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  <section title="CSC Media">
    Here you will find a wide variety of audio and video recordings of past 
    CSC and other unversity-related talks. Some of these files are very large, 
    and we do not recommend attempting to stream them. Most of these should be 
    available upon request at the Computer Science Club office to be burnt to 
    CD or DVD should you so choose.
    <ul>

<mediaitem title="C++0x - An Overview">
  <abstract><p>
   A good programming language is far more than a simple collection of
   features. My ideal is to provide a set of facilities that smoothly work
   together to support design and programming styles of a generality beyond
   my imagination. Here, I briefly outline rules of thumb (guidelines,
   principles) that are being applied in the design of C++0x. Then, I
   present the state of the standards process (we are aiming for C++09) and
   give examples of a few of the proposals such as concepts, generalized
   initialization, being considered in the ISO C++ standards committee.
   Since there are far more proposals than could be presented in an hour,
   I'll take questions.
  </p><p>
   Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup is the original designer and implementer of the
   C++ Programming Language.
  </p></abstract>
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  <other>
  <h2>Q&amp;A</h2>
  <ul>
    <li>Do you think you'll ever design a new language from scratch?</li>
    <li>How long after the standard is out do you expect to see a production compiler?</li>
    <li>Is it possible to do garbage collection cleanly and efficiently in C++?</li>
    <li>How soon after you created C++ did you see it start to take over the industry?</li>
    <li>Is there any particular naming convention you subscribe to?</li>
    <li>What's your opinion about the Microsoft implementation of C++?</li>
  </ul>
  </other>
</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="PMAMC&amp;OC SASMS - Spring 2007">
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  <mediafile file="pmc-sasms-spring-2007.ogg" type="Ogg/Theora" size="598M" />
  <mediafile file="pmc-sasms-spring-2007.mp4" type="MP4" size="625M" />
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  <flvfile file="pmc-sasms-spring-2007.flv" />
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<mediaitem title="Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks">
  <abstract><p>
    Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed 
    to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing 
    press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, 
    and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
    </p><p>
    The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for
    draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while
    suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve
    the only legitimate purpose of copyright -- to promote progress, for the
    benefit of the public -- then we must make changes in the other
    direction.
    </p><p>
    This talk by Richard M. Stallman is broken into two parts: the main talk
    and the question and answer sessions following the talk. Both are
    available in only Ogg/Theora format in keeping with Stallman's wishes. They
    are available under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nd/1.0/">
    Creative Commons NoDerivs 1.0</a> license.
  </p></abstract>
  <other>
  <h2>Q&amp;A</h2>
  <p>
  Download the question and answers section for answers to questions such as:
  </p>
  <ul>
    <li> What do you do when no free alternatives for a proprietary program exist?  </li>
    <li> If we are to treat works used for practical purposes differently from those used for entertainment, how do you treat works such as video games that fall in both categories?  </li>
    <li> If most of the computing industry and the US Copyright Board don't disagree with your views on copyright, how come no one has gone to change things?  </li>
  </ul>
  </other>
  <mediafile file="rms-talk.ogg" type="Talk (Ogg/Theora)" size="687M" />
  <mediafile file="rms-qa.ogg" type="Q&amp;A (Ogg/Theora)" size="225M" />
</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="Usability in the Wild">
  <abstract><p>
    What is the typical monitor resolution of a GIMP user? How many monitors 
    do they have? What size images do they work on? How many layers are in 
    their images? The answers to these questions are generally unknown: no 
    means currently exist for open source applications to collect usage data. 
    In this talk, Professor Michael Terry will present ingimp, a version of 
    GIMP that has been instrumented to automatically collect usage data from 
    real-world users. Prof. Terry will discuss ingimp's design, the type of 
    data we collect, how we make the data available on the web, and initial 
    results that begin to answer the motivating questions. ingimp can be found
    at http://www.ingimp.org.
