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the benefit of the public--then we must make changes in the other
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direction.
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</p><p>
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Ths CSC would like to thank MEF and Mathsoc for funding this talk.
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The CSC would like to thank MEF and Mathsoc for funding this talk.
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</p><p>
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<a href="http://www.fsf.org/events/waterloo20070706">The Freedom Software Foundation's description</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org">FSF's anti-DRM campaign</a><br />
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<eventitem date="2007-03-29" time="4:30 PM"
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room="MC 1056" title="All The Code">
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<short>A demo/intrdocution to a new source code search engine. A talk by Holden Karau</short>
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<short>A demo/introduction to a new source code search engine. A talk by Holden Karau</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Source code search engines are a relatively new phenomenon . The general idea of most source code search engines is helping programmers find
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<abstract>
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<p>
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A common misconception amongst software developers is that top quality software
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encompasses certains platforms, is driven by a particular new piece of
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encompasses certain platforms, is driven by a particular new piece of
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technology, or relies solely on a particular programming language. However as
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developers we tend to miss the less hyped issues and techniques involved in
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writing world class software. These techniques are universal to all
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A discussion of software start-ups founded by UW students and what they did
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that helped them grow and what failed to help. In order to share the most
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insights and guard the confidences of the individuals involved, none of the
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companies will be identifed.
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companies will be identified.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<!-- Fall 2006 -->
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<!-- Nothing happend :( -->
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<!-- Nothing happened :( -->
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<!-- Spring 2006 -->
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<p>
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The venue will include:</p>
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<p><ul>
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<li><p>Computer usage agreement discussion (Holden has some changes he'd like to propse)</p></li>
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<li><p>Web site - Juti is redisigning the web site (you can see <a href="beta/">a beta here</a> - ideas are welcome.</p></li>
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<li><p>Frosh linux cd's that could be put in frosh math faculty kits.</p></li>
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<li><p>Computer usage agreement discussion (Holden has some changes he'd like to propose)</p></li>
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<li><p>Web site - Juti is redesigning the web site (you can see <a href="beta/">a beta here</a> - ideas are welcome.</p></li>
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<li><p>Frosh Linux cd's that could be put in frosh math faculty kits.</p></li>
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<li><p>VoIP "not phone services" ideas.</p></li>
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<li><p>Ideas for talks (people, topics, etc...). We requested Steve Jobs and Steve Balmer, so no idea is too crazy.</p></li>
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<li><p>Ideas for books.</p></li>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Have you heard of our famous Unix 101 and Unix 102 tutorials. We've decided to try
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and put them on the web. This sunday we will be doing a first take.
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and put them on the web. This Sunday we will be doing a first take.
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At the same time, we're going to be looking at adding new material
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that we haven't covered in the past. </p>
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<p>
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Why should you come out? Not only will you get to hang out with a wonderful group of people,
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you can help impart your knowledge to the world. Don't know anything about unix? Thats cool too,
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you can help impart your knowledge to the world. Don't know anything about Unix? That's cool too,
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we need people to make sure its easy to follow along and hopefully keep us from leaving something
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out by mistake.
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</p>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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We don't know Video 4 Linux, but increasingly people are wanting to do interesting stuff with our webcam which
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could benefit from a better understanding of Video 4 Linux. So, this saturday a number of us will be trying to learn
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as much as possible about Video 4 Linux and doing wierd things with webcam(s).
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could benefit from a better understanding of Video 4 Linux. So, this Saturday a number of us will be trying to learn
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as much as possible about Video 4 Linux and doing weird things with webcam(s).
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2005-11-29" time="5:30 PM"
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room="TBA" title="Programming Contest">
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<short>Come out, program, and win shiney things!</short>
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<short>Come out, program, and win shiny things!</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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The Computer Science club is holding a programming contest open to all students on tuesday the 29th of november at 5:30PM. C++,C,Perl,Scheme* are allowed. Prizes totalling in value of $75 will be distributed.
