Meeting Agenda

August 29, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Margaret Dulat

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Selina Siu

Coffee hour this week:

???

Coffee hour next week:

Vincent Ma

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, September 5, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Patrick Gilhuly

Technical presentation:

Margaret Dulat

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Ian Bell (September 12)
2. Rafal Jaroszkiewicz (September 19)
3. Daniel Koch (September 26)

Tech Presenters:

1. Patrick Gilhuly(September 12)
2. Ian Bell (September 19)
3. Rafal Jaroszkiewicz (September 26)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Bill Cowan

Title: How to hang a spoon

Abstract: Many otherwise well-read students are unaware of Joe Martin's classic, How to Hang a Spoon. The purpose of this talk is to introduce the important technical innovations he introduced into the art of spoon-hanging, and also to give an overview of the philosophy of intellectual life that he espoused, a philosophy more often associated with an earlier thinker, George Kauffman, and one that has a living tradition going back to the pre-Socratics.

6. General Discussion Items

• Jason Ang: Stuff on PC disks will vanish one of these days.

7. Action List

• September 6th, 2.00pm, Open house for new grad students.

8. Conferences

• 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/
• Graphics Interface 2002
  • paper deadline: November 18, 2001
• 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

10. Seminars

Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 4:00PM - Computer Science , DC 3313 Trausti Kristjansson: -- Simultaneous learning of nonlinear and linear distortion of speech in a Generalized EM Framework

Thursday, August 30, 2001, 1:30PM - Computer Science, DC 1304 Jodi Moran, graduate student: -- Master's Thesis Presentation " Quantitative Testing of Probabilistic Phase Unwrapping Methods

11. Lab Cleanup