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***  Just a reminder.
***  Everyone is welcome to attend.

                     Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI March Meeting
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Date:       Thursday, March 16, 1995

Time:       19:00 - 21:00

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

Speaker:    Tim Dudley, Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

Topic:      Software Visualization of Very Large Systems


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

The management of large bodies of software is hampered by the difficulty
software engineers have in understanding the interrelationships among
software entities.  There is substantial evidence that more information
can be represented with 3D representations than with 2D representations,
and that understanding of that information can be at least tripled as
a result of viewing it in 3D with motion.

Mr. Dudley will present and discuss recent work done in conjunction with 
Prof. Colin Ware at the University of New Brunswick, regarding the 
application of a 3D software visualization tool to a large ( >6,000,000 
lines of code) software system.


                          About the Speaker
                          =================

Tim Dudley has over twenty-five years of experience in the field of 
computer graphics, application and language design, design and 
implementation of user interfaces, and customer support of commercially 
available products.  He holds degrees in Mathematics and in Computer 
Science from Montana State University, and has worked at Lockheed 
Missiles and Space Company, Bell-Northern Research, Xerox Corporation, 
and Cognos Inc.  He undertook early extensive work with intelligent 
graphics terminals and device-independent graphics systems, and 
has written  several papers dealing with software engineering, graphics 
system design, device independence, user interfaces, and visual 
programming.  He served on the program  committees for CHI'87, Graphics 
Interface '89, '90, and '91, the 1991 and 1993 IEEE Symposia on Visual 
Languages, and is currently a member of the technical committees for 
VL95 and Interact95.  He is a member of ACM, SIGCHI, IEEE, and the 
Computer Graphics Pioneers.  He is currently at Bell-Northern Research, 
where his interest is in graphical, direct manipulation, visual 
programming interfaces to large complex systems.


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                          Up Coming Meetings
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April       - 
              (Marilyn Mantaei, University of Toronto))

May         - CHI'95 Review
              (Need Volunteers)

June        - Natural Language in Virtual Environments
                        or even perhaps
              Natural Language for Virtual Reality
              (Arnold Smith, NRC)

July-August - No meetings.  Summer recess.

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

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                  Volunteers for May CHI'95 Review
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If you are attending CHI'95, please consider sharing your experiences at 
our meeting in May (exact date to be determined).  Contact Peter Szmyt.

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                    Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI Scholarship
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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.

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For further information contact:
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Chair:       Peter Szmyt    (613)228-5100 x4029 
                            szmyt@simware.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