MEETING-DATE:April 2nd, 2007
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1304
MEETING-TIME:1:30
MEETING-CHAIR:Paul Church
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COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:School Achievement Awards
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Holiday(Easter bunny)
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers?
FORTH-DATE1:April 9th
FORTH-DATE2:April 16
FORTH-DATE3:April 23
FORTH-DATE4:April 30
FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1304 1:30
FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1304 1:30
FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 2303 1:30
FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1304 1:30
FORTH-CHAIR1:Bill Cowan
FORTH-CHAIR2:Jeff Dicker
FORTH-CHAIR3:Gabriel Esteves
FORTH-CHAIR4:Elodie Fourquet
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FORTH-TP1:Jie Xu
FORTH-TP2:Paul Church
FORTH-TP3:Bill Cowan
FORTH-TP4:Jeff Dicker
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TPNAME:Michael Terry  
TPTITLE:Usability in the Wild
TPABSTRACT:Volunteer-driven open source projects lack the resources that commercial companies possess to pursue usability concerns. As a result, it is typically not known exactly who is using a particular piece of software, and for what purpose.<nl>                                                                                <nl>In this talk, I will present the design of Instrumented GIMP, or ingimp, a version of the GIMP that transparently collects usability data. These data are automatically uploaded to a central webserver where they are summarized and available for all to download and analyze. I will discuss the unique challenges of designing an application that automatically logs data that the general public will be able to access.
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SEMINARS:<ul class="space"<nl>><li<nl>><nl>2007 Apr 03<nl>, 11:00 — Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation<br<nl>>Denise Eng, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo<br<nl>>On the Application of Photoacoustic Absorption Spectral Data to the Modeling of Leaf Optical Properties</li<nl>><li<nl>><nl>2007 Apr 04<nl>, 13:30 — Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Seminar<br<nl>>Ian Goldberg, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo<br<nl>>Improving the Robustness of Private Information Retrieval</li<nl>><li<nl>><nl>2007 Apr 10, 13:30 — Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation<br<nl>>Anwar Haque, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Sci., Univ. Waterloo<br<nl>>Designing Survivable Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) Mesh Networks</li<nl>><li<nl>>2007 Apr 17, 10:30 — Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation<br<nl>>David Chodos, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo<br<nl>>A Web-based Statistical Analysis Framework</li<nl>></ul<nl>>