Meeting Agenda

October 31st, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Gladimir Baranoski

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Daniel Koch
Coffee hour this week:: Alex Clarke
Coffee hour next week:: ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, November 7th, 2001
Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair:: Tim MacPherson
Technical presentation:: Bonny Liu

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

Stephen Mann (November 14th)
Michael McCool (November 21st)
Joanne McKinley (November 28th)

Tech Presenters:

Vincent Ma (November 14th)
Tim MacPherson (November 21st)
Stephen Mann (November 28th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Celine Latulipe

Title: An Introduction to USB

Abstract: I will briefly outline the development of the Universal Serial Bus. I will describe USB hardware, software, and performance, among other things.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

The making of up-to-date demos - Demo group
UT visit - Kevin
- November 24th Saturday

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

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

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).

Eighth Europgraphics Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE) 2002

May 30-31, 2001. Bacerlona, Spain
Paper submission deadline: December 16, 2001
General URL: http://www.lsi.upc.es/ve2002

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Friday, 2 November 2001 Symbolic Computations for Chemical Reaction Systems Karin Gatermann, SCG-Symbolic Computation Group, University of Waterloo, 1:00pm, MC5158
Monday, 5 November 2001, The Future of Simulation as a Method of Understanding Jaron Lanier, Computer Science, University of Waterloo 3:30pm, DC 1304