A good programming language is far more than a simple collection of features. My ideal is to provide a set of facilities that smoothly work together to support design and programming styles of a generality beyond my imagination. Here, I briefly outline rules of thumb (guidelines, principles) that are being applied in the design of C++0x. Then, I present the state of the standards process (we are aiming for C++09) and give examples of a few of the proposals such as concepts, generalized initialization, being considered in the ISO C++ standards committee. Since there are far more proposals than could be presented in an hour, I'll take questions.
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the public--then we must make changes in the other direction.
The CSC would like to thank MEF and Mathsoc for funding this talk.
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What is the typical monitor resolution of a GIMP user? How many monitors do they have? What size images do they work on? How many layers are in their images? The answers to these questions are generally unknown: No means currently exist for open source applications to collect usage data. In this talk, I will present ingimp, a version of GIMP that has been instrumented to automatically collect usage data from real-world users. I will discuss ingimp's design, the type of data we collect, how we make the data available on the web, and initial results that begin to answer the motivating questions.
ingimp can be found at http://www.ingimp.org.
E-mail transactions and confirmations have become commonplace and the information therein can often be sensitive. We use email for purposes as mundane as inbound marketing, to as sensitive as account passwords and financial transactions. And nearly all our email is sent in clear text; we trust only that others will not eavesdrop or modify our messages. But why rely on the goodness or apathy of your fellow man when you can ensure your message's confidentiality with encryption so strong not even the NSA can break? Speaker (Kenneth Ho) will discuss email encryption, and GNU Privacy Guard to ensure that your messages are sent, knowing that only your intended recipient can receive it.
An optional code-signing party will be held immediately afterwards; if you already have a PGP or GPG key and wish to participate, please submit the public key to gpg-keys@csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
Laptop users are invited also to participate in key-pair sharing on-site, though it is preferable to send keys ahead of time.
The purpose of the talk is to address how students interact with the internet, and possibilities for how they could do so more efficiently. Information on events and happenings on UW campus is currently hosted on a desperate, series of internet applications. Interactions with WatSFIC is done over a Yahoo! mailing list, GLOW is organized through a Facebook group, campus information at large comes from imprint.uwaterloo.ca. There has been historical pressures from various bodies, including some thinkers in feds and the administration, to centralize these issues. To create a one stop shop for students on campus.
It is not through confining data in cages that we will finally link all student activities together, instead it is by truly freeing it. When data can be anywhere, then it will be everywhere students need it. This is the underlying concept behind metadata, data that is freed from the confines of it's technical imprisonment. Metadata is the extension of people, organizations, and activities onto the internet in a way that is above the traditional understanding of how people interact with their networks. The talk will explore how Metadata can exist freely on the internet, how this affects concepts like Web 3.0, and how the university and the federation are poised to take advantage of this burgeoning new technology through adoptions of portals which will allow students to interact with a metaverse of data.