3 <eventitem date="2003-10-06" time="4:00 PM" room="MC3001 (Comfy)"
4 title="Poster Team Meeting">
5 <short>Join the Poster Team and get Free Pizza!</short>
8 <li>Do you like computer science?</li>
9 <li>Do you like posters?</li>
10 <li>Do you like free pizza?</li>
12 <p>If the answer to one of these questions is yes, then come
13 out to the first meeting of the Computer Science Club Poster Team! The
14 CSC is looking for interested students to help out with promotion and
15 publicity for this term's events. We promise good times and free
20 <eventitem date="2003-09-17" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3001 (Comfy)"
21 title="CSC Elections">
22 <short>CSC Fall 2003 Elections</short>
24 <p>Elections will be held on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 at 4:30 PM in the
26 Comfy Lounge, MC3001.</p>
28 <p>I invite you to nominate yourself or others for executive positions,
29 starting immediately. Simply e-mail me at cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
30 with the name of the person who is to be nominated and the position
31 they're nominated for.</p>
33 <p>Nominees must be full-time undergraduate students in Math. Sorry!</p>
35 <p>Positions open for elections are:</p>
37 <ul><li>President: Organises the club, appoints committees, keeps everyone busy.
38 If you have lots of ideas about the club in general and like bossing
39 people around, go for it!</li>
41 <li>Vice President: Organises events, acts as the president if he's not
42 available. If you have lots of ideas for events, and spare time, go
45 <li>Treasurer: Keeps track of the club's finances. Gets to sign cheques
46 and stuff. If you enjoy dealing with money and have ideas on how to
47 spend it, go for it!</li>
49 <li>Secretary: Takes care of minutes and outside correspondence. If you
50 enjoy writing things down and want to use our nifty new letterhead
51 style, go for it!</li></ul>
53 <p>Nominations will be accepted until Tuesday, September 16 at 4:30 PM.</p>
55 <p>Additionally, a Sysadmin will be appointed after the elections. If you
56 like working with unix systems and have experience setting up and
57 maintaining them, go for it!</p>
59 <p>I hope that lots of people will show up; hopefully we'll have a great
60 term with plenty of events. We always need other volunteers, so if you
61 want to get involved just talk to the new exec after the
62 meeting. Librarians, webmasters, poster runners, etc. are always
65 <p>There will also be free pop.</p>
67 <p>Memberships can be purchased at the elections or at least half an hour
68 prior to at the CSC. Only undergrad math members can vote, but anyone can
75 <eventitem date="2003-07-31" time="4:30 PM" room="MC4064"
76 title="LaTeX and Work Reports">
77 <short>Writing beautiful work reports</short>
80 <p>The work report is a familiar chore for any co-op student. Not only is
81 there a report to write, but to add insult to injury, your report is
82 returned if you do not follow your departmental guidelines.</p>
84 <p>Fear no more! In this talk, you will learn how to use LaTeX and a
85 specially developed class to automatically format your work reports.
86 This talk is especially useful to Mathematics, Computer Science,
87 Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Software Engineeering co-op
88 students about to go on work term.</p>
91 href="http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~sfllaw/programs/uw-wkrpt/">http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~sfllaw/programs/uw-wkrpt/</a></p>
96 <eventitem date="2003-07-24" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
97 title="vi: the visual editor">
98 <short>It's not 6.</short>
101 <p>In 1976, a University of California Berkeley student by the name of
102 Bill Joy got sick of his text editor, ex. So he hacked it such that
103 he could read his document as he wrote it. The result was "vi", which
104 stands for VIsual editor. Today, it is shipped with every modern
105 Unix system, due to its global influence.</p>
107 <p>In this talk, you will learn how to use vi to edit documents
108 quickly and efficiently. At the end, you should be able to:</p>
111 <li>Navigate and search through documents</li>
112 <li>Cut, copy, and paste across documents</li>
113 <li>Search and replace regular expressions</li>
116 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent
117 to you for the duration of this class.</p>
122 <eventitem date="2003-07-24" time="3:00 PM" room="CSC Office" title="July
124 <short> See Abstract for minutes </short>
127 --paying Simon for Sugar
130 Expense this to MathSoc in lieu of foreign speaker.
132 --We currently have (including CD-R and pop-income not
133 currently in safe) $972.85
134 -We have $359.02 on budget that we can expense to MathSoc.
136 --We got MEF money for books and video card. Funding for
137 wireless microphone is dependent on whether MFCF is
139 -Funding for casters was denied.
140 -Shopping for the Video card.
141 -Expecting it after auguest (Stefanus shopping for it.)
142 -Will have to hear back regarding the microphone, best to
143 delay that now, discuss it with MEF.
144 -Better to do it this term, so it doesn't get lost.
145 -Let MFCF know about this concern.
146 -Regarding books, can be done anytime before September.
149 -Generally, Jim Eliot talk when really well.
150 -Apparently he was generally offensive.
151 -When was the LaTeX talk? End of the month.
152 -Kegger at Jim's place on the 16th.
154 --Getting people in on the 6th, 7th, 8th for csc commercials
156 -Hang out in here, and he'll make a CSC commercial.
157 -Co-ordinate when everyone should be in here, so we can email Jason.
160 -CEO needs it's database changed to use ISBN as a primary key.
161 -Needs functionality to take out/return books.
163 --Mark just entered financial stuff into GNUcash
165 --Choose CRO for next term.
166 -Stefanus has expressed desire not to be CRO.
167 -Gary Simmons was suggested (and he accepted)
170 --Mike Biggs has to get here naked.
171 -Four unanimous votes.
172 -Nakedness only applies to getting here, not being here.
176 ACTION ITEM: Biggs and Cass
177 -get labelmaker tape, masking tape
178 whiteboard makers, coloured paper, CD sleeves
179 -keep reciepts for CSC office expenses.
181 How is the progess on allowing executives and voters to be non-math
183 -The vote is coming up Monday.
184 -Proposal: Anyone who is a paying member can be a member
185 -So you can either do two things:
187 Get your faculty society to recognize CSC as a club.
189 Stefanus wanted to mention that we shoudl talk to Yolanda,
190 Craig or Louie about a EYT event for frosh week.
192 -Sugar Mountain trying to hook all the Frosh
196 Reminder for Next Year's executive.
197 -September 16th @ 5:00pm, get a table for Clubs day, and 17th
198 and 18th, maintain the booth (full day events).
201 -There should be executive before then
203 Note: There needs to be a private section in the CSC Procedures Manual.
204 (Only accessible by shell)
209 -Talk to Plantops about:
217 <eventitem date="2003-06-27" time="2:30 PM" room="DC1302"
218 title="Friday Flicks">
219 <short> SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre Showing </short>
222 SIGGRAPH is the ACM's Special Interest Group for Graphics and
223 simultaneously the world's largest graphics conference and
224 exhibition, where the cutting edge of graphics research is presented
227 With support from UW's Computer Graphics Lab, the CSC invites you to
228 capture a glimpse of SIGGRAPH 2002. We will be presenting the
229 Electronic Theatre showings from 2002, demonstrating the best of the
230 animated, CG-produced movies presented at SIGGRAPH.
231 </p><p> Don't miss this free showing!</p>
234 <eventitem date="2003-07-08" time="4:00 PM" room="MC2065"
235 title="Mainframes and Linux">
236 <short>A talk by Jim Elliott. Jim is responsible for IBM's in Open Source
237 activities and IBM's mainframe operating systems for Canada and the
241 Linux and Open Source have become a significant reality in the
242 working world of Information Technology. An indirect result has been a
243 "rebirth" of the mainframe as a strategic platform for enterprise
244 computing. In this session Jim Elliott, IBM's Linux Advocate, will provide
245 an overview of these technologies and an inside look at IBM's participation
246 in the community. Jim will examine Linux usage on the desktop, embedded
247 systems and servers, a reality check on the common misconceptions that
248 surround Linux and Open Source, and an overview of the history and current
249 design of IBM's mainframe servers.</p>
251 Jim Elliott is the Linux Advocate for IBM Canada. He is responsible
252 for IBM's participation in Linux and Open Source activities and IBM's
253 mainframe operating systems in Canada and the Caribbean. Jim is a popular
254 speaker on Linux and Open Source at conferences and user groups across the
255 Americas and Europe and has spoken to over 300 organizations over the past
256 three years. Over his 30 years with IBM he has been the co-author of over
257 15 IBM publications and he also coordinated the launch of Linux on IBM
258 mainframes in the Americas. In his spare time, Jim is addicted to reading
259 historical mystery novels and travel to their locales.
261 <p><a href="http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/events.html">Slides</a>
265 <eventitem date="2003-07-04" time="3:30 PM" room="University of Guelph"
267 <short>Come Visit the University of Guelph's Computer Science Club</short>
269 The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club is going to visit the
270 University of Guelph Computer Science Club. There will be a talk given
271 as well as dinner with a fun social atmosphere.</p><p>Drivers Wanted</p>
272 <p>Cancelled -- sorry Guelph cancelled on us.</p>
275 <eventitem date="2003-07-17" time="4:30 PM" room="MC4064"
277 <short>Metaprogramming your way to stunning effects.</short>
280 Modern graphics processors allow developers to upload small "shader
281 programs" to the GPU, which can be executed per-vertex or even
282 per-pixel during the rendering. Such shaders allow stunning effects to
283 be performed in real-time, but unfortunately aren't very easy to
284 program since one generally has to write them at the assembly level.
286 Recently a few high-level languages for shader programming have become
287 available. Sh, a result of research at UW, is one such language. It
288 allows programming powerful shaders in simple and intuitive ways. Sh
289 is particularily interesting because of the way it is
290 implemented. Instead of coming up with a language grammar and writing
291 a full-fledged compiler, Sh is implemented as a C++ library, and
292 shader programs are effectively written in C++. The actual compilation
293 then takes place in a manner similar to JIT (Just-in-time)
294 compilers. This has many advantages over the traditional approach,
295 including C++'s familiar syntax for users, and much less work for the
298 In this talk I will give an overview of GPUs and the Sh language as
299 well as some interesting details on how Sh was implemented.
