tux-announce January 2016

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by Lewis Luo 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

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Reminder: George Fitzmaurice Today @ MaRS
by Tovi Grossman 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hello TUX! A reminder that today we will have a member presentation by Dr. George Fitzmaurice. The details of the talk are below. The talk will be in the MaRS Multipurpose room (main floor). We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Tuesday, January 26 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Dr. George Fitzmaurice The MaRS Discovery District Multipurpose Room @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. (Main Floor) Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. George Fitzmaurice: Tackling the User Interface Challenges of Today and Tomorrow In this talk, my group and I will present a variety of research projects undertaken by the User Interface Research Group at Autodesk Research. Our talk will reflect the diversity of research interests in the group, spanning the Internet of Things, wearable interaction techniques, human-robot interaction, software learning, information visualization, and dynamic sketching - we'll even present a recent project that combined many of these themes together. George Fitzmaurice, Ph.D. is a Director of Research and runs the User Interface Research Group for Autodesk Research. He has been with Autodesk (including Alias) for almost 20 years conducting research in 2D and 3D UIs including: input devices, large displays, two-handed interaction, multi-touch, pen-based UIs, recommender systems, spatially-aware displays, 3D navigation and tangible UIs. In the HCI community he established the field of Graspable UIs which is the pre-cursor to what is known as Tangible UIs. Working with his colleagues he has helped to author over 90 HCI papers and over 50 patents. Notable product contributions include Maya 1.0 UI, SketchBook Pro UI design, ShowMotion(tm) for Showcase, and the 3D Navigation tools (ViewCube(tm) and SteeringWheels(tm)) for Autodesk products. Recently his extended team has productize Chronicle (a research project that allows users to share their expertise by authoring videos with metadata) into Autodesk Screencast. Fitzmaurice received a B.Sc. in Mathematics with Computer Science at MIT, an M.Sc. in Computer Science at Brown University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. OUR SPONSORS: TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and MaRS. About MaRS: MaRS is the one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs-a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Toronto's research district, MaRS provides the space, training, talent and networks required to commercialize important discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups.

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RSVP: George Fitzmaurice presentation on Jan. 26, 2016 at MaRS @ 12:30PM
by Ahcene IDRIS-BEY 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hello: Please register my attendance to the event being held at the MaRS Centre , Multi-purpose Roomat 12:30 P.M. about tackling the User Interface etc. by George Fitzmaurice. Regards Ahcene Idris-Beyaidris_bey(a)yahoo.com

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by Lewis Luo 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

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Re: [Tux] This Tuesday, Tux presents: Gregory Abowd's Sanders Series lecture
by Daniel Wigdor 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Good morning Tux, A reminder to come out of the cold and in to the warmth of community for today's Sanders Series lecture by the one and only Dr. Gregory Abowd! Let's show our guest from Georgia that we Torontonians can brave the snow. Also: a reminder that you can access the lecture hall directly from the Queen's Park subway station without going outside; head to the south/east from inside the station and you'll see the direct entry to MaRS :-) Lunch is served at 12:30, downstairs in the auditorium. See you there! -Daniel _____________________________ From: Daniel Wigdor <daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu>> Sent: Friday, January 8, 2016 10:27 PM Subject: [Tux] This Tuesday, Tux presents: Gregory Abowd's Sanders Series lecture To: <tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:tux-announce@dgp.toronto.edu>> [cid:image001.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] [cid:image002.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] [cid:image003.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] Hello Tux, and Happy 2016! A reminder that our first meeting of the year is this Tuesday (Jan. 12), and that it will be featuring our first Sanders Series lecture of 2016: Professor Gregory Abowd, one of the foundational thinkers of Ubiquitous Computing. It is sure to be a wonderful talk; we look forward to seeing you there! Gregory Abowd Beyond Weiser’s ubiquitous computing: 2 big ideas to drive us forward together 2016-01-12 12:30 at MaRS Auditorium<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6599132,-79.38…> [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/abowd-e1443750122859-150x…] Abstract I am an applied computer scientist; my passion is to understand state-of-the-art technologies and create ways they can be integrated into everyday experiences in order to serve some meaningful purpose to a collection of stakeholders. I read Mark Weiser’s inspiring vision of ubiquitous computing, or ubicomp, when I joined the faculty in the College of Computing in 1994, and have been pursuing applications of ubicomp ever since. While the grand idea of ubiquitous computing can still inspire lots of research, there are several new technologies that Weiser did not discuss that can and will influence computing research and its application. Weiser described a 3rd generation of computing; I will describe both a 4th generation which has already emerged over the past decade, and a 5th generation that may soon emerge. I will motivate two new collaborative initiatives, one motivated by 4th generation technologies and the other by 5th generation technologies. Bio Gregory D. Abowd (pronounced AY-bowd) is the Distinguished Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. His research interests concern how the advanced information technologies of ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) impact our everyday lives when they are seamlessly integrated into our living spaces. Dr. Abowd’s work has involved schools and homes, with a recent focus on healthcare delivery. He is a member of the GVU Center. Dr. Abowd currently serves as the Director of the Health Systems Institute, a joint Georgia Tech/Emory University research institute investigating the impact of technologies on healthcare delivery. This extends his own work over the past decade on information technologies and autism. Dr. Abowd directs the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group in the School of Interactive Computing. This effort started with the Future Computing Environments research group in 1995, and has since matured into a collection of research groups, including Dr. Abowd’s own group. One of the major research efforts that Dr. Abowd initated is the Aware Home Research Initiative, which he founded in 2000 and directed until 2008. Dr. Abowd received the degree of B.S. in Mathematics in 1986 from the University of Notre Dame. He then attended the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning the degrees of M.Sc. (1987) and D.Phil. (1991) in Computation from the Programming Research Group in the Computing Laboratory. From 1989-1992 he was a Research Associate/Postdoc with the Human-Computer Interaction Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York in England. From 1992-1994, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Software Engineering Institute and the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. In the Fall of 1999, the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine did a profile on Dr. Abowd and some of his research from the 1990’s. You can read the article here. Much more news about his research group, both personal and professional, can be found here. [cid:image006.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image007.jpg@01D14A62.65B77F70] Tux is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Departments of Computer Science, and MaRS. About MaRS: MaRS is the one of the world’s largest urban innovation hubs—a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Toronto’s research district, MaRS provides the space, training, talent and networks required to commercialize important discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups.

