Meeting Agenda- 1999.10.06

October 6, 1999

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair: Michael McCool 

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

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Coffee hour next week:

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3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, October 13th, 1999.

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Joanne McKinley

Technical presentation:

Michael McCool

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Jasmin Patry (October 20th)
2. Pascale Proulx (October 27th)
3. Selina Siu (November 3rd)

Tech Presenters:

1. Joanne McKinley (October 20th)
2. Jasmin Patry (October 27th) 
3. Pascale Proulx (November 3rd)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Vincent Ma 

Title:

Teddy: an interface for 3D freeform design.

Abstract:

I'll be demonstrating one recent work on gestural interfaces. This gestural interface, Teddy, simplies model creation and allows quick and easy design of 3D freeform models. The user simply draws 2D freeform strokes interactively and the system will construct a 3D shape based on those strokes.

6. General Discussion Items

• Reminder of lab policy---don't lend out keys, or let others use your account, etc.
• Application forms and instructions for NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships are available on the web at http://www.nserc.ca/
  Departmental Deadline: Wednesday, October 6, 1999
• It's time to apply for OGS scholarships. Jane Prime has the applications (DC2332).
  Departmental deadline: Tuesday, October 26, 1999
  In the past, Jane has taken Tuesdays as a day off, so plan to submit earlier, if possible.

7. Action List

• The shelves were bolted the wall this morning. Now, to set up bookends...
• The URL of the AAAI spring symposium on 'smart graphics' is: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~patrick/SG2000/.
  The deadline is October 8th
• GI deadline Nov. 19. This time it will be in Montreal.
• The SIGGRAPH 2000 is deadline Jan. 12
• John Hart is visiting on October 26th.

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

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Wednesday, October 6, 1999
Women in Mathematics Committee Seminar
``DNA Computing in Vitro and in Vivo''
Dr. Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario
3:30 p.m.; MC5158

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Combinatorics and Optimization 
Thursday, 7 October 1999 at 1:00PM 
Math & Computer, Room 5136 
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Using eigenspaces to draw graphs 
Prof. Chris Godsil 

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Friday, October 8, 1999
Invited Presentation to CS 685
``Designing a Mixed-Initiative Information Extraction System''
Peter Vanderheyden, CS Graduate Student, Univ. of Waterloo
10:45 a.m.; DC3307

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Computer Science 
Wednesday, 13 October 1999 at 2:00PM, DC 1302 
Health Informatics Education for the 21st Century 
Dr. Walter B. Panko 

Director of the School of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, 
University of Ilinois at Chicago 

Preparing people for a career in health informatics will become more 
challenging in the next century. Almost every element of health care 
is undergoing rapid change, from financing to increasing concern about 
privacy and confidentiality. Further complicating the task is the rapid
expansion of the technological and theoretical knowledge base of 
informatics. Finally, educators need to factor in the growth of online 
educational capabilities and reconcile them with the unique features of 
the healthcare professions. This talk will outline the challenges facing 
health informatics educators and identify possible strategies for 
meeting them. 

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10. Lab Cleanup