CGL Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, October 11, 1995


Location:
DC 1304
Time:
1:30 PM
Chair:
Randall Reid

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:
???
Coffee hour next week:
???

3. Next week's meeting

Date:
October 18, 1995
Location:
DC 1304
Time:
1:30 PM
Chair:
Navid Sadikali
Technical presentation:
Randall Reid

4. Forthcoming

Chairs:
  1. Greg Veres
  2. Julie Waterhouse
  3. Marceli Wein
  4. Raymond Yiu
Tech Presenters:
  1. Navid Sadikali
  2. Greg Veres
  3. Julie Waterhouse
  4. Marceli Wein

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:
Thomas Pflaum
Title:
Vision - An Architecture for Physically Based Rendering
Abstract:

I will give an short introduction to physically based rendering and then tell how this problem is approached by the Vision rendering system.

Vision is an object oriented rendering system which currently includes wavelet radiosity, Monte-Carlo based techniques, volume rendering ... and more traditional techniques like ray-tracing. It although provides a RenderMan compatible interface for scene description.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars


DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION

                    -Tuesday, October 10, 1995

Constantinos  Sourelis,  graduate  student, Dept. Comp.
Sci., Univ. Waterloo, will speak on Mixin Modules".

TIME:                4:00-5:00 p.m.

ROOM:                DC 3301

ABSTRACT

Modern  programming  languages  provide  some  form  of
module system for facilitating software structuring and
reuse.  We propose mixin modules as a new construct for
module languages which permits recursive definitions to
span module boundaries, allowing significant freedom in
the  distribution  of  types  and  functionality  among
program units.  Mixin modules are proposed specifically
for  the  programming language ML, incorporating recent
extensions   to   its  module  system.   Mixin  modules
additionally provide a form of inheritance analogous to
what is found in Object-Oriented Programming languages.



DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

CS 494 - SOFTWARE PIRACY SEMINAR

                    -Tuesday, October 10, 1995

N.  Dupuis,  Anti  Piracy  Task Force, Microsoft Canada
Inc.,  will  speak  on  "Combating  Software  Piracy in
Canada."

TIME:                4:00-6:00 p.m.

ROOM:                DC 1350

ABSTRACT

This  talk  would  explore  the  scope  of  the problem
relating to software piracy in Canada.  A review of the
various organizations which have been created to assist
software developers will be made.  Finally, the various
forms   of  enforcement  will  be  discussed  from  the
perspective of protecting the large investments of time
and money in software development projects.

The  audience  will  gain  insights into how to protect
software in Canada.


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