Meeting Agenda

April 11th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Sofa:

The Vince

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

volunteers?

Coffee hour next week:

volunteers?

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, April 18th, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Tim MacPherson (April 18th) 

Technical presentation:

Celine Latulipe (April 18th) 

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Bonny Liu(April 25th) 
2. Michael McCool (May 2nd) 
3. Joanne McKinley(May 9th) 

Tech Presenters:

1. Josée Lajoie (April 25th) 
2. Bonny Liu (May 2nd) 
3. The Vince (May 9th) 

5. Technical Presentation

Emcee:

Rick (MS-07B-3) Leung

Title:

Towards Seamless Support of Natural Collaborative Interactions

Abstract:

Due to the single-user paradigm imposed by the typical computer
interface, the level of collaboration and interaction conducted by
people in a computerized environment is often minimal compared to the
real-life counterparts. In order to shed some light on how this
situation could be improved, this study examines children's natural
interactions when working with a physical medium compared to a
computer-based environment.

6. General Discussion Items

• What's up with the weather lately?
• Why is it that it's so darned cold in the lab these days??
• Why is the vince so weird?

7. Action List

• I dunno

8. Conference Deadlines

• SIGGRAPH Eurographics Graphics Hardware Workshop - paper deadline April 11th
• Eurographics 2001: John Lansdown Multimedia Award for innovative multimedia content
  • Closing date for entries is April 12th 2001
  • Cash Prize
  • Full details at the EG2001 web site: http://www.eg.org/EG 2001
• Pacific Graphics, Japan, Oct 16 - 18, 2001
  • Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2001
• Computer Animation 2001, Seoul, Korea, November 6th-8th, 2001
  • April 30th: Paper submission deadline
  • Conference Hompage - http://www.ca2001.org
• UIST 2001 (November 11-14th, Orlando, Florida)
  • Paper, tech note, and demos submission deadline is May 11th
  • New this year - Interface Design Contest
    (design unique interface to a real-time game and then play the game against others at the conference)
  • Conference Homepage - http://www.acm.org/uist/

9. Director's Meeting

• Enlighten us, O'Fearless Leaders.

10. Seminars

Wednesday, 11 April 2001, 2:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5045

Ken Harrison: -- Complexity of worst-case identification of linear systems
 

Wednesday, 11 April 2001, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5136

Petra Huhn: -- Combinatorial Optimization Seminar - Probabilistic Analysis of Interior Point Methods for Linear Programs
 

Thursday, 12 April 2001, 2:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5136

Warren Hagey: -- A Survey of the Primal-Dual Method for Approximation Algorithms
 

Monday, 16 April 2001, 10:30AM - Computer Science , DC 1304

Joerg Sanders: -- Hierarchical Clustering for Knowledge Discovery in Databases
 

Monday, 16 April 2001, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5136

Charles Lam: -- Cryptography Seminar - Randomness of Several Elliptic Curve Sequences
 

Tuesday, 17 April 2001, 9:00AM-12:30PM - TRACE, Math & Computer, Room 2017

Facilitated by Donna Ellis -- TRACE Skills-based Workshop on "Course Design"
Register at http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infotrac/workhp.html  

11. Lab Cleanup

Sing:
If you're happy the vince is done talking, clap your hands!
If you're happy the vince is done yapping, stomp your feet!
la la la...