Minutes Meeting 2008.02.13
Martin Talbot
Date: Feb 13, 2008
Location: DC 1304
Time: 2:30
Chair: Martin Talbot
Martin Talbot
1. Attendance
Jeff Dicker, Elodie Fourquet, Craig Kaplan, Ed Lank, Robin Liu,
Curtis Luk, Stephen Mann, Terry Park, Alexander Pytel, Ryan Stedman,
Christine Szentgyorgyi, Martin Talbot, Mike Terry, Jie Xu.
1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions
2. Coffee Hour
Coffee hour last week:
Ice Cream in Fishbowl?- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:
lasagna boy :)
Coffee hour next week:
Volunteers?
3. Forthcoming
Date: Feb 20, 2008 Feb 27, 2008 Mar 5, 2008 Mar 12,
2008
Location: DC 1304 2:30 DC 1304 2:30 DC 1304 2:30 DC
1304 2:30
Chair: Michael Terry
Michael Terry Jie Xu
Jie Xu Cameron Zwarich
Cameron Zwarich Andrea Bunt
Andrea Bunt
Technical Presentation: Christine Szentgyorgyi
Christine Szentgyorgyi Martin Talbot
Martin Talbot Michael Terry
Michael Terry Jie Xu
Jie Xu
4. Technical Presentation
Ryan Stedman
Ryan Stedman Title : User Aided Discovery of Handwriting
Recognition Errors
Abstract:
Handwriting recognizers have recognition rates of around 90%,
meaning that about one it ten letters or words are misrecognized. Even
with the continual work on improving handwriting recognition, there will
likely always be some rate of failure, and in many cases, such as the
medical field, incorrectly entered data is unacceptable. We have been
looking at methods to aid users in discovering errors in handwriting
recognition, so that they can easily find and repair these errors.
5. Discussion Items
o None so far...
6. Action Items
7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues
8. Directors' Meeting
9. Seminars and Events
o 2008 Feb 13, 14:30
Programming Languages Lab PhD Seminar
Ghulam Lashari, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School Comp.
Sci., Univ. Waterloo
A review of auto-vectorization techniques.
o 2008 Feb 15, 09:30
Networks and Distributed Systems PhD Seminar
Omar Zia Khan, Ph.D. Candidate, David R. Cheriton School Comp.
Ubiquitous Computing
An Alternate View
o 2008 Feb 20, 13:30
Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar
Glencora Borradaile, Department of Combinatorics and
Optimization, University of Waterloo
A guide to polynomial-time approximation schemes for
connectivity problems in planar graphs
o 2008 Feb 22, 14:00
Database Research Group PhD Seminar
Ahmed Soror, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School Comp.
Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database
Workloads.
o 2008 Feb 27, 13:00
Programming Languages Lab PhD Seminar
Abid Malik, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp.
Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Using Machine Learning for Iterative Compiler Optimization
o 2008 Mar 07, 15:00
Programming Languages Lab Seminar
Jose' Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta
Fixing Performance Bugs Created by Good Programmers
Also see other Math and CS postings.
10. Lab Cleanup
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