8th European Conference on Computer Vision - Workshop on Statistical Learning for Computer Vision
May 11 - 14, Prague,
Visual categorization with bags of keypoints
Presenters: Gabriela Csurka, Cedric Bray, Chris Dance, Lixin Fan
Abstract: We will present a method for generic visual categorization. This technique exploits an analogy with learning methods for text categorization based on the simple bag of words approach. Two key novel aspects of this approach are that it handles multiple image categories simultaneously and that it is intrinsically invariant to affine image transformations. Results are presented for simultaneously classifying seven semantic visual categories using Naive Bayes techniques.
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CAMP (Center for Advanced Materials Processing) - 2004 Technical Meeting
May 12 - 14, Canandagua, NY
Speaker: Naveen Chopra will present work done in conjunction with University of Toronto entitled "A Novel Preparation of Thermally Stable Mesoporous Nanocrystalline TiO2 for Electrochromic Device Applications"
Speaker: Joe Swift will provide a printing industry overview of the emerging nanotechnology arena.
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IRI Annual Meeting
May 16 - 19, Marco Island, Florida
Speaker: Tom Kavassalis
Topic: Optimizing Value Extraction from R&D Investments at Xerox
About IRI: The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) is the foremost business
association of leaders in research and development (R&D) working together to enhance the effectiveness of technological innovation in industry.
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13th International Conference on Autonomic Computing
May 17 - 18, New York City, NY
Unlike the traditional provide-centric service model, the ubiquitous service model described is a context-adaptive and consumer-centric model. It also leads to an intelligent service provisioning process that adapts to the service consumer's context with efficient resource utilization. Work to be presented by Tong Sun, Shriram Revankar and John Walker.
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Business Process Management Summit
May 24 - 26, Las Vegas, Nevada
Speaker: Dan Holtshouse
Better BPM thru knowledge sharing:
There is a significant role for knowledge processes to play in understanding an organization's work culture and how technology can be used as a tool in enhancing business processes.The talk will highlight key issues on tactics used during the creation and implmentation of a global knowledge sharing system, challenges faced by software development engineers to share valuable code across different product lines, and the impact of using sense and respond systems to change the way customer feedback is generated and utilized. Each example will be discussed on the basis of actual experience with a customer or by ourselves internally.
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Future in Review - FiRE
May 25 - 26, San Diego, CA
Herve Gallaire will participate in two sessions at this conference. The May 25th session is called a "Hot Spots" roundtable panel, participants include:
Connie Wong, President, Hutchison Whampoa Americas Ltd.
Tim DiScipio, Chairman and Cofounder, ePALS Classroom Exchange
Hervé Gallaire, President and CTO, XIG, Xerox Corp.
Tom Standage, Science and Technology Correspondent, The Economist
Kosmo Kalliarekos, Senior Partner, The Parthenon Group
David Anderson, President and CEO, Sendmail Inc.
The focus for this session is on, ³what are the great opportunities in the next three-five years.
The second session on May 26th - "The Future of Computing": A Conversation with Ray Ozzie, CEO, Groove Networks; and Hervé Gallaire, President and CTO, XIG, Xerox Corp.; hosted by Mark Anderson
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Fourth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004
May 26 - 28, Lisbon, Spain
Morphological analysis and generation: a first step in natural language processing
Speaker: Ken Beesley
Abstract: Fourth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, May 26-28
Abstract: Computer programs that perform morphological analysis and generation are a useful bridge between language
resources, such as corpora, lexicons and printed grammars, and the overall field of natural language processing, which includes tokenization, spelling checking, spelling correction, non-trivial dictionary lookup, language teaching and comprehension assistance, part-of-speech disambiguation, syntactic parsing,
text-to-speech, speech recognition, and many other applications. This paper is an overview of morphological analysis/generation using finite-state techniques, listing available software, showing how existing language resources can be used in building and testing morphology systems, and explaining how root-guessing morphological analyzers can help expand those resources by actively suggesting new roots that need to
added to the lexicon.
