Todd Davies  > Presentations

[updated March 26, 2013 - added more file links]

Upcoming Presentations:

    None currently scheduled

Past Presentations:

• "Zapatista Solidarity", Issues in Liberation: El Salvador (Religst 188A, Thomas Sheehan and Geoff Browning), Stanford University, March 7, 2013

• "Democracy and Labor and the Public" (Panelist with David Leadbeater), LaborTech 2012 [.pdf], University of San Francisco, December 1, 2012

• "An Internet Of, By, and For the People: Struggles and Successes in an Emerging Gobal Movement" (Panelist with Chris Witteman and Mazi Buko Jara), LaborTech 2012 [.pdf], University of San Francisco, December 1, 2012    slides [.pdf]    video
  

• "The Space of Conflict in Communicative Action: Implications for System Design" (plenary lecture), The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012), Westminster, Colorado, May 24, 2012    abstract
  

• "Document-Centered Discussion and Decision Making in the Deme Platform" (demo, joint work with Mike D. Mintz, Jimmy Tobin, and Noam Ben-Avi), The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012), Westminster, Colorado, May 23, 2012    extended abstract [.pdf]   slides [.pdf]
  

• Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium (Co-Chair with Shivakant Mishra), The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012), Westminster, Colorado, May 22, 2012    slides [.pdf]

• "Chiapas and the Zapatista Movement" (co-presented with Shara Esbenshade), Issues in Liberation: El Salvador (Religst 188A, Thomas Sheehan and Geoff Browning), Stanford University, February 23, 2012
  

• "Deme: A Django-Based CMS for Deliberative Content Creation and Control by Users" (with Noam Ben-Avi,  Jimmy Tobin, and Mike Mintz), Silicon Valley Code Camp 2011, Foothill College, October 8, 2011   slides   coding demo [.mov]
  

• "Let's Talk About 'Control by Users'" (Lightning Talk), DjangoCon 2011, Portland, OR, September 8, 2011   slides [.pdf]
  

• "From the Social Web to Public Deliberation: Design Considerations for the Deme Platform", Talks on Computing Systems (TOCS), Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley, June 21, 2011   slides [.pdf]   video
  

• "Intuitive Preference Aggregation: Testing Two Criteria in Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" (joint work with Raja Shah, Renee Trochet, and Katarina Ling), Symbolic Systems Research Seminar (Symsys 280), Stanford University, April 7, 2011   handout/slides [.pdf]

• "Control by Users: A Paradigm for the Social Web", Symbolic Systems Research Seminar (Symsys 280), Stanford University, January 20, 2011   slides [.pdf]
  

• "Labor and Representation at KPFA" (co-moderator with Dorothy Kidd; panelists: Dennis Bernstein, Sabrina Jacobs, Maria Gilardin, and Steve Zeltzer), LaborTech 2010, University of San Francisco, December 12, 2010   video
  

• "Solidarity, Labor, and the Web II" (moderator with panelists Steve Ongerth, Karina Reyes, Pedro Joel Espinosa (translator), Dave Mitchell, Shara Esbenshade, and Alice Sunshine), LaborTech 2010, University of San Francisco, December 12, 2010   video
  

• "Defending The Internet, Democracy and Communication Tools" (panelist with Dorothy Kidd, Chris Witteman, and Bruce Wolf), LaborTech 2010, University of San Francisco, December 11, 2010   slides [.pdf]  
  

• "Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Mysterious" (guest lecture and discussion), Introduction to Computing at Stanford (CS 1C, Ernst Fattakhov), Stanford, October 28, 2010   slides [.pdf]

• "Election Validity and Openness", 10th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2010   slides [.pdf]

• Introduction, "The View from the White House" (talk by Beth Noveck, with Stephen Coleman as discussant), 4th International Conference on Online Deliberation, Leeds, UK, July 2, 2010   audio
  

• "Why Online Deliberation?" (panelist with Ricardo Blaug, Stephen Coleman, and Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, chaired by Scott Wright), 4th International Conference on Online Deliberation, Leeds, UK, July 1, 2010   slides [.pdf]

