Meeting Agenda

Date:	May 5, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Zainab AlMeraj

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Matthew T.- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Craig
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	May 12, 2010	May 19, 2010	May 26, 2010	June 2, 2010
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet	Eugene Greene	Marshall Hahn
Technical Presentation:	Matthew Thorne	Zainab AlMeraj	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet

4. Technical Presentation

Mike Terry	Title : How Open Licenses Affect User Experience Abstract: Free/open source software is often criticized for its usability. However, the license itself actually has an impact on we interact with computers. In this talk, I'll describe how open licenses affect the experience of using computers today. I'll outline new opportunities these licenses create for computing, and also describe some of the primary new challenges that result from open licenses, completely independent from how the software is developed.

Mike Terry

Title : How Open Licenses Affect User Experience
Abstract:
Free/open source software is often criticized for its usability. However, the *license itself* actually has an impact on we interact with computers. In this talk, I'll describe how open licenses affect the experience of using computers today. I'll outline new opportunities these licenses create for computing, and also describe some of the primary new challenges that result from open licenses, completely independent from how the software is developed.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

We need a new CGL poster to replace the ancient one.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2010 May 05, 13:30 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Master's Thesis Presentation, DC 2314: Taylor Gordon, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Simultaneously Embedding Planar Graphs at Fixed Vertex Locations

2010 May 05 at 16:00- Computer Science Colloquium, MC5158: David McAllester (Toyota Technological Institute) Frequents vs. Bayesians, the PAC-Bayesian synthesis, and support vector machines.

2010 May 11 at 13:30, Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Seminar, MC 5136: Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project, Tor and censorship: lessons learned

Also see other Math and CS postings.