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	Here you will find a wide variety of audio and video recordings of past CSC 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. 
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    <mediaitem title="Semacode - Image recognition on mobile camera phones">
        <abstract>
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.
        </abstract>
	 	<mediafile file="semacode.avi" type="DivX" size="180M"/>
	 	<mediafile file="semacode-xvid.avi" type="XviD" size="180M"/>
	 	<mediafile file="semacode.mpg" type="Mpeg" size="180M"/>
    </mediaitem>
	<mediaitem title="Eric LaForest: Next Generation Stack Computing">
		<abstract>
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>
		Note: the slides are hard to make out in the video, so make sure to download the slides as well.
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		</abstract>
	 	<mediafile file="eric-laforest2-720-480.avi" type="DiVX" size="357M"/>
		<mediafile file="ericlaforest-xvid.avi" type="XViD" size="309M"/>
		<mediafile file="ericlaforest.mov" type="Quick Time" size="298M" />
		<mediafile file="ericlaforest.mpg" type="Mpeg" size="307M" />
		<mediafile file="Eric-LaForest2-real-1024kbps.rmvb" size="391M" type="Real 9" />
		<mediafile file="Eric-laforest2-wmv-512k.wmv" size="220M" type="Windows Media" />
		<mediafile file="CSCtalkMar06.pdf" size="1M" type="slides [pdf]"/>
		<mediafile file="CSCtalkMar06.ppt" size="1M" type="slides [Power Point]" />
		<mediafile file="CSCtalkMar06.odt" size="1M" type="slides [Open Office]" />
	</mediaitem> 
	<mediaitem title="Larry Smith: Creating Killer Applications"> 
		<abstract>
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.
		</abstract>
		<mediafile file="larry-smith-divx-low.avi" size="920M" type="DiVX" />
		<mediafile file="larry-smith-wmv.wmv" size="312M" type="Windows Media" />
		<mediafile file="larry-smith-mov.mov" size="1.4G" type="Quick Time" />
	</mediaitem>
	<li>Larry Smith: Computing's Next Great Empires <a href="/audio/Larry%20Smith%20Talk.ogg">ogg</a><a href="/audio/Larry%20Smith%20Talk.mp3">mp3</a></li>
	<mediaitem title="Rico Mariani: Eighteen Years in the Software Tools Business">
		<abstract>
		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.
		</abstract>
		<mediafile file="Rico-Mariani-exctd-divx-320-240.avi" size="689M" type="DivX" />
		<mediafile file="Rico-Mariani-exctd-quicktime.mov" size="504M" type="Quick Time" />
		<mediafile file="Rico-Mariani-exctd-realmedia.rmvb" size="264M" type="Real Media" />
		<mediafile file="Rico-Mariani-exctd-wmv.wmv" size="157M" type="Windows Media" />
	</mediaitem>

	<!-- <li>Eric LaFrost <a href="ericlaforest.mpg">mpg</a></li> -->
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