• "Megaprojects and the Militarization of Mexico" (workshop with representatives from the Chiapas Support Committee, Beehive Collective, and Latin America Solidarity Coalition), US Social Forum, Detroit, June 24, 2010   slides
  

• Discussant, "Electronic Referrals in the Health Sector in Norway, Challenges on the Road from Standard to High Volume Use" (following presentation by Vigdis Heimly), Session 9C: Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium, The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010), Lombard, Illinois, May 19, 2010   slides [.pdf]   target paper [.pdf]

• "Relational Access Control With Bivalent Permissions in a Social Web/Collaboration Architecture" (with Mike D. Mintz), Session 1C: Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control, The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010), Lombard, Illinois, May 18, 2010   slides [.pdf]   paper
  

• "From Exclusion to Autonomy: The Struggles of Indigenous Peoples, Landless Workers, and Immigrant Farmers" (panelist with Jeff Frank, Charlotte Casey, Jose Plascencia, Deborah Yashar, and Brett Melone), event hosted by Farming & Eating for Equality and Diversity (FEED), Stanford, April 13, 2010
  

• "Deme - An Open Web CMS/Framework for Social, Semantic Data" (with Joseph Marrama), OpenWebCamp, Stanford, September 26, 2009   project   slides [.pdf]

• "Deme: Content Management for the Social Web" (with Mike Mintz and Joseph Marrama), OSCamp 2009, San Jose, California, July 22, 2009   slides [.pdf]   demo [.m4v]   project

• "Design Features for the Social Web: The Architecture of Deme" (with Mike D. Mintz), 8th International Workshop on Web-Oriented Software Technologies (IWWOST 2009), Donostia-San Sebastián, June 23, 2009   slides [.pdf]   demo [.m4v]   paper   project
  

• "Thoughts on Symbolic Systems and Practical Advice" (lecture and discussion), Sym Sys: Many Parts, Cohesive Whole (Symbolic Systems 2, Todd Davies, Evan Cox, and Graham Herrli), Stanford, June 2, 2009   slides [.pdf]

• "Formal and Empirical Arguments for Open Web Access to Voting Records" (joint work with Jeffrey Gerard, Reid Chandler, and Gordon Lyon), 2009 Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 7, 2009   abstract [.pdf]

• "Roots of Global Justice" (radio interview by Wes Brain), Brain Labor Report, KSKQ-lp 94.9 FM, Ashland, Oregon, January 7, 2009   audio [.mp3]
  

• "Internet Telephony, Cell Phones, and Open Source for Labor" (workshop with Eric Goldhagen), The Digital Revolution and Labor Media Strategy (LaborTech 2008), University of San Francisco, December 7, 2008   video [.flv]
  

• "When Do New Social Media and Political Activists Converge/Match?" (introductory remarks with Mayo Fuster Morell, Rob Miller, Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith), Networked Politics and Technology Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, December 6, 2008
  

• "Intuitive Preference Aggregation: Testing Two Criteria in Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" (joint work with Raja Shah, Renee Trochet, and Katarina Ling), Seminar on Logical Methods in the Humanities: The Logic and Mathematics of Voting Procedures (Eric Pacuit), Stanford University, December 5, 2008   handout/slides [.pdf]
  

• "Deme: Now A Modular CMS, Now in Django" (with Mike Mintz), Silicon Valley Codecamp_08, Foothill College, Los Altos, California, November 9, 2008   slides-Todd [.pdf]   slides-Mike [.pdf]

• "Web Access to Voting Records: Motivations and Issues" (joint work with Jeffrey Gerard, Reid Chandler, and Gordon Lyon), Symbolic Systems Forum (Symbsys 10, Todd Davies), Stanford University, October 30, 2008   slides [.pdf]
  

• "Zapatista Women Touch Our Hearts" (with Mary Ann Tenuto), Chico Peace and Justice Center, Chico, California, September 13, 2008