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The Computer Science club is holding a programming contest open to all students on Tuesday the 29th of November at 5:30PM. C++,C,Perl,Scheme* are allowed. Prizes totalling in value of $75 will be distributed.
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</p>
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<eventitem date="2004-12-08" time="4:30 PM" room="Mongolian Grill"
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title="CTRL-D">
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<short> This semesters CTRL-D (or the club that really likes
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dinner) is going to be at mongolian grill. Be there or be square</short>
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dinner) is going to be at Mongolian grill. Be there or be square</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Come to the end of term CTRL-D (club that really likes dinner) meeting.
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<short>CSC Programming Contest</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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The Computer Science Clib will be hosting a programming competition.
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The Computer Science Club will be hosting a programming competition.
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You have the entire afternoon to design and implement an AI for a simple
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game. The competition will run until 5pm.
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</p>
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<p>Nominations will be accepted until Tuesday, September 16 at 4:30 PM.</p>
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<p>Additionally, a Sysadmin will be appointed after the elections. If you
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like working with unix systems and have experience setting up and
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like working with Unix systems and have experience setting up and
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maintaining them, go for it!</p>
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<p>I hope that lots of people will show up; hopefully we'll have a great
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willing to host it.
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-Funding for casters was denied.
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-Shopping for the Video card.
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-Expecting it after auguest (Stefanus shopping for it.)
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-Expecting it after August (Stefanus shopping for it.)
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-Will have to hear back regarding the microphone, best to
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delay that now, discuss it with MEF.
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-Better to do it this term, so it doesn't get lost.
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ACTION ITEM: Biggs and Cass
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-get labelmaker tape, masking tape
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whiteboard makers, coloured paper, CD sleeves
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-keep reciepts for CSC office expenses.
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-keep receipts for CSC office expenses.
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How is the progess on allowing executives and voters to be non-math
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How is the progress on allowing executives and voters to be non-math
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members?
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-The vote is coming up Monday.
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-Proposal: Anyone who is a paying member can be a member
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Pay MathSoc fees, or
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Get your faculty society to recognize CSC as a club.
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Stefanus wanted to mention that we shoudl talk to Yolanda,
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Stefanus wanted to mention that we should talk to Yolanda,
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Craig or Louie about a EYT event for frosh week.
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-Organized by Meg.
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-Sugar Mountain trying to hook all the Frosh
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Recently a few high-level languages for shader programming have become
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available. Sh, a result of research at UW, is one such language. It
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allows programming powerful shaders in simple and intuitive ways. Sh
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is particularily interesting because of the way it is
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is particularly interesting because of the way it is
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implemented. Instead of coming up with a language grammar and writing
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a full-fledged compiler, Sh is implemented as a C++ library, and
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shader programs are effectively written in C++. The actual compilation
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--NO CS Profs
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--Only 1 E& CE prof
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--Only 2 Math profs
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--Jim will harrass the profs at the School of CS Council meeting.
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--Jim will harass the profs at the School of CS Council meeting.
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We're starting to fall behind in planning
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Simon got money from Engsoc
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Cass meeds coloured paper (CSC is out)
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Cass needs coloured paper (CSC is out)
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ACTION ITEM: Cass and Mark
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--get labelmaker tape, masking tape,
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whiteboard makers, coloured paper
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--keep reciepts for CSC office expenses
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--keep receipts for CSC office expenses
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NOTICE: Mike is now Imapd
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Simon distibuted budget list
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Simon distributed budget list
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Mark got the money from Mathsoc for last budget, deposited it.
