Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, November 11, 1998

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30

Chair:

Viêt-Tâm Luu

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week: Michael McCool

Coffee hour next week: Eric Hall

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, November 18, 1998

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30

Chair:

Marryat Ma

 

Technical presentation:

Viêt-Tâm Luu

4. Forthcoming

Chairs:

1. Steve Mann (November 25th) 
2. Ed Dengler (December 2nd) 
3. Olivier Michallat (December 9th) 

Tech Presenters:

1. Marryat Ma (November 25th) 
2. Steve Mann (December 2nd) 
3. Michael McCool (December 9th) 
4. Olivier Michallat (December 16th) 

5. Technical Presentations

Presenter:

Josée Lajoie 

Title:

Overview of the C++ Standard Template Library

Abstract:

This presentation introduces the Standard Template Library (STL). STL is a component of the C++ standard library adopted by the ISO C++ standard committee. I will present the three basic components of STL, the containers, iterators and algorithms and how they can be used in C++ programs.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

• DGP Visit: Ian Stewart. The visit is Saturday, November 14th (i.e. this week)
• new light bulbs for the overhead lamps

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

• ICR short courses


``You should register early as space is limited.''

November 18-19, 1998: ``Pattern Recognition: Theories and Applications''

• Computer Graphics International will be held in Calgary in 1999. The deadline for submitting papers is November 15.

• Thursday, November 12, 1998:

  Theory Seminar: ``A Discipline of Evolutionary Programming''
  Paul Vitanyi, CWI/Universiteit van Amsterdam
  3:00 p.m.; DC1331

• Friday, November 13, 1998, 14:30, DC 1302:

                   Monte Carlo Methods in Computer Graphics
                                      by
                             Prof. Michael McCool
  
  Statistics isn't just for actuaries--it can also be used to make pretty
  pictures.  Random (Monte Carlo) sampling is a technique for estimating
  high-dimensional integrals, such as those that are encountered in graphics.
  I will talk about the graphics applications and the limitations and
  advantages of random sampling.  I will also survey some of the techniques
  for improving convergence:  importance sampling, stratification, combination
  of estimators, and Halton sequences.
  

• Friday, November 11, 1998, 16:30, MC 4041:

     The Hitchhiker's Guide to COM (The Microsoft Component Object Model)
                                      by
                                  Ed Saikali
  
  Have you heard the terms DirectX, DirectThat, ActiveThis, ActiveThat, COM, OLE, ActiveX,
  MTS, CORBA, OpenDoc, JavaBeans, EnterpriseBeans, OCX, VB controls ...etc being hurled out
  of the mouths of your superiors at work at the whim of the Microsoft
  Marketing Machine.  Do you want to know what they all mean?  The key to
  understanding all of the above terms lies in a good solid understanding of
  COM.  In this talk I will show you what COM is all about, the good the bad
  and the ugly.
  

• Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, DC 1350:

  Sybase Campus Techwave

  Enjoy free software, a 1-hour presentation on hot new Sybase technology, and free food at the Campus TechWave - a special technology event from Sybase, Inc.

10. Lab Entropy Reduction