4 <eventitem date="2003-10-21" time="4:30 PM - 5:30 PM" room="MC2065"
5 title=".NET & Linux: When Worlds Collide">
6 <short>A talk by James Perry</short>
9 <p>.NET is Microsoft's new development platform, including amongst
10 other things a language called C# and a class library for various
11 operating system services. .NET aims to be portable, although it is
12 currently mostly only used on Windows systems.</p>
14 <p>With the full backing of Microsoft, it seems unlikely that .NET
15 will disappear any time soon. There are several efforts underway to
16 bring .NET to the GNU/Linux platform. Hosted by the Computer Science
17 Club, this talk will discuss a number of the issues surrounding .NET
23 <eventitem date="2003-10-22" time="4:30 PM - 5:30 PM" room="MC4061"
24 title="Real-Time Graphics Compilers">
25 <short>Sh is a GPU metaprogramming language developed at the UW
26 Computer Graphics Lab</short>
29 <p>Sh is a GPU metaprogramming language developed at the University of
30 Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab. It allows graphics programmers to
31 write programs which run directly on the GPU (Graphics Processing
32 Unit) using familiar C++ syntax. Furthermore, it allows
33 metaprogramming of such programs, that is, writing programs which
34 generate other programs, in an easy and natural manner.</p>
36 <p>This talk will give a brief overview of how Sh works, the design of
37 its intermediate representation and the (still somewhat simplistic)
38 optimizer that the current reference implementation has and problems
39 with applying traditional compiler optimizations.</p>
41 <p>Stefanus Du Toit is an undergraduate student at the University of
42 Waterloo. He is also a Research Assistant for Michael McCool from the
43 University of Waterloo Graphics Lab. Over the Summer of 2003 Stefanus
44 reimplemented the Sh reference implementation and designed and
45 implemented the current Sh optimizer.</p>
49 <eventitem date="2003-10-17" time="3:00 PM" room="MC3001 (Comfy)"
50 title="Poster Team Meeting">
51 <short>More free pizza from the Poster Team</short>
53 <p>Are you interested in getting involved in the Computer Science
56 <p>Come on out to the second meeting of our Poster Team, a bunch of
57 students helping out with promotion for our events. The agenda for
58 this meeting will include painting posters, designing event
59 invitations, and organizing poster runs. Once again, we will be
60 serving free pizza!</p>
66 <eventitem date="2003-10-16" time="4:00 PM - 5:30 PM" room="MC2037"
67 title="UNIX 103: Development Tools">
68 <short>GCC, GDB, Make</short>
70 <p>This tutorial will provide you with a practical introduction to GNU
71 development tools on Unix such as the gcc compiler, the gdb debugger
72 and the GNU make build tool.</p>
74 <p>This talk is geared primarily at those mostly unfamiliar with these
75 tools. Amongst other things we will introduce:</p>
78 <li>gcc options, version differences, and peculiarities</li>
79 <li>using gdb to debug segfaults, set breakpoints and find out what's
81 <li>tiny Makefiles that will compile all of your 2nd and 3rd year CS
85 <p>If you're in second year CS and unfamiliar with UNIX development it
86 is highly recommended you go to this talk. All are welcome, including
87 non-math students.</p>
93 <eventitem date="2003-10-02" time="4:00 PM - 5:30 PM" room="MC2037"
94 title="UNIX 101: Text Editors">
95 <short>vi vs. emacs: The Ultimate Showdown</short>
98 Have you ever wondered how those cryptic UNIX text editors work? Have you
99 ever woken up at night with a cold sweat wondering "Is it CTRL-A, or CTRL-X
100 CTRL-A?" Do you just hate pico with a passion?</p>
102 <p>Then come to this tutorial and learn how to use vi and emacs!</p>
104 <p>Basic UNIX commands will also be covered. This tutorial will be especially
105 useful for first and second year students.</p>
110 <eventitem date="2003-10-06" time="4:00 PM" room="MC3001 (Comfy)"
111 title="Poster Team Meeting">
112 <short>Join the Poster Team and get Free Pizza!</short>
115 <li>Do you like computer science?</li>
116 <li>Do you like posters?</li>
117 <li>Do you like free pizza?</li>
119 <p>If the answer to one of these questions is yes, then come
120 out to the first meeting of the Computer Science Club Poster Team! The
121 CSC is looking for interested students to help out with promotion and
122 publicity for this term's events. We promise good times and free
127 <eventitem date="2003-09-17" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3001 (Comfy)"
128 title="CSC Elections">
129 <short>CSC Fall 2003 Elections</short>
131 <p>Elections will be held on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 at 4:30 PM in the
133 Comfy Lounge, MC3001.</p>
135 <p>I invite you to nominate yourself or others for executive positions,
136 starting immediately. Simply e-mail me at cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
137 with the name of the person who is to be nominated and the position
138 they're nominated for.</p>
140 <p>Nominees must be full-time undergraduate students in Math. Sorry!</p>
142 <p>Positions open for elections are:</p>
144 <ul><li>President: Organises the club, appoints committees, keeps everyone busy.
145 If you have lots of ideas about the club in general and like bossing
146 people around, go for it!</li>
148 <li>Vice President: Organises events, acts as the president if he's not
149 available. If you have lots of ideas for events, and spare time, go
152 <li>Treasurer: Keeps track of the club's finances. Gets to sign cheques
153 and stuff. If you enjoy dealing with money and have ideas on how to
154 spend it, go for it!</li>
156 <li>Secretary: Takes care of minutes and outside correspondence. If you
157 enjoy writing things down and want to use our nifty new letterhead
158 style, go for it!</li></ul>
160 <p>Nominations will be accepted until Tuesday, September 16 at 4:30 PM.</p>
162 <p>Additionally, a Sysadmin will be appointed after the elections. If you
163 like working with unix systems and have experience setting up and
164 maintaining them, go for it!</p>
166 <p>I hope that lots of people will show up; hopefully we'll have a great
167 term with plenty of events. We always need other volunteers, so if you
168 want to get involved just talk to the new exec after the
169 meeting. Librarians, webmasters, poster runners, etc. are always
172 <p>There will also be free pop.</p>
174 <p>Memberships can be purchased at the elections or at least half an hour
175 prior to at the CSC. Only undergrad math members can vote, but anyone can
182 <eventitem date="2003-07-31" time="4:30 PM" room="MC4064"
183 title="LaTeX and Work Reports">
184 <short>Writing beautiful work reports</short>
187 <p>The work report is a familiar chore for any co-op student. Not only is
188 there a report to write, but to add insult to injury, your report is
189 returned if you do not follow your departmental guidelines.</p>
191 <p>Fear no more! In this talk, you will learn how to use LaTeX and a
192 specially developed class to automatically format your work reports.
193 This talk is especially useful to Mathematics, Computer Science,
194 Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Software Engineeering co-op
195 students about to go on work term.</p>
198 href="http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~sfllaw/programs/uw-wkrpt/">http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~sfllaw/programs/uw-wkrpt/</a></p>
203 <eventitem date="2003-07-24" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
204 title="vi: the visual editor">
205 <short>It's not 6.</short>
208 <p>In 1976, a University of California Berkeley student by the name of
209 Bill Joy got sick of his text editor, ex. So he hacked it such that
210 he could read his document as he wrote it. The result was "vi", which
211 stands for VIsual editor. Today, it is shipped with every modern
212 Unix system, due to its global influence.</p>
214 <p>In this talk, you will learn how to use vi to edit documents
215 quickly and efficiently. At the end, you should be able to:</p>
218 <li>Navigate and search through documents</li>
219 <li>Cut, copy, and paste across documents</li>
220 <li>Search and replace regular expressions</li>
223 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent
224 to you for the duration of this class.</p>
229 <eventitem date="2003-07-24" time="3:00 PM" room="CSC Office" title="July
231 <short> See Abstract for minutes </short>
234 --paying Simon for Sugar
237 Expense this to MathSoc in lieu of foreign speaker.
239 --We currently have (including CD-R and pop-income not
240 currently in safe) $972.85
241 -We have $359.02 on budget that we can expense to MathSoc.
243 --We got MEF money for books and video card. Funding for
244 wireless microphone is dependent on whether MFCF is
246 -Funding for casters was denied.
247 -Shopping for the Video card.
248 -Expecting it after auguest (Stefanus shopping for it.)
249 -Will have to hear back regarding the microphone, best to
250 delay that now, discuss it with MEF.
251 -Better to do it this term, so it doesn't get lost.
252 -Let MFCF know about this concern.
253 -Regarding books, can be done anytime before September.
256 -Generally, Jim Eliot talk when really well.
257 -Apparently he was generally offensive.
258 -When was the LaTeX talk? End of the month.
259 -Kegger at Jim's place on the 16th.
261 --Getting people in on the 6th, 7th, 8th for csc commercials
263 -Hang out in here, and he'll make a CSC commercial.
264 -Co-ordinate when everyone should be in here, so we can email Jason.
267 -CEO needs it's database changed to use ISBN as a primary key.
268 -Needs functionality to take out/return books.
270 --Mark just entered financial stuff into GNUcash
272 --Choose CRO for next term.
273 -Stefanus has expressed desire not to be CRO.
274 -Gary Simmons was suggested (and he accepted)
277 --Mike Biggs has to get here naked.
278 -Four unanimous votes.
279 -Nakedness only applies to getting here, not being here.
283 ACTION ITEM: Biggs and Cass
284 -get labelmaker tape, masking tape
285 whiteboard makers, coloured paper, CD sleeves
286 -keep reciepts for CSC office expenses.
288 How is the progess on allowing executives and voters to be non-math
290 -The vote is coming up Monday.
291 -Proposal: Anyone who is a paying member can be a member
292 -So you can either do two things:
294 Get your faculty society to recognize CSC as a club.
296 Stefanus wanted to mention that we shoudl talk to Yolanda,
297 Craig or Louie about a EYT event for frosh week.
299 -Sugar Mountain trying to hook all the Frosh
303 Reminder for Next Year's executive.
304 -September 16th @ 5:00pm, get a table for Clubs day, and 17th
305 and 18th, maintain the booth (full day events).
308 -There should be executive before then
310 Note: There needs to be a private section in the CSC Procedures Manual.
311 (Only accessible by shell)
316 -Talk to Plantops about:
324 <eventitem date="2003-06-27" time="2:30 PM" room="DC1302"
325 title="Friday Flicks">
326 <short> SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre Showing </short>
329 SIGGRAPH is the ACM's Special Interest Group for Graphics and
330 simultaneously the world's largest graphics conference and
331 exhibition, where the cutting edge of graphics research is presented
334 With support from UW's Computer Graphics Lab, the CSC invites you to
335 capture a glimpse of SIGGRAPH 2002. We will be presenting the
336 Electronic Theatre showings from 2002, demonstrating the best of the
337 animated, CG-produced movies presented at SIGGRAPH.