• "Tools and Participation: Tales from the Trenches", Tools for Participation: Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support (DIAC-2008/OD2008), University of California, Berkeley, June 28, 2008   slides [.pdf]
  

• Remarks, "Say No to Rumsfeld" Rally, White Plaza, Stanford, November 8, 2007   text [.pdf]   video excerpt
  

• "WebOS Platforms and GPLv3/Affero", OSCamp 2007, Portland, Oregon, July 26, 2007   slides [.pdf]
  

• "Behavioral Economics in Technology" (radio interview by David Levine), Hearsay Culture, KZSU 90.1 FM, Stanford, California, taped June 8 (aired July 18), 2007   audio [.mp3]
  

• "Civil Society and Regulation" (Grassroots Discussion Panel #4 with Danny O'Brien, Pete TriDish, and Malkia Cyril, chaired by Seeta Gangadharan), 2007 Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2007), San Francisco, May 27, 2007   summary [.pdf]   slides [.pdf]

• "Open Source Collaboration Apps in Rails" (Birds of a Feather session), RailsConf 2007, Portland, Oregon, May 18, 2007   slides [.pdf]

• "Software Not Provided: Challenges, Experiences, and Opportunities in Supporting Communities and Democracy" (with Jerry Feldman), Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380, Dennis Allison), Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, April 18, 2007   slides [.pdf]   video [.asx]

• Screening and discussion of Why We Fight (discussion facilitator with Elizabeth Tallent), Stanford, April 12, 2007   (screened video)
  

• "Rationality in Political Choice I" (guest lecture), What Is Rational? (Cognitive Science 190/Psychology 269, Evan Heit), University of California, Merced, April 12, 2007   paper

• "Communication Infrastructure and Information as Forms of Private Property: A Behavioral Perspective on Technology Evolution" (part of a panel on "The Technology (R)Evolution" with Cameron Hutchison and David S. Levine, chaired by Amy Landers), I Think I Can, I Think ICANN: Regulating the Internet...or Not, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, February 23, 2007   slides [.pdf]   video [.wmv]   paper
  

• "Technopolitics Funding Models and Practice" (discussion), Technology and Politics Camp, San Francisco, December 17, 2006   notes [wiki]
  

• "Defense of the Internet and Telecommunications for High Value Content and for Democratic Control" (workshop with Sakura Saunders), The Digital Revolution and a Labor Media Strategy - LaborTech 2006, University of San Francisco, November 19, 2006

• "Open Spectrum: A Primer" (part of a panel on "Labor and Who Controls the Internet" with Chris Witteman, Dorothy Kidd, and Myoung Joon Kim), The Digital Revolution and a Labor Media Strategy - LaborTech 2006, University of San Francisco, November 19, 2006 (presentation repeated at the Technology and Politics Camp, San Francisco, December 17, 2006)   slides [.pdf]   video [.flv]
  

• "Displaying Asynchronous Reactions to a Document: Two Goals and a Design" (interactive poster with Benjamin Newman, Brendan O'Connor, Aaron Tam, and Leo Perry), 20th Anniversary ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006), Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 6, 2006   paper   slide [.pdf]   poster [.pdf]

• "From Messages to Meetings: The Challenge and Promise of Online Deliberation", Towards e-Democracy: Participation, Deliberation, Communities (TED 06), Mantova, Italy, October 24, 2006   slides [.pdf]
  

• "Community Engagement and Online Deliberation" (workshop, with Michael Levin and Laura O'Laughlin), 2006 National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation, San Francisco, August 6, 2006   slides [.pdf]
  

• "Noncompensatory Rules, Voting, and Welfare", 8th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul, July 14, 2006   slides [.pdf]   paper
  

• "Rewriting/Porting Web Apps to New Frameworks" (discussion), BarCamp San Francisco, June 24, 2006  notes [wiki]

• "Teaching Judgment and Decision Making Through the Rationality Debate" (poster), BDRM2006 Pre-Conference on Teaching Decision Making [.pdf], Santa Monica, California, June 15, 2006  poster (corrected) [.pdf]

