Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, March 4, 1998

Location:

Computer Graphics Lab

Time:

1:30

Chair:

Blair Conrad

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Mike McCool

Coffee hour next week:

???

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, March 11, 1998

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30

Chair:

Bill Cowan

Technical presentation:

Wilkin Chau

4. Forthcoming

Chairs:

1. Itai Danan (Mar 18th)
2. Ed Dengler (Mar 25th)
3. Glenn Evans (April 1st)

Tech Presenters:

1. Blair Conrad (Mar 18th)
2. Bill Cowan (Mar 25th)
3. Itai Danan (April 1st)

5. Technical Presentations

Presenter:

Richrad Bartels

Title: Wavelets for Dummies

Abstract:

I will give a low-level introduction of wavelets and their use in image compression. The intent of this talk is that you should know the basic terminology and concepts, not that you should be up to date on the literature -- hence the title.

6. General Discussion Items

• Blair: DGP visit - talks and food

7. Action List

• Visiting prospective faculty members.
• Deadline for submission of Theses/Essays for Spring Convocation 1998 is May 30, 1998.
• Alias/SideFX talks coming; send abstracts to Mike McCool
• Blair Conrad coordinates U of T visit (with van@dgp)

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

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               A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Lambda Calculus
                                    by
                           Christopher Hendrie

 The Lambda  Calculus is both an elegant formal model  of computation and a
powerful programming language.  In this talk,  I will introduce the calculus
of lambda-kappa-conversion  and  explore  connections  with  computability,
programming language design, and algorithmic chemistry.

                         Thursday,March 5th, 1998
                                   2:30
                                 MC 4041
   
                   Tea and doughnaughts will be served.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR

                    - Monday, March 9, 1998

Tim  Brecht,  Laboratory for Computer Systems Research,
Department  of  Computer Science, York University, will
speak  on  ``The  Region  Fault Library: Mechanisms for
User-Level Management of Arbitrarily Sized Data''.

TIME:                10:30-12:00 p.m.

ROOM:                DC 1302

ABSTRACT

This talk  introduces  mechanisms  for  generating  and
handling   software    faults   for  arbitrarily  sized
regions  (contiguous  addresses)  of  memory.  In other
words, user-level software faults  are  generated based
on user defined data structures rather than on pages of
virtual  memory. Our current implementation, which runs
on   SGI,   SUN   and   IBM  platforms,   is  described
along   with  considerations for porting the library to
other operating systems and architectures.

One  of  the  most   compelling   applications  of  the
Region   Fault  Library  and the mechanisms it provides
is  in  implementing  distributed  shared-memory  (DSM)
systems  based  on  shared  regions  rather than shared
pages  of  memory.  We demonstrate how these mechanisms
can be used to manage shared regions of memory that are
smaller  and/or  larger  than the  size  of  a  virtual
memory  page  and  discuss  the significant performance
benefits   that   can   result   from   this  increased
flexibility.   If   time   permits  other  applications
of  these  mechanisms  will be discussed.

This  is  research  jointly  conducted  with  Harjinder
Sandhu.      

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10. Lab Cleanup