338 </p><p> Don't miss this free showing!</p>
341 <eventitem date="2003-07-08" time="4:00 PM" room="MC2065"
342 title="Mainframes and Linux">
343 <short>A talk by Jim Elliott. Jim is responsible for IBM's in Open Source
344 activities and IBM's mainframe operating systems for Canada and the
348 Linux and Open Source have become a significant reality in the
349 working world of Information Technology. An indirect result has been a
350 "rebirth" of the mainframe as a strategic platform for enterprise
351 computing. In this session Jim Elliott, IBM's Linux Advocate, will provide
352 an overview of these technologies and an inside look at IBM's participation
353 in the community. Jim will examine Linux usage on the desktop, embedded
354 systems and servers, a reality check on the common misconceptions that
355 surround Linux and Open Source, and an overview of the history and current
356 design of IBM's mainframe servers.</p>
358 Jim Elliott is the Linux Advocate for IBM Canada. He is responsible
359 for IBM's participation in Linux and Open Source activities and IBM's
360 mainframe operating systems in Canada and the Caribbean. Jim is a popular
361 speaker on Linux and Open Source at conferences and user groups across the
362 Americas and Europe and has spoken to over 300 organizations over the past
363 three years. Over his 30 years with IBM he has been the co-author of over
364 15 IBM publications and he also coordinated the launch of Linux on IBM
365 mainframes in the Americas. In his spare time, Jim is addicted to reading
366 historical mystery novels and travel to their locales.
368 <p><a href="http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/events.html">Slides</a>
372 <eventitem date="2003-07-04" time="3:30 PM" room="University of Guelph"
374 <short>Come Visit the University of Guelph's Computer Science Club</short>
376 The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club is going to visit the
377 University of Guelph Computer Science Club. There will be a talk given
378 as well as dinner with a fun social atmosphere.</p><p>Drivers Wanted</p>
379 <p>Cancelled -- sorry Guelph cancelled on us.</p>
382 <eventitem date="2003-07-17" time="4:30 PM" room="MC4064"
384 <short>Metaprogramming your way to stunning effects.</short>
387 Modern graphics processors allow developers to upload small "shader
388 programs" to the GPU, which can be executed per-vertex or even
389 per-pixel during the rendering. Such shaders allow stunning effects to
390 be performed in real-time, but unfortunately aren't very easy to
391 program since one generally has to write them at the assembly level.
393 Recently a few high-level languages for shader programming have become
394 available. Sh, a result of research at UW, is one such language. It
395 allows programming powerful shaders in simple and intuitive ways. Sh
396 is particularily interesting because of the way it is
397 implemented. Instead of coming up with a language grammar and writing
398 a full-fledged compiler, Sh is implemented as a C++ library, and
399 shader programs are effectively written in C++. The actual compilation
400 then takes place in a manner similar to JIT (Just-in-time)
401 compilers. This has many advantages over the traditional approach,
402 including C++'s familiar syntax for users, and much less work for the
405 In this talk I will give an overview of GPUs and the Sh language as
406 well as some interesting details on how Sh was implemented.
407 </p><p> <!-- Is there a bio tag -->
408 Stefanus Du Toit is a research assistant at the University of
409 Waterloo. He has implemented the current version of Sh from scratch
410 and is actively developing it under supervision of Michael McCool, the
411 original designer of the language.
415 <eventitem date="2003-06-19" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
416 title="vi: the visual editor">
417 <short>It's not 6.</short>
420 <p>In 1976, a University of California Berkeley student by the name of
421 Bill Joy got sick of his text editor, ex. So he hacked it such that
422 he could read his document as he wrote it. The result was "vi", which
423 stands for VIsual editor. Today, it is shipped with every modern
424 Unix system, due to its global influence.</p>
426 <p>In this talk, you will learn how to use vi to edit documents
427 quickly and efficiently. At the end, you should be able to:</p>
430 <li>Navigate and search through documents</li>
431 <li>Cut, copy, and paste across documents</li>
432 <li>Search and replace regular expressions</li>
435 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent
436 to you for the duration of this class.</p>
441 <eventitem date="2003-06-12" time="3:30 PM" room="MC3036 CSC Office" title="June 12 Exec Meeting">
442 <short>Have an issue that should be brought up? We'd love to hear it!</short>
446 Budget: All the money we requested
447 --No money from Pints from Profs
448 --MathSoc has promised us $1250
450 Feedback from Completed Events
451 UNIX Talks: 17 people for first
452 --12 people for second
458 --People Jim didn't know talked to him for 1/2 hour
460 History of CSC talk went well
461 --Good variety of people
465 --Only 1 E& CE prof
467 --Jim will harrass the profs at the School of CS Council meeting.
469 We're starting to fall behind in planning
473 --Might have to move RSB back
474 --International site has a few test samples
475 --Stefanus had some ideas
476 --Coding will probably take an afternoon/evening
477 --We need volunteers to run the competition
478 --We have volunteers to code: Phil and Stefanus
480 ACTION ITEM: Phil and Stefanus
481 --code whatever you volunteered to code for.
483 --Mike intends to visit classes and directly advertise
484 --Email Christina Hotz
486 --GH guy: Mike has an abstract, will have posters by tomorrow
489 --Mathnet, Hackers, Wargames, Tron
490 --Mike will get a room
491 --Will be closed member
493 Mike McCool is offering rooms for showing SIGGRAPH
495 -check with Mike McCool.
498 -Make posters for Movie Nights
500 When is other movie night? (Will plan some time in July)
502 Who is our foreign speaker?
503 Action Item: jelliot@ca.ibm.com (Check name first) about
504 getting a foreign speaker -- Note: Has already been contacted.
506 Simon got money from Engsoc
508 Cass meeds coloured paper (CSC is out)
510 ACTION ITEM: Cass and Mark
511 --get labelmaker tape, masking tape,
512 whiteboard makers, coloured paper
513 --keep reciepts for CSC office expenses
515 NOTICE: Mike is now Imapd
517 Simon distibuted budget list
518 Mark got the money from Mathsoc for last budget, deposited it.
521 --Get MEF funding by July 4th (equipment)
523 --Get WEEF funding by June 27th (book)
525 Jim still working on allowing executives and voters to be
528 We get free photocopying from MathSoc
530 --write down code for free photocopying from MathSoc
532 Simon has been able to get into the cscdisk account, still
533 looking into getting into the cscceo account.
535 Damien got an e-mail stating that the files for cscdisk are
539 --provide SSH key to Phil for getting into cscdisk, cscceo, etc...
540 --Renumber bootup scripts for sugar and powerpc so that they
543 ACTION ITEM: Mike needs to do all the plantops stuff again.
545 ACTION ITEM: Mike -- "Stapler if you say please" sign.
547 CVS Tree for CEO has been exported.
548 Damien has volunteered to finish CEO (found by Cass)
550 All books with barcodes have been scanned
551 All books without barcodes need to be bar-coded.
554 --Find a Credit-card with a $500 or less limit.
556 Note: There needs to be a private section in the
557 CSC Procedures Manual. (Only accessible by shell)
559 Stefanus Wanted to mention that we should talk to
560 Yolanda, Craig or Louie about a EYT event for Frosh Week.
565 <eventitem date="2003-06-10" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2066"
566 title="A Brief History of Computer Science">
569 <p>War, insanity, espionage, beauty, domination, sacrifice, and tragic
570 death... not what one might associate with the history of computer
571 science. In this talk I will focus on the origin of our discipline in
572 the fields of engineering, mathematics, and science, and on the
573 complicated personalities that shaped its evolution. No advanced
574 technical knowledge is required.</p>
579 <eventitem date="2003-06-09" time="5:00 - 9:00 PM" room="The Grad House"
580 title="Pints with Profs!">
581 <short>Get to know your profs and be the envy of your friends!</short>
584 <p>Come out and meet your professors!! This is a great opportunity to
585 meet professors for Undergraduate Research jobs or to find out who you might
586 have for future courses. One and all are welcome!</p>
588 <p>Best of all... free food!!!</p>
593 <eventitem date="2003-05-29" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
594 title="Unix 101: First Steps With Unix">
595 <short>Learn Unix and be the envy of your friends!</short>
598 <p>This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of the
599 Unix Operating System. Unix is used in a variety of applications, both
600 in academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on experience
601 with the Math Faculty's Unix environment in this seminar.</p>
603 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
606 <li>Navigating the Unix environment</li>
607 <li>Using common Unix commands</li>
608 <li>Using the PICO text editor</li>
609 <li>Reading electronic mail and news with PINE</li>
612 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent
613 to you for the duration of this class.</p>
618 <eventitem date="2003-06-05" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
619 title="Unix 102: Fun With Unix">
620 <short>Talking to your Unix can be fun and profitable</short>
623 <p>This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of the
624 Unix Operating System. Unix is used in a variety of applications, both in
625 academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on experience with
626 the Math Faculty's Unix environment in this tutorial.</p>
628 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
631 <li>Interacting with Bourne and C shells</li>
632 <li>Editing text with the vi text editor</li>
633 <li>Editing text with the Emacs display editor</li>
634 <li>Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer</li>
637 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be
638 lent to you for the duration of this class</p>
643 <eventitem date="2003-06-12" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
644 title="Unix 103: Scripting Unix">
645 <short>You too can be a Unix taskmaster</short>
648 <p>This is the third in a series of seminars that cover the use of the
649 Unix Operating System. Unix is used in a variety of applications, both in
650 academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on experience with
651 the Math Faculty's Unix environment in this tutorial.</p>
653 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
656 <li>Shell scripting</li>
657 <li>Searching through text files</li>
658 <li>Batch editing text files</li>
661 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be
662 lent to you for the duration of this class</p>
667 <eventitem date="2003-05-22" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3036 CSC Office" title="May 22 Exec Meeting">
668 <short>The execs discuss what needs discussion</short>
672 Minutes for CSC Exec Meeting
676 * Add staff to burners group.
677 -- Only office staff (people who do stuff) on burners list
678 -- No objections from executives
680 * We still need a webmaster, imapd
682 --Check for pop delivery services (Like Grocery Gateway)
683 so that we can replace imapd with an automated cronjob
684 -- If this gets implemented, we must make sure that
685 someone is around to receive the pop whenever it is
690 -- Make sure execs receive a copy of the proposed budget
692 -- Look into claiming money from Mathsoc for the last
694 --Will be looked over the week after next Monday at the Mathsoc
696 --June 27th is the WEF (Engineering Endowment Fund) deadline
697 --EngSoc proposal for donations by the end of the month
698 -- Around 15 events planned
700 --CS Departmant will pay for flight
701 -- We can pay local expenses
705 *Changes in the MathSoc Clubs Policy
706 Action Item: Jim and Stefanus
707 --Bring thus up with MathSoc
708 --Might be good to talk to Bioinformatics about this, as
709 they have science faculty members to take care of as well.