300 </p><p> <!-- Is there a bio tag -->
301 Stefanus Du Toit is a research assistant at the University of
302 Waterloo. He has implemented the current version of Sh from scratch
303 and is actively developing it under supervision of Michael McCool, the
304 original designer of the language.
308 <eventitem date="2003-06-19" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
309 title="vi: the visual editor">
310 <short>It's not 6.</short>
313 <p>In 1976, a University of California Berkeley student by the name of
314 Bill Joy got sick of his text editor, ex. So he hacked it such that
315 he could read his document as he wrote it. The result was "vi", which
316 stands for VIsual editor. Today, it is shipped with every modern
317 Unix system, due to its global influence.</p>
319 <p>In this talk, you will learn how to use vi to edit documents
320 quickly and efficiently. At the end, you should be able to:</p>
323 <li>Navigate and search through documents</li>
324 <li>Cut, copy, and paste across documents</li>
325 <li>Search and replace regular expressions</li>
328 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent
329 to you for the duration of this class.</p>
334 <eventitem date="2003-06-12" time="3:30 PM" room="MC3036 CSC Office" title="June 12 Exec Meeting">
335 <short>Have an issue that should be brought up? We'd love to hear it!</short>
339 Budget: All the money we requested
340 --No money from Pints from Profs
341 --MathSoc has promised us $1250
343 Feedback from Completed Events
344 UNIX Talks: 17 people for first
345 --12 people for second
351 --People Jim didn't know talked to him for 1/2 hour
353 History of CSC talk went well
354 --Good variety of people
358 --Only 1 E& CE prof
360 --Jim will harrass the profs at the School of CS Council meeting.
362 We're starting to fall behind in planning
366 --Might have to move RSB back
367 --International site has a few test samples
368 --Stefanus had some ideas
369 --Coding will probably take an afternoon/evening
370 --We need volunteers to run the competition
371 --We have volunteers to code: Phil and Stefanus
373 ACTION ITEM: Phil and Stefanus
374 --code whatever you volunteered to code for.
376 --Mike intends to visit classes and directly advertise
377 --Email Christina Hotz
379 --GH guy: Mike has an abstract, will have posters by tomorrow
382 --Mathnet, Hackers, Wargames, Tron
383 --Mike will get a room
384 --Will be closed member
386 Mike McCool is offering rooms for showing SIGGRAPH
388 -check with Mike McCool.
391 -Make posters for Movie Nights
393 When is other movie night? (Will plan some time in July)
395 Who is our foreign speaker?
396 Action Item: jelliot@ca.ibm.com (Check name first) about
397 getting a foreign speaker -- Note: Has already been contacted.
399 Simon got money from Engsoc
401 Cass meeds coloured paper (CSC is out)
403 ACTION ITEM: Cass and Mark
404 --get labelmaker tape, masking tape,
405 whiteboard makers, coloured paper
406 --keep reciepts for CSC office expenses
408 NOTICE: Mike is now Imapd
410 Simon distibuted budget list
411 Mark got the money from Mathsoc for last budget, deposited it.
414 --Get MEF funding by July 4th (equipment)
416 --Get WEEF funding by June 27th (book)
418 Jim still working on allowing executives and voters to be
421 We get free photocopying from MathSoc
423 --write down code for free photocopying from MathSoc
425 Simon has been able to get into the cscdisk account, still
426 looking into getting into the cscceo account.
428 Damien got an e-mail stating that the files for cscdisk are
432 --provide SSH key to Phil for getting into cscdisk, cscceo, etc...
433 --Renumber bootup scripts for sugar and powerpc so that they
436 ACTION ITEM: Mike needs to do all the plantops stuff again.
438 ACTION ITEM: Mike -- "Stapler if you say please" sign.
440 CVS Tree for CEO has been exported.
441 Damien has volunteered to finish CEO (found by Cass)
443 All books with barcodes have been scanned
444 All books without barcodes need to be bar-coded.
447 --Find a Credit-card with a $500 or less limit.
449 Note: There needs to be a private section in the
450 CSC Procedures Manual. (Only accessible by shell)
452 Stefanus Wanted to mention that we should talk to
453 Yolanda, Craig or Louie about a EYT event for Frosh Week.
458 <eventitem date="2003-06-10" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2066"
459 title="A Brief History of Computer Science">
462 <p>War, insanity, espionage, beauty, domination, sacrifice, and tragic
463 death... not what one might associate with the history of computer
464 science. In this talk I will focus on the origin of our discipline in
465 the fields of engineering, mathematics, and science, and on the
466 complicated personalities that shaped its evolution. No advanced
467 technical knowledge is required.</p>
472 <eventitem date="2003-06-09" time="5:00 - 9:00 PM" room="The Grad House"
473 title="Pints with Profs!">
474 <short>Get to know your profs and be the envy of your friends!</short>
477 <p>Come out and meet your professors!! This is a great opportunity to
478 meet professors for Undergraduate Research jobs or to find out who you might
479 have for future courses. One and all are welcome!</p>
481 <p>Best of all... free food!!!</p>
486 <eventitem date="2003-05-29" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
487 title="Unix 101: First Steps With Unix">
488 <short>Learn Unix and be the envy of your friends!</short>
491 <p>This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of the
492 Unix Operating System. Unix is used in a variety of applications, both
493 in academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on experience
494 with the Math Faculty's Unix environment in this seminar.</p>
496 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
499 <li>Navigating the Unix environment</li>
500 <li>Using common Unix commands</li>
501 <li>Using the PICO text editor</li>
502 <li>Reading electronic mail and news with PINE</li>
505 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent
506 to you for the duration of this class.</p>
511 <eventitem date="2003-06-05" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
512 title="Unix 102: Fun With Unix">
513 <short>Talking to your Unix can be fun and profitable</short>
516 <p>This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of the
517 Unix Operating System. Unix is used in a variety of applications, both in
518 academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on experience with
519 the Math Faculty's Unix environment in this tutorial.</p>
521 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
524 <li>Interacting with Bourne and C shells</li>
525 <li>Editing text with the vi text editor</li>
526 <li>Editing text with the Emacs display editor</li>
527 <li>Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer</li>
530 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be
531 lent to you for the duration of this class</p>
536 <eventitem date="2003-06-12" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
537 title="Unix 103: Scripting Unix">
538 <short>You too can be a Unix taskmaster</short>
541 <p>This is the third in a series of seminars that cover the use of the
542 Unix Operating System. Unix is used in a variety of applications, both in
543 academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on experience with
544 the Math Faculty's Unix environment in this tutorial.</p>
546 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
549 <li>Shell scripting</li>
550 <li>Searching through text files</li>
551 <li>Batch editing text files</li>
554 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be
555 lent to you for the duration of this class</p>
560 <eventitem date="2003-05-22" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3036 CSC Office" title="May 22 Exec Meeting">
561 <short>The execs discuss what needs discussion</short>
565 Minutes for CSC Exec Meeting
569 * Add staff to burners group.
570 -- Only office staff (people who do stuff) on burners list
571 -- No objections from executives
573 * We still need a webmaster, imapd
575 --Check for pop delivery services (Like Grocery Gateway)
576 so that we can replace imapd with an automated cronjob
577 -- If this gets implemented, we must make sure that
578 someone is around to receive the pop whenever it is
583 -- Make sure execs receive a copy of the proposed budget
585 -- Look into claiming money from Mathsoc for the last
587 --Will be looked over the week after next Monday at the Mathsoc
589 --June 27th is the WEF (Engineering Endowment Fund) deadline
590 --EngSoc proposal for donations by the end of the month
591 -- Around 15 events planned
593 --CS Departmant will pay for flight
594 -- We can pay local expenses
598 *Changes in the MathSoc Clubs Policy
599 Action Item: Jim and Stefanus
600 --Bring thus up with MathSoc
601 --Might be good to talk to Bioinformatics about this, as
602 they have science faculty members to take care of as well.
603 --Major issue: People who revoke their Mathsoc fees can still be
605 --We want it so that only people who have paid dues to Mathsoc
607 --Execs should not take back fees, as that is bad form.
608 --All execs unanimously agreed with this proposal
610 *Confirming that we have free printing and photocopying
612 --Does Faculty of Math billing code apply to CSC
613 (as Faculty of Math department?)
614 -- Procedures manual has a billing code, but it should
616 -- Ask MUO, then Shirley after that.
618 --Apparently there is a special Watcard that provides
619 free printing from MFCF
620 --We do not know what account it is mapped to,
623 * Getting csc_disk, csc, csc_ceo accounts on undergrad to work again.
625 -- Get csc-disk back up for student use.
626 -- What group permissions do we need?
627 -- CSC-Disk should be used as a repository for custom
628 window managers, Mozilla, etc... (selling factor for
630 -- We should also have an announcement (MOTD, perhaps?)
631 that we are providing and supporting this software.
632 --Consider: Having university-wide accessible
633 binaries might be a pain, as different machines
634 might require different compilations.
635 -- CSC-Disk is full of user data. Should that be blown away?
637 *Getting locker #7 from MathSoc (Don't we already have lockers 788 and
639 --Why were the locks snipped? (Bring up at council meeting)
640 --We would prefer one combo-lock and one key-lock.
642 * Review of the CSC office organization
644 --Give Mike sudo access for shutdown
645 --Will be rewiring stuff on Saturday
646 --involves re-plugging machines
648 --Get rubber wheels for chairs
651 -- Ask PlantOps about:
653 --Installing Electronic Lock (asap)
654 --According to Faculty of Math,
655 we shouldn't need keys.
656 --Currently, we still need keys
657 --It is kosher to install Electronic lock
658 --This provides access right control as
659 compared to key-control.
660 --Might be long term project.
661 --Will green men do it?
662 --Steam-clean chairs (at least once a term)
664 --Making ugly wall prettier
665 --PlantOps knows about office
666 organization, making environment better.
667 --Whiteboards need to be put up
668 --Proposal: Cork-board on pillar (no objections)
669 --Metal frames on Whiteboard will be in least annoying place
671 *Do we provide public stapler access?
672 --People are often unappreciative and rude
673 --Sign - "Stapler if you say please" -- Unanimously voted
678 --Find out where to get CSC sign before Monday so we
679 can claim it in old budget.
