MEETING-DATE:October 22, 2015 MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331 MEETING-TIME:11:30 MEETING-CHAIR:Yipeng Wang (for Ryan) MEETING-CHAIRPIC:yipeng.jpg COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Bill COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Volunteers? COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers? FORTH-DATE1:October 29, 2015 FORTH-DATE2:November 5, 2015 FORTH-DATE3:November 12, 2015 FORTH-DATE4:November 19, 2015 FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-CHAIR1:Marta Kryven FORTH-CHAIR2:Egor Larionov FORTH-CHAIR3:Stephen Mann FORTH-CHAIR4:Lesley(?) Northam FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:marta.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:egor.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:smann-bevel.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:LNortham.png FORTH-TP1:Craig Kaplan FORTH-TP2:Marta Kryven FORTH-TP3:Egor Larionov FORTH-TP4:Stephen Mann FORTH-TPPIC1:craig.jpg FORTH-TPPIC2:marta.jpg FORTH-TPPIC3:egor.jpg FORTH-TPPIC4:smann.jpg TPNAME:Bill Cowan TPTITLE:Touch TPABSTRACT:Touch is the primary sense for knowing what and where things are, at least for things within a metre. It is an extremely fast sense, so fast that modern software is unable to provide it with an adequate stimulus. I will describe the properties of touch, and explain the difficulty of providing real-time touch stimulation. TPPIC:bill.png DIONE: DITWO: DITHREE: DIFOUR: AIONE:Dan Vogel and Ryan Goldade have conflicts this semester, so please skip them for meeting planning purposes. AITWO:Fix the agenda creation scripts: they remain fairly slow. AITHREE: AIFOUR: LEONE: LETWO: LETHREE: LEFOUR: DMONE: DMTWO: DMTHREE: DMFOUR: SEMINARS:
Thursday, 22 October 2015, 1:30PM - Computer Science (Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC 1331
Jazmin Romero: -- Arbitrary Overlap Constraints in Graph Problems
 
Thursday, 22 October 2015, 3:00PM - Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems), DC 2310
Xu Cui: -- Leveraging Software-Defined Networking to Improve Distributed Transaction Processing Performance
 
Friday, 23 October 2015, 10:00AM - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Lab), DC 2306C
Mazen A. Melibari​: -- Dynamic Sum Product Networks for Tractable Inference on Sequence Data​
 
Friday, 23 October 2015, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Programming Languages Lab), DC 2585
Rei Thiessen: -- Monotonic Analysis of Indirect Memory Operations
 
Monday, 26 October 2015, 10:00AM - Computer Science (Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC 1331
Jazmin Romero: -- Generalized Set and Graph Packing Problems
 
Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Distinguished Lecture Series), DC 1302
Susan Dumais: -- Personalized Search: Potential and Pitfalls
 
Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 10:30AM - Computer Science , DC 2585
Margaret Burnett: -- Is our software gender-inclusive? How can software developers and UX practitioners know?
 
Thursday, 29 October 2015, 3:00AM - Applied Mathematics , MC 6486
Dr. Vakhtang Putkaradze: -- Geometric theory of garden hose dynamics
 
Thursday, 29 October 2015, 2:30PM - Computational Mathematics , MC5501
Dr. Jacques Carette: -- Beyond graphics - more mathematics of building video games
 
Friday, 30 October 2015, 9:30AM - Computer Science (Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group), DC 2310
Jalaj Upadhyay: -- Integrity and Privacy of Large Data