CGL 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:
  1. Navid Sadikali (Dec 10)
  2. Faramarz Samavat (Dec 17)
  3. Ian Stewart (After Holidays)
Tech Presenters:
  1. Leo Magalhães (Switched with Alberto) (Dec 10)
  2. Mark Riddell (Dec 17)
  3. 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

7. Action List


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