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ACTION ITEM:Mark
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<p>Nominations will be accepted until Tuesday, May 13 at 4:30 PM.</p>
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<p>Additionally, a Sysadmin will be appointed after the elections. If you
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like working with unix systems and have experience setting up and
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like working with Unix systems and have experience setting up and
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maintaining them, go for it!</p>
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<p>I hope that lots of people will show up; hopefully we'll have a great
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<p>This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of the
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UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of applications, both
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in academia and industy. We will provide you with hands-on experience
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in academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on experience
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with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment in this seminar.</p>
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<p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
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<p>The positions open are:</p>
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<p><b>President</b> -- appoints all commitees of the club, calls and presides at all
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<p><b>President</b> -- appoints all committees of the club, calls and presides at all
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meetings of the club and audits the club's financial records. Really, this
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is the person in charge.</p>
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typeset in L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X to great
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effect. In this session, I will provide examples on how to typeset
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tables, figures, and references. You will also learn how to make
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tables of contents, bibliographics, and how to create footnotes.</p>
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tables of contents, bibliographies, and how to create footnotes.</p>
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<p> I will also examine various packages of
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L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X that can help you
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<p>Before the GNU project ever existed, before the phrase
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"Free Software" was ever coined, students and researchers
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at the University of California, Berkeley were already
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practising it. They had acquired the source cdoe to a
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practising it. They had acquired the source code to a
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little-known operating system developed at AT&T
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Bell Laboratories, and were creating improvments at a
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Bell Laboratories, and were creating improvements at a
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ferocious rate.</p>
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<p>These improvements were sent back to Bell Labs, and
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shared to other Universities. Each of them were licensed
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under what is now known as the "Original BSD license". Find
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out what this license means, its implications, and what are
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its decendents by attending this short talk.</p>
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its descendents by attending this short talk.</p>
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</abstract>
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<div style="text-align:right">--- Excerpt from the GNU GPL</div>
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</blockquote></div>
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<p> The GNU General Public License is one of the most influencial
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<p> The GNU General Public License is one of the most influential
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software licenses in this day. Written by Richard Stallman for the
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GNU Project, it is used by software developers around the world to
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protect their work.</p>
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languages for semantically describing a document.</p>
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<p>This talk will describe how to generate correct XML documents,
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and auxillary technologies that work with XML.</p>
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and auxiliary technologies that work with XML.</p>
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</abstract>
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<p>A lot of claims have been made lately about the intelligence of
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computers. Some researchers say that computers will eventually attain
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super-human intelligence. Others call thse claims... um, poppycock.
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super-human intelligence. Others call these claims... um, poppycock.
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Oddly enough, in the search for the truth of the matter, both camps
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have overlooked an obvious strategy: interviewing a computer and asking
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her opinion.</p>
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<h3>Need something to do between assignments/beers?</h3>
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<p>
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Did you know that your undergrad account at Waterloo gives you
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access tothe world's largest computer network? With thousands
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access to the world's largest computer network? With thousands
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of discussion groups, gigabytes of files to download, multimedia
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information browsers, even on-line entertainment?
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</p>
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<abstract>
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<h3>From the Minimax Theorem, through Alpha-Beta, and beyond...</h3>
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<p>
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This will be a descussion of the pitfalls of using mathematics and
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This will be a discussion of the pitfalls of using mathematics and
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algorithms to play classical board games. Thorough descriptions
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shall be presented of the simple techniques used as the building
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blocks that make all modern computer game players. I will use
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tic-tac-toe as a control for my arguements. Other games such as
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tic-tac-toe as a control for my arguments. Other games such as
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Chess, Othello and Go shall be the be a greater measure of progress;
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and more importantly the targets of our dreams.
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any program's life-cycle. Far from an exact science, it's more
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of an art ... and close to some kind of dark magic. Cryptic
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error messages, lousy error checking, and icky things like
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implicit casts can make it nearly impossible toknow what's
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implicit casts can make it nearly impossible to know what's
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going on inside your program.
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</p>
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<p>
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Several tools are available to help automate your
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debuggin. GDB and Purify are among the most powerful
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debugging. GDB and Purify are among the most powerful
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debugging tools available in a UNIX environment. GDB is an
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interactive debugger, allowing you to `step' through
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aprogram, examine function calls, variable contents, stack
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a program, examine function calls, variable contents, stack
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traces and let you look at the state of a program after it
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crashes. Purify is a commercial program designed to help find
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and remove memory leaks from programs written inlanguages
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and remove memory leaks from programs written in languages
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without automatic garbage collection.
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</p>
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<p> This talk will use partial orders, lattice theory, and, if
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time permits, the Galois connection as carriers to illustrate
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the use of calculi in mathematics. We hope to show the brevity
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of many calculations (in order tofight the superstition that
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formal proofs are necessarily unpractically long), and the
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of many calculations (in order to fight the superstition that
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formal proofs are necessarily impractically long), and the
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strong heuristic guidance that is available for their
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design. </p>
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<p>This talk will feature an exclusive look at the architecture
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behind the new J2EE portal: theserverside.com. Join Floyd
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Marinescu in a walk-through ofthe back-end of the portal,
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Marinescu in a walk-through of the back-end of the portal,
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while learning about J2EE and its real world patterns,
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applications, problems and benefits.</p>
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<dt>CD Burner</dt>
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<p>For doing linux burns. It was allocated money on the budget
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<p>For doing Linux burns. It was allocated money on the budget
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request - about $300. We should be able to get a decent 12x
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burner with that (8x rewrite).</p>
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<p>The obvious things to sell are Linux Distros and BSD variants.
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<p>We already put a bit of work into planning the Othello contest
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before I read Mike's post. I still think it's viable. I've got
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at least 2 people interested in writing entries for it. This
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will be talked about more on monday. Hopefully, Rory and I will
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will be talked about more on Monday. Hopefully, Rory and I will
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be able to present a basic outline of how the contest is going
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to be run at that time.</p>
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<abstract>
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This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of
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the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
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applications, both in academia and industy. We will be covering
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applications, both in academia and industry. We will be covering
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the basics of the UNIX environment, as well as the use of PINE, an
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electronic mail and news reader.
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<eventitem date="2002-03-01" time="5:00 PM" room="MC4060"
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title="Computer Go, The Ultimate">
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<short>Thomas Wolf from Brock University will be holding a talk on
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the asian game of Go. All are welcome.</short>
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the Asian game of Go. All are welcome.</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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The asian game go is unique in a number of ways. It is the oldest
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The Asian game go is unique in a number of ways. It is the oldest
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board game known. It is a strategy game with very simple
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rules. Computer programs are very weak despite huge efforts and
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prizes of US$ > 1.5M for a program beating professional
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<p>
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This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use
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of the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
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applications, both in academia and industy. We will provide
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applications, both in academia and industry. We will provide
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you with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX
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environment in this seminar.
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</p>
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<p>Perhaps you have are you interested in installing GNU/Linux.
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If so, bring your computer, monitor and keyboard; and we will
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help you install GNU/Linux on your machine. You can also find
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knowledgable people who can answer your questions about
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knowledgeable people who can answer your questions about
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GNU/Linux.</p>
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<hr />
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</i><br/>--- Excerpt from the GNU GPL
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</blockquote>
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</p>
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<p>The GNU General Public License is one of the most influencial
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<p>The GNU General Public License is one of the most influential
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software licenses in this day. Written by Richard Stallman for the
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GNU Project, it is used by software developers around the world to
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protect their work.
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<short>Going to visit the York University Computer Club</short>
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<abstract><p>YUCC and the UW CSC have having a join meeting at York
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University. Dave Makalsky, the President of YUCC, will be giving a talk on
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Design-by-constract and Eiffel. Stefanus Du Toit, Vice-President of the UW
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Design-by-contract and Eiffel. Stefanus Du Toit, Vice-President of the UW
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CSC, will be giving a talk on the evil depths of the black art known as C++.
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</p><p>Schedule</p>
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<ul><li>1:30pm: Leave UW</li>
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Computer Engineering and Computer Science degree. His research
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interest range from distributed and parallel systems to low
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level optimized hardware design. He likes playing guitar and
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just bought a Cort NTL-20, jumbo body, solid spurce top with
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just bought a Cort NTL-20, jumbo body, solid spruce top with
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a mahogany back. Carlos hacks on the PARISC Linux kernel, GNU libc,
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GNU Debugger, GNU Binutils and various Debian packages.
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</p>
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