Meeting Agenda


Date:	December 14th, 2005
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Shawn Morel

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: We did it... or was that us?
Coffee hour this week:: Christmas party
Coffee hour next week:: TBA

3. Forthcoming


Date:	December 21th	January 4th	January 11th	January 18th
Location:	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304
Chair:	Kevin Moule	Zheng Qin	Eoghan Sherry	Marceli Wein (off campus)? or Maria Wong
Technical Presentation:	Shawn Morel	Stephen Mann	Kevin Moule	Eoghan Sherry

4. Technical Presentation

Michael McCool

The Segmented Scan Vector Data-Parallel Programming Model

A scan operation is a data-parallel operation that computes all the partial sums of a vector with respect to some associative operator. A segmented form of this, in conjunction with segmented reduction operators, supports a general parallel programming model that can support recursively nested parallelism and data-parallel operations on irregular and nested data structures.

5. General Discussion Items

6. Action Items

Christmas Party, Friday. It will be at Bill's house.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 10:00AM - Computer Science , DC 1304

Elad Lahav: -- An Automaton-Theoretic View of Algebraic Specifications

Thursday, 15 December 2005, 1:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5136 [Newish]

Ross Willard: -- An introduction to non-dualisability, II

Friday, 16 December 2005, 11:30AM - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Group), DC 2306C (AI Lab)

Rejean Lau: -- A sentiment classification approach using stacked supervised learning incorporating web mined features

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