    </p><p>
    The slides from the talk are available here: <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/files/ingimp_uw_csc_talk_6_27_2007.pdf">ingimp_uw_csc_talk_6_27_2007.pdf</a>.
  </p></abstract>
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</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="Ralph Stanton 40th Anniversary of Math Faculty Talk">
  <abstract><p>
    Ralph Stanton reflects on the founding of the University of 
    Waterloo Math Faculty.
  </p></abstract>
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<mediaitem title="The Free Software Movement and GNULinux Operating System, a talk by Richard Stallman at UCSD">
  <abstract><p>
    Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free 
    Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU Operating System, 
    which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions 
    of users world-wide.
    </p><p>
    Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system in 
    1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and 
    redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The 
    GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is 
    used on tens of millions of computers today.
    </p><p>
    "The reason I care especially, is that there is a philosophy associated 
    with the GNU project, and this philosophy is actually the reason why there 
    is a system -- and that is that free software is not just convenient and 
    not just reliable.... More important than convenience and reliability is 
    freedom -- the freedom to cooperate. What I'm concerned about is not 
    individual people or companies so much as the kind of way of life that we 
    have. That's why I think it's a distraction to think about fighting 
    Microsoft."
    </p><p>
    <strong>Biography:</strong>
    Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation 
    fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the 
    Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary 
    doctorates.
    </p><p>
    The Question and Answer session (starting shortly after the hour and half 
    mark) possed a number of interesting questions including, "Do you support 
    the Creative Commons license?" and "Can I use ATI and NVIDIA drivers 
    because Mesa isn't nearly as complete?".
    <p></p>
    The talk is only available in Ogg Theora, in keeping with Richard 
    Stallman's wishes.
  </p></abstract>
  <mediafile file="rms_ucsd.ogg" type="Ogg Theora" size="148MB" />
</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="Introduction to 3-d Graphics">
  <abstract><p>
    A talk for those interested in 3-dimensional graphics but unsure of where 
    to start. Covers the basic math and theory behind projecting 3-dimensional 
    polygons on screen, as well as simple cropping techniques to improve 
    efficiency. Translation and rotation of polygons will also be discussed.
  </p></abstract>
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</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="UW Software Start-ups: What Worked and What Did Not">
  <abstract><p>
    A discussion of software start-ups founded by UW students and what they 
    did that helped them grow and what failed to help. In order to share the 
    most insights and guard the confidences of the individuals involved, none 
    of the companies will be identifed.
  </p></abstract>
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  <mediafile file="larry-smith-talk2-xvid.avi" type="XviD" size="332M" />
  <mediafile file="larry-smith-talk2.mpg" type="MPG" size="332M" />
  <mediafile file="larry-smith-talk2.ogg" type="Ogg/Theora" size="341M"/>
</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="Riding The Multi-core Revolution">
  <abstract><p>
    For decades, mainstream parallel processing has been thought of as 
    inevitable. Up until recent years, however, improvements in manufacturing 
    processes and increases in clock speed have provided software with free 
    Moore's Law-scale performance improvements on traditional single-core
    CPUs. As per-core CPU speed increases have slowed to a halt, processor 
    vendors are embracing parallelism by multiplying the number of cores on 
    CPUs, following what Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) vendors have been
    doing for years. The Multi-core revolution promises to provide
    unparalleled increases in performance, but it comes with a catch: 
    traditional serial programming methods are not at all suited to 
    programming these processors and methods such as multi-threading are 
    cumbersome and rarely scale beyond a few cores. Learn how, with hundreds 
    of cores in desktop computers on the horizon, a local software company is 
    looking to revolutionize the way software is written to deliver on the 
    promise multi-core holds.
  </p></abstract>
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  <mediafile file="sdt.mpg" type="MPG" size="405M" />
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</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="ReactOS - An Open Source OS Platform for Learning">
  <abstract><p>
    The ReactOS operating system has been in development for over eight years 
    and aims to provide users with a fully functional and Windows-compatible 
    distribution under the GPL license. ReactOS comes with its own Windows 
    2003-based kernel and system utilities and applications, resulting in an 
    environment identical to Windows, both visually and internally.
