Meeting Agenda


Date:	January 25, 2006
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	12:30 PM
Chair:	Jie Xu

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Eoghan Sherry
Coffee hour this week:: Craig
Coffee hour next week:: ?

3. Forthcoming


Date:	February 1st	February 8th	February 15th	February 22th
Location:	DC1304	CGL	DC1304	DC1304
Chair:	Mark Belcarz	Paul Church	Bill Cowan	Gabriel Esteves
Technical Presentation:	Maria Wong	Jie Xu	Mark Belcarz	Paul Church

4. Technical Presentation

Eoghan Sherry

Title: Venti: a system for archival storage

Abstract: In this talk I will present a paper about a system, named Venti,
by Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward of Bell Labs. Venti is a block level
network storage server in which a hash of the stored data is used to uniquely
identify the data in the server. This leads to a write one policy and the
elimination of duplicate blocks. The result is that Venti can be used as a
building block for creating archival storage clients such as snapshot filesystems.

5. General Discussion Items

I3D 2006 call for participation: posters, demos and doctoral symposium deadline 2/4

Chinese new year celebration in the David Cheriton School of Computer Science, Jan 30, 2006.

6. Action Items

DC1304 will be unavailable on the following dates
- February 8th.
- March 8th.
- April 5th, 12th, 26th.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2006 Jan 25, 15:00, DC1302 -- Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research and The infraNet Project Smarter Health Seminar
Ian McKillop, CSCS and Health Studies and Gerontology, U. of Waterloo
Drowning in Data: What's a Healthcare Provider to Do?
Register: http://hi.uwaterloo.ca

2006 Jan 25, 15:30 DC1304 — Computer Science Seminar
Jeremy Barbay, The David Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
Adaptive Searching in Succinctly Encoded Structures

2006 Jan 27, 09:30 DC1331 — Networks and Distributed Systems Seminar
Paul Ward, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Man-in-the-Middle Attacks in Distributed Hash Tables

2006 Jan 27, 11:30 DC2306C— Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar
Zhenmei Gu, PhD candidate, The David Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Segment-based Hidden Markov Models for Information Extraction

2006 Jan 30, 14:00, DC2306C -- PhD Defence
Zhenmei Gu, PhD Candidate
Adaptive Information Extraction from Online Documents
(Supervisor: N. Cercone and F.J. Burkowski)

Friday, February 10, 2006 (rescheduled)
        School Achievements Reception
        ICR Corporate Partner Lounge (DC 1301)
        4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
2006 Feb 13, 11:00 -- Computer Science PhD Seminar
Dalia Krieger, PhD candidate, The David Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
On Critical Exponents in Fixed Points of Binary $k$-Uniform Morphisms

Also see other Math and CS postings.