Meeting Agenda - 2000.12.13

December 13th, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Daming Yao 

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Wayne Olive

Coffee hour this week:

--

Coffee hour next week:

??

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, December 20th, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Wai-Min Yee (December 20th) 

Technical presentation:

Selina Siu (December 20th) 

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Erkan Akyuz (January 3rd) 
2. Jason Ang (January 10th) 
3. Ian Bell (January 17th) 

Tech Presenters:

1. Daming Yao (January 3rd) 
2. Wai-Min Yee (January 10th) 
3. Erkan Akyuz (January 17th) 

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Chris O'Sullivan 

Title:

Combating Cheating in Online Video Games

Abstract:

The gaming industry is now experiencing a major push to create online multi-player titles. If these titles are to be successful, designers and developers must ensure that proper measures are in place to guarantee fair gameplay. In this talk I will present some of the more interesting hacks that have been used, and the measures for combating these hacks. This talk is based on a recent article by Matt Pritchard, published on gamasutra.com.

6. General Discussion Items

• A second volume of Game Programming Gems is being compiled. You can find out more about it at www.satori.org/gems2. The deadline for Gem proposals is December 25th. -- Anis Ahmad
• Xmas party at Bill's place on the 14th of December, sometime after 6:00 PM.

7. Action List

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

10. Lab Cleanup