Meeting Agenda

Date:	July 19th, 2006
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	12:30 PM
Chair:	Tetsugo Inada

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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Elodie

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Mike T.

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3. Forthcoming

Date:	July 26th	August 2nd	August 9th	August 16th
Location:	DC 1304	DC 1304	DC 2303	DC 2303
Chair:	Gilad Israeli	Alex Kalaidjian	Ed Lank	Yi Lin
Technical Presentation:	Elodie Fourquet	Gabriel Esteves	Tetsugo Inada	Gilad Israeli

4. Technical Presentation

Bill Cowan	Title User Interface Algebras Abstract Algebraic formalization is a hugely effect technique for increasing human understanding of complex systems. Surprisingly perhaps, it has been little applied to increasing the learnability of user interfaces. This talk takes a few baby steps in formalizing user interfaces with modern abstract algebra.

5. General Discussion Items

6. Action Items

• DC1304 will be unavailable on the following dates:

  August 9th and August 16th.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

• 2006 Jul 19, 13:30 Computer Science (Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC1304
  Glencora L. Borradaile, Department of Computer Science, Brown University
  An O(n log n) algorithm for maximum st-flow in a directed

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup