MEETING-DATE:November 18, 2010
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331
MEETING-TIME:10:30
MEETING-CHAIR:Mike Terry 
MEETING-CHAIRPIC:mterry.jpg
COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Alex
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Jing's key
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Eugene
FORTH-DATE1:November 25, 2010
FORTH-DATE2:December 2, 2010
FORTH-DATE3:December 9, 2010
FORTH-DATE4:December 16, 2010
FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 10:30
FORTH-LOCATION2:CGL Lab
FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 10:30
FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 10:30
FORTH-CHAIR1:Matthew Thorne
FORTH-CHAIR2:Cherry Zhang
FORTH-CHAIR3:Zainab AlMeraj
FORTH-CHAIR4:Bill Cowan
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FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:cherry.jpg
FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:zainab.jpg
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FORTH-TP1:Jamie Ruiz
FORTH-TP2:Mike Terry 
FORTH-TP3:Matthew Thorne
FORTH-TP4:Cherry Zhang
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FORTH-TPPIC2:mterry.jpg
FORTH-TPPIC3:thorne.jpg
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TPNAME:Alex Pytel
TPTITLE:Scaling Issues in Procedural Modeling
TPABSTRACT:Generating detail at different levels of scale in just the right way is a central concern when modeling fractal-like objects. One of the challenges is achieving a realistic scaling of geometric features in respect to different ranges of scales and different spatial locations. In practice there are also additional considerations, such as how easy a given technique makes it to generate detail in a given range of scales and whether it suffers from artifacts like creasing. I will discuss several procedural modeling techniques and their properties related to scaling issues.
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DIONE:Internship available at Sybase. Talk to Craig
DITWO:Image processing job available at MathWorks. Talk to Mike
DITHREE:We will go to Side Effects sometime in January
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AIONE:Time for next month's lab meetings: Thursday 11:30.  The only date not available to you is March 24th.
AITWO:DC 1331 is not available on December 2, and neither is anything else (except perhaps the lab).
AITHREE:Stephen Mann will be tech presenter in place of Cherry Zhang<nl>in January.
AIFOUR:The holiday party will be sometime after December 16.<nl><p><nl>Copy for poster due next week from all students<nl><p><nl>Zainab needs to be removed from talk rotation.
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SEMINARS:<pre><nl>2010 Nov 22, 10:30 - Software Engineering Research Group Seminar<nl>DC 1302<nl>Dr. XING Zhenchang, National University of Singapore<nl>Model Differencing with GenericDiff and Its Applications<nl><nl>2010 Nov 24, 14:30 - Database Research Group Seminar<nl>DC 1331<nl>Kevyn Collings-Thompson, Microsoft Research<nl>Risk-aware Information Retrieval<nl><nl>2010 Nov 26, 14:30 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group PhD Seminar<nl>DC 1331<nl>Aleksander Essex, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>Hacking Democracy: An Election Fruadster's Tricks of the Trade<nl><nl>2010 Nov 26, 15:00 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Master's Thesis Presentation<nl>DC 2306C<nl>Derek Wang, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>Matching Rules and Market Share in an Electronic Trading Platform<nl><nl>2010 Nov 29, 14:00 - Software Engineering Research Group Master's Essay Presentation<nl>DC 1331<nl>Daniel Isaacs, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>Developers Like Requirements, Project Managers Don't<nl><nl>2010 Nov 29, 14:30 - Programming Languages Lab PhD Seminar<nl>DC 1304<nl>Roy Krischer, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>Improving the Usability of Asynchronous Exception Handling<nl><nl>2010 Dec 03, 14:00 - Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Thesis Defence<nl>DC 2306C<nl>Claus Strommer, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>Pursuing the Relations Between Saliency, Context, Intent, and Rhetorical Figures in Text Media<nl><nl>2010 Dec 03, 14:30 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group PhD Seminar<nl>MC 5136<nl>Jeremy Clark, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>Selections: An internet voting system with over-the-shoulder coercion resistance<nl><nl>2010 Dec 09, 13:00 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Master's Thesis Presentation<nl>DC 1331<nl>Ryan Henry, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>Nymbler: Privacy-enhanced Protection from Abuses of Anonymity<nl><nl>2010 Dec 13, 13:00 - Database Research Group PhD Thesis Defence<nl>DC 1331<nl>Ranked Retrieval in Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases<nl><nl>2010 Dec 16, 13:30 - Programming Languages Lab PhD Thesis Defence<nl>DC 1331<nl>Roy Krischer, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>Advanced Concepts in Asynchronous Exception Handling<nl></pre>