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June
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WATA 2004 Weighted Automata: Theory and Applications
June 1 - 5, Dresden, Germany
Three new algorithms for WMTAs
Presenters: Andre Kempe, Florent Nicart, Franck Guingne
Abstract: This paper proposes the operations of auto-intersection and single-tape intersection for weighted multi-tape automata, and (re-)defines multi-tape intersection based on the former. Multi-tape automata are useful for NLP for they allow us to carry transduction cascades while preserving intermediate results. The paper proposes algorithms for both operations, and illustrates their interest through a practical example.
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2004 Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and Microsystems Workshop
June 6 - 10, Hilton Head, SC
Peter Gulvin & Joel Kubby will discuss what makes a good OADM and how their switch satisfies the requirements. Enhanced performance from smoother sidewalls and AR coatings. VOA integrated with the same technology. OADM parts can be made with NIST ATP prcoess to include light sources, electronicis and improve cost effectiveness.
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Toners and Photoreceptors 2004 Conference
June 6 - 9, Santa Barbara, CA
Jeffrey Sokol will give a high level description on the requirements and compromises needed to be addressed while designing a toner
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6th International Symposium on Functional Pi-Electron Systems
June 14 - 18, Ithaca, NY
Zoran Popovic and Hany Aziz will describe measurements of delayed electroluminescence when a device is turned off and reverse bias applied to the sample and evidence for triplet-triplet annihilation process presented.
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dSpace U.S. User Conference 2004
June 21 - 23, Plymouth, MI
Speaker: Martin Krucinski
Topic: A Common Simulink Architecture Supporting Host and Target Simulation, RCP and ACG tool-Chains
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Institute for Systems Research
June 22, University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland
Title: Control Advances in Production Printing and Publishing Systems
Speaker: Lalit K Mestha
Abstract: Many digital color printers are based on electro-photographic technology. In the electro-photographic process used for copying and printing, the image content controls the amount of light that selectively discharges a uniformly charged photoreceptor material with a laser or light emitting diodes. The electrostatic image is developed with a charged pigmented thermoplastic powder that is transferred and fused to paper under heat and pressure. Many have already been introduced to the market place and their quality and productivity issues are addressed using optical sensing and modern feedback controls. The integration of computing, imaging, marking and controls technology has created modern color printing & publishing systems, such as the iGen3. In this talk, I will introduce to the multidisciplinary technology from a control system perspective, and then describe the closed loop feedback control systems of key systems which enable the precision color controls and autonomy to digital printing systems.
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2004 American Control Conference
June 30 - July 2, Boston, MA
Eric Hamby will present a paper entitled A Control Oriented Survey of Xerographic Systems: Basic Concepts to New Frontiers. A survey of xerographic systems in a control oriented framework highlighting general system-theoretic areas to motivate digital printing as an important application area for the academic systems and control community.
Other contributors include: E. Gross, T. Thieret, LK Mestha, S. Rai, M. Krucinski
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July
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Brainstorm 2004
July 14 - 16, Aspen Meadows, Colorado
Herve Gallaire will participate in Brainstorm 2004. Developed by the editors of FORTUNE to gather some of the world's smartest, most influential people from a wide range of disciplines to think collaboratively about new ideas and proposals for helping the world and the world of business.
Topics to be covered include our complex global political environment; the laws regulating energy use, trade, and agriculture; what it takes to maintain robust economies with ample jobs; how to innovate in science, technology, and medicine; and the new challenges education must address. We bring together people with diverse opinions and backgrounds and the more we can work together on these issues across across public-private entities and across boundaries of discipline, political partisanship, and nationality, the better it will be for the world¹s future.
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42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2004
July 21 - 26, Barcelona, Spain
Eric Gaussier, Jean-Michel Renders, Irina Matveeva, Cyril Goutte, Hervé
Déjean A Geometric view on bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable
corpora
Abstract: We adopt in this study a geometric view on bilingual lexicon
extraction from comparable corpora. This view makes it possible to
re-interpret the methods proposed so far and identify unresolved
problems. We then motivate and formulate three new methods, partly
inspired by latent semantic analysis, that aim at solving these
problems. We finally evaluate these methods. showing their strengths and
weaknesses. Our final results show a significant gain in the accuracy of
extracted lexicons.