710 --Major issue: People who revoke their Mathsoc fees can still be
712 --We want it so that only people who have paid dues to Mathsoc
714 --Execs should not take back fees, as that is bad form.
715 --All execs unanimously agreed with this proposal
717 *Confirming that we have free printing and photocopying
719 --Does Faculty of Math billing code apply to CSC
720 (as Faculty of Math department?)
721 -- Procedures manual has a billing code, but it should
723 -- Ask MUO, then Shirley after that.
725 --Apparently there is a special Watcard that provides
726 free printing from MFCF
727 --We do not know what account it is mapped to,
730 * Getting csc_disk, csc, csc_ceo accounts on undergrad to work again.
732 -- Get csc-disk back up for student use.
733 -- What group permissions do we need?
734 -- CSC-Disk should be used as a repository for custom
735 window managers, Mozilla, etc... (selling factor for
737 -- We should also have an announcement (MOTD, perhaps?)
738 that we are providing and supporting this software.
739 --Consider: Having university-wide accessible
740 binaries might be a pain, as different machines
741 might require different compilations.
742 -- CSC-Disk is full of user data. Should that be blown away?
744 *Getting locker #7 from MathSoc (Don't we already have lockers 788 and
746 --Why were the locks snipped? (Bring up at council meeting)
747 --We would prefer one combo-lock and one key-lock.
749 * Review of the CSC office organization
751 --Give Mike sudo access for shutdown
752 --Will be rewiring stuff on Saturday
753 --involves re-plugging machines
755 --Get rubber wheels for chairs
758 -- Ask PlantOps about:
760 --Installing Electronic Lock (asap)
761 --According to Faculty of Math,
762 we shouldn't need keys.
763 --Currently, we still need keys
764 --It is kosher to install Electronic lock
765 --This provides access right control as
766 compared to key-control.
767 --Might be long term project.
768 --Will green men do it?
769 --Steam-clean chairs (at least once a term)
771 --Making ugly wall prettier
772 --PlantOps knows about office
773 organization, making environment better.
774 --Whiteboards need to be put up
775 --Proposal: Cork-board on pillar (no objections)
776 --Metal frames on Whiteboard will be in least annoying place
778 *Do we provide public stapler access?
779 --People are often unappreciative and rude
780 --Sign - "Stapler if you say please" -- Unanimously voted
785 --Find out where to get CSC sign before Monday so we
786 can claim it in old budget.
790 --Find perl volunteer to finish CEO
791 --Force Stefanus to export CVS tree and put onto Peri
793 --Books were scanned into system with help of Mark
794 --All books with valid barcodes entered into system on
796 --Books without valid barcodes are not in system
797 --Someone needs to do it
798 --Plan is to implement Dewey decimal system
799 --May be inefficient as all books are about CS
800 --We will figure out a system later
801 --No plans to purchase new books
802 --Librarian's Request: Office Staff should not lend out books
803 that do not have barcodes (No objects to request)
804 --We are still using /media/iso/request to track books
805 --Should be charge late fees for books?
806 --We should have money in budget for repairing,maintaining books
807 --Before spending money on maintaining books, check if DC will
809 --will it be cheaper/easier/better?
811 *Setting up extra quota for fun and profit.
812 -- We don't implement quota properly right now
813 -- Low demand for extra quota
814 -- Counterpoint: Old CSC made tons of money
815 -- Counter-counter-point: It's not that necessary for extra
817 -- Executives voted against proposal.
819 *Jim will spam with an update about the term
820 --Consider making it opt-in
821 --One email from a service you are using should be considered
822 reasonable mass mailing
824 *Should Jim bring anything up at the MathSoc meeting?**
827 * Student branches for ACM and IEEE
829 --Contact IEEE Computing Society in UW and ask if they want
830 to merge or transfer society to us
831 --Simon volunteers to be put down as exec for ACM
832 --ACM rules state requirement that exec is a ACM member
833 --Do we renew Calum's ACM membership?
834 --Yes (3 Yes; 1 No; 1 Abstention)
835 --ACM membership money in budget
836 --ACM Student chapter form has not come in
838 * What to do with the donated Procedures Manual?
839 --Term Task for webpage:
840 --Put procedures manual on web-page.
841 --Merge with current manual
842 --We don't have a hard copy
843 --Would be a good thing to read.
844 --Many parts need updating
850 <eventitem date="2003-05-14" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3001 Comfy Lounge"
851 title="Spring 2003 Elections">
852 <short>Come on out and vote for your exec!</short>
854 <p>Elections will be held on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at 4:30 PM in the
855 Comfy Lounge, MC3001.</p>
857 <p>I invite you to nominate yourself or others for executive positions,
858 starting immediately. Simply e-mail me at sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca or
859 cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with the name of the person who is to be
860 nominated and the position they're nominated for.</p>
862 <p>Nominees must be full-time undergraduate students in Math. Sorry!</p>
864 <p>Positions open for elections are:</p>
868 President: Organises the club, appoints committees, keeps everyone busy.
869 If you have lots of ideas about the club in general and like bossing
870 people around, go for it!
874 Vice President: Organises events, acts as the president if he's not
875 available. If you have lots of ideas for events, and spare time, go
880 Treasurer: Keeps track of the club's finances. Gets to sign cheques
881 and stuff. If you enjoy dealing with money and have ideas on how to
886 Secretary: Takes care of minutes and outside correspondence. If you
887 enjoy writing things down and want to use our nifty new letterhead
892 <p>Nominations will be accepted until Tuesday, May 13 at 4:30 PM.</p>
894 <p>Additionally, a Sysadmin will be appointed after the elections. If you
895 like working with unix systems and have experience setting up and
896 maintaining them, go for it!</p>
898 <p>I hope that lots of people will show up; hopefully we'll have a great
899 term with plenty of events. We always need other volunteers, so if you
900 want to get involved just talk to the new exec after the
901 meeting. Librarians, webmasters, poster runners, etc. are always
904 <p>There will also be free pop, and if I remember, timbits :).</p>
906 <p>Memberships can be purchased at the elections. Only undergrad math
907 members can vote, but anyone can become a member.</p>
909 <p>Don't forget! Mark it on your calendar/wrist watch/PDA/brain implant!</p>
916 <eventitem date="2003-02-04" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
917 title="Unix 101 Tutorial">
918 <short>Learn Unix and be the envy of your friends!</short>
921 <p>This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of the
922 UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of applications, both
923 in academia and industy. We will provide you with hands-on experience
924 with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment in this seminar.</p>
926 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
929 <li> Navigating the UNIX environment</li>
930 <li> Using common UNIX commands</li>
931 <li>Using the PICO text editor</li>
932 <li>Reading electronic mail and news with PINE</li>
935 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent
936 to you for the duration of this class.</p>
941 <eventitem date="2003-02-11" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
942 title="Unix 102 Tutorial">
943 <short>Learn more Unix and be the envy of your friends!</short>
946 <p>Abstract to come soon.</p>
951 <eventitem date="2003-02-18" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
952 title="Unix 103 Tutorial">
953 <short>Learn more Unix and be the envy of your friends!</short>
956 <p>Abstract to come soon. </p>
961 <eventitem date="2003-01-13" time="6:00 PM" room="MC3001"
962 title="W03 Elections">
963 <short>Come out and vote for the new exec!</short>
966 <p>This term's elections will take place on Monday, January 13 at 6:00 PM in the
967 MC "comfy lounge" (MC3001). Nominations are open from now on (Thursday,
968 January 2) until 4:30 PM of the day before elections (Sunday, January 12).
969 In order to nominate someone you can either e-mail me directly, by depositing
970 a form with the required information in the CSC mailbox in the Mathsoc office
971 or by writing the nomination and clearly marking it as such on the large
972 whiteboard in the CSC office. E-mail is probably the best choice.
973 Please include the name of the person to be nominated as well as the position
974 you wish to nominate them for.</p>
976 <p>Candidates must be full members of the club. This means they must have paid
977 their membership for the given term and (due to recent changes in the
978 constitution) must be full-time undergraduate math students.
979 The same requirements hold for those voting. Please bring your Watcard to
980 the elections so that I can verify this. I will have a list of members with
983 <p>The positions open are:</p>
985 <p><b>President</b> -- appoints all commitees of the club, calls and presides at all
986 meetings of the club and audits the club's financial records. Really, this
987 is the person in charge.</p>
989 <p><b>Vice President</b> -- assumes President's duties in case he/she is absent,
990 plans and coordinates events with the programmes committee and assumes any
991 other duties delegated by the President.
992 This is a really fun job if you enjoy coordinating events!</p>
994 <p><b>Secretary</b> -- keeps minutes of the meetings and cares for any correspondence.
995 A fairly light job, good choice if you just want to see what being an exec
998 <p><b>Treasurer</b> -- maintains all the finances of the club.
999 If you like money and keeping records, this is the job for you!</p>
1001 <p>Additionally a Systems Administrator will be picked by the new executive.</p>
1003 <p>Last term was a great term for the CSC -- many events, some office renovations
1004 and a much improved image were all part of it. I hope to see the next term's
1005 exec continue this. If you're interested in seeing this happen, do consider
1006 going for a position, or helping out as office staff or on one of the
1009 <p>Anyways, hopefully I'll see many of you at the elections.
1010 Remember: Monday, January 13, 6:00 PM, MC3001/Comfy Lounge.</p>
1012 <p>If you have any further questions don't hesitate to contact the CRO,
1013 Stefanus Du Toit <a href="mailto:sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca">by e-mail</a>.</p>
1017 <eventitem date="2003-01-23" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1018 title="Regular Expressions">
1019 <short>Find your perfect match</short>
1022 <p>Stephen Kleene developed regular expressions to describe what he
1023 called <q>the algebra of regular sets.</q> Since he was a pioneering
1024 theorist in computer science, Kleene's regular expressions soon made
1025 it into searching algorithms and from there to everyday tools.</p>
1027 <p>Regular expressions can be powerful tools to manipulate text.
