Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, September 25^th, 1996

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

11:30 AM

Chair:

Michael McCool

0. Welcome to any new lab members we missed last time.

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Mike Hammond

Coffee hour next week:

To be determined

3. Next meeting

Date:

October 2^nd, 1996

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

11:30 AM

Chair:

Dan Milgram

Technical presentation:

Michael McCool

4. Forthcoming

Chairs:

1. Thomas Pflaum
2. Alex Qian
3. Randall Reid
4. Navid Sadikali

Tech Presenters:

1. Dan Milgram
2. Thomas Pflaum
3. Alex Qian
4. Randall Reid

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Iain Little

Title: Multiparadigm Programming

Abstract:

The idea of a multiparadigm language is to provide a framework in which programmers can work in a variety of styles, freely intermixing constructs from different paradigms. An overview of multiparadigm programming with a brief look at a multiparadigm programming language which supports techniques including imparative programming, the object-oriented approach, logic programming, and functional programming should supply enough background to enjoy a look at a few of the current research topics in this area.

6. General Discussion Items

• Can we find someone to work on the video disk software?
• From: Ryan Gunther

  As the new PC Maintainer in the lab the first thing I would like to do is cleanup the PC hard drives. There is a lot of `junk' on these machines right now(i.e. outdated software, games, etc...) If you have something on these machines which you DON'T want erased please send me mail within the next week otherwise there is a very good chance I will remove it. As well, in the future could you only put files in your user directory and if you wish to install some software send me mail informing me what you have installed and make sure you check for viruses. Thanks.

7. Action List

• University of Toronto visit: November 2

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

Wednesday, September 25:
          Theory Seminar
          ``Compact Traversable Tree Representations''
          David R. Clark, CS Grad Student, University of Waterloo
          3:30 - 4:30 p.m.; DC1304

          Master's Essay Presentation
          ``The  Radial  Basis Functions Neural Networks''
          Enrico  Au-Yeung,  graduate  student, Dept. Comp. Sci.
          2:00-3:00 p.m.  DC1304

Monday, September 30:
          Master's Thesis Presentation
          ``Efficient Information Access for Wireless Computers''
          Stuart Wachsberg, CS Graduate Student, University of Waterloo
          2:30 - 3:30 p.m; DC1331

This next one looks familiar:

          CS Colloquium Series
          "The Evolution of the World-Wide Web's Software Architecture 
          or Mommy, Where do Software Architectures Come From?"
          Rick Kazman
          Tuesday Oct 1, 1996
          4:00-5:00 DC1302

If you happen to find yourself in Toronto on Friday morning for any reason:

          KMDI (in Toronto):
          Vision and Manipulation in Endoscopic Surgery
          Christine L. Mackenzie of SFU
          Friday Sept 27, 11:00 t0 12:00, MSB 2357.

10. Lab Cleanup (until 12:30 or 5 minutes)