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Welcome Maryam Mokhberi to Third Space
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 09 Mar '19

09 Mar '19

Dear All, Please welcome the newest member of our Third Space family - Maryam Mokhberi. She is from Iran and she can tell you interesting stories about how your brain works. As she will be attending our group meetings from now on, why not someone adds her to our mailing list? Rifat? (Find her email address from this email) Welcome, Maryam! Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

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Meeting Maryam on Grad VIsit Day
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Dear All, As you know, we have extended a PhD admission offer to Maryam Mokhberi who will be visiting us on Grad Visit Day. I encourage you all to meet her and share your exciting research with her. It is also an opportunity for you to know her well. Please sign up on this spreadsheet against her name if you want to meet her: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oe26O6sJYi9z8Td04L0EQ1g1h1sKdmgYmC8… Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

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Demos for Andy van Dam - Visiting DGP March 13
by Peter Hamilton 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Hello Everyone, Andy van Dam (website <http://cs.brown.edu/people/avandam/>) will be visiting the DGP on Wednesday March 13th, following his TUX talk on Tuesday (12th). I'll be arranging demos for him throughout the day. Please let me know if you'd like to arrange a meeting, either by emailing me or using this form: https://goo.gl/forms/aHyi7JWwx62Nrkmn1. This is a great opportunity to show off your work! -Peter Hamilton Abstract In 2019 we are continuing to commemorate the 50th anniversaries of many momentous events of 1968 and 1969 in the US, with television programs, technical symposia, and online media Those years were marked by devastating events such as the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and by the “flower power” hippie movement and the closely related anti-Vietnam war movement. There also were stunning technical achievements including the first walk on the moon by Neil Armstrong and the even more societally impactful “Mother of All Demos” of NLS by Doug Engelbart and his team at the ’68 Fall Joint Computer Conference that helped shape the personal computer revolution in ways that are still evolving today. Less well remembered is that graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland presented a paper on “a head-mounted three dimensional display” at the same conference. Commemorative symposia were held to mark these two key events last year, and being on a panel last December at “The Demo @ 50: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s Landmark Demo”, paired with another panel titled “Doug’s Unfinished Revolution,” led me to a framework for this TUX talk. Using a very early version of our personal and workgroup hypermedia information management system, Dash, I will interweave six technical visions and some of the visionaries that have inspired me in my research over the last five decades. My group and I have concentrated on the natural intersection of interactive graphics used for human-computer interaction and hypertext. While these six visions, which overlap in significant ways, can be characterized by slogans and catch phrases associated with well-known personalities, they typically are based on much earlier antecedents. I picked “Information at Your Fingertips”, Personal Computing, Information Management and Structures, “Connecting the World“, “UBIcomp” and “Natural User Interfaces”. In line with the meme of “unfinished revolutions” I will give an example scenario of a device-independent integrated system encompassing key aspects of these visions that is seamless and ubietous (in the Buxton sense), and talk about how far we still have to go in component technologies and integration to achieve that vision. I will finish with some personal reflections about societal issues that are increasingly urgent and that comprise part of our field’s unfinished revolutions. Bio Andries van Dam, is the Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He has been a member of Brown’s faculty since 1965, was a co-founder of Brown’s Computer Science Department and its first Chairman from 1979 to 1985, and was also Brown’s first Vice President for Research from 2002 – 2006. His research includes work on computer graphics, hypermedia systems, post-WIMP and natural user interfaces (NUI), including pen- and touch-computing, and educational software. He has been involved for five decades with systems for creating and reading electronic books with interactive illustrations for use in teaching and research. In 1967 Prof. van Dam co-founded ACM SICGRAPH (the precursor of SIGGRAPH) and from 1985 through 1987 was Chairman of the Computing Research Association. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, a member of the SIGGRAPH Academy, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, and the IEEE Centennial Medal, and holds honorary doctorates from Darmstadt Technical University, Swarthmore College, the University of Waterloo, and ETH Zurich. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers and nine books, including “Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics” and three editions of “Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice”.