1028 You will be introduced to them in this talk. As well, we will go
1029 further than the rigid mathematical definition of regular
1030 expressions, and delve into POSIX regular expressions which are
1031 typically available in most Unix tools.</p>
1036 <eventitem date="2003-01-30" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1037 title="sed & awk">
1038 <short>Unix text editing</short>
1041 <p><i>sed</i> is the Unix stream editor. A powerful way to
1042 automatically edit a large batch of text. <i>awk</i> is a
1043 programming language that allows you to manipulate structured data
1044 into formatted reports.</p>
1046 <p>Both of these tools come from early Unix, and both are still
1047 useful today. Although modern programming languages such as Perl,
1048 Python, and Ruby have largely replaced the humble <i>sed</i> and
1049 <i>awk</i>, they still have their place in every Unix user's
1055 <eventitem date="2003-02-06" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1056 title="LaTeX: A Document Processor">
1057 <short>Typesetting beautiful text</short>
1060 <p>Unix was one of the first electronic typesetting platforms. The
1061 innovative AT&T <i>troff</i> system allowed researches at Bell
1062 Labs to generate high quality camera-ready proofs for their papers.
1063 Later, Donald Knuth invented a typesetting system called
1064 T<small>E</small>X, which was far superior to other typesetting
1065 systems in the 1980s. However, it was still a typesetting language,
1066 where one had to specify exactly how text was to be set.</p>
1068 <p>L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X is a macro package
1069 for the T<small>E</small>X system that allows an author to describe
1070 his document's function, thereby typesetting the text in an
1071 attractive and correct way. In addition, one can define semantic
1072 tags to a document, in order to describe the meaning of the
1073 document; rather than the layout.</p>
1078 <eventitem date="2003-02-13" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1079 title="LaTeX: Reports">
1080 <short>Writing reports that look good.</short>
1083 <p>Work term reports, papers, and other technical documents can be
1084 typeset in L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X to great
1085 effect. In this session, I will provide examples on how to typeset
1086 tables, figures, and references. You will also learn how to make
1087 tables of contents, bibliographics, and how to create footnotes.</p>
1089 <p> I will also examine various packages of
1090 L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X that can help you
1091 meet requirements set by users of inferior typesetting systems.
1092 These include double-spacing, hyphenation and specific margin
1098 <eventitem date="2003-02-20" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1099 title="LaTeX: Beautiful Mathematics">
1100 <short>LaTeX => fun</short>
1103 <p>It is widely acknowledged that the best system by which to
1104 typeset beautiful mathematics is through the T<small>E</small>
1105 typesetting system, written by Donald Knuth in the early 1980s.</p>
1107 <p>In this talk, I will demonstrate
1108 L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X and how to typeset
1109 elegant mathematical expressions.</p>
1114 <eventitem date="2003-02-27" time="6:00 PM" room="MC1085"
1115 title="The BSD License Family">
1116 <short>Free for all</short>
1119 <p>Before the GNU project ever existed, before the phrase
1120 "Free Software" was ever coined, students and researchers
1121 at the University of California, Berkeley were already
1122 practising it. They had acquired the source cdoe to a
1123 little-known operating system developed at AT&T
1124 Bell Laboratories, and were creating improvments at a
1127 <p>These improvements were sent back to Bell Labs, and
1128 shared to other Universities. Each of them were licensed
1129 under what is now known as the "Original BSD license". Find
1130 out what this license means, its implications, and what are
1131 its decendents by attending this short talk.</p>
1136 <eventitem date="2003-02-27" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1137 title="The GNU General Public License">
1138 <short>The teeth of Free Software</short>
1141 <div style="font-style: italic"><blockquote>
1142 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
1143 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General
1144 Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and
1145 change free software---to make sure the software is free for all
1148 <div style="text-align:right">--- Excerpt from the GNU GPL</div>
1151 <p> The GNU General Public License is one of the most influencial
1152 software licenses in this day. Written by Richard Stallman for the
1153 GNU Project, it is used by software developers around the world to
1154 protect their work.</p>
1156 <p>Unfortunately, software developers do not read licenses
1157 thoroughly, nor well. In this talk, we will read the entire GNU GPL
1158 and explain the implications of its passages. Along the way, we
1159 will debunk some myths and clarify common misunderstandings.</p>
1161 <p>After this session, you ought to understand what the GNU GPL
1162 means, how to use it, and when you cannot use it. This session
1163 should also give you some insight into the social implications of
1169 <eventitem date="2003-03-13" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1171 <short>Give your documents more markup</short>
1174 <p>XML is the <q>eXtensible Markup Language,</q> a standard
1175 maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium. A descendant of IBM's
1176 SGML. It is a metalanguage which can be used to define markup
1177 languages for semantically describing a document.</p>
1179 <p>This talk will describe how to generate correct XML documents,
1180 and auxillary technologies that work with XML.</p>
1185 <eventitem date="2003-03-20" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1187 <short>Transforming your documents</short>
1190 <p>XSLT is the <q>eXtended Stylesheet Language Transformations,</q>
1191 a language for transforming XML documents into other XML
1194 <p>XSLT is used to manipulate XML documents into other forms: a sort
1195 of glue between data formats. It can turn an XML document into an
1196 XHTML document, or even an HTML document. With a little bit of
1197 hackery, it can even be convinced to spit out non-XML conforming
1203 <eventitem date="2003-03-24" time="8:00 PM"
1204 room="Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall"
1205 title="Judy, or What Is It Like To Be A Robot?">
1206 <short>Held in co-operation with the UW Cognitive Science Club</short>
1209 <p>A lot of claims have been made lately about the intelligence of
1210 computers. Some researchers say that computers will eventually attain
1211 super-human intelligence. Others call thse claims... um, poppycock.
1212 Oddly enough, in the search for the truth of the matter, both camps
1213 have overlooked an obvious strategy: interviewing a computer and asking
1216 <p>"Judy is as much fun as a barrel of wind-up cymbal-monkeys, and
1217 lots more entertaining." --- Bill Rodriguez, <i>Providence Phoenix</i></p>
1219 <p>"Tom Sgouros's witty play, co-starring the charming robot Judy, is an
1220 imagination stretcher that delights while it exercises your mind. If you
1221 think you can't imagine a conscious robot, you're wrong---you can,
1222 especially once you've met Judy." --- Daniel C. Dennett,
1223 author of <i>Consciousness Explained</i>, <i>Brainchildren</i>,
1226 <p>"...an engrossing evening... Real questions about
1227 consciousness, freedom to act, the relationship between the creator
1228 and the created are woven into a bravura performance." --- Will
1229 Stackman, <i>Aislesay.com</i></p>
1231 <p>Sponsored by the Mathematics Society, the Federation of Students, the
1232 Arts Student Union, the Graduate Student Association, and the Department of
1233 Philosophy. Tickets available at the Humanities box office (888-4908) and
1234 the offices of the Psychology Society and the Computer Science Club for
1236 more information: <a
1237 href="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cogsci/">http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cogsci</a>.</p>
1242 <eventitem date="2003-03-25" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2065"
1243 title="Stream Processing">
1244 <short>A talk by Assistant Professor Michael McCool</short>
1247 <p>Stream processing is an enhanced version of SIMD processing that
1248 permits efficient execution of conditionals and iteration. Stream
1249 processors have many similarities to GPUs, and a hardware prototype,
1250 the Imagine processor, has been used to implement both OpenGL and
1253 <p>It is possible that GPUs will acquire certain properties
1254 of stream processors in the future, which should make them easier
1255 to use and more efficient for general-purpose computation that includes
1256 data-dependent iteration and conditionals.</p>
1261 <eventitem date="2003-03-26" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2065"
1262 title="Abusing the C++ Compiler">
1263 <short>Abusing template metaprogramming in C++</short>
1266 <p>Templates are a useful feature in C++ when it comes to writing
1267 type-independent data structures and algorithms. But that's not all
1268 they can be used for. Essentially, it is possible to write certain
1269 programs in C++ that execute completely at compile-time rather
1270 than run-time. Combined with some optimisations this is an interesting
1271 twist on regular C++ programming.</p>
1273 <p>This talk will give a short overview of the features of templates
1274 and then go on to describe how to "abuse" templates to perform complex
1275 computations at compile time. The speaker will present three programs of
1276 increasing complexity which execute at compile time. First a factorial
1277 listing program, then a prime listing program will be presented. Finally
1278 the talk will conclude with the presentation of a <i>Mandelbrot
1279 generator running at compile time.</i></p>
1281 <p>Some basic knowledge of C++ will be assumed.</p>
1286 <eventitem date="2003-03-27" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1287 title="SSH and Networks">
1288 <short>Once more into the breach</short>
1291 <p>The Secure Shell (SSH) has now replaced traditional remote login
1292 tools such as <i>rsh</i>, <i>rlogin</i>, <i>rexec</i> and
1293 <i>telnet</i>. It is used to provide secure, authenticated,
1294 encrypted communications between remote systems. However, the SSH
1295 protocol provides for much more than this.</p>
1297 <p>In this talk, we will discuss using SSH to its full extent. Topics
1298 to be covered include:</p>
1300 <li>Remote logins</li>
1301 <li>Remote execution</li>
1302 <li>Password-free authentication</li>
1303 <li>X11 forwarding</li>
1304 <li>TCP forwarding</li>
1305 <li>SOCKS tunnelling</li>
1313 date="1994-09-13" time="9:00 PM"
1314 room="Princess Cinema"
1315 title="Movie Outing: Brainstorm">
1317 No description available.
1321 The first of this term's CSC social events, we will be going to see
1322 the movie ``Brainstorm'' at the Princess Cinema. This outing is
1323 intended primarily for the new first-year students.
1326 The Princess Cinema is Waterloo's repertoire theatre. This month
1327 and next, they are featuring a ``Cyber Film Festival''. Upcoming
1332 <li>Bladerunner (director's cut)</li>
1333 <li>2001: A Space Odyssey</li>
1334 <li>Naked Lunch</li>
1337 Admission is $4.25 for a Princess member, $7.50 for a non-member.
1338 Membership to the Princess is $7.00 per year.
1343 date="1994-09-16" time="4:30 PM"
1345 title="CSC Elections">
1346 <short>No description available</short>
1347 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1350 date="1994-09-19" time="4:30 PM"
1352 title="UNIX I Tutorial">
1353 <short>No description available</short>
1354 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1357 date="1994-09-21" time="6:30 PM"
1359 title="SIGGRAPH Video Night">
1360 <short>No description available</short>
1361 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1364 date="1994-09-22" time="4:30 PM"
1366 title="UNIX I Tutorial">
1367 <short>No description available</short>
1368 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1371 date="1994-09-26" time="4:30 PM"
1373 title="UNIX II Tutorial">
1374 <short>No description available</short>
1375 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1378 date="1994-10-13" time="5:00 PM"
1380 title="Prograph: Picture the Future">
1381 <short>No description available</short>
1384 What is the next step in the evolution of computer languages?
1385 Intelligent agents? Distributed objects? or visual languages?
1388 Visual languages overcome many of the drawbacks and limitations
1389 of the textual languages that software development is based on
1390 today. Do you think about programming in a linear fashion? Or do
1391 you draw a mental picture of your algorithm and then linearize it
1392 for the benefit of your compiler? Wouldn't it be nice if you could
1393 code the same way you think?
