Meeting Agenda

October 17, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Rick Leung

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Wayne Olive

Coffee hour this week:

Tim MacPherson

Coffee hour next week:

Daniel Koch

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, October 24th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Bonny Liu

Technical presentation:

Celine Latulipe

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Gladimir Baranoski (October 31) -- in lieu of Vincent Ma
2. Tim MacPherson (November 7)
3. Stephen Mann (November 14)

Tech Presenters:

1. Rick Leung (October 31)
2. Bonny Liu (November 7)
3. Gladimir Baranoski (November 14) -- in lieu of Vincent Ma

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Tim Lahey

Title: RenderMan: The Interface and Some Implementations

Abstract: RenderMan is a interface specfication for Computer Graphics models and renderers that is widely used in industry. This talk provides an overview of the interface specification and discusses some of the implementations.

6. General Discussion Items

• Replace your divots!
• Maggie's convocation and dinner
  • lunch at AM Africa @ 1:00pm
  • contact: Maggie or Selina by Friday
• A video cable has been connected from Ersh in the machine room to the work station in front of the projector screen. This can be used to do presentations in the lab.

7. Action List

• the making of up-to-date demos -- Josee?
• UT visit - Kevin

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

• Shape Modelling International 2002
  • International Conference on Shape Modelling
  • Submission Deadline: 22 October 2001
  • Banff, Alberta, Canada May 17 - 22, 2002
  • Web: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/smi2002/
• The 10-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2002
• Paper submission deadline: October 20, 2001
• General URL: http://wscg.zcu.cz
• Conference URL: http://wscg.zcu.cz/wscg2002/wscg2002.htm
• Venue: February 4 - 8, 2002, Pilsen (close to Prague), Czech Republic
• Contact person: Vaclav Skala - skala@kiv.zcu.cz
  fax +420-19-74 91 188 or +420-19-78 22 578
• The 2nd annual Interuniversity Workshop on Human Factors Engineering
• DATE: Saturday, November 3, 2001
• LOCATION: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• The purpose of this workshop is to bring students and researchers together from the local area to share research progress and ideas in human factors engineering. We intend this to be a very positive event that will be fun and constructive for everyone.
• Contact: Olivier St-Cyr (ostcyr@engmail.uwaterloo.ca)
• 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 submission deadline: November 18, 2001
  • General URL: www.graphicsinterface.org
  • Conference URL: www.cs.yorku.ca/~gi2002
  • Venue: May 27-29, 2002, University of Calgary
  • Contact: Michael McCool
• SIGGRAPH 2002
  • Paper submission deadline: 9 January 2002
  • Art gallery deadline: 6 February 2002
  • Computer Animation Festival: 6 March 2002
  • Sketches: 13 March 2002
  • General URL: www.siggraph.org
  • Conference URL: www.siggraph.org/s2002
  • Venue: 21-26 July 2002, San Antonio, TX
• CFP: COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN ART HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
  • Submissions due: January 15, 2002
  • Acceptance notices: April 20, 2002
  • Final Revisions due: June 1, 2002
• Third International Conference -- Virtual Reality and its Application in Industry
  • in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS
  • Call for papers: ???
  • April 10-12, 2002, Hangzhou, China
  • http://www.hziee.edu.cn/VRAI2002
• Graphics Hardware 2002
  • Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2002 (after SIGGRAPH rejections...)
  • General URL: www.graphicshardware.org
  • Venue: Saarbruecken, Germany (hosted by the MPII), right before Eurographics, which will be held in the same place (a two-for-one special).

9. Director's Meeting

Discussed possibility of holding demos for highschool students (winners from the UW math contests?) in the summer. The demos would have more of a CS flare than math. Volunteers / organizers will be needed.

10. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, October 17, 2001
   A Game on Interval Graphs or Finding Genes Using PCR
   Brona Brejova, Algorithms and Complexity, University of Waterloo
   3:30 - 4:30pm, DC1304

Friday, October 19, 2001
   Weekly SE Seminar Series
   10:30 - 11:30am, usually in DC1331

Wednesday, October 24, 2001
   The Coming of the First Personal Microcomputer
   Mers Kutt, All Computers
   11:30, CCB115, York University, Toronto

11. Lab Cleanup