Meeting Agenda

Date:	Oct 15, 2007
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Marshall Hahn

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Elodie- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Mike Terry
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	Oct 22, 2007	Oct 29, 2007	Nov 5, 2007	Nov 12, 2007
Location:	CGL 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	CGL 1:30	CGL 1:30
Chair:	Craig Kaplan	Kate Kinnear	Ed Lank	Ghulam Lasharic
Technical Presentation:	Elodie Fourquet	Marshall Hahn	Craig Kaplan	Kate Kinnear

4. Technical Presentation

Jeff Dicker	Title : User Interface Management Abstract: What ever happened to The User Interface Management System? It failed in its own success: giving birth to better iterative interface development methods and better toolkits. However, conventional software methods have now fallen far behind state of the art HCI research, and a new paradigm of interface development will be needed to implement GUI's of the future.

Jeff Dicker

Title : User Interface Management

Abstract:
What ever happened to The User Interface Management System? It failed in its own success: giving birth to better iterative interface development methods and better toolkits. However, conventional software methods have now fallen far behind state of the art HCI research, and a new paradigm of interface development will be needed to implement GUI's of the future.

5. Discussion Items

October 28th is World Animation Day. The National Film Board is holding a bunch of events across Canada in celebration, including free animation screenings in Toronto on the 25th and 26th. There's information here: http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/animation-day/
lab tour on Nov 3rd, Need demos of cs488 projects.
images needed for grad recruiting brochure.

6. Action Items

Meetings in the lab on October 22, November 5, November 12.
coordinator needed for Nov 3rd lab tour

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

Discussed who pays for what in the Graphics Lab.
Discussed who is going to teach which courses.
There will be a CS888 held in the winter term. All students must audit it at the very least.

9. Seminars and Events

2007 Oct 15, 10:30 � Database Research Group Seminar
Goetz Graefe, HP Labs
Sorting and indexing with partitioned B-trees<

2007 Oct 17, 13:00 � Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar
Yves Lesperance, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, York University
Incremental Plan Recognition in an Agent Programming Framework

2007 Oct 17, 14:30 � Computer Graphics Research Group PhD Seminar
Jie Xu, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Computer-Generated Papercutting

2007 Oct 17, 16:00 � Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar
Anthony Bonato, Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Vertex pursuit games on models of complex networks

2007 Oct 19, 11:30 � Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar
Dana Wilkinson, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Subjective Mapping

2007 Oct 19, 13:30 � Symbolic Computation Group Seminar
Carlos Beltr�n, University of Toronto
Complexity and Geometry of Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations

2007 Oct 19, 14:00 � Networks and Distributed Systems PhD Seminar
Mumtaz Ahmad, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
External Query Scheduling in DBMS

2007 Oct 19, 14:30 � Programming Languages Lab Seminar
Igor Benko, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
Concurrency: Essential and Accidental Complexities

2007 Oct 20, 10:00 � Computer Science Seminar
Richard Karp, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Comp. Sci., Univ. California at Berkeley
Streaming Algorithms for Selection and Approximate Sorting

Also see other Math and CS postings.