Distinguished Lecture: Social structure, narrative and explanation

Invited Lecture: Narrative Summarization

The understanding and summarization of stories remains a challenge, in part because of the inability to adequately capture the ‘aboutness’ of information content. This can result in inappropriate content selection as well as summary incoherence. This talk sketches a general framework for narrative summarization that relies in part on explo itation of temporal information. I will show how this f...

Ieee Comsoc Distinguished Lecture Tour Report

``Small cell" is an umbrella term for low-power radio access nodes that operate in both licensed and unlicensed spectrum and have a range of 10 meter to several hundred meters. These contrast with a typical mobile macrocell, which might have a range of up to several kilometers or even higher. The term ``small cell" covers femtocells, picocells, microcells, and metrocells. The evolving heterogen...

The 2014 Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecture: the social contract of learning.

The shift to competency-based education expands the role of the teacher from that of a provider of information and into a shaper of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. These roles are facilitated by establishing a social contract between the instructor and learner, a contract that clearly defines the rights and duties of each. Adopting greater responsibility for the development of competencies in...

Narrative as a Form of Explanation

Many scholars have argued that history embodies a different form of explanation from natural science. This paper provides an analysis of narrative conceived as the form of explanation appropriate to history. In narratives, actions, beliefs, and proattitudes are joined to one another by means of conditional and volitional connections. Conditional connections exist when beliefs and pro-attitudes ...

Social Explanation and Popper