Meeting Agenda

Date:	March 23rd, 2005
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	2:30 PM
Chair:	Stefanus Du Toit

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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Good Friday

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Volunteers

3. Forthcoming

Date:	March 30th	April 6th	April 13th	April 20th
Location:	DC1304	CGL	DC1304	DC1304
Chair:	Bill Cowan	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet	Jiwen Huo
Technical Presentation:	Bryan Chan	Bill Cowan	Gabriel Esteves	Stefanus Du Toit

4. Technical Presentation

Mark Belcarz

Title: A Method for Creating Dynamic and Interactive Texts

Abstract: For centuries, we have grown accustomed to the printed word and its static nature. For this reason, much effort is placed on trying to reproduce this quality in today's digital documents. On the other hand, we can also focus on what new possibilities the digital medium can allow us to bring to text. Is there a place for dynamic and interactive text, something that has never before been possible? I will present ActiveText, a library which attempts to do just that. I will also demonstrate the use of ActiveText in two prototype applications, It's Alive and TextOrgan.

5. General Discussion Items

• Recruitment: Adobe (San Jose, summer intern/full-time),
  Rhythm & Hues (LA, summer intern),
  Okino (Toronto, geometry specialist)
• Celine has an item

6. Action Items

• DC1304 will not be available Apr 6, and Apr 27.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 24 March 2005, 2:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1304

Jian Wang: -- Hedging with A Correlated Asset: An Insurance Approach

Monday, 28 March 2005, 10:30AM - Computer Science , DC 1331

Monday, 28 March 2005, 2:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1331