683 --Find perl volunteer to finish CEO
684 --Force Stefanus to export CVS tree and put onto Peri
686 --Books were scanned into system with help of Mark
687 --All books with valid barcodes entered into system on
689 --Books without valid barcodes are not in system
690 --Someone needs to do it
691 --Plan is to implement Dewey decimal system
692 --May be inefficient as all books are about CS
693 --We will figure out a system later
694 --No plans to purchase new books
695 --Librarian's Request: Office Staff should not lend out books
696 that do not have barcodes (No objects to request)
697 --We are still using /media/iso/request to track books
698 --Should be charge late fees for books?
699 --We should have money in budget for repairing,maintaining books
700 --Before spending money on maintaining books, check if DC will
702 --will it be cheaper/easier/better?
704 *Setting up extra quota for fun and profit.
705 -- We don't implement quota properly right now
706 -- Low demand for extra quota
707 -- Counterpoint: Old CSC made tons of money
708 -- Counter-counter-point: It's not that necessary for extra
710 -- Executives voted against proposal.
712 *Jim will spam with an update about the term
713 --Consider making it opt-in
714 --One email from a service you are using should be considered
715 reasonable mass mailing
717 *Should Jim bring anything up at the MathSoc meeting?**
720 * Student branches for ACM and IEEE
722 --Contact IEEE Computing Society in UW and ask if they want
723 to merge or transfer society to us
724 --Simon volunteers to be put down as exec for ACM
725 --ACM rules state requirement that exec is a ACM member
726 --Do we renew Calum's ACM membership?
727 --Yes (3 Yes; 1 No; 1 Abstention)
728 --ACM membership money in budget
729 --ACM Student chapter form has not come in
731 * What to do with the donated Procedures Manual?
732 --Term Task for webpage:
733 --Put procedures manual on web-page.
734 --Merge with current manual
735 --We don't have a hard copy
736 --Would be a good thing to read.
737 --Many parts need updating
743 <eventitem date="2003-05-14" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3001 Comfy Lounge"
744 title="Spring 2003 Elections">
745 <short>Come on out and vote for your exec!</short>
747 <p>Elections will be held on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at 4:30 PM in the
748 Comfy Lounge, MC3001.</p>
750 <p>I invite you to nominate yourself or others for executive positions,
751 starting immediately. Simply e-mail me at sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca or
752 cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with the name of the person who is to be
753 nominated and the position they're nominated for.</p>
755 <p>Nominees must be full-time undergraduate students in Math. Sorry!</p>
757 <p>Positions open for elections are:</p>
761 President: Organises the club, appoints committees, keeps everyone busy.
762 If you have lots of ideas about the club in general and like bossing
763 people around, go for it!
767 Vice President: Organises events, acts as the president if he's not
768 available. If you have lots of ideas for events, and spare time, go
773 Treasurer: Keeps track of the club's finances. Gets to sign cheques
774 and stuff. If you enjoy dealing with money and have ideas on how to
779 Secretary: Takes care of minutes and outside correspondence. If you
780 enjoy writing things down and want to use our nifty new letterhead
785 <p>Nominations will be accepted until Tuesday, May 13 at 4:30 PM.</p>
787 <p>Additionally, a Sysadmin will be appointed after the elections. If you
788 like working with unix systems and have experience setting up and
789 maintaining them, go for it!</p>
791 <p>I hope that lots of people will show up; hopefully we'll have a great
792 term with plenty of events. We always need other volunteers, so if you
793 want to get involved just talk to the new exec after the
794 meeting. Librarians, webmasters, poster runners, etc. are always
797 <p>There will also be free pop, and if I remember, timbits :).</p>
799 <p>Memberships can be purchased at the elections. Only undergrad math
800 members can vote, but anyone can become a member.</p>
802 <p>Don't forget! Mark it on your calendar/wrist watch/PDA/brain implant!</p>
809 <eventitem date="2003-02-04" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
810 title="Unix 101 Tutorial">
811 <short>Learn Unix and be the envy of your friends!</short>
814 <p>This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of the
815 UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of applications, both
816 in academia and industy. We will provide you with hands-on experience
817 with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment in this seminar.</p>
819 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
822 <li> Navigating the UNIX environment</li>
823 <li> Using common UNIX commands</li>
824 <li>Using the PICO text editor</li>
825 <li>Reading electronic mail and news with PINE</li>
828 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent
829 to you for the duration of this class.</p>
834 <eventitem date="2003-02-11" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
835 title="Unix 102 Tutorial">
836 <short>Learn more Unix and be the envy of your friends!</short>
839 <p>Abstract to come soon.</p>
844 <eventitem date="2003-02-18" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2037"
845 title="Unix 103 Tutorial">
846 <short>Learn more Unix and be the envy of your friends!</short>
849 <p>Abstract to come soon. </p>
854 <eventitem date="2003-01-13" time="6:00 PM" room="MC3001"
855 title="W03 Elections">
856 <short>Come out and vote for the new exec!</short>
859 <p>This term's elections will take place on Monday, January 13 at 6:00 PM in the
860 MC "comfy lounge" (MC3001). Nominations are open from now on (Thursday,
861 January 2) until 4:30 PM of the day before elections (Sunday, January 12).
862 In order to nominate someone you can either e-mail me directly, by depositing
863 a form with the required information in the CSC mailbox in the Mathsoc office
864 or by writing the nomination and clearly marking it as such on the large
865 whiteboard in the CSC office. E-mail is probably the best choice.
866 Please include the name of the person to be nominated as well as the position
867 you wish to nominate them for.</p>
869 <p>Candidates must be full members of the club. This means they must have paid
870 their membership for the given term and (due to recent changes in the
871 constitution) must be full-time undergraduate math students.
872 The same requirements hold for those voting. Please bring your Watcard to
873 the elections so that I can verify this. I will have a list of members with
876 <p>The positions open are:</p>
878 <p><b>President</b> -- appoints all commitees of the club, calls and presides at all
879 meetings of the club and audits the club's financial records. Really, this
880 is the person in charge.</p>
882 <p><b>Vice President</b> -- assumes President's duties in case he/she is absent,
883 plans and coordinates events with the programmes committee and assumes any
884 other duties delegated by the President.
885 This is a really fun job if you enjoy coordinating events!</p>
887 <p><b>Secretary</b> -- keeps minutes of the meetings and cares for any correspondence.
888 A fairly light job, good choice if you just want to see what being an exec
891 <p><b>Treasurer</b> -- maintains all the finances of the club.
892 If you like money and keeping records, this is the job for you!</p>
894 <p>Additionally a Systems Administrator will be picked by the new executive.</p>
896 <p>Last term was a great term for the CSC -- many events, some office renovations
897 and a much improved image were all part of it. I hope to see the next term's
898 exec continue this. If you're interested in seeing this happen, do consider
899 going for a position, or helping out as office staff or on one of the
902 <p>Anyways, hopefully I'll see many of you at the elections.
903 Remember: Monday, January 13, 6:00 PM, MC3001/Comfy Lounge.</p>
905 <p>If you have any further questions don't hesitate to contact the CRO,
906 Stefanus Du Toit <a href="mailto:sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca">by e-mail</a>.</p>
910 <eventitem date="2003-01-23" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
911 title="Regular Expressions">
912 <short>Find your perfect match</short>
915 <p>Stephen Kleene developed regular expressions to describe what he
916 called <q>the algebra of regular sets.</q> Since he was a pioneering
917 theorist in computer science, Kleene's regular expressions soon made
918 it into searching algorithms and from there to everyday tools.</p>
920 <p>Regular expressions can be powerful tools to manipulate text.
921 You will be introduced to them in this talk. As well, we will go
922 further than the rigid mathematical definition of regular
923 expressions, and delve into POSIX regular expressions which are
924 typically available in most Unix tools.</p>
929 <eventitem date="2003-01-30" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
930 title="sed & awk">
931 <short>Unix text editing</short>
934 <p><i>sed</i> is the Unix stream editor. A powerful way to
935 automatically edit a large batch of text. <i>awk</i> is a
936 programming language that allows you to manipulate structured data
937 into formatted reports.</p>
939 <p>Both of these tools come from early Unix, and both are still
940 useful today. Although modern programming languages such as Perl,
941 Python, and Ruby have largely replaced the humble <i>sed</i> and
942 <i>awk</i>, they still have their place in every Unix user's
948 <eventitem date="2003-02-06" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
949 title="LaTeX: A Document Processor">
950 <short>Typesetting beautiful text</short>
953 <p>Unix was one of the first electronic typesetting platforms. The
954 innovative AT&T <i>troff</i> system allowed researches at Bell
955 Labs to generate high quality camera-ready proofs for their papers.
956 Later, Donald Knuth invented a typesetting system called
957 T<small>E</small>X, which was far superior to other typesetting
958 systems in the 1980s. However, it was still a typesetting language,
959 where one had to specify exactly how text was to be set.</p>
961 <p>L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X is a macro package
962 for the T<small>E</small>X system that allows an author to describe
963 his document's function, thereby typesetting the text in an
964 attractive and correct way. In addition, one can define semantic
965 tags to a document, in order to describe the meaning of the
966 document; rather than the layout.</p>
971 <eventitem date="2003-02-13" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
972 title="LaTeX: Reports">
973 <short>Writing reports that look good.</short>
976 <p>Work term reports, papers, and other technical documents can be
977 typeset in L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X to great
978 effect. In this session, I will provide examples on how to typeset
979 tables, figures, and references. You will also learn how to make
980 tables of contents, bibliographics, and how to create footnotes.</p>
982 <p> I will also examine various packages of
983 L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X that can help you
984 meet requirements set by users of inferior typesetting systems.
