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Programme of Events

See below for finalized schedule and location of events!

Please note: Unless otherwise noted, all Thursday and Friday events are located in/outside Room 1160, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street [campus map]. Underground parking entrance to the Bahen Centre (BCIT) is on Huron Street [parking map].

Last updated: May 26, 2008

 

Wednesday, May 28

4:10 – 6:00	Pre-Event Public Talk
	Digital Art: Reflections Informal Presentation by Prof. Frieder Nake, University of Bremen Location: Room 1190, Bahen Centre
6:00 – 10:00	Evening: Welcome & Registration Reception (not included in public registration) Location: Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks Street [campus map]

Thursday, May 29

Locations: Bahen Centre, Room 1160 [campus map], unless otherwise noted.

8:00 – 9:00	Breakfast & Registration
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome speeches Talk Session 1 — Intelligent Interfaces
9:15 – 10:15	Thirty Years of Trying to Make Programming Easier for Everyone Prof. Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University
10:15 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30	Reflections on Window Systems: A Personal History of Software Engineering Rob Pike, Google Inc.
11:30 – 1:00	BBQ lunch Location: Bahen Centre Courtyard
12:30 – 1:30	Birds of a Feather sessions Locations: TBA
1:45 – 3:45	Animation film showing: Session Chairs: Prof. Ron Baecker & Patrick Coleman, DGP
3:45 – 4:00	Coffee & Sweets Break
	Talk Session 2 — Graphics and Animation 1
4:00 – 5:00	DGP is 40 and I am 42 Jos Stam, Autodesk Inc.
5:00 – 6:00	21 Years at Pixar: To Infinity and Beyond Bill Reeves, Pixar Animation Studios
	Evening: Reception with Posters & Demos
6:00 – 6:30	Cocktail Reception begins Location:5th floor DGP labs, Bahen Centre
6:30 – 7:30	Poster & Demo Session 1 Location:5th floor DGP labs, Bahen Centre
7:30 – 8:30	Poster & Demo Session 2 Location:7th floor, Bahen Centre

 

Friday, May 30

Locations: Bahen Centre, Room 1160 [campus map], unless otherwise noted.

8:00 – 9:00	Breakfast
	Talk Session 3 – HCI and Knowledge Media Design
9:00 – 10:00	Towards the Design of Electronic Cognitive Prostheses Prof. Ron Baecker, University of Toronto
10:00 – 11:00	40 Years: Almost Enough Time to Make a Difference Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research
11:00 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15	Being Human in the Digital Age Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research Cambridge
12:15 – 1:45	Lunch (not provided)
	Talk Session 4 — Graphics and Animation 2
2:00 – 3:00	The past forty years of computer graphics and the forty to come Prof. Eugene Fiume, University of Toronto
3:00 – 3:15	Break
3:15 – 4:15	My Lifelong Urge to Control (Virtual) People Prof. Norman I. Badler, University of Pennsylvania
	Comments and closing
4:15 – 4:45	Closing Summary and Visionary Remarks Leslie Mezei, Founder, Dynamic Graphics Project
8:00 – 12:00	Evening: Social with DGP bands at Hart House Great Hall (not included in public registration) Location: Hart House Great Hall, 7 Hart House Circle [campus map]