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
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.
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