985 These include double-spacing, hyphenation and specific margin
991 <eventitem date="2003-02-20" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
992 title="LaTeX: Beautiful Mathematics">
993 <short>LaTeX => fun</short>
996 <p>It is widely acknowledged that the best system by which to
997 typeset beautiful mathematics is through the T<small>E</small>
998 typesetting system, written by Donald Knuth in the early 1980s.</p>
1000 <p>In this talk, I will demonstrate
1001 L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X and how to typeset
1002 elegant mathematical expressions.</p>
1007 <eventitem date="2003-02-27" time="6:00 PM" room="MC1085"
1008 title="The BSD License Family">
1009 <short>Free for all</short>
1012 <p>Before the GNU project ever existed, before the phrase
1013 "Free Software" was ever coined, students and researchers
1014 at the University of California, Berkeley were already
1015 practising it. They had acquired the source cdoe to a
1016 little-known operating system developed at AT&T
1017 Bell Laboratories, and were creating improvments at a
1020 <p>These improvements were sent back to Bell Labs, and
1021 shared to other Universities. Each of them were licensed
1022 under what is now known as the "Original BSD license". Find
1023 out what this license means, its implications, and what are
1024 its decendents by attending this short talk.</p>
1029 <eventitem date="2003-02-27" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1030 title="The GNU General Public License">
1031 <short>The teeth of Free Software</short>
1034 <div style="font-style: italic"><blockquote>
1035 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
1036 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General
1037 Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and
1038 change free software---to make sure the software is free for all
1041 <div style="text-align:right">--- Excerpt from the GNU GPL</div>
1044 <p> The GNU General Public License is one of the most influencial
1045 software licenses in this day. Written by Richard Stallman for the
1046 GNU Project, it is used by software developers around the world to
1047 protect their work.</p>
1049 <p>Unfortunately, software developers do not read licenses
1050 thoroughly, nor well. In this talk, we will read the entire GNU GPL
1051 and explain the implications of its passages. Along the way, we
1052 will debunk some myths and clarify common misunderstandings.</p>
1054 <p>After this session, you ought to understand what the GNU GPL
1055 means, how to use it, and when you cannot use it. This session
1056 should also give you some insight into the social implications of
1062 <eventitem date="2003-03-13" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1064 <short>Give your documents more markup</short>
1067 <p>XML is the <q>eXtensible Markup Language,</q> a standard
1068 maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium. A descendant of IBM's
1069 SGML. It is a metalanguage which can be used to define markup
1070 languages for semantically describing a document.</p>
1072 <p>This talk will describe how to generate correct XML documents,
1073 and auxillary technologies that work with XML.</p>
1078 <eventitem date="2003-03-20" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1080 <short>Transforming your documents</short>
1083 <p>XSLT is the <q>eXtended Stylesheet Language Transformations,</q>
1084 a language for transforming XML documents into other XML
1087 <p>XSLT is used to manipulate XML documents into other forms: a sort
1088 of glue between data formats. It can turn an XML document into an
1089 XHTML document, or even an HTML document. With a little bit of
1090 hackery, it can even be convinced to spit out non-XML conforming
1096 <eventitem date="2003-03-24" time="8:00 PM"
1097 room="Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall"
1098 title="Judy, or What Is It Like To Be A Robot?">
1099 <short>Held in co-operation with the UW Cognitive Science Club</short>
1102 <p>A lot of claims have been made lately about the intelligence of
1103 computers. Some researchers say that computers will eventually attain
1104 super-human intelligence. Others call thse claims... um, poppycock.
1105 Oddly enough, in the search for the truth of the matter, both camps
1106 have overlooked an obvious strategy: interviewing a computer and asking
1109 <p>"Judy is as much fun as a barrel of wind-up cymbal-monkeys, and
1110 lots more entertaining." --- Bill Rodriguez, <i>Providence Phoenix</i></p>
1112 <p>"Tom Sgouros's witty play, co-starring the charming robot Judy, is an
1113 imagination stretcher that delights while it exercises your mind. If you
1114 think you can't imagine a conscious robot, you're wrong---you can,
1115 especially once you've met Judy." --- Daniel C. Dennett,
1116 author of <i>Consciousness Explained</i>, <i>Brainchildren</i>,
1119 <p>"...an engrossing evening... Real questions about
1120 consciousness, freedom to act, the relationship between the creator
1121 and the created are woven into a bravura performance." --- Will
1122 Stackman, <i>Aislesay.com</i></p>
1124 <p>Sponsored by the Mathematics Society, the Federation of Students, the
1125 Arts Student Union, the Graduate Student Association, and the Department of
1126 Philosophy. Tickets available at the Humanities box office (888-4908) and
1127 the offices of the Psychology Society and the Computer Science Club for
1129 more information: <a
1130 href="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cogsci/">http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cogsci</a>.</p>
1135 <eventitem date="2003-03-25" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2065"
1136 title="Stream Processing">
1137 <short>A talk by Assistant Professor Michael McCool</short>
1140 <p>Stream processing is an enhanced version of SIMD processing that
1141 permits efficient execution of conditionals and iteration. Stream
1142 processors have many similarities to GPUs, and a hardware prototype,
1143 the Imagine processor, has been used to implement both OpenGL and
1146 <p>It is possible that GPUs will acquire certain properties
1147 of stream processors in the future, which should make them easier
1148 to use and more efficient for general-purpose computation that includes
1149 data-dependent iteration and conditionals.</p>
1154 <eventitem date="2003-03-26" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2065"
1155 title="Abusing the C++ Compiler">
1156 <short>Abusing template metaprogramming in C++</short>
1159 <p>Templates are a useful feature in C++ when it comes to writing
1160 type-independent data structures and algorithms. But that's not all
1161 they can be used for. Essentially, it is possible to write certain
1162 programs in C++ that execute completely at compile-time rather
1163 than run-time. Combined with some optimisations this is an interesting
1164 twist on regular C++ programming.</p>
1166 <p>This talk will give a short overview of the features of templates
1167 and then go on to describe how to "abuse" templates to perform complex
1168 computations at compile time. The speaker will present three programs of
1169 increasing complexity which execute at compile time. First a factorial
1170 listing program, then a prime listing program will be presented. Finally
1171 the talk will conclude with the presentation of a <i>Mandelbrot
1172 generator running at compile time.</i></p>
1174 <p>Some basic knowledge of C++ will be assumed.</p>
1179 <eventitem date="2003-03-27" time="6:30 PM" room="MC1085"
1180 title="SSH and Networks">
1181 <short>Once more into the breach</short>
1184 <p>The Secure Shell (SSH) has now replaced traditional remote login
1185 tools such as <i>rsh</i>, <i>rlogin</i>, <i>rexec</i> and
1186 <i>telnet</i>. It is used to provide secure, authenticated,
1187 encrypted communications between remote systems. However, the SSH
1188 protocol provides for much more than this.</p>
1190 <p>In this talk, we will discuss using SSH to its full extent. Topics
1191 to be covered include:</p>
1193 <li>Remote logins</li>
1194 <li>Remote execution</li>
1195 <li>Password-free authentication</li>
1196 <li>X11 forwarding</li>
1197 <li>TCP forwarding</li>
1198 <li>SOCKS tunnelling</li>
1206 date="1994-09-13" time="9:00 PM"
1207 room="Princess Cinema"
1208 title="Movie Outing: Brainstorm">
1210 No description available.
1214 The first of this term's CSC social events, we will be going to see
1215 the movie ``Brainstorm'' at the Princess Cinema. This outing is
1216 intended primarily for the new first-year students.
1219 The Princess Cinema is Waterloo's repertoire theatre. This month
1220 and next, they are featuring a ``Cyber Film Festival''. Upcoming
1225 <li>Bladerunner (director's cut)</li>
1226 <li>2001: A Space Odyssey</li>
1227 <li>Naked Lunch</li>
1230 Admission is $4.25 for a Princess member, $7.50 for a non-member.
1231 Membership to the Princess is $7.00 per year.
1236 date="1994-09-16" time="4:30 PM"
1238 title="CSC Elections">
1239 <short>No description available</short>
1240 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1243 date="1994-09-19" time="4:30 PM"
1245 title="UNIX I Tutorial">
1246 <short>No description available</short>
1247 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1250 date="1994-09-21" time="6:30 PM"
1252 title="SIGGRAPH Video Night">
1253 <short>No description available</short>
1254 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1257 date="1994-09-22" time="4:30 PM"
1259 title="UNIX I Tutorial">
1260 <short>No description available</short>
1261 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1264 date="1994-09-26" time="4:30 PM"
1266 title="UNIX II Tutorial">
1267 <short>No description available</short>
1268 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
1271 date="1994-10-13" time="5:00 PM"
1273 title="Prograph: Picture the Future">
1274 <short>No description available</short>
1277 What is the next step in the evolution of computer languages?
1278 Intelligent agents? Distributed objects? or visual languages?
1281 Visual languages overcome many of the drawbacks and limitations
1282 of the textual languages that software development is based on
1283 today. Do you think about programming in a linear fashion? Or do
1284 you draw a mental picture of your algorithm and then linearize it
1285 for the benefit of your compiler? Wouldn't it be nice if you could
1286 code the same way you think?
1289 Visual C++ and Visual BASIC aren't visual languages, but Prograph
1290 is. Prograph is a commercially available, visual, object-oriented,
1291 data-flow language. It is well suited to graphical user interface
1292 development, but is as powerful for general-purpose programming as
1293 any textual language.
1296 The talk will comprise a discussion of the problems of textual
1297 languages that visual languages solve, a live demonstration of
1298 Prograph, and some of my observations of the applications of
1299 Prograph to software development.
1304 date="1994-10-15" time="10:00 AM"
1306 title="ACM-Style Programming Contest">
1307 <short>No description available</short>
1309 <h3>Big Money and Prizes!</h3>
1311 So you think you're a pretty good programmer? Pit your skills
1312 against others on campus in this triannual event! Contestants will
1313 have three hours to solve five programming problems in either C or
1317 Last fall's winners went on to the International Finals and came
1318 first overall! You could be there, too!
1323 date="1994-10-20" time="4:30 PM"
1325 title="Exploring the Internet">
1326 <short>No description available</short>
1328 <h3>Need something to do between assignments/beers?</h3>
1330 Did you know that your undergrad account at Waterloo gives you
1331 access tothe world's largest computer network? With thousands
1332 of discussion groups, gigabytes of files to download, multimedia
1333 information browsers, even on-line entertainment?
