Meeting Agenda

Date:	August 2nd, 2006
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	12:30 PM
Chair:	Alex Kalaidjian

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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Gilad

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3. Forthcoming

Date:	August 9th	August 16th	August 23rd	August 30th
Location:	DC 2303	DC 2303	DC 1304	DC 1304
Chair:	Ed Lank	Yi Lin	Robin Liu	Curtis Luk
Technical Presentation:	Tetsugo Inada	Gilad Israeli	Curtis Luk	Ed Lank

4. Technical Presentation

Gabriel Esteves

Title Filesystems for the rest of us. One for each of us. Abstract The Unix filesystem has been often criticized for the lack of features and the misdesign of those it includes. Linux tried to provide a solution for unsatisfactory filesystems by providing a "Virtual Filesystem Switch" in the kernel which allowed the "plugging in" of more feature-complete filesystems. Even newer approaches allow filesystems to be written in user-space. In this talk I'll describe briefly this evolution, and look in some detail at the last stage, as it is incarnated in the FUSE ("Filesystem in Userspace") framework. In particular, I'd like to illustrate some of the projects that use FUSE and hopefully provide some insight into why would anyone want to write their own filesystem.

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 Aug 02, 13:30 — Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar
  Stavros Konstantinidis, Mathematics and Computing Science, Saint Mary's University
  Computing distances and error detecting capabilities of regular languages
• 2006 Aug 04, 14:00 — Software Engineering Research Group PhD Seminar
  Zarrin Langari, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
  Formal Modeling of Communication Protocols By Graph Transformation
• 2006 Aug 07, 15:30 — Networks and Distributed Systems PhD Seminar
  Majid Ghaderi, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
  Impact of Proportional Fair Scheduler on TCP Performance in CDMA Systems
• 2006 Aug 09, 10:30 — Computer Graphics Research Group Master's Thesis Presentation
  Michael Lam, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. of Waterloo
  ILIT: A Predictive Light Transport Model For The Human Iris

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup