- Date:
- August 27th, 1997
- Location:
- DC 1304
- Time:
- 13:30
- Chair:
- Patrick Gilhuly
- Technical presentation:
- Glenn Evans
4. Forthcoming
Chairs:
- Mike Hammond (9/03)
- Peter Harwood (9/10)
Tech Presenters:
- Patrick Gilhuly (9/03)
- Mike Hammond (9/10)
5. Technical Presentation
- Presenter:
- David Evans
- Title:
-
An MBone-based Distance Education System
- Abstract:
-
Distributed multimedia communication has received a great
deal of attention in recent years. Many system that have been
developed are concerned with the delivery of live multimedia
conferencing to their users, providing efficient use of available
resources, sophisticated session control, and friendly user
interfaces. In this talk we present a system that supports retrieval
of stored multimedia documents and their integration into an
audio/video conference. Our system is tailored to distance education.
It features a flexible continuous media storage architecture, a robust
yet simple synchronisation algorithm, media format independence,
scalability, and the use of off-the-shelf software for conference
participants.
6. General Discussion Items
7. Action List
8. Director's Meeting
9. Seminars
ICR SHORT COURSES:
ICR Members and Graduate Students supervised by ICR faculty members may
attend free-of-charge subject to availability.
Registration required: detailed info is available at the ICR Web site:
http://icr.uwaterloo.ca
September 16-17, 1997
ICR Short Course
``Software Engineering Practice: An Industry Perspective''
Jacob Slonim, Adjunct Professor, Computer Science, U. of Waterloo
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; DC1304
October 22-23, 1997
ICR Short Course
``Software Re-engineering Practice and Research''
Kostas Kontogiannis, Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; DC1304
November 4-5, 1997
ICR Short Course jointly with Centre for Wireless Communications, UW
``Radio Frequency System and Circuit Design
for Wireless Communications''
Tajinder Manku, Assistant Professor,
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; DC1304
November 24 - 25, 1997
ICR Short Course
``Topics Related to the Theory and Application
of Source and Channel Coding''
A.K. Khandani, Assistant Professor,
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; DC1304
December 9 - 10, 1997
ICR Short Course
``Object-Oriented Design for Real-Time Systems''
Stefan Leue, Assistant Professor,
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; DC1304
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES
Master's Presentation
- Friday, September 5, 1997
Vlado Keselj, Graduate Student, Department of Computer
Science, University of Waterloo, will speak on
``Multi-Agent Systems for Internet Information
Retrieval Using Natural Language Processing''.
TIME: 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Davis Centre Room DC2305 (AI Lab)
ABSTRACT
In the context of the vast and still rapidly expanding
Internet, the problem of Internet information retrieval
becomes more and more important. Although the most
popular at the moment, the keyword-based search engines
are just one piece in a complex software mosaic that
needs to be created in order to provide a more
efficient and scalable solution.
I try to show that the multi-agent approach is a viable
methodology for this task, and how the natural language
processing could be used in it, as well as why it
should be used. Two implementations and their
theoretical foundations are presented: One is the
natural language parser generator NLP4InIR which
produces parsers in C or Java; and, the other one is
the communication part of the multi-agent framework
MIN. The higher levels of the framework are also
discussed and a demo implementation of a multi-agent
system is presented.
10. Lab Cleanup (until 14:30 or 5 minutes)
Meeting Agenda