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An interesting job call from York University Political Science
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Folks - I just found today that York University is hiring a faculty who is expert both in Political Science and AI. This kind of job posts speak how the disciplinal boundaries are falling off in next-generation academia. Check this - https://webapps.yorku.ca/academichiringviewer/specialads/Canada_Research_Ch… Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

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AI for Development panel
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Folks- I will be out of town, but you may want to attend this very interesting panel - https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-big-data-the-future-of-global-development-pa… Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

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Fwd: MS2 Discovery Series Seminar: MAGNET FORENSICS March 15@ 2 p.m. in LH 3058 "Putting Machine Learning to Work for Digital Forensics"
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

Some of you may find this interesting. Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Janet Reimer <jreimer(a)wlu.ca> Date: Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:47 AM Subject: MS2 Discovery Series Seminar: MAGNET FORENSICS March 15@ 2 p.m. in LH 3058 "Putting Machine Learning to Work for Digital Forensics" To: Hello, You are cordially invited to attend the following seminar: =============================================================== The MS2Discovery Interdisciplinary Research Institute presents: MS2Discovery Seminar Series Event *Putting Machine Learning to Work for Digital Forensics* https://researchcentres.wlu.ca/ms2discovery-interdisciplinary-research-inst… ================================================================ *Speakers*: Jeff LeJeune and Bazyli Debowski, Magnet Forensics *Title*: Putting Machine Learning to Work for Digital Forensics *Date*: Friday, March 15, 2019 *Time*: 2 p.m. *Location*: LH 3058 (Lazaridis Hall, Math Boardroom) Further details are at: https://researchcentres.wlu.ca/ms2discovery-interdisciplinary-research-inst… Light refreshments will be provided For more information please visit us at https://researchcentres.wlu.ca/ms2discovery-interdisciplinary-research-inst… =================================================================== Thanks, Janet Reimer Administrative Assistant MS2 Discovery Institute *WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY* 75 University Avenue West Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Ph: 519-884-1970 x. 3949 | LH 3087 M-Th 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. http://www.ms2discovery.wlu.ca/ [image: cid:FEBDZFBNFEXJ.IMAGE_25.BMP]

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Ludwig Wilhelm Wall Talk tomorrow at noon
by Seongkook Heo 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

Hi all, Ludwig Wilhelm Wall from Hasso Plattner Institute will give a talk at *12 pm tomorrow *in the seminar room *BA5187*. He received M.Sc. in IT-Systems Engineering advised by Patrick Baudisch and is an author of five UIST and CHI papers. He also worked at KYUB, personal fabrication startup in Germany. You can also check his homepage http://ludwigwall.com *Lunch will be served. *Faster, Larger, Smarter: Novel methods of fabricating mechanical objects using commercial personal fabrication machines * *Abstract: *I will present LaserStacker, a system that allows creating 3D mechanical objects using a laser cutter; TrussFab, which allows building room-sized objects using desktop 3D printers, and Digital Mechanical Metamaterials, a metamaterial that incorporates mechanisms and combinational logic into 3D printed objects. Let me know if you want to meet him after the talk. Best, Seongkook

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this week's lab meeting
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

As I understand we are discussing some more ICTD papers this week. Can you please mention who is presenting which papers? Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

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HCI Meeting on Tuesday, Mar 5th, 2019
by limingz3＠dgp.toronto.edu 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hello everyone, We are having our HCI meeting tomorrow on Tuesday, Mar 5th. In this week, Laura will be conducting a brainstorming session first on using freehand interaction techniques to enable more complex actions in augmented reality. Then, Claudia will lead the session to brainstorm ways to help and encourage COPD patients to perform more physical activity with methods such as gamification and personal displays. Please join and participate in the meeting. Lunch will be provided. Hope to see all of you tomorrow, Franklin

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Need volunteers for HCI meeting
by limingz3＠dgp.toronto.edu 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Dear all, We are looking for volunteers for our meeting on March 5th. If you want to present your work or conduct any activity, please let us know. I am giving a link below for a spreadsheet that has our meeting dates this Winter. It would be great if you indicate the time you want to volunteer, that would be great. Ideally, we will have two sessions in a meeting; however, we could adjust the slots depending on the time required for volunteers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1agRIKbrzMEd-YnpvDHruuEaFjGd48HoTGhT… Thanks, Franklin

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