[VPM] Tue, 2007 Feb 6th, 7:00PM - February RCSS meeting

[Darren Duncan]

Forwarded from the "Recreational Computer Science Society" mailing
list. -- Darren Duncan

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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:37:18 -0800
From: "Peter van Hardenberg" <pvh at pvh.ca>
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Subject: [reccompsci] Meeting Announcement: February 6th, 7:00PM
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Location:
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UVic, Engineering and Computer Science Building, Ground Floor, first
lecture hall to your right as you enter from the in-campus side of the
building. (The usual.)

Topics:
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*Implicit Surfaces (Guest Speaker: Dr. Brian Wyvill)
Dr. Wyvill, one of UVic CSC's most recent faculty additions, will be
talking about his research into implicit surfaces. His project is a
way to describe a 3d shape as a series of transforms to a base shape
which eventually produces a final model. His scheme is known as
blobTree and plenty of examples and images can be found by searching
for that on Google and at his webpage.

*Compression Algorithms (Open Forum: Sergei Popov)
Sergei will, a particular focus on general purpose compression
algorithms, introduce the field in broad strokes by outlining a few of
the more common algorithms. From there, the floor will open up to
discussion.

*Application Widget Toolkits (Open Forum: Sunpreet Jassal)
With a focus on the C++ widget toolkit Qt, Sunpreet will open the
discussion to topics of application interface design. What widget sets
are better, which are worse, and why are they all so damn same-y after
all these years?

Notes:
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This month's RCSS meeting will be a slightly different format from the
last few months. We will still have a guest presenter in the form of
Brian Wyvill, but the actual presentations will be less presentious*
and more a chance to pool our collective knowledge. Personally, I'm
excited as can be about this -- I trying to explain to a group things
they know more than me about.

Angela is working on a RCSS webpage, as those of you who follow the
general mailing list may have noticed. Hopefully it will be online by
the next meeting. If you have specific requests related to that, there
is an ongoing thread.

There is a Victoria Ruby Language group starting up these days. If you
are, or want to be, a Rubinista* watch this space for an official
group announcement. The first meeting will be some time in the next
few weeks.

-pvh

* inventing words is a time-honored tradition and one of my favorite hobbies
-- 
Peter van Hardenberg
Victoria, BC, Canada
"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." -- Kurt Vonnegut