Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, November 26, 1997
- Location:
- DC1304
- Time:
- 1:30
- Chair:
- Alberto Raposo
1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions
2. Coffee Hour
- Coffee hour last week (11.21.97):
- Rob Kroeger
- Coffee hour this week (11.28.97):
- Any volunteers?
- Coffee hour next week (12.5.97):
- Any volunteers?
- Coffee hour the week after next week (12.12.97):
- Leo Magalhães
3. Next meeting
- Date:
- Wednesday, December 3, 1997
- Location:
- DC1304
- Time:
- 1:30
- Chair:
- Mark Riddell (Dec 3)
- Technical presentation:
- Paul Prescod (Dec 3)
4. Forthcoming
- Chairs:
-
- Navid Sadikali (Dec 10)
- Faramarz Samavat (Dec 17)
- Ian Stewart (After Holidays)
- Tech Presenters:
-
- Leo Magalhães (Switched with Alberto) (Dec 10)
- Mark Riddell (Dec 17)
- Navid Sadikali (After Holidays)
5. Technical Presentation
- Presenter:
- Liddy Olds
- Title:
- How do people find stuff?
- Abstract:
- Looking for stuff is a common human experience. I study the
ways in which human visual search processes operate. The more
we know about how these processes work, and what tasks are easy
vs. difficult for them to perform, the better we can design user
interfaces that enhance performance rather than impeding it. I
will tell you about the kinds of experiments that we use to
investigate what goes on when you look for stuff. I will discuss
experiments that peek into the timecourse of processing when you
look for something of a particular colour, as well as some attempts
at extending these techniques to shape-from-shading.
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
- CGL Christmas party: December 19th at Bill's house.
- CS Department's Holiday Party: Tuesday, Dec 2 at 5:30 in the Student
Life Centre. While everyone is encouraged to bring a dish to the
potluck, the department is more interested in people attending
the party than they are in people bringing food, so feel free to
come (and eat) even if you don't bring something.
8. Director's Meeting
9. Seminars
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES
"ELECTRONIC COMMERCE"
"What are the business opportunities and strategic impacts
of electronic commerce?" - A Bell Emergis Perspective
By: Christian Trudeau, VP, Electronic Business Solutions
Of: Bell Emergis
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 1997
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Place: Davis Centre, Room 1302
University of Waterloo
** There is no fee for this event.
** Pre-registering to reserve your seat is recommended.
ABSTRACT
The speaker, Christian Trudeau, will discuss electronic commerce: its
definition, its evolution and the market potential for electronic
solutions. He will describe the Network-Centric Model of electronic
business, including network services, electronic commerce enablers and
access services. Mr. Trudeau will outline the Bell Business Network - a
Wide Area Network platform using Internet technology which will carry
business information and transaction traffic. He will also discuss
recent co-development agreements and solutions in electronic business.
``Towards an Integrated Environment for Mobile Code Management''
By: Alexander D. Stoyen
Of: Dependable Real-Time Systems Laboratory
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Date: Thursday, November 27, 1997
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Where: DC1331
"Freeing Your Voice"
TRACE Event (register at TRACE x3132)
By: Anne-Marie Donovan, Voice and Speech Instructor
Of: UW Drama and Speech Communication Department
Dates: Wednesday, December 3, 1997 and
Thursday, December 4, 1997
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Where: ECH 2108
``Object-Oriented Design for Real-Time Systems''
ICR Short Course
By: Stefan Leue, Asst Prof, Elec & Computer Engineering, U of Waterloo
Date: Tue-Wed, December 9 - 10, 1997
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Where: DC1304
``Performance Optimization for Distributed-Shared-Data Systems''
Ph.D. Oral Defence
By: Craig Steven Bruce, CS Grad (Supervisor: D.J. Taylor)
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Where: MC6091A
10. Lab Cleanup