1336 The resources available on the Internet are vast and wondrous, but
1337 the tools for navigating it are sometimes confusing and arcane. In
1338 this hands-on tutorial you will get the chance to get your feet wet
1339 with the world's most mind-bogglingly big computer network, the
1340 protocols and programs used, and how to use them responsibly and
1346 date="1994-11-02" time="4:30 PM"
1348 title="Game Theory">
1349 <short>No description available</short>
1351 <h3>From the Minimax Theorem, through Alpha-Beta, and beyond...</h3>
1353 This will be a descussion of the pitfalls of using mathematics and
1354 algorithms to play classical board games. Thorough descriptions
1355 shall be presented of the simple techniques used as the building
1356 blocks that make all modern computer game players. I will use
1357 tic-tac-toe as a control for my arguements. Other games such as
1358 Chess, Othello and Go shall be the be a greater measure of progress;
1359 and more importantly the targets of our dreams.
1362 To enhance the discussion of the future, Barney Pell's Metagamer
1363 shall be introduced. His work in define classes of games is
1364 important in identifying the features necessary for analysis.
1371 <eventitem date="1999-10-18" time="2:30 PM" room="DC1304"
1372 title="Living Laboratories: The Future Computing Environments at
1374 <short>By Blair MacIntyre and Elizabeth Mynatt</short>
1376 <p>by Blair MacIntyre and Elizabeth Mynatt</p>
1377 <p>The Future Computing Environments (FCE) Group at Georgia Tech
1378 is a collection of faculty and students that share a desire to
1379 understand the partnership between humans and technology that
1380 arises as computation and sensing become ubiquitous. With
1381 expertise covering the breadth of Computer Science, but
1382 focusing on HCI, Computational Perception, and Machine
1383 Learning, the individual research agendas of the FCE faculty
1384 are grounded in a number of shared "living laboratories" where
1385 their research is applied to everyday life in the classroom
1386 (Classroom 2000), the home (the Aware Home), the office
1387 (Augmented Offices), and on one's person. Professors
1388 MacIntyre and Mynatt will discuss a variety of these projects,
1389 with an emphasis on the HCI and Computer Science aspects of
1393 In addition to their affiliation with the FCE group,
1394 Professors Mynatt and MacIntyre are both members of the
1395 Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU) at Georgia
1396 Tech. This interdisciplinary center brings together research
1397 in computer science, psychology, industrial engineering,
1398 architecture and media design by examining the role of
1399 computation in our everyday lives. During the talk, they will
1400 touch on some of the research and educational opportunities
1401 available at both GVU and the College of Computing.
1406 <eventitem date="1999-10-19" time="4:30 PM" room="DC1304"
1407 title="GDB, Purify Tutorial">
1408 <short>No description available.</short>
1411 Debugging can be the most difficult and time consuming part of
1412 any program's life-cycle. Far from an exact science, it's more
1413 of an art ... and close to some kind of dark magic. Cryptic
1414 error messages, lousy error checking, and icky things like
1415 implicit casts can make it nearly impossible toknow what's
1416 going on inside your program.
1419 Several tools are available to help automate your
1420 debuggin. GDB and Purify are among the most powerful
1421 debugging tools available in a UNIX environment. GDB is an
1422 interactive debugger, allowing you to `step' through
1423 aprogram, examine function calls, variable contents, stack
1424 traces and let you look at the state of a program after it
1425 crashes. Purify is a commercial program designed to help find
1426 and remove memory leaks from programs written inlanguages
1427 without automatic garbage collection.
1430 This talk will cover how to compile your C and C++ programs
1431 for use with GDB and Purify, as well as how to use the
1432 available X interfaces. If a purify license is available on
1433 undergrad at the time of the talk, we will cover how to use it
1439 <eventitem date="1999-12-01" time="4:30 PM" room="MC2066"
1440 title="Homebrew Processors and Integrated Systems in FPGAs">
1441 <short>By Jan Gray</short>
1445 <p> With the advent of large inexpensive field-programmable gate
1446 arrays and tools it is now practical for anyone to design and
1447 build custom processors and systems-on-a-chip. Jan will discuss
1448 designing with FPGAs, and present the design and implementation
1449 of xr16, yet another FPGA-based RISC computer system with
1450 integrated peripherals.</p>
1452 <p> Jan is a past CSC pres., B.Math. CS/EEE '87, and wrote
1453 compilers, tools, and middleware at Microsoft from 1987-1998. He
1454 built the first 32-bit FPGA CPU and system-on-a-chip in
1459 <eventitem date="1999-12-01" time="7:00 PM" room="Golf's Steakhouse"
1461 <short>End-of-term dinner</short>
1463 No abstract available.
1467 <eventitem date="1999-12-02" time="1:30 PM" room="DC1302"
1468 title="Calculational Mathematics">
1469 <short>By Edgar Dijkstra</short>
1471 <p> By Edgar Dijkstra</p>
1473 <p> This talk will use partial orders, lattice theory, and, if
1474 time permits, the Galois connection as carriers to illustrate
1475 the use of calculi in mathematics. We hope to show the brevity
1476 of many calculations (in order tofight the superstition that
1477 formal proofs are necessarily unpractically long), and the
1478 strong heuristic guidance that is available for their
1481 <p> Dijkstra is known for early graph-theoretical algorithms,
1482 the first implementation of ALGOL 60, the first operating system
1483 composed of explicitly synchronized processes, the invention of
1484 guarded commands and of predicate transformers as a means for
1485 defining semantics, and programming methodology in the broadest
1486 sense of the word. </p>
1488 <p> His current research interests focus on the formal
1489 derivation of proofs and programs, and the streamlining of the
1490 mathematical argument in general.</p>
1492 <p> Dijkstra held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer
1493 Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin until retiring in
1499 <eventitem date="1999-12-03" time="10:00 AM" room="Siegfried Hall,
1500 St Jerome's" title="Proofs and Programs">
1501 <short>By Edsger Dijkstra</short>
1503 <p> This talk will show the use of programs for the proving of
1504 theorems. Its purpose is to show how our experience gained in
1505 the derivations of programs might be transferred to the
1506 derivation of proofs in general. The examples will go beyond the
1507 (traditional) existence theorems. </p>
1509 <p> Dijkstra is known for early graph-theoretical algorithms,
1510 the first implementation of ALGOL 60, the first operating system
1511 composed of explicitly synchronized processes, the invention of
1512 guarded commands and of predicate transformers as a means for
1513 defining semantics, and programming methodology in the broadest
1514 sense of the word. </p>
1516 <p> His current research interests focus on the formal
1517 derivation of proofs and programs, and the streamlining of the
1518 mathematical argument in general.</p>
1520 <p> Dijkstra held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer
1521 Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin until retiring in
1527 <eventitem date="1999-12-03" time="3:00 PM" room="DC1351"
1528 title="Open Q&A session">
1529 <short>By Edsger Dijkstra</short>
1530 <abstract>No description available.</abstract>
1533 <!-- Winter 2000 -->
1535 <eventitem date="2000-03-24" time="4:30 PM" room="DC1304"
1536 title="Enterprise Java APIs and Implementing a Web Portal">
1537 <short>No description available.</short>
1539 <h3>by Floyd Marinescu
1543 The first talk will be an introduction to the Enterprise Java
1544 API's: Servlets, JSP, EJB, and how to use them to build
1549 The second talk will be about how these technologies were used
1550 to implement a real world portal. The talk will include an
1551 overview of the design patterns used and will feature
1552 architectural information about the yet to be release portal
1553 (which I am one of the developers) called theserverside.com.
1558 <eventitem date="2000-03-30" time="4:30 PM" room="DC1304"
1559 title="Enterprise Java APIs and Implementing a Web Portal (1)">
1560 <short>No description available.</short>
1562 <p>Real World J2EE - Design Patterns and architecture behind the
1563 yet to be released J2EE portal: theserverside.com</p>
1565 <p>This talk will feature an exclusive look at the architecture
1566 behind the new J2EE portal: theserverside.com. Join Floyd
1567 Marinescu in a walk-through ofthe back-end of the portal,
1568 while learning about J2EE and its real world patterns,
1569 applications, problems and benefits.</p>
1573 <!-- Spring 2000 -->
1575 <eventitem date="2000-07-20" time="7:00 PM" room="Ali Babas Steak
1576 House, 130 King Street S, Waterloo" title="Ctrl-D">
1577 <short>End-of-term dinner</short>
1578 <abstract>No abstract available.</abstract>
1583 <eventitem date="2000-09-14" time="6:00 PM" room="DC1302"
1584 title="CSC Elections">
1585 <short>Fall 2000 Elections for the CSC.</short>
1588 Would you like to get involved in the CSC? Would you like to have a
1589 say in what the CSC does this term? Come out to the CSC Elections!
1590 In addition to electing the executive for the Fall term, we will be
1591 appointing office staff and other positions. Look for details in
1595 <p>Nominations for all positions are being taken in the CSC office, MC
1600 <eventitem date="2000-09-14" time="7:00 PM" room="DC1302"
1601 title="SIGGraph Video Night">
1602 <short> SIGGraph Video Night Featuring some truly awesome computer
1603 animations from Siggraph '99. </short>
1605 <p> Interested in Computer Graphics?
1608 <p> Enjoy watching state-of-the-art Animation?
1611 <p> Looking for a cheap place to take a date?
1614 <p> SIGGraph Video Night -
1615 Featuring some truly awesome computer animations from Siggraph '99.
1618 <p>Come out for the Computer Science Club general elections at 6:00
1619 pm, right before SIGGraph!</p>
1623 <eventitem date="2000-09-25" time="2:30 PM" room="DC1302"
1624 title="Realising the Next Generation Internet">
1625 <short>By Frank Clegg of Microsoft Canada</short>
1630 <dd>Frank Clegg</dd>
1631 <dd>President, Microsoft Canada</dd>
1634 <dd>Monday, September 25, 2000</dd>
1636 <dd>14:30 - 16:00</dd>
1639 <dd>(Davis Centre, Room 1302, University of Waterloo)</dd>
1643 <dt>Pre-registration</dt>
1644 <dd>Recommended</dd>
1645 <dd><a HREF="http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca:81/infranet/semform.htm">http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca:81/infranet/semform.htm</a></dd>
1646 <dd>(519) 888-4004</dd>
1651 <p>The Internet and the Web have revolutionized our communications, our access
1652 to information and our business methods. However, there is still much room
1653 for improvement. Frank Clegg will discuss Microsoft's vision for what is
1654 beyond browsing and the dotcom. Microsoft .NET (pronounced "dot-net") is a
1655 new platform, user experience and set of advanced software services planned
1656 to make all devices work together and connect seamlessly. With this next
1657 generation of software, Microsoft's goal is to make Internet-based
1658 computing and communications easier to use, more personalized, and more
1659 productive for businesses and consumers. In his new position of president
1660 of Microsoft Canada Co., Frank Clegg will be responsible for leading the
1661 organization toward the delivery of Microsoft .NET. He will speak about
1662 this new platform and the next generation Internet, how software developers
1663 and businesses will be able to take advantage of it, and what the .NET
1664 experience will look like for consumers and business users.</p>
1666 <h3>The Speaker</h3>
1667 <p>Frank Clegg was appointed president of Microsoft Canada Co. this month.