• "Exporting Zapatismo" (guest lecture), The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas and New Indigenous Movements (Cultural and Social Anthropology 148, George A. Collier) [.pdf], Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, May 24, 2006

• Welcoming Remarks, Singularity Summit at Stanford, Stanford University, May 13, 2006  text [.pdf]  audio [.mp3]   video [stream]
  

• "Deme: a Free/Open Source Platform for Online Group Deliberation and Dialogue" (with Brendan O'Connor and Benjamin Newman), CodeCon 2006, San Francisco, February 12, 2006  slides [.htm]

• "Designing for Deliberation", Seminar on People, Computers and Design (CS 547, Terry Winograd), Computer Science Department, Stanford University, January 20, 2006  slides [.pdf]  video [.asx]

• "Intuitive Preference Aggregation: Arrow's Principles and Behaviorally Derived Criteria" (poster presentation with Renee Trochet, joint work with Raja Shah and Katarina Ling), Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2005 Annual Conference [.pdf], Toronto, November 13, 2005
  

• Presenting Remarks, Norbert Wiener Award for Professional and Social Responsibility (given to Douglas Engelbart), CPSR Annual Meeting, October 29, 2005   press release

• "Developing an XML Format for Deliberation", The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice/Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (OD 2005/DIAC 2005), Stanford, May 22, 2005

• "Welcoming Introduction", Plenary: Online Deliberation from Groups to Cities to Nations, The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice/Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (OD 2005/DIAC 2005), Stanford, May 20, 2005
  

• "Designing an Online Environment for Group Deliberation" (joint work with Brendan O'Connor, Alex  Angiolillo Cochran, & Andrew Parker), The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice/Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (OD 2005/DIAC 2005), Stanford, May 20, 2005    video [.mov]
  

• "Social Choice Metaprocedures and the Components of Preference Aggregation", 2005 Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, New Orleans, March 11, 2005    abstract [.pdf]
  

• "Consequences of the Secret Ballot and Electronic Voting", The 7th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Osaka, July 24, 2004     abstract [.pdf]    slides [.pdf]
  

• "Intuitive Preference Aggregation: Tests of Independence and Consistency" (joint work with Raja Shah), The 7th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Osaka, July 23, 2004    slides [.pdf]
  

• "Software Demonstration: Program for Online Deliberation" (joint work with Brendan O'Connor and Alex Angiolillo Cochran), The 14th Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP 2004), Berkeley, April 22, 2004    software
  

• "P.O.D. (Platform for Online Deliberation) Demo" (joint work with Brendan O'Connor and Alex Angiolillo Cochran), LaborTech/Access Conference, Workshop Session IV, Stanford, April 3, 2004    software

• "Welcome and Introductory Panel Session" (Panelist), LaborTech/Access Conference, Stanford, April 3, 2004

• "Community Deliberation Online: When We Can't All Meet Face to Face" (joint work with Brendan O'Connor), Panel: Tools and Techniques for Public Participation, Tools for Community Design and Decision Making, Working Session V (TCDDM-V), San Francisco, December 11, 2003    abstract    slides [.pdf]
  

• "Telecommunications, Labor, and Technology" (Panelist with Steve Zeltzer, Karen Hart, and Carl Bryant), Twenty-Ninth Annual Southwest Labor Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley, May 10, 2003

• "Privacy, Spying and Censorship" (Workshop Panelist), Access: Broadband and the Digital Future, Stanford, April 5, 2003

• Panel B.3.2: Arrow and Modifications (Discussant), 2003 Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association, Nashville, March 22, 2003

• Panel A.4.9: Experiments (Discussant), 2003 Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association, Nashville, March 21, 2003

• "Violations of IIA in Preference Profile Aggregation" (joint presentation with Raja Shah), 2003 Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association, Nashville, March 21, 2003    paper
  

• "The Internet and Labor Justice Organizing: Experiences, Lessons, and Possibilities" (Workshop Panelist with Thomas Aaron Dinwoodie, Meghana Reddy, and Jeramie Scott), World Social Forum 2003, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 26, 2003   video may be posted later
  