Aligning Words Using Matrix Factorisation
Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada, Eric Gaussier
Abstract:Aligning words from sentences which are mutual translations is
an important problem in different settings, such as bilingual
terminology extraction, Machine Translation, or projection of linguistic
features. Here, we view word alignment as matrix factorisation. In
order to produce proper alignments, we show that factors must satisfy a
number of constraints such as orthogonality. We then propose an
algorithm for orthogonal non-negative matrix factorisation, based on a
probabilistic model of the alignment data, and apply it to word
alignment. This is illustrated on a French-English alignment task from
the Hansard.
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Managing Product Development for Value
July 22 - 23, Cambridge, MA
CONFERENCE FOCUS
The unique course, Managing Product Development for Value is an integrated system of lecture and case based teamwork that will help you learn how to manage new product development to maximize value. This course is designed primarily for research and product development professionals who are trying to increase the value that their firms derive from new product development efforts. You will learn an integrated approach to product development that focuses the entire process around the identification and creation of customer value. Case study and team based exercises address corporate new product development environments and entrepreneurial opportunities as well as process and product improvements.
The course develops your fundamental skills for the entire chain of steps required for successful innovation. This full process focus will improve your ability to identify new product or service opportunities that will have the largest payoffs for your organization. The three questions on which the course focuses are:
How Will You Create Value?
How Will You Deliver That Value?
How Will You Capture That Value?
The course employs lecture and participative teamwork based on a new product development simulation. This case based learning method deepens your understanding of the techniques by providing an opportunity to use the techniques right away. Consolidating your learning in this manner also improves your ability to quickly begin applying the lessons when you return to your organization.
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August
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SPIE Conference on Organic Light Emitting Materials and Devices
August 2 - 6, Denver, Colorado
Hany Aziz and Zoran Popovic will publish and abstract for the conference program. This abstract, entitled "The Use of Mixes Layers to Achieve Enhanced Operational Stability and High Contrast in OLEDs", will highlight the technical advantage of Xerox OLED technologies.
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RIT's Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
August 13, Rochester, NY
Sophie Vandebroek invited by Al Simone (RIT) to be the Keynote Speaker on the topic of Xerox Innovation & Intrapreneurship
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ICPR 2004 Workshop Learning for Adaptable Visual Systems
August 22, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lixin Fan, Gabriela Csurka, Chris Dance will present Local feature-based image matching: robustness to intra class variation, affine transformation and background clutter.
We present a feature-based image matching algorithm which establishes correspondences between individual objects of the same class (e.g. face) in two images. The algorithm is robust to intra-class variation as well as significant scale and view angle change, and background clutter. Excellent matching results are obtained under these conditions.
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International Workshop in Association with COLING, 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
August 23 - 27, Geneva, Switzerland
NLP serving the cause of Language learning
Frederique Segond, Thibault Parmentier present eLearning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for eLearning
E-learning opens the way to a new type of courses that are student centered, granulized, on demand, and highly interactive. NLP associated to other multimedia technologies allow to answer to the major issues of these new courses: interaction, personalization and access to the adequate information. This article presents the integration of natural language processing tools in order to create a truly e-learning solution that insists on improving users performance in a foreign language.
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IFIP World Computer Congress
August 24, Toulouse, France
Keynote Speaker: Herve Gallaire
Innovation and Information Processing
Abstract
Technical progress in Information Processing has been extraordinary over the last 40 years. In this presentation we will briefly review some of the most significant improvements in both hardware and software, from micro-electronics to storage, from algorithms to databases. While scientific progress has been key to this progress, the next wave of innovation will come from two different directions.
First, a number of application domains are going to drive further innovation at a fast pace. The development of MEMS technology will enable inexpensive and miniature sensors and actuators of all types. These will create innovation opportunities in major industries, including bioengineering, health, device service, as well as in the home. To realize these opportunities we will face system and software challenges. Since most of our systems design knowledge has its roots in the mechanical systems world, the applications and evolution of MEMS technologies will force us to rethink systems design and new digital paradigms will take hold. The development of new web services standards is also making great headway. This will be further accelerated by the better integration of information streams, including structured and unstructured information. This integration is key to full automation of business processes. The enablers for this transformation are not only the web service standards, including XML, but also the natural language processing technologies that have become significantly mature. The presentation will review examples of these capabilities. There is no doubt that intelligent systems still need development to reach the next level of automation.
