Meeting Agenda- 1999.11.10

November 10th, 1999

Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Mark Riddell

Member List

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:: ??
Coffee hour next week:: ??

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, November 17th, 1999.
Location:: DC1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair:: Selina Siu (November 17th)
Technical presentation:: Mark Riddell (November 17th)

4. Forthcoming

Tech Presenters: Selina Siu (November 24th) Shalini Aggarwal (December 1st) Henri Tan (December 1st)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:: Chris O'Sullivan
Title:: Augmented Reality

Abstract:: Over the past few years, virtual reality has attracted a great deal of media attention. The idea behind virtual reality is to immerse the user in an imaginary, computer generated "virtual world". The drawback to this technology is that the user is totally cut off from the real world. In this talk, I will speak about a topic that finds a middle ground between what is virtual and real, namely "augmented reality". I will examine its applications and the challenges that it faces in the hopes of motivating the audience to further investigation of the area.

6. General Discussion Items

People available for chairing (Blair)

7. Action List

GI deadline Nov. 19. This time it will be in Montreal.
The SIGGRAPH 2000 is deadline Jan. 12.
Bill is collecting ideas for lab improvements, like things to buy for the lab.
DGP Visit: Will be arranged for sometime in the new year

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

Wednesday, 10 November 1999, 8:30PM - Fine Arts, ECH 1220 M. Riddell, R. Knowles -- Presentation on Evolution of Computer Animation.

Thursday, 11 November 1999, 2:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1331 P. Sidorowicz: -- A Formal Framework for Testing Memories

Friday, 12 November 1999, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Databases Group), DC1304 Tamer Ozsu: -- Current Projects and Future Directions in Distributed and Multimedia Data Management