1668 Prior to his new position, Mr. Clegg was vice-president, Central Region,
1669 Microsoft Corp. from 1996 to 2000. In this capacity, he was responsible for
1670 sales, support and marketing activities in 15 U.S. states. Mr. Clegg joined
1671 Microsoft Corp. in 1991 and headed the Canadian subsidiary until 1996.
1672 During that time, Mr. Clegg was instrumental in introducing several key
1673 initiatives to improve company efficiency, growth and market share. Mr.
1674 Clegg graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1977 with a B. Math.</p>
1676 <h3>For More Information</h3>
1678 Shirley Fenton<br />
1679 The infraNET Project<br />
1680 University of Waterloo<br />
1681 519-888-4567 ext. 5611<br />
1682 <a HREF="http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca/">http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca/</a>
1688 <!-- Winter 2001 -->
1690 <eventitem date="2001-01-15" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3036"
1691 title="Executive elections">
1692 <short>Winter 2001 CSC Elections.</short>
1694 <p>Would you like to get involved in the CSC? Would you like to
1695 have a say in what the CSC does this term? Come out to the CSC
1696 Elections! In addition to electing the executive for the
1697 Winter term, we will be appointing office staff and other
1698 positions. Look for details in uw.csc.
1701 Nominations for all positions are being taken in the CSC
1706 <eventitem date="2001-01-22" time="3:30 PM" room="MC3036"
1708 <short>Second CSC meeting for Winter 2001.</short>
1710 <h3>Proposed agenda</h3>
1712 <dt>Book purchases</dt>
1714 <p>They haven't been done in 2 terms.
1715 We have an old list of books to buy.
1716 Any suggestions from uw.csc are welcome.</p>
1721 <p>For doing linux burns. It was allocated money on the budget
1722 request - about $300. We should be able to get a decent 12x
1723 burner with that (8x rewrite).</p>
1724 <p>The obvious things to sell are Linux Distros and BSD variants.
1725 Are there any other software that we can legally burn and sell
1730 <p>Just a talk of the topics to be covered, when, where, whatnot.
1731 Mike was right on this one, this should have been done earlier
1732 in the term. Oh well, maybe we can fix this for next fall term.</p>
1735 <dt>Game Contest</dt>
1737 <p>We already put a bit of work into planning the Othello contest
1738 before I read Mike's post. I still think it's viable. I've got
1739 at least 2 people interested in writing entries for it. This
1740 will be talked about more on monday. Hopefully, Rory and I will
1741 be able to present a basic outline of how the contest is going
1742 to be run at that time.</p>
1744 <dt>Peri's closet cleaning</dt>
1747 <p>Current sysadmin (jmbeverl) and I (kvijayan) and
1748 President (geduggan) had a nice conversation about this 2
1749 days ago, having to do with completely erasing all of
1750 peri, installing a clean stable potato debian on it, and
1751 priming it for being a gradual replacement to calum. We'll
1752 probably discuss how much we want to get done on this
1753 front on Monday.</p>
1757 <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>
1761 <eventitem date="2001-01-27" time="10:30 AM" room="MC3006"
1762 title="ACM-Style programming contest">
1763 <short>Practice for the ACM international programming
1766 <p>Our ACM-Style practice contests involve answering five questions in three
1767 hours. Solutions are written in Pascal, C or C++. Seven years in a row,
1768 Waterloo's teams have been in the top ten at the world finals.
1769 For more information, see
1770 <a HREF="http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/">the contest web page</a>.</p>
1772 <h3>Easy Question:</h3>
1773 <p>A palindrome is a sequence of letters that reads the same backwards and
1774 forwards, such as ``Madam, I'm Adam'' (note that case doesn't matter and
1775 only letters are important). Your task is to find the longest palindrome in
1776 a line of text (if there is a tie, print the leftmost one).</p>
1780 asfgjh12dsfgg kj0ab12321BA wdDwkj abBA
1781 abcbabCdcbaqwerewq abCdcba
1784 <h3>Hard Question:</h3>
1785 <p>An anagram is a word formed by reordering the letters of another word.
1786 Find all sets of anagrams that exist within a large dictionary. The
1787 input will be a sorted list of words (up to 4000 words), one per line.
1788 Output each set of anagrams on a separate line. Each set should be
1789 in alphabetical order, and all lines of sets should be in alphabetical
1790 order. A word with no anagrams is a set of anagrams itself, and should
1791 be displayed with no modifications.</p>
1804 <eventitem date="2001-01-29" time="02:39 PM" room="MC3036"
1806 <short>No description available.</short>
1807 <abstract>No abstract available.</abstract>
1810 <eventitem date="2001-02-05" time="03:30 PM" room="MC3036"
1812 <short>No description available.</short>
1813 <abstract>No abstract available.</abstract>
1816 <eventitem date="2001-02-12" time="03:30 PM" room="MC3036"
1818 <short>No description available.</short>
1819 <abstract>No abstract available.</abstract>
1822 <!-- Spring 2001 -->
1824 <eventitem date="2001-06-02" time="10:30 AM" room="MC3006"
1825 title="ACM-Style programming contest">
1826 <short>Practice for the ACM international programming
1829 <p>Our ACM-Style practice contests involve answering five questions in three
1830 hours. Solutions are written in Pascal, C or C++. Seven years in a row,
1831 Waterloo's teams have been in the top ten at the world finals.
1832 For more information, see
1833 <a HREF="http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/">the contest web page</a>.</p>
1835 <h3>Easy Question:</h3>
1836 <p>A palindrome is a sequence of letters that reads the same backwards and
1837 forwards, such as ``Madam, I'm Adam'' (note that case doesn't matter and
1838 only letters are important). Your task is to find the longest palindrome in
1839 a line of text (if there is a tie, print the leftmost one).</p>
1843 asfgjh12dsfgg kj0ab12321BA wdDwkj abBA
1844 abcbabCdcbaqwerewq abCdcba
1847 <h3>Hard Question:</h3>
1848 <p>An anagram is a word formed by reordering the letters of another word.
1849 Find all sets of anagrams that exist within a large dictionary. The
1850 input will be a sorted list of words (up to 4000 words), one per line.
1851 Output each set of anagrams on a separate line. Each set should be
1852 in alphabetical order, and all lines of sets should be in alphabetical
1853 order. A word with no anagrams is a set of anagrams itself, and should
1854 be displayed with no modifications.</p>
1868 <!-- Winter 2002 -->
1870 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:00 PM"
1871 room="Comfy Lounge MC3001"
1872 title="An Introduction to GNU Hurd">
1873 <short>Bored of GNU/Linux? Try this experimental operating
1876 <p>GNU Hurd is an operating system kernel based on the microkernel
1877 architecture design. It was the original GNU kernel, predating Linux,
1878 and is still being actively developed by many volunteers.</p>
1879 <p>The Toronto-area Hurd Users Group, in co-operation with the Computer
1880 Science Club, is hosting an afternoon to show the Hurd to anyone
1881 interested. Jeff Bailey, a Hurd developer, will give a presentation on
1882 the Hurd, followed by a GnuPG/PGP keysigning party. To finish it off,
1883 James Morrison, also a Hurd developer, will be hosting a Debian
1884 GNU/Hurd installation session.</p>
1885 <p>All interested are invited to attend. Bring your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint
1886 and mail your key to sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject
1887 ``keysigning'' (see separate announcement).</p>
1888 <p>Questions? Suggestions? Contact <a
1889 href="ja2morri@uwaterloo.ca">James Morrison</a>.</p>
1892 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:30 PM"
1893 room="Comfy Lounge MC3001"
1894 title="GnuPG/PGP Keysigning Party">
1895 <short>Get more signatures on your key!</short>
1898 GnuPG and PGP provide public-key based encryption for e-mail and
1899 other electronic communication. In addition to preventing others
1900 from reading your private e-mail, this allows you to verify that an
1901 e-mail or file was indeed written by its perceived author.
1904 In order to make sure a GnuPG/PGP key belongs to the respective
1905 person, the key must be signed by someone who has checked the
1906 user's key fingerprint and verified the user's identification.
1909 A keysigning party is an ideal occasion to have your key signed by
1910 many people, thus strengthening the authority of your key. Everyone
1911 showing up exchanges key signatures after verifying ID and
1912 fingerprints. The Computer Science Club will be hosting such a
1913 keysigning party together with the Hurd presentation by THUG (see
1914 separate announcement). See
1915 <a href="http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~sjdutoit/"> the
1916 keysigning party homepage</a> for more information.
1919 Before attending it is important that you mail your key to
1920 sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject ``keysigning.'' Also make
1921 sure to bring photo ID and a copy of your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint on
1922 a sheet of paper to the event.
1926 <eventitem date="2002-01-31" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
1927 title="UNIX 101: First Steps With UNIX">
1929 This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of
1930 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
1931 applications, both in academia and industy. We will be covering
1932 the basics of the UNIX environment, as well as the use of PINE, an
1933 electronic mail and news reader.