It is worth noting that a great deal of IT progress has been due to the creation of new knowledge in other sciences, like physics and chemistry, which drove advances in microelectronics, storage and communications. Therefore, the second driver for the next wave of innovation in IT will in fact also rely on scientific progress in other disciplines. In addition to continual improvements in the silicon based technology, today we are seeing the emergence of new semiconductor materials and processing methods based on organic and polymer technologies. These technologies will shape the future of display technologies, and also MEMS, thereby closing the loop to where we started from. A number of recent inventions will be described and ideas of innovative applications will be given.
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The 25th Annual Meeting and Conference of TeX Users Group
August 30 - September 3, Xanthi, Greece
Typesetting Deseret Alphabet with LATEX and METAPONT*
Presenter: Ken Beesley
Abstract: The Deseret Alphabet was an orthographical reform for English, promoted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons)between about 1854 and 1875. An offshoot of Pitman phonotypy, The Deseret Alphabet is remembered mainly for its use of non-Roman glyphs. Though ultimately rejected, the Deseret Alphabet was used in four printed books, several unprinted book manuscripts, newspaper articles, journals, meeting minutes, letters and even a gold coin, a tombstone and an early English to Hopi vocabulary.
This paper reviews the history of the Deseret Alphabet, its Unicode implementation, fonts both metal and digital, and current projects involving the typesetting of Deseret Alphabet texts.
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Automation and Robotic Research Institute (The University of Texas at Arlington)
August 30, Arlington, Texas
Speaker: LK Mestha
Title: Control Advances in Production Printing and Publishing Systems
Abstract: Many digital color printers are based on electro-photographic technology. In the electro-photographic process used for copying and printing, the image content controls the amount of light that selectively discharges a uniformly charged photoreceptor material with a laser or light emitting diodes. The electrostatic image is developed with a charged pigmented thermoplastic powder that is transferred and fused to paper under heat and pressure. Many have already been introduced to the market place and their quality and productivity issues are addressed using optical sensing and modern feedback controls. The integration of computing, imaging, marking and controls technology has created modern color printing & publishing systems, such as the iGen3. In this talk, I will introduce to the multidisciplinary technology from a control system perspective, and then describe the closed loop feedback control systems of key systems which enable the precision color controls and autonomy to digital printing systems.
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September
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20th International Conference on Logic Programming
September 7, Saint-Malo, France
Herve Gallaire - Dinner Keynote
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ISOP '04 - 4th International Symposium on Photochromism
September 12 - 15, Arcachon, France
Title: Spiropyran-Merocyanine Equiliblium in Presence of Organic Acids and Bases
Gabriel Iftime and Peter Kazmaier will present some of the fundamental collaborative work done by Queen's University and the Xerox Research Centre of Canada under a NSERC Strategic Grant. The results described in this poster presentation provide a detailed study of kinetcs of back isomerization of Merocyanine isomer back to the Spiropyran compound, in presences of acids and bases. The compounds investigated in this work include the well know spropyran materials commercially available, in addition to a few N-functionoalized spiropyran compounds synthesized at Queen's University.
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5th International Conference on Imaging Science and Hard Copy
September 15 - 19, Xi'an, China
Paul Julien will discuss Admix Compatibility in Carbon Black Leaded Toners -- When toners are made from carbon blacks of different surface functionality are admixed to one another, more electrically positive blacks fail to admix with more negative blacks. This is due to the failure of charge sharing.
Zhignang Fan, Color Correction in Multiple Generation Reproduction Using Digital Watermarks
Shen-ge Wang, Glossmark Technology: An Innovative Digital Watermark
Beilei Xu - Topic: Compensation for Illumination Variation and Geometric Distortion in Scanning Bound Books.
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Industrial Liason Program - MIT:
September 20, Boston, MA
Hervé Gallaire, Guest Speaker
Optimizing Value from Innovation
Abstract: This talk will describe the challenges and approaches to optimizing the value from research and technology activities at Xerox Corporation. Key amongst the challenges all R&T organizations face today is improving the return on R&T investment.
