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<!DOCTYPE cscpage SYSTEM "../csc.dtd">
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<cscpage title="Media">
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<header />
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<section title="CSC Media">
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<p>
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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.
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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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</p>
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<ul>
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<mediaitem title="Spam Filters: Do they work and Can you prove it">
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<abstract>
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<p> Do spam filters work? Which is the best one? How might filters be
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improved? Without standards, one must depend on unreliable evidence,
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such as subjective impressions, testimonials, incomparable and
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unrepeatable measurements, and vendor claims for the answers to these
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questions.</p>
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<p>
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You might think that your spam filter works well and couldn't be
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improved. Are you sure? You may think that the risk of losing
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important mail outweighs the benefit of using a filter. Could you
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convince someone who holds the other opinion? If I told you that my
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filter was 99-percent accurate, would you believe me? Would you know
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what I meant? Would you be able to translate that 99-percent into
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the risk of losing an important message?</p>
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<p>
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Gord Cormack talk about the science, logistics, and politics of Spam Filter Evaluation.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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<mediafile file="cormack-spam-xvid.avi" type="XviD" size="473M" />
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<mediafile file="cormack-spam.avi" type="DiVX" size="473M" />
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<mediafile file="cormack-spam.mpg" type="MPG" size="472M" />
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<mediafile file="cormack-spam.ogg" type="OGG/Theora" size="481M" />
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<mediafile file="cormack-spam.rm" type="Real Media" size="471M" />
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<mediafile file="cormack-spam.wmv" type="Windows Media" size="476M" />
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</mediaitem>
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<mediaitem title="Software development gets on the Cluetrain">
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<abstract>
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<p> Simon Law leads the Quality teams for Ubuntu, a free-software operating system built on Debian GNU/Linux. As such, he leads
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one of the largest community-based testing efforts for a software product. This does get a bit busy sometimes.
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</p>
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<p>In this talk, we'll be exploring how the Internet is changing how software is developed. Concepts like open source and technologies
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like message forums are blurring the lines between producer and consumer. And this melting pot of people is causing people to take
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note, and changing the way they sling code.</p>
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<p>
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The Computer Science Club would like to thank the CS-Commons Committee for co-sponsoring this talk.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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<mediafile file="simon-talk-xvid.avi" type="XviD" size="178M" />
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<mediafile file="simon-talk.avi" type="DivX" size="178M" />
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<mediafile file="simon-talk.mpg" type="MPG" size="177M" />
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<mediafile file="simon-talk.rm" type="Real Media" size="177M" />
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<mediafile file="simon-talk.wmv" type="Windows Media" size="179M" />
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</mediaitem>
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<mediaitem title="Semacode - Image recognition on mobile camera phones">
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<abstract>
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Could you write a good image recognizer for a 100 MHz mobile phone processor
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with 1 MB heap, 320x240 image, on a poorly-optimized Java stack? It needs to
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locate and read two-dimensional barcodes made up of square modules which might
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be no more than a few pixels in size. We had to do that in order to establish
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Semacode, a local start up company that makes a software barcode reader for
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cell phones. The applications vary from ubiquitous computing to advertising.
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Simon Woodside (founder) will discuss what it's like to start a business and
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how the imaging code works.
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</abstract>
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<mediafile file="semacode.avi" type="DivX" size="180M"/>
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<mediafile file="semacode-xvid.avi" type="XviD" size="180M"/>
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<mediafile file="semacode.mpg" type="Mpeg" size="180M"/>
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<mediafile file="semacode.rm" type="Real Media" size="180M"/>
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<mediafile file="semacode.wmv" type="WMV" size="180M"/>
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</mediaitem>
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<mediaitem title="Eric LaForest: Next Generation Stack Computing">
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<abstract>
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Eric LaForest delivers a crash-course on modern stack computing, the Forth programming language, and some projects of his own. Stack
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systems have faster procedure calls and reduced complexity (shorter pipeline, simpler compilation) relative to their conventional counterparts, as
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well as more consistent performance, which is very important for real-time systems. Many consider stack-based architecture's crowning feature,
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however, to be the unrivalled price-to-performance ratio.
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<p>
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Note: the slides are hard to make out in the video, so make sure to download the slides as well.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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<mediafile file="eric-laforest2-720-480.avi" type="DiVX" size="357M"/>
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<mediafile file="ericlaforest-xvid.avi" type="XViD" size="309M"/>
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<mediafile file="ericlaforest.mov" type="Quick Time" size="298M" />
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<mediafile file="ericlaforest.mpg" type="Mpeg" size="307M" />
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<mediafile file="Eric-LaForest2-real-1024kbps.rmvb" size="391M" type="Real 9" />
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<mediafile file="Eric-laforest2-wmv-512k.wmv" size="220M" type="Windows Media" />
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<mediafile file="CSCtalkMar06.pdf" size="1M" type="slides [pdf]"/>
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<mediafile file="CSCtalkMar06.ppt" size="1M" type="slides [Power Point]" />
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<mediafile file="CSCtalkMar06.odp" size="1M" type="slides [Open Office]" />
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</mediaitem>
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<mediaitem title="Larry Smith: Creating Killer Applications">
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<abstract>
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A discussion of how software creators can identify application opportunities that offer the promise of great social and commercial significance.
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Particular attention will be paid to the challenge of acquiring cross domain knowledge and setting up effective collaboration.
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</abstract>
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<mediafile file="larry-smith-divx-low.avi" size="920M" type="DiVX" />
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<mediafile file="larry-smith-wmv.wmv" size="312M" type="Windows Media" />
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<mediafile file="larry-smith-mov.mov" size="1.4G" type="Quick Time" />
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</mediaitem>
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<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>
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<mediaitem title="Rico Mariani: Eighteen Years in the Software Tools Business">
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<abstract>
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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
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evolution of software tools for microcomputers. This talk promises to be a little bit about history and perspective (at least from the Microsoft side
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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
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software industry more effective at what it does, and sometimes succeed!
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Particularly illuminating are his responses to advocates of free/open-source software.
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</abstract>
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<mediafile file="Rico-Mariani-exctd-divx-320-240.avi" size="689M" type="DivX" />
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<mediafile file="Rico-Mariani-exctd-quicktime.mov" size="504M" type="Quick Time" />
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<mediafile file="Rico-Mariani-exctd-realmedia.rmvb" size="264M" type="Real Media" />
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<mediafile file="Rico-Mariani-exctd-wmv.wmv" size="157M" type="Windows Media" />
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</mediaitem>
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<!-- <li>Eric LaFrost <a href="ericlaforest.mpg">mpg</a></li> -->
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</ul>
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</section>
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<footer />
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</cscpage>
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