1936 <eventitem date="2002-02-13" time="4:00 PM" room="MC4060"
1937 title="DVD-Video Under Linux">
1938 <short>Billy Biggs will be holding a talk on DVD technology
1939 (in particular, CSS and playback issues) under Linux, giving some
1940 technical details as well as an overview of the current status of
1941 Free Software efforts. All are welcome.</short>
1943 <p>DVD copy protection: Content Scrambling System (CSS)</p>
1945 <li>A technical introduction to CSS and an overview of the ongoing
1946 legal battle to allow distribution of non-commercial DVD
1948 <li>The current Linux software efforts and open issues</li>
1949 <li>How applications and Linux distributions are handling the
1950 legal issues involved</li>
1952 <p>DVD-Video specifics: Menus and navigation</p>
1954 <li>An overview of the DVD-Video standard</li>
1955 <li>Reverse engineering efforts and their implementation status</li>
1956 <li>Progress of integration into Linux media players</li>
1960 <eventitem date="2002-02-07" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
1961 title="Unix 102: Fun With UNIX">
1962 <short>This the second in a series of UNIX tutorials. Simon Law and
1963 James Perry will be presenting some more advanced UNIX
1964 techniques. All are welcome. Accounts will be provided for those
1965 needing them.</short>
1968 This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of
1969 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
1970 applications, both in academia and industry. We will provide you
1971 with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment
1974 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
1976 <li>Interacting with Bourne and C shells</li>
1977 <li>Editing text using the vi text editor</li>
1978 <li>Editing text using the Emacs display editor</li>
1979 <li>Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer</li>
1982 If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will
1983 be lent to you for the duration of this class.
1987 <eventitem date="2002-03-01" time="5:00 PM" room="MC4060"
1988 title="Computer Go, The Ultimate">
1989 <short>Thomas Wolf from Brock University will be holding a talk on
1990 the asian game of Go. All are welcome.</short>
1993 The asian game go is unique in a number of ways. It is the oldest
1994 board game known. It is a strategy game with very simple
1995 rules. Computer programs are very weak despite huge efforts and
1996 prizes of US$ > 1.5M for a program beating professional
1997 players. The talk will quickly explain the rules of go, compare go
1998 and chess, mention various attempts to program go and describe our
1999 own efforts in this field. Students will have an opportunity to
2000 solve computer generated go problems. Prizes will be available.
2005 <!-- Spring 2002 -->
2007 <eventitem date="2002-05-11" time="7:00 PM" room="MC3036" title="S02
2009 <short>Come and vote for this term's exec</short>
2012 Vote for the exec this term. Meet at the CSC office.
2020 <eventitem date="2002-09-16" time="5:30 PM" room="Comfy lounge"
2021 title="F02 elections">
2022 <short>Come and vote for this term's exec</short>
2025 Vote for the exec this term. Meet at the comfy
2026 lounge. There will be an opportunity to obtain or renew
2027 memberships. This term's CRO is Siyan Li
2028 (s8li@csclub.uwaterloo.ca).
2033 <eventitem date="2002-09-30" time="6:30 PM" room="Comfy lounge, MC3001"
2034 title="Business Meeting">
2035 <short>Vote on a constitutional change.</short>
2038 The executive has unanimously decided to try to change our
2039 constitution to comply with MathSoc policy. The clause we are trying
2040 to change is the membership clause. The following is the proposed new
2041 reading of the clause.
2044 In compliance with MathSoc regulations and in recognition of
2045 the club being primarily targeted at undergraduate students, full
2046 membership is open to all undergraduate students in the Faculty of
2047 Mathematics and restricted to the same.</i>
2051 The proposed change is illustrated <a
2052 href="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/docs/constitution-change-20020920.html">on
2057 There will be a business meeting on 30 Sept 2002 at 18:30 in
2058 the comfy lounge, MC 3001. Please come and vote
2063 <eventitem date="2002-09-26" time="5:30 PM" room="MC3006"
2065 <short>First Steps with UNIX</short>
2068 Get to know UNIX and be the envy of your friends!
2071 This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use
2072 of the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
2073 applications, both in academia and industy. We will provide
2074 you with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX
2075 environment in this seminar.
2078 Topics that will be discussed include:
2081 <li>Navigating the UNIX environment</li>
2082 <li>Using common UNIX commands</li>
2083 <li>Using the PICO text editor</li>
2084 <li>Reading electronic mail and news with PINE</li>
2087 If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be
2088 lent to you for the duration of this class.
2093 <eventitem date="2002-10-01" time="6:30 PM-9:30 PM" room="The Bomber"
2094 title="Pints with the Profs">
2095 <short>Get to know your profs and be the envy of your friends!</short>
2097 <p>Come out and meet your professors. This is a great opportunity to
2098 meet professors for Undergraduate Research jobs or to find out who you might
2099 have for future courses.</p>
2101 <p>Profs who have confirmed their attendance are:</p>
2103 <li>Troy Vasiga, School of Computer Science</li>
2104 <li>J.P. Pretti, St. Jerome's and School of Computer Science</li>
2105 <li>Michael McCool, School of Computer Science, CGL</li>
2106 <li>Martin Karsten, School of Computer Science, BBCR</li>
2107 <li>Gisli Hjaltason, School of Computer Science, DB</li>
2110 <p>There will also be...</p>
2119 <eventitem date="2002-10-03" time="5:30 PM" room="MC3006"
2121 <short>Talking to your UNIX can be fun and profitable.</short>
2123 <p>This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of
2124 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of applications,
2125 both in academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on
2126 experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment in this
2129 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
2130 <ul><li>Interacting with Bourne and C shells</li>
2131 <li>Editing text using the vi text editor</li>
2132 <li>Editing text using the Emacs display editor</li>
2133 <li>Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer</li>
2136 <p>If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be
2137 lent to you for the duration of this class.</p>
2142 <eventitem date="2002-10-08" time="4:30PM" room="MC4045"
2143 title="Video cards, Linux display drivers and the Kernel Graphics Interface (KGI)">
2144 <short>A talk by Filip Spacek, KGI developer</short>
2146 Linux has proven itself as a reliable operating system but arguably,
2147 it still lacks in support of high performance graphics
2148 acceleration. This talk will describe basic components of a PC video
2149 card and the design and limitations the current Linux display driver
2150 architecture. Finally a an overview of a new architecture, the Kernel
2151 Graphics Interface (KGI), will be given. KGI attempts to solve the
2152 shortcomings of the current design, and provide a lightweight and
2153 portable interface to the display subsystem.
2157 <eventitem date="2002-10-10" time="5:30pm" room="MC3006"
2160 <abstract>No abstract available yet.</abstract>
2163 <eventitem date="2002-11-05" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 2065"
2164 title="The Evil Side of C++">
2165 <short>Abusing template metaprogramming in C++; aka. writing a
2166 Mandelbrot generator that runs at compile time</short>
2168 <p>Templates are a useful feature in C++ when it comes to writing
2169 type-independent data structures and algorithms. Relatively soon
2170 after their appearance it was realised that they could be used to
2171 do much more than this. Essentially it is possible to write
2172 certain programs in C++ that execute <i>completely at compile
2173 time</i> rather than run time. Combined with constant-expression
2174 optimisation this is an interesting twist on regular C++
2176 <p>This talk will give a short overview of the features of
2177 templates and then go on to describe how to "abuse"
2178 templates to perform complex computations at compile time. The
2179 speaker will present three programs of increasing complexity which
2180 execute at compile time. First a factorial listing program, then a
2181 prime listing program will be presented. Finally the talk will
2182 conclude with the presentation of a <b>Mandelbrot generator running
2183 at compile time</b>.</p>
2185 <p>If you are interested in programming for the fun of it, the C++
2186 language or silly tricks to do with languages, this talk is for
2187 you. No C++ knowledge should be necessary to enjoy this talk, but
2188 programming experience will make it more worthwile for you.</p>
2190 </abstract> </eventitem>
2192 <eventitem date="2002-11-02" time="11:00AM-3:00PM"
2193 room="MC3002 (Math Coffee and Donut Store)"
2194 title="GNU/Linux InstallFest with KW-LUG and UW-DIG">
2195 <short>Bring over your computer and we'll help you install GNU/Linux</short>
2197 <p>The <a href="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">CSC</a>, the <a
2198 href="http://www.kwlug.org/">KW-Linux User Group</a>, and the <a
2199 href="http://uw-dig.uwaterloo.ca/">UW Debian Interest Group</a>
2200 are jointly hosting a GNU/Linux InstallFest. GNU/Linux is a
2201 powerful, free operating system for your computer. It is mostly
2202 written by talented volunteers who like to share their efforts
2203 and help each other.</p>
2205 <p>Perhaps you have are you interested in installing GNU/Linux.
2206 If so, bring your computer, monitor and keyboard; and we will
2207 help you install GNU/Linux on your machine. You can also find
2208 knowledgable people who can answer your questions about
2213 <h3>Frequently Asked Questions</h3>
2215 <p><b>Q: </b>What is GNU/Linux?<br />
2216 <b>A: </b>GNU/Linux is a free operating system for your computer. It is mostly
2217 written by talented volunteers who like to share their efforts.
2220 <p><b>Q: </b>Free?<br />
2221 <b>A: </b>GNU/Linux is available for zero-cost. As well, it allows you such
2222 freedom to share it with your friends, or to modify the software to
2223 your own needs and share that with your friends. It's very friendly.
2226 <p><b>Q: </b>What is an InstallFest?<br />
2227 <b>A: </b>An InstallFest is a meeting where volunteers help people install
2228 GNU/Linux on their computers. It's also a place to meet users, and
2229 talk to them about running GNU/Linux.
2232 <p><b>Q: </b>What kind of computer do I need to use GNU/Linux?<br />
2233 <b>A: </b>Almost any recent computer will do. If you have an old machine
2234 kicking around, you can install GNU/Linux on it as well. If it is
2235 at least 5 years old, it should be good enough.
2238 <p><b>Q: </b>Can I have Windows and GNU/Linux on the same computer?<br />
2239 <b>A: </b>If you can run Windows now, and you have an extra gigabyte (GB) of
2240 disk space to spare; then it should be possible.
2243 <p><b>Q: </b>What should I bring if I want to install GNU/Linux?<br />
2244 <b>A: </b>You will want to bring:</p>
2247 <li>Monitor and monitor cable</li>
2248 <li>Power cords</li>
2249 <li>Keyboard and mouse</li>
2255 <eventitem date="2002-11-07" time="5:30pm" room="MC4063"
2256 title="The GNU General Public License">
2257 <short>The teeth of Free Software</short>
2262 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom
2263 to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License
2264 is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
2265 software---to make sure the software is free for all its users.