1396 Visual C++ and Visual BASIC aren't visual languages, but Prograph
1397 is. Prograph is a commercially available, visual, object-oriented,
1398 data-flow language. It is well suited to graphical user interface
1399 development, but is as powerful for general-purpose programming as
1400 any textual language.
1403 The talk will comprise a discussion of the problems of textual
1404 languages that visual languages solve, a live demonstration of
1405 Prograph, and some of my observations of the applications of
1406 Prograph to software development.
1411 date="1994-10-15" time="10:00 AM"
1413 title="ACM-Style Programming Contest">
1414 <short>No description available</short>
1416 <h3>Big Money and Prizes!</h3>
1418 So you think you're a pretty good programmer? Pit your skills
1419 against others on campus in this triannual event! Contestants will
1420 have three hours to solve five programming problems in either C or
1424 Last fall's winners went on to the International Finals and came
1425 first overall! You could be there, too!
1430 date="1994-10-20" time="4:30 PM"
1432 title="Exploring the Internet">
1433 <short>No description available</short>
1435 <h3>Need something to do between assignments/beers?</h3>
1437 Did you know that your undergrad account at Waterloo gives you
1438 access tothe world's largest computer network? With thousands
1439 of discussion groups, gigabytes of files to download, multimedia
1440 information browsers, even on-line entertainment?
1443 The resources available on the Internet are vast and wondrous, but
1444 the tools for navigating it are sometimes confusing and arcane. In
1445 this hands-on tutorial you will get the chance to get your feet wet
1446 with the world's most mind-bogglingly big computer network, the
1447 protocols and programs used, and how to use them responsibly and
1453 date="1994-11-02" time="4:30 PM"
1455 title="Game Theory">
1456 <short>No description available</short>
1458 <h3>From the Minimax Theorem, through Alpha-Beta, and beyond...</h3>
1460 This will be a descussion of the pitfalls of using mathematics and
1461 algorithms to play classical board games. Thorough descriptions
1462 shall be presented of the simple techniques used as the building
1463 blocks that make all modern computer game players. I will use
1464 tic-tac-toe as a control for my arguements. Other games such as
1465 Chess, Othello and Go shall be the be a greater measure of progress;
1466 and more importantly the targets of our dreams.
1469 To enhance the discussion of the future, Barney Pell's Metagamer
1470 shall be introduced. His work in define classes of games is
1471 important in identifying the features necessary for analysis.
1478 <eventitem date="1999-10-18" time="2:30 PM" room="DC1304"
1479 title="Living Laboratories: The Future Computing Environments at
1481 <short>By Blair MacIntyre and Elizabeth Mynatt</short>
1483 <p>by Blair MacIntyre and Elizabeth Mynatt</p>
1484 <p>The Future Computing Environments (FCE) Group at Georgia Tech
1485 is a collection of faculty and students that share a desire to
1486 understand the partnership between humans and technology that
1487 arises as computation and sensing become ubiquitous. With
1488 expertise covering the breadth of Computer Science, but
1489 focusing on HCI, Computational Perception, and Machine
1490 Learning, the individual research agendas of the FCE faculty
1491 are grounded in a number of shared "living laboratories" where
1492 their research is applied to everyday life in the classroom
1493 (Classroom 2000), the home (the Aware Home), the office
1494 (Augmented Offices), and on one's person. Professors
1495 MacIntyre and Mynatt will discuss a variety of these projects,
1496 with an emphasis on the HCI and Computer Science aspects of
1500 In addition to their affiliation with the FCE group,
1501 Professors Mynatt and MacIntyre are both members of the
1502 Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU) at Georgia
1503 Tech. This interdisciplinary center brings together research
1504 in computer science, psychology, industrial engineering,
1505 architecture and media design by examining the role of
1506 computation in our everyday lives. During the talk, they will
1507 touch on some of the research and educational opportunities
1508 available at both GVU and the College of Computing.
1513 <eventitem date="1999-10-19" time="4:30 PM" room="DC1304"
1514 title="GDB, Purify Tutorial">
1515 <short>No description available.</short>
1518 Debugging can be the most difficult and time consuming part of
1519 any program's life-cycle. Far from an exact science, it's more
1520 of an art ... and close to some kind of dark magic. Cryptic
1521 error messages, lousy error checking, and icky things like
1522 implicit casts can make it nearly impossible toknow what's
1523 going on inside your program.
1526 Several tools are available to help automate your
1527 debuggin. GDB and Purify are among the most powerful
1528 debugging tools available in a UNIX environment. GDB is an
1529 interactive debugger, allowing you to `step' through
1530 aprogram, examine function calls, variable contents, stack
1531 traces and let you look at the state of a program after it
1532 crashes. Purify is a commercial program designed to help find
1533 and remove memory leaks from programs written inlanguages
1534 without automatic garbage collection.
1537 This talk will cover how to compile your C and C++ programs
1538 for use with GDB and Purify, as well as how to use the
1539 available X interfaces. If a purify license is available on
1540 undergrad at the time of the talk, we will cover how to use it
1546 <eventitem date="1999-12-01" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2066"
1547 title="Homebrew Processors and Integrated Systems in FPGAs">
1548 <short>By Jan Gray</short>
1552 <p> With the advent of large inexpensive field-programmable gate
1553 arrays and tools it is now practical for anyone to design and
1554 build custom processors and systems-on-a-chip. Jan will discuss
1555 designing with FPGAs, and present the design and implementation
1556 of xr16, yet another FPGA-based RISC computer system with
1557 integrated peripherals.</p>
1559 <p> Jan is a past CSC pres., B.Math. CS/EEE '87, and wrote
1560 compilers, tools, and middleware at Microsoft from 1987-1998. He
1561 built the first 32-bit FPGA CPU and system-on-a-chip in
1566 <eventitem date="1999-12-01" time="7:00 PM" room="Golf's Steakhouse"
1568 <short>End-of-term dinner</short>
1570 No abstract available.
1574 <eventitem date="1999-12-02" time="1:30 PM" room="DC1302"
1575 title="Calculational Mathematics">
1576 <short>By Edgar Dijkstra</short>
1578 <p> By Edgar Dijkstra</p>
1580 <p> This talk will use partial orders, lattice theory, and, if
1581 time permits, the Galois connection as carriers to illustrate
1582 the use of calculi in mathematics. We hope to show the brevity
1583 of many calculations (in order tofight the superstition that
1584 formal proofs are necessarily unpractically long), and the
1585 strong heuristic guidance that is available for their
1588 <p> Dijkstra is known for early graph-theoretical algorithms,
1589 the first implementation of ALGOL 60, the first operating system
1590 composed of explicitly synchronized processes, the invention of
1591 guarded commands and of predicate transformers as a means for
1592 defining semantics, and programming methodology in the broadest
1593 sense of the word. </p>
1595 <p> His current research interests focus on the formal
1596 derivation of proofs and programs, and the streamlining of the
1597 mathematical argument in general.</p>
1599 <p> Dijkstra held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer
1600 Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin until retiring in
1606 <eventitem date="1999-12-03" time="10:00 AM" room="Siegfried Hall,
1607 St Jerome's" title="Proofs and Programs">
1608 <short>By Edsger Dijkstra</short>
1610 <p> This talk will show the use of programs for the proving of
1611 theorems. Its purpose is to show how our experience gained in
1612 the derivations of programs might be transferred to the
1613 derivation of proofs in general. The examples will go beyond the
1614 (traditional) existence theorems. </p>
1616 <p> Dijkstra is known for early graph-theoretical algorithms,
1617 the first implementation of ALGOL 60, the first operating system
1618 composed of explicitly synchronized processes, the invention of
1619 guarded commands and of predicate transformers as a means for
1620 defining semantics, and programming methodology in the broadest
1621 sense of the word. </p>
1623 <p> His current research interests focus on the formal
1624 derivation of proofs and programs, and the streamlining of the
1625 mathematical argument in general.</p>
1627 <p> Dijkstra held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer
1628 Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin until retiring in
1634 <eventitem date="1999-12-03" time="3:00 PM" room="DC1351"
1635 title="Open Q&A session">
1636 <short>By Edsger Dijkstra</short>
1637 <abstract>No description available.</abstract>
1640 <!-- Winter 2000 -->
1642 <eventitem date="2000-03-24" time="4:30 PM" room="DC1304"
1643 title="Enterprise Java APIs and Implementing a Web Portal">
1644 <short>No description available.</short>
1646 <h3>by Floyd Marinescu
1650 The first talk will be an introduction to the Enterprise Java
1651 API's: Servlets, JSP, EJB, and how to use them to build
1656 The second talk will be about how these technologies were used
1657 to implement a real world portal. The talk will include an
1658 overview of the design patterns used and will feature
1659 architectural information about the yet to be release portal
1660 (which I am one of the developers) called theserverside.com.
1665 <eventitem date="2000-03-30" time="4:30 PM" room="DC1304"
1666 title="Enterprise Java APIs and Implementing a Web Portal (1)">
1667 <short>No description available.</short>
1669 <p>Real World J2EE - Design Patterns and architecture behind the
1670 yet to be released J2EE portal: theserverside.com</p>
1672 <p>This talk will feature an exclusive look at the architecture
1673 behind the new J2EE portal: theserverside.com. Join Floyd
1674 Marinescu in a walk-through ofthe back-end of the portal,
1675 while learning about J2EE and its real world patterns,
1676 applications, problems and benefits.</p>
1680 <!-- Spring 2000 -->
1682 <eventitem date="2000-07-20" time="7:00 PM" room="Ali Babas Steak
1683 House, 130 King Street S, Waterloo" title="Ctrl-D">
1684 <short>End-of-term dinner</short>
1685 <abstract>No abstract available.</abstract>
1690 <eventitem date="2000-09-14" time="6:00 PM" room="DC1302"
1691 title="CSC Elections">
1692 <short>Fall 2000 Elections for the CSC.</short>
1695 Would you like to get involved in the CSC? Would you like to have a
1696 say in what the CSC does this term? Come out to the CSC Elections!
1697 In addition to electing the executive for the Fall term, we will be
1698 appointing office staff and other positions. Look for details in
1702 <p>Nominations for all positions are being taken in the CSC office, MC
1707 <eventitem date="2000-09-14" time="7:00 PM" room="DC1302"
1708 title="SIGGraph Video Night">
1709 <short> SIGGraph Video Night Featuring some truly awesome computer
1710 animations from Siggraph '99. </short>
1712 <p> Interested in Computer Graphics?