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This Tuesday, Tux presents: Gregory Abowd's Sanders Series lecture
by Daniel Wigdor 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

[cid:image001.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] [cid:image002.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] [cid:image003.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] Hello Tux, and Happy 2016! A reminder that our first meeting of the year is this Tuesday (Jan. 12), and that it will be featuring our first Sanders Series lecture of 2016: Professor Gregory Abowd, one of the foundational thinkers of Ubiquitous Computing. It is sure to be a wonderful talk; we look forward to seeing you there! Gregory Abowd Beyond Weiser's ubiquitous computing: 2 big ideas to drive us forward together 2016-01-12 12:30 at MaRS Auditorium<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6599132,-79.38…> [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/abowd-e1443750122859-150x…] Abstract I am an applied computer scientist; my passion is to understand state-of-the-art technologies and create ways they can be integrated into everyday experiences in order to serve some meaningful purpose to a collection of stakeholders. I read Mark Weiser's inspiring vision of ubiquitous computing, or ubicomp, when I joined the faculty in the College of Computing in 1994, and have been pursuing applications of ubicomp ever since. While the grand idea of ubiquitous computing can still inspire lots of research, there are several new technologies that Weiser did not discuss that can and will influence computing research and its application. Weiser described a 3rd generation of computing; I will describe both a 4th generation which has already emerged over the past decade, and a 5th generation that may soon emerge. I will motivate two new collaborative initiatives, one motivated by 4th generation technologies and the other by 5th generation technologies. Bio Gregory D. Abowd (pronounced AY-bowd) is the Distinguished Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. His research interests concern how the advanced information technologies of ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) impact our everyday lives when they are seamlessly integrated into our living spaces. Dr. Abowd's work has involved schools and homes, with a recent focus on healthcare delivery. He is a member of the GVU Center. Dr. Abowd currently serves as the Director of the Health Systems Institute, a joint Georgia Tech/Emory University research institute investigating the impact of technologies on healthcare delivery. This extends his own work over the past decade on information technologies and autism. Dr. Abowd directs the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group in the School of Interactive Computing. This effort started with the Future Computing Environments research group in 1995, and has since matured into a collection of research groups, including Dr. Abowd's own group. One of the major research efforts that Dr. Abowd initated is the Aware Home Research Initiative, which he founded in 2000 and directed until 2008. Dr. Abowd received the degree of B.S. in Mathematics in 1986 from the University of Notre Dame. He then attended the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning the degrees of M.Sc. (1987) and D.Phil. (1991) in Computation from the Programming Research Group in the Computing Laboratory. From 1989-1992 he was a Research Associate/Postdoc with the Human-Computer Interaction Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York in England. From 1992-1994, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Software Engineering Institute and the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. In the Fall of 1999, the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine did a profile on Dr. Abowd and some of his research from the 1990's. You can read the article here. Much more news about his research group, both personal and professional, can be found here. [cid:image006.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image007.jpg@01D14A62.65B77F70] Tux is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Departments of Computer Science, and MaRS. About MaRS: MaRS is the one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs-a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Toronto's research district, MaRS provides the space, training, talent and networks required to commercialize important discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups.

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