Meeting Agenda - 2000.04.12

April 12th, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

11:30 a.m.

Da La-z-Boy(tm):

Fat Vince and Normal Vince

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

It's Good Friday! No coffee hour.

Coffee hour next week:

mmm..coffee..yummy coffee

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, April 26, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

11:30 a.m. ?

Chair:

Stephen Mann  

Technical presentation:

Céline Latulipe  

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Mike McCool (May 3rd)
2. Kevin Moule (May 10th)
3. Chris O'Sullivan (May 17th)

Tech Presenters:

1. Marryat Ma (May 3rd) 
2. Vincent Ma (May 10th) 
3. Mike McCool (May 17th) To be swapped due to GI-2K

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Josée Lajoie  

Title:

The illusion of 3D in cartoon animation

Abstract:

Josee will present a brief history of the techniques that have
been used by animators over this last century to give animated
films a greater sense of depth. The presentation will show the
drawing and camera techniques used before and after computers
were introduced in the creation of animated films.

6. General Discussion Items

• Moving the CGL meeting time back to 1:30pm?!

7. Action List

• 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

• Sirrius board
• Jan Kautz
• Bell $$

9. Seminars

• 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
• Master's Thesis Presentation
  Wednesday, April 19, 2000 - 2:30PM
  Ambles W.K. Kock, graduate student, Dept. Computer Science
  "Active Transparent Caching"
  Abstract:
  This thesis presents Active Transparent Caching (ATC) a new
  Web caching infra-structure that utilizes network programmability to
  reduce routers workload and Web latency. Its salient features are
  cache table lookup and multicast by the routers. Specific design and
  implementation details of ATC are presented. Measurement results, and
  results based on an analytic model that show the performance advantage
  of ATC over traditional transparent caching are also presented.
• Algorithms and Complexity Group: Seminar
  Wednesday, 19 April 2000 at 3:30
  Therese Biedl, University of Waterloo
  "Orthogonal 3D-drawings with few bends per edge"
  Abstract:
  In this talk, we study orthogonal drawings of graphs. Specifically,
  we study three-dimensional orthogonal box-drawings with very few bends
  per edge. It is known that not every graph has a drawing without
  bends, so we focus on drawings with at most 1 bend per edge. It turns
  out that this restriction allows us to raise the known lower bounds to
  match upper bounds. Under some additional constraints, such drawings
  are even impossible.
• Computer Science: Seminar
  Thursday, 20 April 2000 at 11:00AM
  Jonathan Schaeffer, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
  "One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy at Checkers"
  Abstract:
  Arthur Samuel's pioneering machine learning papers are classics. Yet
  he is best remembered for his checkers-playing program. In 1963, his
  program defeated a human opponent in a single game, a milestone for
  the fledgling field of artificial intelligence. Since that historic
  encounter, checkers has been branded as a "solved" game. As a result,
  checkers was passed over in favour of using chess as an experimental
  testbed for artificial intelligence research. The 1963 game was an
  abberration. In 1994, the program Chinook became the official World
  Man-Machine Checkers Champion, finally realizing Samuel's dream.
  Along the way, there was an imposing obstacle to overcome: the
  unbeatable human World Champion, Dr. Marion Tinsley. And thus begins
  our story... Although initially begun as a research project, the
  Chinook effort soon changed directions and became a quest to defeat
  Tinsley. Instead of an impersonal contest between a man and a
  machine, it became a personal battle between two humans striving for
  supremacy at checkers. In this talk, the creator of Chinook presents
  the personal and technical sides of man versus machine for the World
  Checkers Championship.
• Computer Science Seminar
  Monday, April 24, 2000
  10:30AM in DC 1302
  Todd Munson, University of Wisconsin
  Complementarity Applications and Algorithms

10. Garbage Collection