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Monday, August 24, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — Personality Traits of GitHub Maintainers and Their Effects on Project Success

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Seonghu (Alex) Yun, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Friday, August 7, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics — AnimationPak: Packing Elements with Scripted Animations

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Reza Adhitya Saputra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

We present AnimationPak, a technique to create animated packings by arranging animated two-dimensional elements inside a static container. We represent animated elements in a three-dimensional spacetime domain, and view the animated packing problem as a three-dimensional packing in that domain. Every element is represented as a discretized spacetime mesh. 

photo of Tanay Singhal and Mahika Phutane
Friday, July 31, 2020

Elevating haptics: A touchless elevator concept proposes an accessibility-driven solution to slowing the spread of COVID-19

By Marisa Benjamin, Research Communications Officer, The Games Institute

Motivated by previous research that found that elevator buttons are a huge source of contamination, a new study co-authored by a Cheriton School of Computer Science student presents a touchless elevator concept to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Monday, August 10, 2020 9:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems — Integrating Column-Oriented Storage and Query Processing Techniques into Graph Database Management Systems

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Pranjal Gupta, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction — Comparing Smartphone Speech Recognition and Touchscreen Typing for Composition and Transcription

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Margaret Foley, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Monday, August 10, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages — TreeGen: A Monotonically Impure Functional Language

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Alistair Hackett, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

We present TreeGen, an impure functional language designed to express, consume, and validate JSON-like documents, as well as generate text files. The language aims to provide a more reliable and flexible way to create customised Interface Definition Languages, since the current state of the art is implemented via monolithic, ad-hoc codebases which cannot easily be modified.