Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, August 7, 1996
- Location:
- DC 1304
- Time:
- 1:30 PM
- Chair:
- Ryan Gunther
1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions
2. Coffee Hour
- Coffee hour this week:
- Ryan Gunther
- Coffee hour next week:
- Any volunteers?
3. Next meeting
- Date:
- August 14, 1996
- Location:
- DC 1304
- Time:
- 1:30 PM
- Chair:
- Gilles Khouzam
- Technical presentation:
- Peter Harwood
4. Forthcoming
- Chairs:
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- Rick Knowles
- John Kominek
- Rob Kroeger
- Nathan Like
- Tech Presenters:
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- Fabrice Jaubert (possibly)
- Rick Kazman
- Gilles Khouzam
- Rick Knowles
5. Technical Presentation
- Presenter:
- Ryan Gunther
- Title: Introduction to Multimodal Systems
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- Abstract:
- None Given...
6. General Discussion Items
7. Action List
- University of Toronto visit: October 5th?
8. Director's Meeting
9. Seminars
COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR
-Monday, August 12, 1996
Ric Holt, University of Toronto, will speak on
``Software Landscapes: A Visual Architecture for
Developing Large Software''.
TIME: 2:00-3:00 p.m.
ROOM: DC 1304
ABSTRACT
A key problem in software construction is the confusion
that arises from the presence of a huge number of
highly interrelated artifacts (designs, source files,
versions, documentation, etc). What is needed is a
clarifying framework in which to organize and
manipulate these artifacts.
The Software Landscape is introduced as a visual
architecture. All artifacts of software development
are arranged in a large scene (a Landscape), with their
interrelations illustrated. There are "plots" (sub-
landscapes) and "subplots" which contain artifacts.
Designers, managers, and programmers navigate through a
Landscape by panning, zooming and expanding plots and
subplots.
In concert with other researchers at the Universities
of Toronto and Victoria, this approach has evolved into
a hierarchic set of Web-based "software bookshelves".
This approach is being currently used to redocument a
quarter million line industrical software system.
10. Lab Cleanup (until 2:30 or 5 minutes)