Meeting Minutes

Date:	March 10, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Stephen Mann

1. Attendance

* Xinling Chen * Elodie Fourquet * Eugene Greene * Marshall Hahn * Jingyuan Huang * Tiffany Inglis * Matthew Kay * Ben Lafreniere * Philippe Lamoureux * Stephen Mann * Zainab Meraj * Alex Pytel * Maxime Quiblier * Andrew Seniu * Mike Terry * Matthew Thorne * Cherry Zhang

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Ben Lafreniere- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Tiffany
Coffee hour next week:: Xinling

3. Forthcoming

Date:	March 17, 2010	March 24, 2010	March 31, 2010	April 7, 2010
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Zainab Meraj	Alex Pytel	Maxime Quiblier	Andrew Seniuk
Technical Presentation:	Philippe Lamoureux	Stephen Mann	Abdallah Rababah	Alex Pytel

4. Technical Presentation

Ben Lafreniere	Title : Designing Adaptable GIMP Abstract: We are currently designing Adaptable GIMP, a version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) that allows personalization by users, and sharing of personalizations between users of the software. In this talk, I'll present related work on community tailorable systems and task-based computing, present the research contributions that Adaptable GIMP is intended to provide, and share some initial mock-ups for its design.

Ben Lafreniere

Title : Designing Adaptable GIMP
Abstract:
We are currently designing Adaptable GIMP, a version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) that allows personalization by users, and sharing of personalizations between users of the software. In this talk, I'll present related work on community tailorable systems and task-based computing, present the research contributions that Adaptable GIMP is intended to provide, and share some initial mock-ups for its design.

5. Discussion Items

Abdallah Rababah will speak in place of Zainab on March 31.
Today's student interview - please go!

6. Action Items

We need a new CGL poster to replace the ancient one.
March-Break Lab Tour (Tues, March 16, 11am-1pm [TBC]) - This may not happen
Kartic Subr visits on April 5.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Mar 15, 2010: AGACSE 2010 Abstract submission deadline
Mar 15, 2010: Bridges 2010 Short paper submissions
Mar 15, 2010: SBIM-NPAR 2010 Paper Submissions

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2010 April 5, 10:30 Kartic Subr
Arcadia, UW Drama, March 11-13, 18-20, 8PM.
What do fractal geometry, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, chaos theory, classical horticulture, gothic architecture, carnal embrace, and Lord Byron's sex life have in common? They are all ingredients in Tom Stoppard's masterpiece comedy thriller Arcadia, the final UW Drama production of the 2009-2010 season.
2010 Mar 10, 14:30 - Database Research Group PhD Seminar
Mohamed Soliman, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Wrapper Induction from Noisy Examples
2010 Mar 16, 15:00 - Bioinformatics Group Seminar
Miklos Csuros, Universite de Montreal
Counting on phylogenies: ancestral reconstruction of numerical characters
2010 Mar 17, 16:00 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar
Phil Long, Google
On Noise-Tolerant Learning using Linear Classifiers
2010 Mar 19, 13:30 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Seminar
Rosario Gennaro (IBM Research)
Non-Interactive Verifiable Computing: Outsourcing Computation to Untrusted Workers

Also see other Math and CS postings.