1715 <p> Enjoy watching state-of-the-art Animation?
1718 <p> Looking for a cheap place to take a date?
1721 <p> SIGGraph Video Night -
1722 Featuring some truly awesome computer animations from Siggraph '99.
1725 <p>Come out for the Computer Science Club general elections at 6:00
1726 pm, right before SIGGraph!</p>
1730 <eventitem date="2000-09-25" time="2:30 PM" room="DC1302"
1731 title="Realising the Next Generation Internet">
1732 <short>By Frank Clegg of Microsoft Canada</short>
1737 <dd>Frank Clegg</dd>
1738 <dd>President, Microsoft Canada</dd>
1741 <dd>Monday, September 25, 2000</dd>
1743 <dd>14:30 - 16:00</dd>
1746 <dd>(Davis Centre, Room 1302, University of Waterloo)</dd>
1750 <dt>Pre-registration</dt>
1751 <dd>Recommended</dd>
1752 <dd><a HREF="http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca:81/infranet/semform.htm">http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca:81/infranet/semform.htm</a></dd>
1753 <dd>(519) 888-4004</dd>
1758 <p>The Internet and the Web have revolutionized our communications, our access
1759 to information and our business methods. However, there is still much room
1760 for improvement. Frank Clegg will discuss Microsoft's vision for what is
1761 beyond browsing and the dotcom. Microsoft .NET (pronounced "dot-net") is a
1762 new platform, user experience and set of advanced software services planned
1763 to make all devices work together and connect seamlessly. With this next
1764 generation of software, Microsoft's goal is to make Internet-based
1765 computing and communications easier to use, more personalized, and more
1766 productive for businesses and consumers. In his new position of president
1767 of Microsoft Canada Co., Frank Clegg will be responsible for leading the
1768 organization toward the delivery of Microsoft .NET. He will speak about
1769 this new platform and the next generation Internet, how software developers
1770 and businesses will be able to take advantage of it, and what the .NET
1771 experience will look like for consumers and business users.</p>
1773 <h3>The Speaker</h3>
1774 <p>Frank Clegg was appointed president of Microsoft Canada Co. this month.
1775 Prior to his new position, Mr. Clegg was vice-president, Central Region,
1776 Microsoft Corp. from 1996 to 2000. In this capacity, he was responsible for
1777 sales, support and marketing activities in 15 U.S. states. Mr. Clegg joined
1778 Microsoft Corp. in 1991 and headed the Canadian subsidiary until 1996.
1779 During that time, Mr. Clegg was instrumental in introducing several key
1780 initiatives to improve company efficiency, growth and market share. Mr.
1781 Clegg graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1977 with a B. Math.</p>
1783 <h3>For More Information</h3>
1785 Shirley Fenton<br />
1786 The infraNET Project<br />
1787 University of Waterloo<br />
1788 519-888-4567 ext. 5611<br />
1789 <a HREF="http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca/">http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca/</a>
1795 <!-- Winter 2001 -->
1797 <eventitem date="2001-01-15" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3036"
1798 title="Executive elections">
1799 <short>Winter 2001 CSC Elections.</short>
1801 <p>Would you like to get involved in the CSC? Would you like to
1802 have a say in what the CSC does this term? Come out to the CSC
1803 Elections! In addition to electing the executive for the
1804 Winter term, we will be appointing office staff and other
1805 positions. Look for details in uw.csc.
1808 Nominations for all positions are being taken in the CSC
1813 <eventitem date="2001-01-22" time="3:30 PM" room="MC3036"
1815 <short>Second CSC meeting for Winter 2001.</short>
1817 <h3>Proposed agenda</h3>
1819 <dt>Book purchases</dt>
1821 <p>They haven't been done in 2 terms.
1822 We have an old list of books to buy.
1823 Any suggestions from uw.csc are welcome.</p>
1828 <p>For doing linux burns. It was allocated money on the budget
1829 request - about $300. We should be able to get a decent 12x
1830 burner with that (8x rewrite).</p>
1831 <p>The obvious things to sell are Linux Distros and BSD variants.
1832 Are there any other software that we can legally burn and sell
1837 <p>Just a talk of the topics to be covered, when, where, whatnot.
1838 Mike was right on this one, this should have been done earlier
1839 in the term. Oh well, maybe we can fix this for next fall term.</p>
1842 <dt>Game Contest</dt>
1844 <p>We already put a bit of work into planning the Othello contest
1845 before I read Mike's post. I still think it's viable. I've got
1846 at least 2 people interested in writing entries for it. This
1847 will be talked about more on monday. Hopefully, Rory and I will
1848 be able to present a basic outline of how the contest is going
1849 to be run at that time.</p>
1851 <dt>Peri's closet cleaning</dt>
1854 <p>Current sysadmin (jmbeverl) and I (kvijayan) and
1855 President (geduggan) had a nice conversation about this 2
1856 days ago, having to do with completely erasing all of
1857 peri, installing a clean stable potato debian on it, and
1858 priming it for being a gradual replacement to calum. We'll
1859 probably discuss how much we want to get done on this
1860 front on Monday.</p>
1864 <p>Any <a HREF="nntp://news.math.uwaterloo.ca/uw.csc/8305">comments</a> from <a HREF="news:uw.csc">the newsgroup</a> are welcome.</p>
1868 <eventitem date="2001-01-27" time="10:30 AM" room="MC3006"
1869 title="ACM-Style programming contest">
1870 <short>Practice for the ACM international programming
1873 <p>Our ACM-Style practice contests involve answering five questions in three
1874 hours. Solutions are written in Pascal, C or C++. Seven years in a row,
1875 Waterloo's teams have been in the top ten at the world finals.
1876 For more information, see
1877 <a HREF="http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/">the contest web page</a>.</p>
1879 <h3>Easy Question:</h3>
1880 <p>A palindrome is a sequence of letters that reads the same backwards and
1881 forwards, such as ``Madam, I'm Adam'' (note that case doesn't matter and
1882 only letters are important). Your task is to find the longest palindrome in
1883 a line of text (if there is a tie, print the leftmost one).</p>
1887 asfgjh12dsfgg kj0ab12321BA wdDwkj abBA
1888 abcbabCdcbaqwerewq abCdcba
1891 <h3>Hard Question:</h3>
1892 <p>An anagram is a word formed by reordering the letters of another word.
1893 Find all sets of anagrams that exist within a large dictionary. The
1894 input will be a sorted list of words (up to 4000 words), one per line.
1895 Output each set of anagrams on a separate line. Each set should be
1896 in alphabetical order, and all lines of sets should be in alphabetical
1897 order. A word with no anagrams is a set of anagrams itself, and should
1898 be displayed with no modifications.</p>
1911 <eventitem date="2001-01-29" time="02:39 PM" room="MC3036"
1913 <short>No description available.</short>
1914 <abstract>No abstract available.</abstract>
1917 <eventitem date="2001-02-05" time="03:30 PM" room="MC3036"
1919 <short>No description available.</short>
1920 <abstract>No abstract available.</abstract>
1923 <eventitem date="2001-02-12" time="03:30 PM" room="MC3036"
1925 <short>No description available.</short>
1926 <abstract>No abstract available.</abstract>
1929 <!-- Spring 2001 -->
1931 <eventitem date="2001-06-02" time="10:30 AM" room="MC3006"
1932 title="ACM-Style programming contest">
1933 <short>Practice for the ACM international programming
1936 <p>Our ACM-Style practice contests involve answering five questions in three
1937 hours. Solutions are written in Pascal, C or C++. Seven years in a row,
1938 Waterloo's teams have been in the top ten at the world finals.
1939 For more information, see
1940 <a HREF="http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/">the contest web page</a>.</p>
1942 <h3>Easy Question:</h3>
1943 <p>A palindrome is a sequence of letters that reads the same backwards and
1944 forwards, such as ``Madam, I'm Adam'' (note that case doesn't matter and
1945 only letters are important). Your task is to find the longest palindrome in
1946 a line of text (if there is a tie, print the leftmost one).</p>
1950 asfgjh12dsfgg kj0ab12321BA wdDwkj abBA
1951 abcbabCdcbaqwerewq abCdcba
1954 <h3>Hard Question:</h3>
1955 <p>An anagram is a word formed by reordering the letters of another word.
1956 Find all sets of anagrams that exist within a large dictionary. The
1957 input will be a sorted list of words (up to 4000 words), one per line.
1958 Output each set of anagrams on a separate line. Each set should be
1959 in alphabetical order, and all lines of sets should be in alphabetical
1960 order. A word with no anagrams is a set of anagrams itself, and should
1961 be displayed with no modifications.</p>
1975 <!-- Winter 2002 -->
1977 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:00 PM"
1978 room="Comfy Lounge MC3001"
1979 title="An Introduction to GNU Hurd">
1980 <short>Bored of GNU/Linux? Try this experimental operating
1983 <p>GNU Hurd is an operating system kernel based on the microkernel
1984 architecture design. It was the original GNU kernel, predating Linux,
1985 and is still being actively developed by many volunteers.</p>
1986 <p>The Toronto-area Hurd Users Group, in co-operation with the Computer
1987 Science Club, is hosting an afternoon to show the Hurd to anyone
1988 interested. Jeff Bailey, a Hurd developer, will give a presentation on
1989 the Hurd, followed by a GnuPG/PGP keysigning party. To finish it off,
1990 James Morrison, also a Hurd developer, will be hosting a Debian
1991 GNU/Hurd installation session.</p>
1992 <p>All interested are invited to attend. Bring your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint
1993 and mail your key to sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject
1994 ``keysigning'' (see separate announcement).</p>
1995 <p>Questions? Suggestions? Contact <a
1996 href="ja2morri@uwaterloo.ca">James Morrison</a>.</p>
1999 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:30 PM"
2000 room="Comfy Lounge MC3001"
2001 title="GnuPG/PGP Keysigning Party">
2002 <short>Get more signatures on your key!</short>
2005 GnuPG and PGP provide public-key based encryption for e-mail and
2006 other electronic communication. In addition to preventing others
2007 from reading your private e-mail, this allows you to verify that an
2008 e-mail or file was indeed written by its perceived author.
2011 In order to make sure a GnuPG/PGP key belongs to the respective
2012 person, the key must be signed by someone who has checked the
2013 user's key fingerprint and verified the user's identification.
