Meeting Agenda

Date:	April 20th, 2005
Location:	DC1331
Time:	2:30 PM
Chair:	Yi Lin

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Sandy Erin Celine
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Volunteers

3. Forthcoming

Date:	April 27th	May 4thth	May 11th	May 18th
Location:	CGL?	CGL?	CGL?	CGL?
Chair:	Gilad Israeli	Craig Kaplan<	Celine Latulipe	Erin Lester
Technical Presentation:	Stefanus Du Toit	Jiwen (Anne) Huo	Gilad Israeli	Craig Kaplan

4. Technical Presentation

Title: Reputation in Anonymous Interfaces

Abstract: This talk describes the role that reputation can play in improving

the effectiveness of interfaces where strangers interact. This talk first reviews
some emperical results on anonymous trust: the "trust game" and eBay feedback
system. Then, it describes a novel mechanism for increasing trust between strangers
in peer-to-peer systems.

5. General Discussion Items

We need an agreement on meeting time for the next term and booking a room.

6. Action Items

Note for future coming chair: Yi Lin and Jiwen (Ann) Huo have switched their turns as chairs. So the chair for May 25th should be Ann.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events


Thursday, 21 April 2005, 9:30AM - Computer Science (Distributed Systems Group), DC 1331 $[New!]$: Ann Lee: -- Listen and Whisper: Security Mechanisms in BGP
Thursday, 21 April 2005, 10:30AM - Computer Science , DC 1304 $[Newish]$: Haifeng Li: -- Bioinformatics with Learning Machines
Friday, 22 April 2005, 10:00AM - Computer Science , DC 1331: Sun Min Hong: -- Shape Modeling of Plant Leaves with Unstructured Meshes
Friday, 22 April 2005, 2:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1331 $[Newish]$: Robert Warren: -- Multi-column matching for database schema translation

Thursday, 28 April 2005, 2:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1304 $[Newish]$: Aziz Kara: -- A Quantum Algorithm for finding an epsilon-Approximate Mode
Thursday, 28 April 2005, 2:30PM - Computer Science (SE-Software Engineering Group), DC 1331 $[New!]$: Prof. Jane Hayes: -- Improving Requirements Tracing from the Analyst's Perspective (using Information Retrieval Techniques)
Friday, 29 April 2005, 9:30AM - Computer Science (SE-Software Engineering Group), DC 1304 $[New!]$: Prof. Alexander Dekhtyar: -- The ARCHway Project: Building Image-Based Electronic Editions of Historic Manuscripts