Meeting Minutes

Date:	April 19, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Matthew Thorne

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Grace- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Tiffany

Coffee hour next week:

Matthew

3. Forthcoming

Date:	April 26, 2012	May 3, 2012	May 10, 2012	May 17, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan	Zainab AlMeraj	Grace Yao	Elodie Fourquet
Technical Presentation:	Alex Pytel	Matthew Thorne	Bill Cowan	Zainab AlMeraj

4. Technical Presentation

Simon Parent	Title : My Forth Tech Talk Abstract: I will discuss the Forth programming language, with a focus on its philosophy for how we should develop software. This philosophy was radical in the 1970s, and is arguably even more so today.

5. Discussion Items

• None so far...

6. Action Items

• Discuss Curtis' performance on Top Chef Canada.

  Survived another round.

• Lab Retreat - update?

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

• Apr 24, 2012: PG12 Abstract submission

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2012 Apr 19, 14:00 : Networks and Distributed Systems Seminar Ant Rowstron, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

CamCube: Rethinking the data center cluster

 

2012 Apr 19, 15:00 : Human-Computer Interaction Master's Thesis Presentation Alec Azad, gradaute student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

Territoriality and Behaviour On and Around Large Vertical Publicly-Shared Displays

 

2012 Apr 20, 11:30 : Computer Science (Health Informatics), DC 2306C(AI Lab) Shehroz Khan

Cluster Center Initialization for Categorical Data Using Multiple Attribute Clustering

 

2012 Apr 23, 13:00 : Human-Computer Interaction PhD Thesis Defence Jaime Ruiz, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

Predicting Endpoint of Goal-Directed Motion in Modern Desktop Interfaces using Motion Kinematics

 

2012 Apr 24, 09:30 : Software Engineering Research Group PhD Thesis Defence Alma Juarez-Dominguez, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

Detection of Feature Interactions in the Automotive Active Safety Features

 

2012 Apr 25, 9:00 : Computer Science (Information Retrieval Group), DC 2314 John Akinyemi

Similarity and Diversity in Information Retrieval

 

2012 Apr 26, 10:00 : Scientific Computation Group Master's Thesis Presentation Jiong Xi, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

A Gradual Non-Convexation Penalty Method for Minimizing VaR

 

2012 Apr 26, 10:00 : Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar John Champaign, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton Schoo of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

An Annotations Approach to Peer Tutoring Incorporating the Modeling of Reputation

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup