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<eventdefs>
<!--spring 2007-->
<!--spring 2007-->
<eventitem date="2007-07-17" time="7:00 PM" room="AL 116" title="C++0x - An Overview">
<short>Bjarne Stroustrup</short>
<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.
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></abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2007-07-06" time="4:30 PM"
room="AL 116" title="Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks">
<eventitem date="2007-07-06" time="4:30 PM" room="AL 116" title="Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks">
<short>Richard Stallman</short>
<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>
<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>
Ths CSC would like to thank MEF and Mathsoc for funding this talk.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.fsf.org/events/waterloo20070706">The
Freedom Software Foundation's description</a><br />
<a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org">FSF's anti-DRM
campaign</a><br />
<a href="http://www.badvista.org">Why you shouldn't use
Microsoft Vista</a><br />
<a href="http://www.gnu.org">The GNU's Not Unix
Project</a><br />
</p>
</abstract>
</p><p>
<a href="http://www.fsf.org/events/waterloo20070706">The Freedom Software Foundation's description</a><br />
<a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org">FSF's anti-DRM campaign</a><br />
<a href="http://www.badvista.org">Why you shouldn't use Microsoft Vista</a><br />
<a href="http://www.gnu.org">The GNU's Not Unix Project</a><br />
</p></abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2007-06-27" time="4:30 PM"
room="MC 4042" title="Usability in the wild">
<eventitem date="2007-06-27" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 4042" title="Usability in the wild">
<short>A talk by Michael Terry</short>
<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? Th
e answers to these questions are generally
unknown: No means currently exist for
open source applications to collect usage
data.
In this talk, I will present
ingimp, a version of GIMP that
has been in
strumented to automatically collect usage
data from real-world users. I will dis
cuss ingimp's design, the type of data we
collect, how we make the data availabl
e on the web, and initial results that
begin to answer the motivating questions.
ingimp can be found at
http://www.ingimp.org.
</p>
</abstract>
<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, I will present ingimp, a version of GIMP that has
been instrumented to automatically collect usage data from real-world
users. I 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.
</p><p>
ingimp can be found at http://www.ingimp.org.
</p></abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2007-06-22" time="4:30 PM"
room="MC 4042"
title="Email encryption for the masses">
<short>Ken Ho</short>
<abstract>
<p>E-mail transactions and confirmations have become commonplace
and the
information therein can often be sensitive. We use email for purposes as
mundane as inbound marketing, to as sensitive as account passwords and
financial transactions. And nearly all our email is sent in clear text;
we trust only that others will not eavesdrop or modify our messages. But
why rely on the goodness or apathy of your fellow man when you can
ensure your message's confidentiality with encryption so strong not even
the NSA can break? Speaker (Kenneth Ho) will discuss email encryption,
and GNU Privacy Guard to ensure that your messages are sent, knowing
that only your intended recipient can receive it.
</p>
<p>An optional code-signing party will be held immediately
afterwards; if
you already have a PGP or GPG key and wish to participate, please submit
the public key to <a
href="mailto:gpg-keys@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">gpg-keys@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
Laptop users are
invited
also to participate in key-pair sharing on-site, though it is preferable
to send keys ahead of time.</p>
</abstract>
<abstract><p>
E-mail transactions and confirmations have become commonplace and the
information therein can often be sensitive. We use email for purposes as
mundane as inbound marketing, to as sensitive as account passwords and
financial transactions. And nearly all our email is sent in clear text;
we trust only that others will not eavesdrop or modify our messages. But
why rely on the goodness or apathy of your fellow man when you can
ensure your message's confidentiality with encryption so strong not even
the NSA can break? Speaker (Kenneth Ho) will discuss email encryption,
and GNU Privacy Guard to ensure that your messages are sent, knowing
that only your intended recipient can receive it.
</p><p>An optional code-signing party will be held immediately
afterwards; if you already have a PGP or GPG key and wish to
participate, please submit the public key to
<a href="mailto:gpg-keys@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">
gpg-keys@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
</p><p>
Laptop users are invited also to participate in key-pair sharing
on-site, though it is preferable to send keys ahead of time.
</p></abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2007-06-18" time="4:30 PM"
room="DC 4040" title="Fedspulse.ca, Web 3.0, Portals and the Metaverse">
<short>Peter Macdonald</short>
<abstract>
<p>The purpose of the talk is to address how students interact
with the
internet, and possibilities for how they could do so more
efficiently. Information on events and happenings on UW campus is
currently hosted on a desperate, series of internet
applications. Interactions with WatSFIC is done over a Yahoo! mailing
list, GLOW is organized through a Facebook group, campus information
at large comes from <a href="http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca">imprint.uwaterloo.ca</a>. There has been
historical pressures from various bodies, including some thinkers in
feds and the administration, to centralize these issues. To create a
one stop shop for students on campus.
</p>
<p>It is not through confining data in cages that we will finally link
all
student activities together, instead it is by truly freeing it. When
data
can be anywhere, then it will be everywhere students need it. This is
the
underlying concept behind metadata, data that is freed from the confines
of
it's technical imprisonment. Metadata is the extension of people,
organizations, and activities onto the internet in a way that is above
the
traditional understanding of how people interact with their networks.
The
talk will explore how Metadata can exist freely on the internet, how
this
affects concepts like Web 3.0, and how the university and the federation
are
poised to take advantage of this burgeoning new technology through
adoptions
of portals which will allow students to interact with a metaverse of
data.
</p>
</abstract>
</eventitem>
<abstract><p>
The purpose of the talk is to address how students interact with the
internet, and possibilities for how they could do so more efficiently.
Information on events and happenings on UW campus is currently hosted
on a desperate, series of internet applications. Interactions with
WatSFIC is done over a Yahoo! mailing list, GLOW is organized through a
Facebook group, campus information at large comes from
<a href="http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca">imprint.uwaterloo.ca</a>. There
has been historical pressures from various bodies, including some
thinkers in feds and the administration, to centralize these issues. To
create a one stop shop for students on campus.
</p><p>
It is not through confining data in cages that we will finally link all
student activities together, instead it is by truly freeing it. When
data can be anywhere, then it will be everywhere students need it. This
is the underlying concept behind metadata, data that is freed from the
confines of it's technical imprisonment. Metadata is the extension of
people, organizations, and activities onto the internet in a way that is
above the traditional understanding of how people interact with their
networks. The talk will explore how Metadata can exist freely on the
internet, how this affects concepts like Web 3.0, and how the university
and the federation are poised to take advantage of this burgeoning new
technology through adoptions of portals which will allow students to
interact with a metaverse of data.
</p></abstract>
</eventitem>
<!-- Winter 2007 -->
<eventitem date="2007-04-11" time="3:30 PM"
room="Hagey Hall" title="The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System">
<eventitem date="2007-04-11" time="3:30 PM" room="Hagey Hall" title="The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System">
<short>A talk by Richard M. Stallman (RMS) <b>[CANCELLED]</b></short>
<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.
-->
Richard Stallman has cancelled his trip to Canada.
</p>
</abstract>
<abstract><p>
Richard Stallman has cancelled his trip to Canada.
</p></abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2007-04-08" time="4:30pm"
room="MC 4041" title="Loop Optimizations">
<eventitem date="2007-04-08" time="4:30pm" room="MC 4041" title="Loop Optimizations">
<short>A talk by Simina Branzei</short>
<abstract>
<p>
<abstract><p>
Abstract coming soon!
</p>
</abstract>
</p></abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2007-04-01" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 3036" title="Surprise
@ -251,21 +211,21 @@ The ReactOS operating system has been in development for over eight years and ai
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.
<br/><br/>
</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.
<br/><br/>
</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.
<br/><br/>
</p><p>
<strong>Speaker Bio</strong>
<br/><br/>
</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
@ -317,7 +277,7 @@ writing world class software. These techniques are universal to all
programming languages, platforms and deployed technologies but are often times
viewed as being so obvious that they are ignored by the typical developer. The
topics covered in this lecture will include:
<br/><br/>
</p><p>
- Writing bug-free to extremely low bug count software in real-time<br/>
- The concept of single-source, universal platform software<br/>
- Programming language interoperability<br/>
@ -391,7 +351,7 @@ promise multi-core holds.
This informal presentation will look behind the scenes to show the
strategies and technologies used and to show the problem magnitude. We
will review the IST Security web site with an emphasis on these pages
<br/><br/>
</p><p>
<a href="http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/vulnerable/">http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/vulnerable/</a><br/>
<a href="http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/security-wg/reports/20061101.html">http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/security-wg/reports/20061101.html</a><br/>
<a href="http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/position/20050524/">http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/position/20050524/</a><br/>