    </p><p>
    More than just an alternative to Windows, ReactOS is a powerful platform 
    for academia, allowing students to learn a variety of skills useful to 
    software testing, development and management, as well as providing a rich 
    and clean implementation of Windows NT, with a kernel compatible to 
    published internals book on the subject.
    </p><p>
    This talk will introduce the ReactOS project, as well as the various 
    software engineering challenges behind it. The building platform and 
    development philosophies and utilities will be shown, and attendees will 
    grasp the vast amount of effort and organization that needs to go into 
    building an operating system or any other similarly large project. The 
    speaker will gladly answer questions related to his background, experience 
    and interests and information on joining the project, as well as any other 
    related information.
    </p><p>
    Slides from the talk are available 
    <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/files/alex-ionescu.pdf">here</a>.
    </p><p>
    <strong>Biography</strong>
    </p><p>
    Alex Ionescu is currently studying in Software Engineering at Concordia 
    University in Montreal, Quebec and is a Microsoft Technical Student 
    Ambassador. He is the lead kernel developer of the ReactOS Project and 
    project leader of TinyKRNL. He regularly speaks at Linux and Open Source 
    conferences around the world and will be a lecturer at the 8th 
    International Free Software Forum in Brazil this April, as well as 
    providing hands-on workshops and lectures on Windows NT internals and 
    security to various companies.
  </p></abstract>
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</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="1989 Bill Gates Talk on Microsoft">
  <abstract><p>
    Bill Gates discusses the software and computer industry, and how Microsoft 
    has contributed. Gates also discusses his views on the future of the 
    computing industry. The talk was recorded in 1989 but was only recently
    digitized.
    </p><p>
    Topics include:<ul>
      <li>The start and history of the microcomputer industry</li>
      <li>Microsoft BASIC and the Altair 880 computer</li>
      <li>The transition from 8-bit to 16-bit computers</li>
      <li>Microsoft's history with IBM</li>
      <li>640k memory barrier and 16-bit architectures</li>
      <li>32-bit 386 and 486 architectures</li>
      <li>RISC and multi-processor machines</li>
      <li>EGA graphics and WYSIWYG editors</li>
      <li>Decreasing cost of memory, harddisks and hardware in general</li>
      <li>The importance and future of the mouse</li>
      <li>Object-oriented programming</li>
      <li>MS-DOS and OS/2</li>
      <li>Multi-threaded and multi-application systems</li>
      <li>Synchronization in multi-threaded applications</li>
      <li>Diskette-based software</li>
      <li>UNIX standardization and POSIX</li>
      <li>History of the Macintosh and Microsoft' involvement</li>
      <li>Involvement of Xerox in graphical user interfaces</li>
      <li>Apple vs. Microsoft lawsuit regarding user interfaces</li>
      <li>OS/2 future as a replacement for MS-DOS</li>
      <li>Microsoft Office on Macintosh</li>
      <li>Thin/dumb clients</li>
      <li>Compact discs</li>
      <li>Multimedia applications</li>
      <li>Gates' current role at Microsoft</li>
      </ul>
    </p><p>
    The following picture was taken after the talk (click for higher-res).
    </p><p>
    <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/files/bill-gates-1989-big.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/files/bill-gates-1989.jpg" /></a>
    </p></abstract>
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  </mediaitem>

  <mediaitem title="Spam Filters: Do they work and Can you prove it">
    <abstract><p>
      Do spam filters work?  Which is the best one?  How might filters be
      improved?  Without standards, one must depend on unreliable evidence,
      such as subjective impressions, testimonials, incomparable and 
      unrepeatable measurements, and vendor claims for the answers to these 
      questions.
