Meeting Agenda

August 08, 2001

Location:

DC1302

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Sofa Prime:

 

The Vince

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

  Celine Latulipe

Coffee hour this week:

  Erkan Akyuz

Coffee hour next week:

  Who's going to blink first?

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

 Ian Bell

Technical presentation:

 Erkan Akyuz

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1.  Bill Cowan (August 22)
2.  Margaret Dulat (August 29)
3.  Patrick Gilhuly (September 05)

Tech Presenters:

1.  Gladimir Baranoski (August 22)
2.  Ian Bell(August 29)
3.  Bill Cowan(August 29)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Jason Ang

Title: To ce or not to ce.

Abstract: I've always viewed C++ has a bloated language when it comes to performance applications. Since the language was introduced, however, there have been many improvements to the compilers as well as many books introduced regarding C++ efficiency. I will present the results of my own comparison between C and C++ on simple vector and matrix operations using current generation compilers.

6. General Discussion Items

Audience Additions Here!

7. Action List

• The Fridge Defrosting Ritual will be performed by Wayne on Friday or Saturday. Audience are requested to bring a case of beer each.
• If memory serves me right, I think we have stopped the search of the CGL laptop. Let's bow our heads for a moment of silence for our beloved laptop.

8. Conferences

• Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation 2001, Manchester, UK, September 2-3, 2001
• Conference Homepage - http://ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/cas2001.html
• 6th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia, Manchester, United Kingdom, September 8-9, 2001
• Conference Homepage - http://egmm2001.di.fct.unl.pt
• XIV Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Oct 5 - 18 , Florianópolis, Brazil
• Conference Homepage - http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/~sib2001
• 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)
• 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/
• CITO's Knowledge Network Conference 2001
• Detailed Information
• Graphics Interface 2002
  • paper deadline: November 18, 2001
• Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry - August 13-15, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
  • registrations: CAD$80 for students, CAD$160 for non-students
  • *or*, sneek into either DC1302 or DC1304 during the few talks you want to go to.. :)
  • Details - http://compgeo.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cccg01/ , or see Prof. Therese Biedl.
• Computer Graphics Forum - Cover Competition 2001 - August 31st
  • example http://vcg.iei.pi.cnr.it/cgf/cover.htm
  • first prize winner = 300 Swiss Francs (that's $267.892CAD according to XE)
  • Gladimir: "This is a good challenge for the artistic productions of CGL. If any CGL member wins it, it would a good exposure for the lab as well."
  • send results via email attachments to Claudio Rocchini

9. Director's Meeting

• O'Fearless leaders, show us the path to enlightenment.

10. Seminars