March 2011 - csc-general

Time Change for Joe Marks Talk Tomorrow (Friday)
by Computer Science Club 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hello, Hope everyone enjoyed the Joe Marks talk today! I would like to inform anyone planning on attending the next meeting with him tomorrow that there has been a change of time and location. It has been rescheduled for 10:30-11:30 in MC 5136. Please see the message below for further details. -- Elana Hashman Secretary Computer Science Club University of Waterloo ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Craig S. Kaplan <csk(a)uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:42 PM Subject: Time change for Joe Marks visit with ugrads To: exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca Hi guys, Just to reiterate my announcement at the Joe Marks talk.... Joe had to reschedule his flight out, but still wants to meet with undergrads. So we've rescheduled things. We've booked the meeting for 10:30-11:30 in MC 5136. You can coordinate with Gail Chopiak in CS if you need more info. -- Craig S. Kaplan University of Waterloo http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/ "If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature." -- Ronald Wright

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Lecture by Joe Marks from Disney, Employment Opportunities
by Computer Science Club 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Joe Marks, Vice-President Research and Development at The Walt Disney Company, is at the university Thursday and Friday of this week. The primary reason for his visit is to give a lecture in the Cheriton School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series. This talk will be given Thursday, March 24th in the Theatre of the Arts, which is located in the Modern Languages Building. It starts at 4.15 pm and is open to all. Joe also asked to discuss employment opportunities at Disney with undergraduate students. The discussion will take place at 11.30 on Friday in MC 4020, and is open to all, modulo the capacity of the room. *Biography:* Joe Marks grew up in Dublin, Ireland. He earned three degrees from Harvard University. His areas of interest include computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. He has worked previously at Bolt Beranek and Newman and at Digital's Cambridge Research Laboratory. Prior to his current position as VP Research and Development, he was the Research Director at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 2000 to 2006.

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CSC Talk - Software Patents by Stanley Khaing
by Computer Science Club 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi CSC, If you're interested, come out to Stanley Khaing's talk this Thursday at 4:30pm in MC2034. He is a lawyer from Waterloo whose areas of practice are software and high technology. He will be discussing software patents. He'll be speaking about the requirements for obtaining a patent and whether or not software should be patentable. Cheers, Jenny Wong Vice President W2011 Computer Science Club University of Waterloo

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