Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, November 05, 1997

Location:

DC1302

Time:

1:30

Chair:

Dan Milgram

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Celine

Coffee hour next week:

Any volunteers?

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, November 12, 1997

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30

Chair:

Liddy Olds

Technical Presentation:

Adarsh Mehta

4. Forthcoming

Chairs:

1. Paul Prescod
2. Alberto Raposo
3. Mark Riddell

Tech Presenters:

1. Dan Milgram
2. Liddy Olds
3. Paul Prescod

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Mike Hammond

Title:

Video Rewrite: Driving Video Speech with Audio

Abstract:

Lip synchronization in traditional animation is a labourious
process the animator must do by hand. The creation of automatic
lip synchronization (ALS) systems will make the development of
realistic character-based computer animations both quicker and
easier. In this talk, I will present a SIGGRAPH '97 paper which
discusses such a system called Video Rewrite.

6. General Discussion Items

• The Eurographics submission deadline is January 9, 1998. Please see
  http://www.eg98.gpcg.pt/submissions/ for requirements.
  
• SIGGRAPH deadline (for North America) is January 14, 1998.
  
  

7. Action List

• U of T visit.
  
  

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

                    DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

                    UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

                    SEMINAR ACTIVITIES





                    Computer Science Seminar





                                   - Thursday, November 6, 1997





                    Eric G. Manning, P.Eng., F.EIC, F.IEEE

                    President, Canadian Association for Computer Science,

                    Wighton Professor & Director

                    Parallel,   Networked   &   Distributed   Computing   &

                    Applications (PANDA) Group,

                    Departments  of  Computer  Science  and  Electrical and

                    Computer Engineering,

                    University of Victoria 



                         will speak on



                    ``Computer Science, Software Engineering and 

                               Professional Engineering''



                    ROOM:          Davis Centre Room DC1304



                    TIME:          2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.



                    ABSTRACT



                    We  review the history of software engineering and find

                    that  it  is  a  subdiscipline of computer science, and

                    that the term ``software engineering'' is the term used

                    globally to denote this subdiscipline.



                    We  touch on issues of public safety and protection for

                    mission-critical  systems, and review the organizations

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                    of  computer  scientists  which  have  been  created to

                    address  these needs. We then consider embedded systems

                    in  general, noting that the successful and safe design

                    of  many  requires  both software engineering expertise

                    and    engineering    domain   expertise   (mechanical,

                    electrical,  nuclear,  ... engineering).  This leads us

                    directly  to  recommendations  for  mutually beneficial

                    co-operation    between    computer    scientists   and

                    Professional    Engineers,    in   education   and   in

                    professional practice.

10. Lab Cleanup