2016 A keysigning party is an ideal occasion to have your key signed by
2017 many people, thus strengthening the authority of your key. Everyone
2018 showing up exchanges key signatures after verifying ID and
2019 fingerprints. The Computer Science Club will be hosting such a
2020 keysigning party together with the Hurd presentation by THUG (see
2021 separate announcement). See
2022 <a href="http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~sjdutoit/"> the
2023 keysigning party homepage</a> for more information.
2026 Before attending it is important that you mail your key to
2027 sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject ``keysigning.'' Also make
2028 sure to bring photo ID and a copy of your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint on
2029 a sheet of paper to the event.
2033 <eventitem date="2002-01-31" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
2034 title="UNIX 101: First Steps With UNIX">
2036 This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of
2037 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
2038 applications, both in academia and industy. We will be covering
2039 the basics of the UNIX environment, as well as the use of PINE, an
2040 electronic mail and news reader.
2043 <eventitem date="2002-02-13" time="4:00 PM" room="MC4060"
2044 title="DVD-Video Under Linux">
2045 <short>Billy Biggs will be holding a talk on DVD technology
2046 (in particular, CSS and playback issues) under Linux, giving some
2047 technical details as well as an overview of the current status of
2048 Free Software efforts. All are welcome.</short>
2050 <p>DVD copy protection: Content Scrambling System (CSS)</p>
2052 <li>A technical introduction to CSS and an overview of the ongoing
2053 legal battle to allow distribution of non-commercial DVD
2055 <li>The current Linux software efforts and open issues</li>
2056 <li>How applications and Linux distributions are handling the
2057 legal issues involved</li>
2059 <p>DVD-Video specifics: Menus and navigation</p>
2061 <li>An overview of the DVD-Video standard</li>
2062 <li>Reverse engineering efforts and their implementation status</li>
2063 <li>Progress of integration into Linux media players</li>
2067 <eventitem date="2002-02-07" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
2068 title="Unix 102: Fun With UNIX">
2069 <short>This the second in a series of UNIX tutorials. Simon Law and
2070 James Perry will be presenting some more advanced UNIX
2071 techniques. All are welcome. Accounts will be provided for those
2072 needing them.</short>
2075 This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of
2076 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
2077 applications, both in academia and industry. We will provide you
2078 with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment
2081 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
2083 <li>Interacting with Bourne and C shells</li>
2084 <li>Editing text using the vi text editor</li>
2085 <li>Editing text using the Emacs display editor</li>
2086 <li>Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer</li>
2089 If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will
2090 be lent to you for the duration of this class.
2094 <eventitem date="2002-03-01" time="5:00 PM" room="MC4060"
2095 title="Computer Go, The Ultimate">
2096 <short>Thomas Wolf from Brock University will be holding a talk on
2097 the asian game of Go. All are welcome.</short>
2100 The asian game go is unique in a number of ways. It is the oldest
2101 board game known. It is a strategy game with very simple
2102 rules. Computer programs are very weak despite huge efforts and
2103 prizes of US$ > 1.5M for a program beating professional
2104 players. The talk will quickly explain the rules of go, compare go
2105 and chess, mention various attempts to program go and describe our
2106 own efforts in this field. Students will have an opportunity to
2107 solve computer generated go problems. Prizes will be available.
2112 <!-- Spring 2002 -->
2114 <eventitem date="2002-05-11" time="7:00 PM" room="MC3036" title="S02
2116 <short>Come and vote for this term's exec</short>
2119 Vote for the exec this term. Meet at the CSC office.
2127 <eventitem date="2002-09-16" time="5:30 PM" room="Comfy lounge"
2128 title="F02 elections">
2129 <short>Come and vote for this term's exec</short>
2132 Vote for the exec this term. Meet at the comfy
2133 lounge. There will be an opportunity to obtain or renew
2134 memberships. This term's CRO is Siyan Li
2135 (s8li@csclub.uwaterloo.ca).
2140 <eventitem date="2002-09-30" time="6:30 PM" room="Comfy lounge, MC3001"
2141 title="Business Meeting">
2142 <short>Vote on a constitutional change.</short>
2145 The executive has unanimously decided to try to change our
2146 constitution to comply with MathSoc policy. The clause we are trying
2147 to change is the membership clause. The following is the proposed new
2148 reading of the clause.
2151 In compliance with MathSoc regulations and in recognition of
2152 the club being primarily targeted at undergraduate students, full
2153 membership is open to all undergraduate students in the Faculty of
2154 Mathematics and restricted to the same.</i>
2158 The proposed change is illustrated <a
2159 href="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/docs/constitution-change-20020920.html">on
2164 There will be a business meeting on 30 Sept 2002 at 18:30 in
2165 the comfy lounge, MC 3001. Please come and vote
2170 <eventitem date="2002-09-26" time="5:30 PM" room="MC3006"
2172 <short>First Steps with UNIX</short>
2175 Get to know UNIX and be the envy of your friends!
2178 This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use
2179 of the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
2180 applications, both in academia and industy. We will provide
2181 you with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX
2182 environment in this seminar.
2185 Topics that will be discussed include:
2188 <li>Navigating the UNIX environment</li>
2189 <li>Using common UNIX commands</li>
2190 <li>Using the PICO text editor</li>
2191 <li>Reading electronic mail and news with PINE</li>
2194 If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be
2195 lent to you for the duration of this class.
2200 <eventitem date="2002-10-01" time="6:30 PM-9:30 PM" room="The Bomber"
2201 title="Pints with the Profs">
2202 <short>Get to know your profs and be the envy of your friends!</short>
2204 <p>Come out and meet your professors. This is a great opportunity to
2205 meet professors for Undergraduate Research jobs or to find out who you might
2206 have for future courses.</p>
2208 <p>Profs who have confirmed their attendance are:</p>
2210 <li>Troy Vasiga, School of Computer Science</li>
2211 <li>J.P. Pretti, St. Jerome's and School of Computer Science</li>
2212 <li>Michael McCool, School of Computer Science, CGL</li>
2213 <li>Martin Karsten, School of Computer Science, BBCR</li>
2214 <li>Gisli Hjaltason, School of Computer Science, DB</li>
2217 <p>There will also be...</p>
2226 <eventitem date="2002-10-03" time="5:30 PM" room="MC3006"
2228 <short>Talking to your UNIX can be fun and profitable.</short>
2230 <p>This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of
2231 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of applications,
2232 both in academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on
2233 experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment in this
2236 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
2237 <ul><li>Interacting with Bourne and C shells</li>
2238 <li>Editing text using the vi text editor</li>
2239 <li>Editing text using the Emacs display editor</li>
2240 <li>Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer</li>
2243 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be
2244 lent to you for the duration of this class.</p>
2249 <eventitem date="2002-10-08" time="4:30PM" room="MC4045"
2250 title="Video cards, Linux display drivers and the Kernel Graphics Interface (KGI)">
2251 <short>A talk by Filip Spacek, KGI developer</short>
2253 Linux has proven itself as a reliable operating system but arguably,
2254 it still lacks in support of high performance graphics
2255 acceleration. This talk will describe basic components of a PC video
2256 card and the design and limitations the current Linux display driver
2257 architecture. Finally a an overview of a new architecture, the Kernel
2258 Graphics Interface (KGI), will be given. KGI attempts to solve the
2259 shortcomings of the current design, and provide a lightweight and
2260 portable interface to the display subsystem.
2264 <eventitem date="2002-10-10" time="5:30pm" room="MC3006"
2267 <abstract>No abstract available yet.</abstract>
2270 <eventitem date="2002-11-05" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 2065"
2271 title="The Evil Side of C++">
2272 <short>Abusing template metaprogramming in C++; aka. writing a
2273 Mandelbrot generator that runs at compile time</short>
2275 <p>Templates are a useful feature in C++ when it comes to writing
2276 type-independent data structures and algorithms. Relatively soon
2277 after their appearance it was realised that they could be used to
2278 do much more than this. Essentially it is possible to write
2279 certain programs in C++ that execute <i>completely at compile
2280 time</i> rather than run time. Combined with constant-expression
2281 optimisation this is an interesting twist on regular C++
2283 <p>This talk will give a short overview of the features of
2284 templates and then go on to describe how to "abuse"
2285 templates to perform complex computations at compile time. The
2286 speaker will present three programs of increasing complexity which
2287 execute at compile time. First a factorial listing program, then a
2288 prime listing program will be presented. Finally the talk will
2289 conclude with the presentation of a <b>Mandelbrot generator running
2290 at compile time</b>.</p>
2292 <p>If you are interested in programming for the fun of it, the C++
2293 language or silly tricks to do with languages, this talk is for
2294 you. No C++ knowledge should be necessary to enjoy this talk, but
2295 programming experience will make it more worthwile for you.</p>
2297 </abstract> </eventitem>
2299 <eventitem date="2002-11-02" time="11:00AM-3:00PM"
2300 room="MC3002 (Math Coffee and Donut Store)"
2301 title="GNU/Linux InstallFest with KW-LUG and UW-DIG">
2302 <short>Bring over your computer and we'll help you install GNU/Linux</short>
2304 <p>The <a href="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">CSC</a>, the <a
2305 href="http://www.kwlug.org/">KW-Linux User Group</a>, and the <a
2306 href="http://uw-dig.uwaterloo.ca/">UW Debian Interest Group</a>
2307 are jointly hosting a GNU/Linux InstallFest. GNU/Linux is a
2308 powerful, free operating system for your computer. It is mostly
2309 written by talented volunteers who like to share their efforts
2310 and help each other.</p>
2312 <p>Perhaps you have are you interested in installing GNU/Linux.
2313 If so, bring your computer, monitor and keyboard; and we will
2314 help you install GNU/Linux on your machine. You can also find
2315 knowledgable people who can answer your questions about
2320 <h3>Frequently Asked Questions</h3>
2322 <p><b>Q: </b>What is GNU/Linux?<br />
2323 <b>A: </b>GNU/Linux is a free operating system for your computer. It is mostly
2324 written by talented volunteers who like to share their efforts.
2327 <p><b>Q: </b>Free?<br />
2328 <b>A: </b>GNU/Linux is available for zero-cost. As well, it allows you such
2329 freedom to share it with your friends, or to modify the software to
2330 your own needs and share that with your friends. It's very friendly.
2333 <p><b>Q: </b>What is an InstallFest?<br />
2334 <b>A: </b>An InstallFest is a meeting where volunteers help people install
2335 GNU/Linux on their computers. It's also a place to meet users, and
2336 talk to them about running GNU/Linux.
2339 <p><b>Q: </b>What kind of computer do I need to use GNU/Linux?<br />
2340 <b>A: </b>Almost any recent computer will do. If you have an old machine
2341 kicking around, you can install GNU/Linux on it as well. If it is
2342 at least 5 years old, it should be good enough.