2266 </i><br/>--- Excerpt from the GNU GPL
2269 <p>The GNU General Public License is one of the most influencial
2270 software licenses in this day. Written by Richard Stallman for the
2271 GNU Project, it is used by software developers around the world to
2275 Unfortunately, software developers do not read licenses thoroughly, nor
2276 well. In this talk, we will read the entire GNU GPL and explain the
2277 implications of its passages. Along the way, we will debunk some myths
2278 and clarify common misunderstandings.
2281 After this session, you ought to understand what the GNU GPL means, how
2282 to use it, and when you cannot use it. This session should also give
2283 you some insight into the social implications of this work.
2288 <eventitem date="2002-11-19" time="4:30pm" room="MC4058"
2289 title="Metaprogramming GPUs">
2290 <short>A talk by Michael McCool of the Computer Graphics Lab.</short>
2293 Modern graphics accelerators, or "GPUs", have embedded high-performance
2294 programmable components in the form of vertex and fragment shading units.
2295 Recently, these units have evolved from 8-bit computations to floating-point,
2296 and other operations provide array gather, scatter, and summation.
2297 These capabilities make GPUs akin to array processors of the
2298 past, but with a difference: every PC now has one! I am interested
2299 in finding the best way to exploit this computational capacity for not
2300 only graphics but for general-purpose computation.
2302 Current APIs permit specification of the programs for GPUs
2303 using an assembly-language level interface. Compilers for high-level
2304 shading languages are available, such as NVIDIA's Cg, and OpenGL 2.0 and
2305 DirectX will also include standardized shading languages. This talk will
2306 review these. However, compilers for these languages read in an external
2307 string specification, which can be inconvenient.
2309 However, it is possible, using standard C++, to define a high-level
2310 shading language directly in the API. Such a language can be nearly
2311 indistinguishable from a special-purpose programming language, yet
2312 permits more direct interaction with the specification of textures
2313 (arrays) and parameters, simplifies implementation, and enables
2314 on-the-fly generation, manipulation, and specialization of shader programs.
2315 A shading language built into the API also permits the lifting of
2316 C++ host language type, modularity, and scoping constructs into the shading
2317 language without any additional implementation effort. Such an
2318 embedded language could be used to program other embedded processors
2319 (such as DSP chips in sound cards) or even to generate machine language
2320 on the fly for the host CPU.
2325 <eventitem date="2002-11-16" time="1:30pm" room="York University"
2326 title="Trip to York University">
2327 <short>Going to visit the York University Computer Club</short>
2328 <abstract><p>YUCC and the UW CSC have having a join meeting at York
2329 University. Dave Makalsky, the President of YUCC, will be giving a talk on
2330 Design-by-constract and Eiffel. Stefanus Du Toit, Vice-President of the UW
2331 CSC, will be giving a talk on the evil depths of the black art known as C++.
2333 <ul><li>1:30pm: Leave UW</li>
2334 <li>3:00pm: Arrive at York University.</li>
2335 <li>3:30pm: The Evil side of C++</li>
2336 <li>4:30pm: Design-by-Contract and Eiffel</li>
2337 <li>6:00pm: Dinner</li>
2338 <li>9:00pm: Arrive back at UW</li>
2343 <eventitem date="2002-11-21" time="6:00pm" room="MC2066"
2345 <short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
2348 Perl, the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language can only
2349 be described as an eclectic language, invented and refined by
2350 a deranged system administrator, who was trained as a
2351 linguist. This man, however, has declared:
2355 Perl 5 was my rewrite of Perl.
2356 I want Perl 6 to be the community's rewrite of Perl and of the
2358 </i><br/>--- Larry Wall
2361 Whenever a language is designed by a committee, it is common
2362 wisdom to avoid it. Not so with Perl, for it cannot get
2363 worse. However strange these Perl people seem, Perl 6 is a
2364 good thing coming. In this talk, I will demonstrate some Perl
2365 5 programs, and talk about their Perl 6 counterparts, to show
2366 you that Perl 6 will be cleaner, friendlier, and prettier.
2371 <eventitem date="2002-11-21" time="4:30pm" room="MC2066"
2372 title="Samba and You">
2373 <short>A talk by Dan Brovkovich, Mathsoc's Computing Director</short>
2375 Samba is a free implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB)
2376 protocol. It also implements the Common Internet File System (CIFS)
2377 protocol, used by Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP to share files and
2379 SMB was originally developed in the early to mid-80's by IBM and was
2380 further improved by Microsoft, Intel, SCO, Network Appliances, Digital
2381 and many others over a period of 15 years. It has now morphed into CIFS,
2382 a form strongly influenced by Microsoft. </p><p>
2383 Samba is considered to be one of the key projects for the acceptance of
2384 GNU/Linux and other Free operating systems (e.g. FreeBSD) in the
2385 corporate world: a traditional Windows NT/2000 stronghold. </p><p>
2386 We will talk about interfacing Samba servers and desktops with the
2387 Windows world. From a simple GNU/Linux desktop in your home to the
2388 corporate server that provides collaborative file/printer sharing,
2389 logons and home directories to hundreds of users a day. </p>
2393 <eventitem date="2002-10-26" time="1:30PM" room="MC2066"
2394 title="GNU/Linux on HPPA">
2395 <short>Carlos O'Donnell talks about "the last of the legacy processors to fall before the barbarian horde"</short>
2397 <p>This whirlwind talk is aimed at providing an overview of the
2398 GNU/Linux port for the HP PARISC processor. The talk will focus on
2399 the "intricacies" of the processor, and in particular the
2400 implementations of the Linux kernel and GNU Libc. After the talk
2401 you should be acutely aware of how little code needs to be written
2402 to support a new architecture! Carlos has been working on the port
2403 for two years, and enjoying the fruits of his labour on a 46-node
2408 Carlos is currently in his 5th year of study at the University
2409 of Western Ontario. This is his last year in a concurrent
2410 Computer Engineering and Computer Science degree. His research
2411 interest range from distributed and parallel systems to low
2412 level optimized hardware design. He likes playing guitar and
2413 just bought a Cort NTL-20, jumbo body, solid spurce top with
2414 a mahogany back. Carlos hacks on the PARISC Linux kernel, GNU libc,
2415 GNU Debugger, GNU Binutils and various Debian packages.
2422 <eventitem date="2002-10-26" time="3:00PM" room="MC2066"
2423 title="The Hurd Interfaces">
2424 <short>Marcus Brinkmann, a GNU Hurd developer, talks about the Hurd server interfaces, at the heart of a GNU/Hurd system</short>
2426 <p>The Hurd server interfaces are at the heart of the Hurd system. They
2427 define the remote procedure calls (RPCs) that are used by the servers, the
2428 GNU C library and the utility programs to communicate with the Hurd system
2429 and to implement the POSIX personality of the Hurd as well as other
2432 <p>This talk is a walk through the Hurd RPCs, and will give an overview of how
2433 they are used to implement the system. Individual RPCs will be used to
2434 illustrate important or exciting features of the Hurd system in general,
2435 and it will be shown how those features are accessible to the user at the
2436 command line, too.</p>
2440 <p>Marcus Brinkmann is a math student at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum in
2441 Germany. He is one of maintainers of the GNU Hurd project and the
2442 initiator of the Debian GNU/Hurd binary distribution. He designed and
2443 implemented the console subsystem of the Hurd, wrote the FAT filesystem
2444 server, and fixed a lot of bugs, thus increasing the stability and
2445 usability of the system.</p>
2450 <eventitem date="2002-10-26" time="4:30PM" room="MC2066"
2451 title="A GNU Approach to Virtual Memory Management in a Multiserver Operating System">
2452 <short>Neal Walfield, a GNU Hurd developer, talks about a possible Virtual Memory Management subsystem for the GNU Hurd</short>
2454 <p>Virtual memory management is one of the cornerstones of multiuser
2455 operating systems. Most systems available today place all of the
2456 policy in a monolithic virtual memory manager, VMM, isolated from the
2457 rest of the system. Although secure and lightweight, users have no
2458 way to communicate their anticipated memory needs and usage to the
2459 system pager. As a result, the VMM can only implement a global paging
2460 policy (typically, an approximation of LRU) which may be good on
2461 average but is best for nobody.</p>
2463 <p>With the port of Hurd to the L4 microkernel, this situation is being
2464 readdressed. Due to its more distributed nature, a centralized
2465 resource manager is not only more difficult to implement efficiently
2466 but also contrary to the philosophy of the rest of the system. We are
2467 currently exploring a model whereby each program is fully self-paged
2468 and all compete for memory from a physical memory server. This talk
2469 will first discuss how paging currently works in Mach and other
2470 systems. An argument for an external paging policy will then be
2471 presented followed by the requirements of such a design and the design
2476 <p>Neal Walfield, a GNU Hurd developer, is from the University of Massachusetts
2477 Lowell. Neal spent the summer of 2002 at University of Karlsruhe working
2478 on porting the GNU Hurd to L4.</p>
2483 <eventitem date="2002-10-17" time="5:30PM" room="MC2065"
2484 title="Debian in the Enterprise">
2485 <short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
2487 <p>The Debian Project produces a "Universal Operating System" that is
2488 comprised entirely of Free Software. This talk focuses on using Debian
2489 GNU/Linux in an enterprise environment. This includes:</p>
2491 <li>Where Debian can be deployed</li>
2492 <li>Strategic advantages of Debian</li>
2493 <li>Ways for business to give back to Debian</li>
2498 <eventitem date="2002-11-12" time="4:30PM" room="MC4058"
2499 title="Automatic Memory Management and Garbage Collection">
2500 <short>A talk by James A. Morrison</short>
2503 Do you ever wonder what java is doing while you wait? Have you ever used
2504 Modula-3? Do you wonder how lazily you can Mark and Sweep? Would you like to
2505 know how to Stop-and-Copy?
2507 Come out to this talk and learn these things and more. No prior knowledge of
2508 Garbage Collection or memory management is needed.
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