Meeting Agenda

May 2nd, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Michael McCool

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Zheng Qin

Coffee hour next week:

volunteers?

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, May 9nd, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Joanne McKinley 

Technical presentation:

Vincent Ma 

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Kevin Moule (May 16th) 
2. Chris O'Sullivan (May 23th) 
3. Wayne Olive (May 30th) 

Tech Presenters:

1. Tim MacPherson (May 16th) 
2. Stephen Mann (May 23th) 
3. Michael McCool (May 30th) 

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Bonny Liu

Title:

The Visible Human Project

Abstract:

I will talk about some Visible Human Project's background information. Let you know what data are available. And then briefly explain CT and MRI.

6. General Discussion Items

• Should we change the time for the lab meeting this term?

7. Action List

• Preparations for renovation continue.

8. Conferences

• Graphics Interface: June 7-9, Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Registration deadline: May 15th.
  • Hotel deadline: May 15th
  • University dorm room deadline: May 6th
  • Student volunteers: ASAP, http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/gi2001/call-volunteers.html
  • Videos: ASAP; see web site
• 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
• Computer Animation 2001, Seoul, Korea, November 6th-8th, 2001
  • 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

Wednesday, May 2, 1:30, DC1304

Caroline Kierstead
The Application of Patterns to Concurrent Control Flow

Thursday, May 24, 1:30, DC1304

Ishfaz Ahmad
MPEG-4 Based Multimedia: Research Issues and Solutions

Friday, May 11th, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Sandford Fleming Building
10 King's College Road, U of T
Room 1105 (blue room)
Co-sponsored by: KMDI, TorCHI, CS and CITO
Making Machines Fit for Human Consumption
Jef Raskin
User Interface and System Design Consultant
Pacifica, California

12 June 2001, time and room to be determined

Jan Kautz
Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science
To be determined
 

11. Lab Cleanup