Meeting Agenda - 2000.04.12

April 12th, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

11:30 a.m.

Chair:

Marryat Ma

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Kevin Moule

Coffee hour next week:

???

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, April 19, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

11:30 a.m.

Chair:

Vincent Ma  

Technical presentation:

Josée Lajoie  

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Stephen Mann (April 26th) 
2. Mike McCool (May 3rd)
3. Kevin Moule (May 10th)

Tech Presenters:

1. Céline Latulipe (April 26th) 
2. Marryat Ma (May 3rd) 
3. Vincent Ma (May 10th) 

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Tim Lahey

Title:

An Introduction to RenderMan

Abstract:

RenderMan is an interface specification for Computer Graphics models and renderers that is widely used in industry. This talk provides an overview of the interface specification and the shading language used by RenderMan-compliant renders.

6. General Discussion Items

• Bill asked if anyone uses the CGL dial-in modem pool. No one said yes, so the dial-in modem pool is going to disappear (and we'll stop paying Bell over $200 a month for the phone line)

7. Action List

• Hardware workshop deadline: April 12th
• Bioinformatics workshop deadline: April 21st. For more information visit http://www.bioinformatics.ca
• UIST submission deadline is May 9th
• SIGGRAPH early registration is June 16th

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

• Computer Science Seminar
  Thursday, April 13, 2000
  10:30AM in DC 1302
  Antonio Piccolboni, University of California-Berkeley
  On the complexity of fundamental computational problems in pedigree analysis
• The infraNET Project Smart Community Seminar Series
  Wednesday, April 19, 2000 - 12:45 - 1:30 p.m., Ballroom, Waterloo Inn
  Richard Simpson, Dir General, Electronic Commerce, Industry Canada
  ``Electronic Commerce - Connecting Canadians to the Digital Economy''
  Pre-registration required - 888-9944
• Computer Science Seminar
  Monday, April 24, 2000
  10:30AM in DC 1302
  Todd Munson, University of Wisconsin
  Complementarity Applications and Algorithms

10. Garbage Collection