• "How to Use the Web for Streaming Video and Audio" (Panelist), Labor's Voices/LaborTECH: Democratic Organizing and Media in Uncertain Times, The Graduate Center, CUNY, September 28, 2002

• "Community Democracy Online: A Preliminary Report from East Palo Alto" (joint work with Benjamin Sywulka, Randy Saffold, and Roma Jhaveri), 98th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 31, 2002    slides [.pdf]    paper

• "Learning from the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition" (Workshop Facilitator), People's Global Action North American Meeting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 1, 2001
  

• "Coalitions With Non-Anarchists" (Workshop Facilitator), North American Anarchist Conference: A Festival of Communities in Resistance, Los Angeles, August 13, 2000

• "Protesting NMD Testing at Vandenberg Air Force Base" (radio interview by RaiSue, with two others), Talking About Action, KZSU 90.1 FM, Stanford, California, June 27, 2000

• "Political Ideals and Beliefs About the Distribution of Wealth and Income: A Survey of University Students",  International Society of Political Psychology Twenty-Second Annual Scientific Meeting, Amsterdam, July 20, 1999    paper
  

• Panel 4.3: Ideology and Political Communications in Turkey (Discussant), International Society of Political Psychology Twenty-Second Annual Scientific Meeting, Amsterdam, July 18, 1999

• "Notes on Truth-Inducing Utility Measurement by Point Allocation", 22nd Bosphorus Workshop on Economic Design (BWED XXII), near Marmaris, Turkey, June 29, 1999

• "Psychology and Decision Making", Seminar on Economic Design (Murat Sertel), Bosphorus University, April 30, 1999
  

• "Bedrock Limitations of Rationality", Social Science Seminar, Koç University, February 16, 1999
  

• "Why Does the Mind Get Fooled?", Symbolic Systems Forum, Stanford University, February 3, 1999

• "Truth-Inducing Utility Measurement by Point Allocation", 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Nashville, August 9, 1998 (presentation repeated at the Faculty of Business Administration Seminar, Bilkent University, November 19, 1998)

• "Effects of Available Time on Confidence Following Choice" (Poster Presentation), 1997 Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 23, 1997    poster
  

• "Comparison of Frames for Choosing a Social Welfare Function" (Poster Presentation), 1996 Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, November 3, 1996    poster
  

• "Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility", Welfare Economics (Economics 280, Peter Hammond), Stanford University, March 12, 1996
  

• "Valuation and Confidence in the Context of Choice", 7th American Psychological Society Convention, New York, July 1, 1995

• "Some Lessons and Observations from a Lengthy Student Career", Symbolic Systems Forum (Symbolic Systems 10, Todd Davies), Stanford University, October 13, 1994

• "The Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University" (joint poster presentation with James Greeno), Workshop on Education in Cognitive Science, Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Atlanta, August 16, 1994    poster [.pdf]
  

• "The Effect of Forced Choice and Evidential Conflict on Judgment", 74th Western Psychological Association Convention, Cognition Session, Kona, Hawaii, April 28, 1994

• "Bedrock Limitations of Rationality: A Preproposal", Selected Topics in Judgment and Choice (Psychology 274, Amos Tverksy), Stanford University, November 11, 1993

• "Knowledge Bases and Neural Network Synthesis" (presentation read by David Israel), 1st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-90), Nagoya, Japan, November 14, 1990
  

• "Some Notes on the Probabilistic Semantics of Logistic Function Parameters in Neural Networks", First Annual Meeting of the International Neural Network Society (INNS), Analysis of Network Dynamics Poster Session, Boston, September 8, 1988

• "A Logical Approach to Reasoning by Analogy" (joint work with Stuart J. Russell), Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-87), Paper Session: Knowledge Acquisition 3, Milan, Italy, August 24, 1987

• "A Situational Theory of Analogy" (with David H. Helman, discussant), Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, July 1, 1985 (presentation repeated without discussant at NCR Corporation in Fort Collins, CO, and Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin, TX, August 1985)     abstract    paper
  

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