A brief overview of Xerox¹s innovation history will set the stage. The current R&T organization and its role in Xerox will be described.
A framework will be introduced that we use for optimization of value by balancing between investing to sustain the current core businesses, disrupting these businesses and creating new business spaces and markets for the future. The framework also recognizes opportunities to optimize value extraction using external commercialization and monetization paths.
Several current examples of Xerox innovation will illustrate the impact of technology relative to the framework.
This talk will finally reflect on challenges in the management of R&T. These challenges, driven by the marketplace, competition and the economic conditions of the company, drive us to continually seek new approaches to maximizing the impact and return on R&T.
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MIT Emerging Technologie Conference (ETC)
September 29, Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Sophie Vandebroek, VP Xerox Engineering Center, Chief Engineer, Xerox
Panel Discussion: Technology Job Drain?
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October
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Innovate 04 & Gitex 2004
October 3 - 7, Dubai, UAE
Middle East's premier IT & Communications event. Hadi Mahabadi, keynote speech on Innovation & office of the future. Link includes press coverage.
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American Association for Aerosol Research 2004 Annual Conference
October 4 - 8, Altanta, GA
Speaker: Fa-Gung Fan
Topic: Flow and Electric Fields in Corona Devices with Moving Boundary
Abstract: This presentaton describes the numberical solution technique and example results of the electrohydrodynamics (or corona wind) that occurs in generic DC corotron charging configurations
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ETRE 2004
October 12, Cannes, France
Herve Gallaire, Keynote Address
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EsTAL 2004 (ESPANA for NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING)
October 20 - 22, Alicante, Spain
Intertwining deep syntactic processing and named entity detection Caroline Brun, Caroline Hagége
Abstract:
We present a robust incremental architecture for natural language processing centered around syntactic analysis but allowing at the same time the description of specialized modules, like named entity recognition. We show that the flexibility of our approach allow us to intertwine general and specific processing, which has a mutual improvement effect on their respective results: for example, syntactic analysis clearly benefits from named entity recognition as a pre-processing step, but named entity recognition can also take advantage of deep syntactic information.
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EsTAL - ESPAÑA for NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
October 20 - 22, Alicante, Spain
Intertwining deep syntactic processing and named entity detection
Presenters: Caroline Brun, Caroline Hagège (XRCE)
Abstract: In this paper, we present a robust incremental architecture for natural language processing centred around syntactic analysis but allowing at the same time the description of specialized modules, like named entity recognition. We show that the flexibility of our approach allows us to intertwine general and specific processing, which has a mutual improvement effect on their respective results: for example, syntactic analysis clearly benefits from named entity recognition as a pre-processing step, but named entity recognition can also take advantage of deep syntactic information.
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Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music and Design
October 21 - 24, Washington, DC
Steve Harrington will present "On the Structure of Style Space for Documents". This paper describes the classification of style space into Literary, Informative, and Intent components and presents basis vectors for intent space. The paper also suggests application to changing media.
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ITEC (Information Tecnology Expo & Conferences) Fall 2004
October 21, Pittsburgh, PA
Keynote: Dr. Robert S. Bauer, VP and CTO, Xerox Global Services, Xerox Corporation
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25th Annual NorthEast Regional Print Management Conference
October 23, Chatham, MA
Speaker: Peter Crean
Topic: Digital is Here to Stay...Where will it take color?
Peter Crean will highlight the technical underpinnings of the rapid evolution digital color print systems over the past nine years since their introduction at Drupa, 1995. Following an overview of the evolution of the technology, Peter will then project these trends forward in time and explore the limits of the digital color. Several novel ideas specific to digital color printing technologies will be shared.
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Harvard Distinguished Lecture Series
October 25, Boston, MA
Sophie Vandebroek, lecture: Xerox Innovation & Intrapreneurship
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KM World & Intranets
October 26 - 28, Santa Clara, CA
Dan Holtshouse will present on "Tools and Tactics to improve the personal workspace".
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ACM Symposium of Document Engineering 2004
October 28 - 30, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Presenter, Steve Harrington, will present a paper on "Aesthetic measures for automated document layout". He will describe the methods used to quantify document layout aesthetics for automatic document layout.
