CGL Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, March 29, 1995

Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 PM
Chair:: Stephen Mereu

1. Adoption of the agenda - additions/deletions thereto.

2. Coffee Hour and Next Meeting:

Coffee hour this week:

Glenn Paulley

Coffee hour next week:

???

Next Meeting

Time:: April 5, 1995
Location:: DC 1304
Chair:: Haroon Sheikh
Tech Presentation:: Michael McCool

Forthcoming: (list next 4 and trades)

Chairs:: Jay Steele; Riston Tapp; Greg Veres; Bill Wallace
Tech presentations:: Stephen Mereu; Andrew Park; Glenn Paulley; Randall Reid

3. Technical Presentation:

Presenter:: Sandra Loop
Title:: Academic Writing
Abstract:: It is important in academic writing to clearly and logically present your argument or story without losing your audience. The sources of unclear writing commonly come from two sources: the author does not a clear picture of the argument herself, or the author does have a clear picture of the argument but unknowingly leaves out details due to familiarity with the topic. I will present techniques and guides in academic writing which will help the author to ensure clarity. These techniques range from the planning stages and high-level abstractions through to word choices and punctuation.

4. General Discussion Items:

5. Action List (remember to update AL_active)

6. Directors Meeting:

7. Seminar(s):

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION

                    -Friday, April 7, 1995

Alain  Gaudrault,  graduate  student, Dept. Comp. Sci.,
Univ.  Waterloo,  will  speak  on  "Load Balancing in a
Distributed Virtual Reality Environment."

TIME:                10:30-12:30 p.m.

ROOM:                DC 1302

ABSTRACT

The  WAterloo  Virtual  Environment  System (WAVES) has
been  designed  to  provide virtual reality application
developers with the tools to create distributed virtual
worlds    without    concern    for    the   underlying
implementation.  The need to distribute tasks generated
by  virtual  reality  software  becomes  a necessity if
virtual   worlds   are  to  scale  up  gracefully.   By
incorporating  load  balancing techniques within WAVES,
virtual  worlds  of  great  size  and  fidelity  may be
possible.  In this paper, load balancing approaches are
reviewed,   and   an   algorithm   is   developed   and
implemented.    Simulation   software   to   test   the
efficiency   of   the   load   balancing  algorithm  is
described,   and   results  of  the  testing  phase  is
included.   Future  development  of  both WAVES and the
load balancing scheme is discussed.


                   The University of Waterloo
                      200 University Avenue
                        Waterloo, Ontario


           The Institute for Computer Research (ICR)

                    Presents a Colloquium on

         Synchronous Emulation of Asynchronous Circuits



by:     Dr. Geoffrey Brown

of:     School of Electrical Engineering
        Cornell University
        Ithaca, New York


Date:   Wednesday, March 29, 1995
Time:   3:30 pm.
Place:  William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, Room 1302



Abstract:

We present a novel approach to prototyping asynchronous  circuits
which  uses  clocked field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).  Un-
like other proposed techniques for implementing asynchronous cir-
cuits  on FPGAs, our method does not attempt to preserve the pure
asynchronous nature of the circuit. Rather, it preserves the com-
munication  behavior  of  the circuits and uses synchronous duals
for common asynchronous modules.

This is joint work with John O'Leary


Everyone is welcome.  Refreshments served.

CGL Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, March 29, 1995

1. Adoption of the agenda - additions/deletions thereto.

2. Coffee Hour and Next Meeting:

3. Technical Presentation:

4. General Discussion Items:

5. Action List (remember to update AL_active)

6. Directors Meeting:

7. Seminar(s):

8. Lab Cleanup (till 2:30pm or 5 minutes, whichever is longer)