Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, September 6, 1995

Location:

DC 2303

Time:

1:30 PM

Chair:

Stephen Mann

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Department Picnic, Waterloo Park, 4:30
Come watch the faculty win the softball game!

Coffee Hour next week:

???

3. Next week's meeting

Date:

September 13, 1995

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 PM

Chair:

Michael McCool

Technical presentation:

Robert Kroeger

4. Forthcoming

Chairs:

1. Andrew Park
2. Glenn Paulley
3. Thomas Pflaum
4. Randall Reid

Tech Presenters:

1. Steve Mann
2. Michael McCool
3. Andrew Park
4. Glenn Paulley

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Rick "I Chocolate" Kazman

Title:

"Component Programming"

Abstract:

All engineering disciplines rely on standard components to design and build artifacts. A key technical challenge in software engineering is to enable the adoption of such a model to the development of software. The transformation from line-by-line development to component-based development will address many of the industry's productivity and quality problems, just as component manufacturing has address productivity and quality problems in many other industries. This talk will look at an approach to component programming based upon the C++ Standard Template Library.

6. General Discussion Items

• Demos today at 3:00
• Fabrice - I'll re-iterate that people with scripts checking for paths of the form "/vfs/..." must change them NOW.

7. Action List

• UofT visit

8. Director's Meeting

• Yack, yack, yack.

9. Seminars

•  ICR Colloquium
   "Coefficient Diagram Method as Applied to the
   Attitude Control of Satellitei".
   Dr. Shunji Manabe, Department of Control Engineering
   Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan.
   3:30 p.m.; DC 1302
  

10. Lab Cleanup (until 2:30 or 5 minutes)