Supervised learning for legacy document conversion
Presenters: Boris Chidlovskii, Jérôme Fuselier
Abstract: We consider the problem of document conversion from the rendering oriented HTML markup into a semantic-oriented XML annotation defined by user-specific DTDs or XML Schema descriptions. We represent both source and target documents as rooted ordered trees so the conversion can be achieved by applying a set of tree transformations. We apply the supervised learning framework to the conversion task according to which the tree transformation are learned from a set of training examples. We develop a two-step approach to the conversion problem, that first labels the leaves in the source trees and then recomposes the target trees from the leaf labels. We present two solutions based of the leaf classification with the target terminals and paths. Moreover, we develop three methods for the leaf classification. All methods and solutions have been tested on two real collections.
Marc Dymetman will present Chart-parsing techniques and the prediction of valid editing moves in structured document authoring.
We present an approach to controlled document authoring that significantly extends the functionality of existing methods by allowing bottom-up and top-down specifications to be freely mixed. A finite-state automaton is used to represent the partial, evolving, description of the document during authoring.
Using a generalization of chart-parsing techniques to FSAs rather than fixed input strings,we show how the authoring system is able to automatically detect the consequences of the choices already made by author so as to only propose for the next authoring steps choices which may probably lead to a globally valid document.
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DocEng, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
October 28 - 29, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Chart-parsing techniques and the prediction of valid editing moves in structured document authoring
Presenter: Marc Dymetman, XRCE
Abstract: We present an approach to controlled document authoring that significantly extends the functionality of existing methods by allowing bottom-up and top-down specifications to be freely mixed. A finite-state automaton is used to represent the partial, evolving, description of the document during authoring. Using a generalization of chart-parsing techniques to FSAs rather than fixed input strings, we show how the authoring system is able to automatically detect the consequences of the choices already made by the author so as to only propose for the next authoring steps choices which may probably lead to a globally valid document.
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IS&T NIP20
October 31 - November 5, Salt Lake City, Utah
Vlad Skorokhod will describe current-voltage experiments in pellets of generic toners with generic conductive additives were conducted under varying compating pressure to understand the mechanisms of electrical conduction. Theoretical models will be discussed to back up the experimental results.
Shu Chang will present on the topic of Coalescence on Solid Ink Drops and its Effect on Print Quality. This presentation discusses a known phenomenon, coalescence of the ink drops, in solid ink jet printing an dhow the coalescence affects the print quality.
Rick Veregin will present work authored by Maria McDougall, Mike Hawkins, Cuong Vong, Vlad Skorokhod from Xerox and Prof. H. Schreiber from the University of Montreal. The title of this talk: Surface Characterization of Xerographic Developers by Inverse Gas Chromatography: Influence of Surface Acid Base Properties on Workfunctions and Triboelectric Charging.. Inverse Gas Chromatography has been used to study the surface properties of model toner and carrier materials. Results have been shown to be consistent with a work function model, where the workfunction of developer materials depends on the free energy associated with both acidic and basic surface sites.
Howard Mizes will present "Empirical based printer model of hlaftone structure". This presentation describes a printer model which is designed to predict the detailed structure of halftone dots. The parameters of the model are determined from processing of high resolution camera measurements of prints. The model can be used to predict some aspects of image quality.
Maria McDougall has submitted a paper on the Effect of Metal Oxide Surface Additives on Xerographic Toner Powder Flow Cohesion and Cohesion Aging Stability. Metal oxides are used as a surface additive to improve toner flow by decreasing the toner to toner interactive and cohesive forces. Toner aging throughout mechanical stress can change the toner improved cohesion by impaction of the surface additivies into the toner surface. In this paper, several MeO2 freshly blended toners were selected and tested to show how its chemical composition and size can maintain toner low cohesion and provide aging stability.
Chu-heng Liu will present a paper entitled "Authenticate Your Digital Print with Glossmark Technology". Glossmark is a new Xerox invention. It is a digital watermark process that embeds a visible gloss image within a high quality color print without the need of a special paper or toner. Glossmark images are optical variable devices (OVD's) ideally suitable for document authentications.