      </p><p>
      You might think that your spam filter works well and couldn't be
      improved.  Are you sure?  You may think that the risk of losing
      important mail outweighs the benefit of using a filter.  Could you
      convince someone who holds the other opinion?  If I told you that my
      filter was 99-percent accurate, would you believe me?  Would you know
      what I meant?  Would you  be able to translate that 99-percent into
      the risk of losing an important message?
      </p><p>
      Gord Cormack talks about the science, logistics, and politics of Spam 
      Filter Evaluation.
    </p></abstract>
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</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="Software development gets on the Cluetrain">
  <abstract><p>
    Simon Law leads the Quality teams for Ubuntu, a free-software operating 
    system built on Debian GNU/Linux. As such, he leads one of the largest 
    community-based testing efforts for a software product. This does get a 
    bit busy sometimes.
    </p><p>
    In this talk, we'll be exploring how the Internet is changing how software 
    is developed. Concepts like open source and technologies like message 
    forums are blurring the lines between producer and consumer. And this 
    melting pot of people is causing people to take note, and changing the way 
    they sling code.
    </p><p>
    The Computer Science Club would like to thank the CS-Commons Committee for 
    co-sponsoring this talk.
  </p></abstract>
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</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="Semacode - Image recognition on mobile camera phones">
  <abstract><p>
    Could you write a good image recognizer for a 100 MHz mobile phone 
    processor with 1 MB heap, 320x240 image, on a poorly-optimized Java stack? 
    It needs to locate and read two-dimensional barcodes made up of square 
    modules which might be no more than a few pixels in size. We had to do 
    that in order to establish Semacode, a local start up company that makes a 
    software barcode reader for cell phones. The applications vary from 
    ubiquitous computing to advertising. Simon Woodside (founder) will discuss 
    what it's like to start a business and how the imaging code works.
  </p></abstract>
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</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="Eric LaForest: Next Generation Stack Computing">
  <abstract><p>
    Eric LaForest delivers a crash-course on modern stack computing, the Forth 
    programming language, and some projects of his own. Stack systems have 
    faster procedure calls and reduced complexity (shorter pipeline, simpler 
    compilation) relative to their conventional counterparts, as well as more 
    consistent performance, which is very important for real-time systems. 
    Many consider stack-based architecture's crowning feature, however, to be 
    the unrivalled price-to-performance ratio.
    </p><p>
	Note: the slides are hard to make out in the video, so make sure to 
    download the slides as well.
  </p></abstract>
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  <mediafile file="CSCtalkMar06.pdf" size="1M" type="slides [pdf]"/>
  <mediafile file="CSCtalkMar06.ppt" size="1M" type="slides [Power Point]" />
  <mediafile file="CSCtalkMar06.odp" size="1M" type="slides [Open Office]" />
</mediaitem> 
<mediaitem title="Larry Smith: Creating Killer Applications"> 
  <abstract><p>
    A discussion of how software creators can identify application 
    opportunities that offer the promise of great social and commercial 
    significance. Particular attention will be paid to the challenge of 
    acquiring cross domain knowledge and setting up effective collaboration.
  </p></abstract>
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<mediaitem title="Larry Smith: Computing's Next Great Empires">
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</mediaitem>

<mediaitem title="Rico Mariani: Eighteen Years in the Software Tools Business">
  <abstract><p>
    Rico Mariani, (BMath CS/EEE 1988) now an (almost) 18 year Microsoft 
    veteran but then a CSC president comes to talk to us about the evolution 
    of software tools for microcomputers. This talk promises to be a little 
    bit about history and perspective (at least from the Microsoft side 
    of things) as well as the evolution of software engineers, different types 
    of programmers and their needs, and what it's like to try to make the 
    software industry more effective at what it does, and sometimes succeed!
    Particularly illuminating are his responses to advocates of 
    free/open-source software.
  </p></abstract>
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</mediaitem>

    </ul>
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