2345 <p><b>Q: </b>Can I have Windows and GNU/Linux on the same computer?<br />
2346 <b>A: </b>If you can run Windows now, and you have an extra gigabyte (GB) of
2347 disk space to spare; then it should be possible.
2350 <p><b>Q: </b>What should I bring if I want to install GNU/Linux?<br />
2351 <b>A: </b>You will want to bring:</p>
2354 <li>Monitor and monitor cable</li>
2355 <li>Power cords</li>
2356 <li>Keyboard and mouse</li>
2362 <eventitem date="2002-11-07" time="5:30pm" room="MC4063"
2363 title="The GNU General Public License">
2364 <short>The teeth of Free Software</short>
2369 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom
2370 to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License
2371 is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
2372 software---to make sure the software is free for all its users.
2373 </i><br/>--- Excerpt from the GNU GPL
2376 <p>The GNU General Public License is one of the most influencial
2377 software licenses in this day. Written by Richard Stallman for the
2378 GNU Project, it is used by software developers around the world to
2382 Unfortunately, software developers do not read licenses thoroughly, nor
2383 well. In this talk, we will read the entire GNU GPL and explain the
2384 implications of its passages. Along the way, we will debunk some myths
2385 and clarify common misunderstandings.
2388 After this session, you ought to understand what the GNU GPL means, how
2389 to use it, and when you cannot use it. This session should also give
2390 you some insight into the social implications of this work.
2395 <eventitem date="2002-11-19" time="4:30pm" room="MC4058"
2396 title="Metaprogramming GPUs">
2397 <short>A talk by Michael McCool of the Computer Graphics Lab.</short>
2400 Modern graphics accelerators, or "GPUs", have embedded high-performance
2401 programmable components in the form of vertex and fragment shading units.
2402 Recently, these units have evolved from 8-bit computations to floating-point,
2403 and other operations provide array gather, scatter, and summation.
2404 These capabilities make GPUs akin to array processors of the
2405 past, but with a difference: every PC now has one! I am interested
2406 in finding the best way to exploit this computational capacity for not
2407 only graphics but for general-purpose computation.
2409 Current APIs permit specification of the programs for GPUs
2410 using an assembly-language level interface. Compilers for high-level
2411 shading languages are available, such as NVIDIA's Cg, and OpenGL 2.0 and
2412 DirectX will also include standardized shading languages. This talk will
2413 review these. However, compilers for these languages read in an external
2414 string specification, which can be inconvenient.
2416 However, it is possible, using standard C++, to define a high-level
2417 shading language directly in the API. Such a language can be nearly
2418 indistinguishable from a special-purpose programming language, yet
2419 permits more direct interaction with the specification of textures
2420 (arrays) and parameters, simplifies implementation, and enables
2421 on-the-fly generation, manipulation, and specialization of shader programs.
2422 A shading language built into the API also permits the lifting of
2423 C++ host language type, modularity, and scoping constructs into the shading
2424 language without any additional implementation effort. Such an
2425 embedded language could be used to program other embedded processors
2426 (such as DSP chips in sound cards) or even to generate machine language
2427 on the fly for the host CPU.
2432 <eventitem date="2002-11-16" time="1:30pm" room="York University"
2433 title="Trip to York University">
2434 <short>Going to visit the York University Computer Club</short>
2435 <abstract><p>YUCC and the UW CSC have having a join meeting at York
2436 University. Dave Makalsky, the President of YUCC, will be giving a talk on
2437 Design-by-constract and Eiffel. Stefanus Du Toit, Vice-President of the UW
2438 CSC, will be giving a talk on the evil depths of the black art known as C++.
2440 <ul><li>1:30pm: Leave UW</li>
2441 <li>3:00pm: Arrive at York University.</li>
2442 <li>3:30pm: The Evil side of C++</li>
2443 <li>4:30pm: Design-by-Contract and Eiffel</li>
2444 <li>6:00pm: Dinner</li>
2445 <li>9:00pm: Arrive back at UW</li>
2450 <eventitem date="2002-11-21" time="6:00pm" room="MC2066"
2452 <short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
2455 Perl, the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language can only
2456 be described as an eclectic language, invented and refined by
2457 a deranged system administrator, who was trained as a
2458 linguist. This man, however, has declared:
2462 Perl 5 was my rewrite of Perl.
2463 I want Perl 6 to be the community's rewrite of Perl and of the
2465 </i><br/>--- Larry Wall
2468 Whenever a language is designed by a committee, it is common
2469 wisdom to avoid it. Not so with Perl, for it cannot get
2470 worse. However strange these Perl people seem, Perl 6 is a
2471 good thing coming. In this talk, I will demonstrate some Perl
2472 5 programs, and talk about their Perl 6 counterparts, to show
2473 you that Perl 6 will be cleaner, friendlier, and prettier.
2478 <eventitem date="2002-11-21" time="4:30pm" room="MC2066"
2479 title="Samba and You">
2480 <short>A talk by Dan Brovkovich, Mathsoc's Computing Director</short>
2482 Samba is a free implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB)
2483 protocol. It also implements the Common Internet File System (CIFS)
2484 protocol, used by Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP to share files and
2486 SMB was originally developed in the early to mid-80's by IBM and was
2487 further improved by Microsoft, Intel, SCO, Network Appliances, Digital
2488 and many others over a period of 15 years. It has now morphed into CIFS,
2489 a form strongly influenced by Microsoft. </p><p>
2490 Samba is considered to be one of the key projects for the acceptance of
2491 GNU/Linux and other Free operating systems (e.g. FreeBSD) in the
2492 corporate world: a traditional Windows NT/2000 stronghold. </p><p>
2493 We will talk about interfacing Samba servers and desktops with the
2494 Windows world. From a simple GNU/Linux desktop in your home to the
2495 corporate server that provides collaborative file/printer sharing,
2496 logons and home directories to hundreds of users a day. </p>
2500 <eventitem date="2002-10-26" time="1:30PM" room="MC2066"
2501 title="GNU/Linux on HPPA">
2502 <short>Carlos O'Donnell talks about "the last of the legacy processors to fall before the barbarian horde"</short>
2504 <p>This whirlwind talk is aimed at providing an overview of the
2505 GNU/Linux port for the HP PARISC processor. The talk will focus on
2506 the "intricacies" of the processor, and in particular the
2507 implementations of the Linux kernel and GNU Libc. After the talk
2508 you should be acutely aware of how little code needs to be written
2509 to support a new architecture! Carlos has been working on the port
2510 for two years, and enjoying the fruits of his labour on a 46-node
2515 Carlos is currently in his 5th year of study at the University
2516 of Western Ontario. This is his last year in a concurrent
2517 Computer Engineering and Computer Science degree. His research
2518 interest range from distributed and parallel systems to low
2519 level optimized hardware design. He likes playing guitar and
2520 just bought a Cort NTL-20, jumbo body, solid spurce top with
2521 a mahogany back. Carlos hacks on the PARISC Linux kernel, GNU libc,
2522 GNU Debugger, GNU Binutils and various Debian packages.
2529 <eventitem date="2002-10-26" time="3:00PM" room="MC2066"
2530 title="The Hurd Interfaces">
2531 <short>Marcus Brinkmann, a GNU Hurd developer, talks about the Hurd server interfaces, at the heart of a GNU/Hurd system</short>
2533 <p>The Hurd server interfaces are at the heart of the Hurd system. They
2534 define the remote procedure calls (RPCs) that are used by the servers, the
2535 GNU C library and the utility programs to communicate with the Hurd system
2536 and to implement the POSIX personality of the Hurd as well as other
2539 <p>This talk is a walk through the Hurd RPCs, and will give an overview of how
2540 they are used to implement the system. Individual RPCs will be used to
2541 illustrate important or exciting features of the Hurd system in general,
2542 and it will be shown how those features are accessible to the user at the
2543 command line, too.</p>
2547 <p>Marcus Brinkmann is a math student at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum in
2548 Germany. He is one of maintainers of the GNU Hurd project and the
2549 initiator of the Debian GNU/Hurd binary distribution. He designed and
2550 implemented the console subsystem of the Hurd, wrote the FAT filesystem
2551 server, and fixed a lot of bugs, thus increasing the stability and
2552 usability of the system.</p>
2557 <eventitem date="2002-10-26" time="4:30PM" room="MC2066"
2558 title="A GNU Approach to Virtual Memory Management in a Multiserver Operating System">
2559 <short>Neal Walfield, a GNU Hurd developer, talks about a possible Virtual Memory Management subsystem for the GNU Hurd</short>
2561 <p>Virtual memory management is one of the cornerstones of multiuser
2562 operating systems. Most systems available today place all of the
2563 policy in a monolithic virtual memory manager, VMM, isolated from the
2564 rest of the system. Although secure and lightweight, users have no
2565 way to communicate their anticipated memory needs and usage to the
2566 system pager. As a result, the VMM can only implement a global paging
2567 policy (typically, an approximation of LRU) which may be good on
2568 average but is best for nobody.</p>
2570 <p>With the port of Hurd to the L4 microkernel, this situation is being
2571 readdressed. Due to its more distributed nature, a centralized
2572 resource manager is not only more difficult to implement efficiently
2573 but also contrary to the philosophy of the rest of the system. We are
2574 currently exploring a model whereby each program is fully self-paged
2575 and all compete for memory from a physical memory server. This talk
2576 will first discuss how paging currently works in Mach and other
2577 systems. An argument for an external paging policy will then be
2578 presented followed by the requirements of such a design and the design
2583 <p>Neal Walfield, a GNU Hurd developer, is from the University of Massachusetts
2584 Lowell. Neal spent the summer of 2002 at University of Karlsruhe working
2585 on porting the GNU Hurd to L4.</p>
2590 <eventitem date="2002-10-17" time="5:30PM" room="MC2065"
2591 title="Debian in the Enterprise">
2592 <short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
2594 <p>The Debian Project produces a "Universal Operating System" that is
2595 comprised entirely of Free Software. This talk focuses on using Debian
2596 GNU/Linux in an enterprise environment. This includes:</p>
2598 <li>Where Debian can be deployed</li>
2599 <li>Strategic advantages of Debian</li>
2600 <li>Ways for business to give back to Debian</li>
2605 <eventitem date="2002-11-12" time="4:30PM" room="MC4058"
2606 title="Automatic Memory Management and Garbage Collection">
2607 <short>A talk by James A. Morrison</short>
2610 Do you ever wonder what java is doing while you wait? Have you ever used
2611 Modula-3? Do you wonder how lazily you can Mark and Sweep? Would you like to
2612 know how to Stop-and-Copy?
2614 Come out to this talk and learn these things and more. No prior knowledge of
2615 Garbage Collection or memory management is needed.
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