Meeting Agenda

April 25th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Bonny Liu

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, May 2nd, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Michael McCool 

Technical presentation:

Bonny Liu 

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Joanne McKinley (May 9th) 
2. Kevin Moule (May 16th) 
3. Chris O'Sullivan (May 23th) 

Tech Presenters:

1. Vincent Ma (May 9th) 
2. Tim MacPherson (May 16th) 
3. Stephen Mann (May 23th) 

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Josée Lajoie

Title:

Patents for Software Inventions

Abstract:

Josee's husband Mark has been a patent agent for software inventions for the last 5 years. Josee has, over the years, learned many things about patents from Mark. In this presentation, Josee will introduce you to the basic knowledge she has learned about patents. She believes that this information might be useful to you, once you all become successful business entrepreneurs ;-)

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

8. Conference Deadlines

• 6th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia, Manchester, United Kingdom, September 8-9, 2001
  • Paper submission deadline: June 4, 2001
  • Conference Homepage - http://egmm2001.di.fct.unl.pt
• Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation 2001, Manchester, UK, September 2-3, 2001
  • Paper submission deadline: May 5, 2001
  • Conference Homepage - http://ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/cas2001.html
• 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

10. Seminars

Friday, 27 April 2001, 10:00AM, DC 1304

Dan Ford, IBM Almaden Research Center
Tempus Fugit ("Time Flies")
 

Friday, 27 April 2001, 2:00PM, DC 1304

Anitha Kannan
Product Analysis : Explaining Observations as Products of Hidden Variables
 

Friday, 27 April 2001, 3:30PM, DC 1316

Ning Zhang
Shortest Path Queries in Very Large Spatial Databases
 

Tuesday, 1 May 2001, 3:00PM, DC 1302

Dr. George L. Nemhauser, School of Industrial and Systems Enginnering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Large-Scale Discrete Optimization in Airline Scheduling
 

11. Lab Cleanup