Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI December Meeting

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Author: Kevin Burr
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 22:19

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***  Everyone is welcome to attend.


                     Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI December Meeting
                     ==================================

Date:       Wednesday, December 14, 1994

Time:       19:00 - 21:00

Place:      BNR Skyline  (Formerly "Meriline", Merivale & Baseline)
            Tower 5 (west side of complex)
            1st Floor, Rose Room
            Building faces Baseline Rd. on north side

Speaker:    Andrew Patrick & Thomas Whalen, CRC

Topic:      CRC Research on Network Services and Interface Design


                          About the Talk
                          ==============

The Network Services and Interface Design Laboratory at the
Communications Research Centre is conducting a number of projects on
services and interfaces for the Internet and higher-speed networks (see
ftp|gopher|http://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/).  This presentation will provide
an overview and some demonstrations of our work in the areas of:

   - CBC Radio programs on-demand
   - "Illustrated Audio" multimedia presentations
   - natural language interfaces to information
   - government documents and services
   - user and usage analysis of the National Capital FreeNet
   - asynchronous client-server virtual meeting software
   - multicasting on ATM networks

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                          Up Coming Meetings
                          ==================

January 18  - Prototyping Tools 

 Sonia Bot (BNR)                  - Object-Oriented Rapid Prototyping               
 Roy Ballantine (BNR)             - Visual Basic, C, Director, SuperCard
 Dick Dillon (Carleton University)- Visual Basic, RAPID     
 Guy Leblanc (CRIM)               - Visual Basic, Access, SmallTalk            
 Kevin McGuire (Object Technology)- SmallTalk                 
 Dick Penn (BNR)                  - SuperCard              
 Marceli Wein (NRC)               - XVT, CPX  


February 16 - System Models in the Real World for Real People
              (Sonia D. Bot)

March 16    - Software Visualization of Very Large Systems 
              (Tim Dudley)

The venue for these meetings is BNR Skyline (Rose Room), north west
corner of Merivale and Baseline roads.

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                    Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI Scholarship
                    =============================

The Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI now has a scholarship in place, valued 
at $75 (cost of text books for HCI course).  Nominations for 
the Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI Scholarship are always welcome (contact 
Peter Szmyt).  The nominee must be a student with a strong 
interest in HCI, and intends on pursuing further studies 
and/or a career in HCI.  Original HCI work and/or special 
projects are given high consideration.  The student must be a 
speaker at a monthly Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI meeting.

==============================================================

For further information contact:
-------------------------------

Chair:       Peter Szmyt    (613)228-5100 x4029 
                            75470.420@CompuServe.com

Treasurer &  Alan Frank     (613)763-2553
Memberships:                afrank@bnr.ca       

Technical    Sonia D. Bot   (613)763-4992
Advisor:                    sdbot@bnr.ca

Volunteers:  Kevin Burr     burr@bnr.ca
             Arnold Smith   arnold@ai.iit.nrc.ca
             Marceli Wein   wein@iit.nrc.ca

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