Rick Lux and Huoy-Jen Yuh present a focal paper in the Production Digital Printing session - "Is Image-on-Image Color Printing a Priviledged Printing Architecture for Production Digital Printing?
Robert Nash will discuss Kokuten: High Visibility Black Xerographic Background. This is an experimental study on the effect of toner blending on over-sized xerographic background.
LK Mestha will discuss Control Advances in Production Printing and Publishing Systems. This talk describes the evolution of controls that has taken place in digital electrophotographic printers from an automated perspective developed to achieve improved performance, and then describe briefly the next gen controls.
Tutorial: Introduction to Organic Electronic Materials and Devices
Instructors: Tim Bender and Zoran Popovic, Xerox Research Center of Canada
The research, development and technological applications of organic electronic materials development is an area of intense current interest, which entails applications in many fields including displays, sensors, transistors, emissive devices and electronic circuitry. This tutorial will begin with a survey of these current areas of application, showing where organic materials may offer advantages over traditional inorganic materials. The key classes of organic materials involved: photoconductors, semiconductors, transport molecules (hole and electron), and conductors will then be discussed from the standpoint of molecular design, synthesis, purification and characterization. Finally an overview of the characterization methods of important electronic material parameters and evaluation methods of currently used devices will be given together with some device design principles. The main emphasis will be placed on small molecule systems although, where relevant, polymeric systems will also be discussed.
Speaker: Dan Hays
Publication title: Electrostatic and Particle Adhesion in Electrophotography
Overview: The tutorial provides a foundation for understanding various electrostatics phenomena exploited in electrophotography, with a more detailed discussion on charged particle adhesion modeling and measurements.
Speaker: Grazyna Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz
Publication Title: Tutorial on Chemically Prepared Toner (4 hours)
Overview: This course will discuss features of chemical toners and characterize various chemical methods of toner preparation. The technical advantages and disadvantages of chemical toners will be compared to the conventional tonere. Seminar will also cover market presence of chemical toners.
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32nd ACS North East Regional Meeting
October 31 - November 3, Rochester, NY
David Pan will present during the polymer session on "Materials in Electrophotography". He will describe a significant increase in elastic modulus of fluoroelastomers filled with a nano-sizeparticle having an average particle size of less than 100 nm, as compared to those filled with a micro-size particle.
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November
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Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society
November 3, Rochester, NY
Luncheon Keynote Speaker: John Laing, Senior Vice President, Xerox Supplies Delivery Unit
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Enterprise Engineering Seminar Series - Cornell University
November 4,
Speaker: Sophie Vandebroek, VP Xerox Engineering Center and Xerox Chief Engineer
Topic: Xerox Innovation & Intrapreneurship
Abstract: "Intrapreneurship" is defined as entrepreneurship within an existing organization. The successful intrapreneur recognizes an opportunity, takes initiative, overcomes obstacles and achieves results that benefit the organization. This is very important to Xerox¹s success.
Some of Xerox's inventors are also great intrapreneurs and their projects will delight our customers one day. An intrapreneur will need to overcome organizational fear and inertia; create pull; build a maverick team and deliver fast. Five intrapreneurial characteristics are essential to success: 1. Get Your Tickets Punched, 2. Relationships, Relationships, Relationships, 3. Be Roughly Right, 4. Don¹t Be Afraid, and 5. Have fun.
Regardless of your function launching breakthrough technologies & products; driving disruptive sales approaches; managing a novel service program; launching new marketing campaigns or developing alternative approaches to human resources or finances -- these five intrapreneurial characteristics are essential to success.
The speech will deep dive into these characteristic based on personal and Xerox Innovation examples, and allow the audience to interact and ask/respond to questions related to their own experiences.
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12th Color Imaging Conference
November 9 - 12, Scottsdale, AZ
Mathematical Discontinuities in CIEDE2000 Color Difference Computations
Edul Dalal will discuss work done in collaboration and Wencheng Wu on issues with the draft standard CIEDE2000 color difference formula. Here, the focus will be on mathematical discontinuities in the formula, and include a visualization, which was developed by the University of Rochester.
Speaker: Raja Bala and Reiner Eschbach
Topic: Color-to-grayscale transform preserving chrominance edge information.
