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Re: Informal Meeting tomorrow at 1:30 to discuss our reaction to the cuts

what do we need to do after the meeting? sorry, i had to leaveearly that day. thanks

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canceled! Re: Seminar Today @1:30pm in EOW 430

all seaplane flights from vancouver to victoria so far havebeen canceled, so we will have to cancel the presentation as well. verysorry—we have tried our best but the weather is not cooperating http://www.harbour-air.com/status.php?view=Van2Vic

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notice: new time/room: Re: Seminar

Dr Ghosh’s flight was delayed in vancouver due to weatherconditions and his talk has been rescheduled to today 1:30pm in eow 430.sorry for the time/room changes and the inconvenience caused

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Re: Annual Gifts for Secretaries

thanks for organizing this. could you please put in $20 andsign the cards for me? just went to your office but did not see you. i’llgive you the money this thursday as we meet. thanks. (on sabbatical)

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Re: Article on plagiarism

Thanks for sharing the thoughts (did not quote them to keep things shorter๐Ÿ˜‰ dealing with plagiarism needs a systematic approach, i.e., all courseinstructors do things consistently and persistently, as each of us onlyteaches at most a few courses out of … Continue reading

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Re: Dr. Fox effect…

similar “attempts” on random talks and scigen by mit students ๐Ÿ˜‰ http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ nevertheless, making students/alumni happier 5 years from now probably ismore important as part of the teaching/learning evaluation. cheers

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Re: cut&paste plagiarism by our grad students

thanks for raising the awareness. according to a slashdot story“Researchers uncovered one trend among the cheaters: the perception thatteaching assistants either ignored or didn’t care about cheating.” we have to show to our students and others that we do care … Continue reading

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Re: ACM Pacific Northwest Regional Programming Contest

and this year’s ieeextreme problem set http://panlab.cs.uvic.ca/webb/download.php?id=10742 (somehow ieee did not make it public, so please use with cares ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Re: Teaching students how to do research

good idea! do you have an all-area panel now? i can offer another biasedcoin as well. it will be great to see if we can round-robin labs/profs togive talks on what’s cooking in their lab/research area. cheers

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UVic Students at IEEExtreme competition

11 UVic Engineering PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s students in Computer Science, Software Engineering and Electrical Engineering just finished their first IEEExtreme online programming competition lasting 24 hours. The Top UVic team, IslandVikingCoders, completed 10 problems and ranked 3rd in Canada. … Continue reading

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