Meeting Minutes - 1999.07.14
July 14, 1999
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Location:
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DC1304
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Time:
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10:30 a.m.
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Chair:Rojia Dadashzadeh
Member
List
1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions
2. Coffee Hour
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Coffee hour this week: Rick Knowles
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Coffee hour next week: ?????
3. Next meeting
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Date:
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Wednesday, July 21, 1999.
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Location:
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DC1304
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Time:
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10:30 a.m. Note time
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Chair: Eric Demaine
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Technical presentation:
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Rojia Dadashzadeh
4. Forthcoming
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Chair:
Margaret Dulat 
(July 28)
Teresa Ge (August 4th)
Patrick Gilhuly
(August 11th)
Tech Presenters:
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Rojia Dadashzadeh
(July 21)
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Erik Demaine (July 28)
5. Technical Presentation
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Presenter:
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Bill Cowan
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Title: Reading the Balance Sheet of Internet Stocks
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Abstract: This talk will explain two concepts with which you are
probably unfamiliar: surplus value and capitalized expense. I claim
that you need these concepts if you are to intelligently ask, "Will Amazon.com
ever make a profit?".
6. General Discussion Items
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Viet-Tam Luu. CGL needs new PC person to keep Intel boxes from falling
apart.
7. Action List
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New shelves have turned up. But not the right side up.
8. Director's Meeting
9. Seminars
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WHAT:
On Integrating Legacy Main Memory
Data Structure with Database Schema
Master's Thesis Presentation
WHEN: Monday, 19 July 1999 at 11:00AM
WHO: Stella Yuen Mei Lai , graduate student, Dept
WHERE: DC 1331
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WHAT:
Tutte Colloquium - Continued Fractions in Map Enumeration
WHEN:
Friday, 16 July 1999 at 3:30PM
WHO: Mr.
Daniel Brown
Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo
WHERE: Math & Computer, Room 5158
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WHAT: Semicrossed Products and Semisimplicity
WHEN: Thursday, 15 July 1999 at 1:30 PM
WHO: Prof. A. Donsig
University of Nebraska
WHERE: Math & Computer 5045
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10. Lab Cleanup