A color image sent to a monochrome output device must undergo a color-to-grayscale transformation. Such a transform typically retains the luminance channel or a derivative thereof. A problem with this approach is that the distinction between two different colors of similar luminance is lost. This loss can be particularly objectionable if the two colors are spatially adjacent. The paper describes a color-to-grayscale transformation technique that locally preserves distinction between adjacent colors by introducing high-frequency chrominance information into the luminance channel. This is accomplished by applying a high-pass filter to the chrominance channels, weighting the output with a luminance-dependent term; and adding the result to the luminance channel. The outcome of this is that luminance variations in the image are enhanced only in those regions containing high-frequency chrominance information. Regions with smoothly varying chrominance undergo little enhancement, and in particular, grayscale images are passed through without alteration. The spatially adaptive nature of the algorithm readily distinguishes it from standard approaches that apply global or pixelwise transformations. Images show noticeable improvement in image quality compared to the standard approach. This is reflected in preference experiments, wherein the spatial approach is preferred on the vast majority of occasions.
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Are Outsourcing and Innovation Opposing Strategies?
November 15, North Carolina University
Joe Swift, from WCRT, will participate in a panel discussion at the Annual Graduate Symposium
Panel Description:
Outsourcing of business tasks and processes has grown rapidly in recent years, and shows no signs of weakening in the foreseeable future. Enabled by the global spread of information technologies and the widespread adoption of E-commerce practices, outsourcing is a global phenomenon. Based initially on the concept of value chain analysis, companies in the U.S. and Western Europe selectively outsource non-core tasks and business operations to both domestic and global suppliers. The economics of doing so are compelling. With labor cost savings of 5X to 10X in non-core operations such as payroll & accounting functions and call centers, and with no perceived threat to the firms core competencies that confer competitive advantage, firms of all sizes and industrial identities have saved millions by outsourcing.
Recent studies show an increasing trend toward outsourcing tasks & operations which cut closer & closer to these core competencies. Manufacturing operations, such as final assembly of electronic products, are among those that some firms have chosen to add to the list of globally outsourced operations. The question is, how far up thevalue chain will these outsourcing moves go before they begin to impinge on core competencies, particularly among firms that regard technological innovation as a source of competitive advantage? After putting years of intellectual and managerial energy into breaking down functional silo¹s that defeated or impeded their efforts to introduce and seamlessly integrate new technologies into product families, how can these firms outsource these tightly coupled operations to external suppliers without degrading their ability to innovate?
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RPI Distinguished Lecture series
November 17, Troy, NY
Sophie Vandebroek, lecture: Xerox Innovation & Intrapreneurship
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Fortune Innovation Forum
November 18, New York City, NY
This inaugural event will showcase the 50th anniversary of the Fortune 500. Jane Hollen, Senior Vice President and CIO, North America Information Management will participate inthe Fortune 500 CIO panel.
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RIT Master of Product Development Graduation
November 20, Rochester, NY
Sophie Vandebroek will give the keynote address at the graduation ceremonies for the class of 2004. Past Xerox keynotes have been given by Ursula Burns and Steve Bolte.
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December
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Columbia Business School Distinguished Lectures Series
December 2, Columbia University
Sophie Vandebroek invited by the Columbia Entrepreneurs Organization and the Columbia Women In Business Organization to speak on Intrapreneurship
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Red Herring Fall Conference
December 6 - 8,
Mark Bernstein will be giving a keynote address at the Red Herring Fall Conference, on PARC's approaches to innovation.
The conference is an invitation-only event for CEOs of private and public companies, senior management of public companies, and executives from the financial community and infrastructure companies. This year the dual theme is Top Ten Trends for 2005 and a celebration of Top 100 Innovators.
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IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2004
December 14 - 17, Paradise Island, Bahamas
LK Mestha will give to talk at this conference. The first will describe Control of Color Electrophotography: the impact of academic-industrial collaboration. His second talk will cover Dynamic Optimization Algorithm for Generatiang Inverse Printer Maps with Reduced Measurements.
Martin Krucinski will give an overview of joint Xerox Corporation/University of California, Berkeley research projects funded by the NSF GOALI program.
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