Meeting Agenda

Date:	February 16, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Tiffany Inglis

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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

3. Forthcoming

Date:	February 23, 2012	March 1, 2012	March 8, 2012	March 15, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Craig Kaplan	Marta Kryven	Ben Lafreniere	Philippe Lamoureux
Technical Presentation:	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis	Craig Kaplan	Marta Kryven

4. Technical Presentation

Bill Cowan	Title : How innovation backrupts small firms Abstract: During the last three decades, the effect of innovation on market structure, especially innovation in computation, has been very different than was predicted by economics departments and business schools. Today I am going to talk about more modern ideas about what happens when new technology interacts with trying to make a profit. The, possibly unexpected, conclusion is that the limits to innovation do not lie within science or technology, but within the ability of institutions to restructure themselves in the presence of the unknown. It is therefore quite likely that a much slower rate of innovation will provide our gradchildren with better science and technology.

Bill Cowan

Title : How innovation backrupts small firms
Abstract:
During the last three decades, the effect of innovation on market structure, especially innovation in computation, has been very different than was predicted by economics departments and business schools. Today I am going to talk about more modern ideas about what happens when new technology interacts with trying to make a profit. The, possibly unexpected, conclusion is that the limits to innovation do not lie within science or technology, but within the ability of institutions to restructure themselves in the presence of the unknown. It is therefore quite likely that a much slower rate of innovation will provide our gradchildren with better science and technology.

5. Discussion Items

6. Action Items

The March 1st event. Quoted from Bill ``The Day when students are invited to come to labs. Also, when we fail to meet students we want to meet we get to meet them there."
The upcoming conferences scripts need to be repaired.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

PG12

Upcoming Deadlines

Feb 17, 2012: SMARTGREENS 2012 Authors Notification (regular papers)

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2012 Feb 16, 16:00 - Database Research Group Seminar
Arnon Sturm, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
A Methodology for Developing Secure Database Code

2012 Feb 23, 10:00 - Human-Computer Interaction PhD Seminar
Jaime Ruiz, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Designing Motion Gestures for Mobile Interaction

Also see other Math and CS postings.