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6th of November 2015¶

PRESENT: Brynjar, Hafdís, Ari, Steve
AI FESTIVAL Debrief
- Virtual Reykjavík was hard to show with microphone, still possible to explain
  - Needed an alternative input path (i.e. text)
- Virtual Reality experiment worked well with horror stimulus (good recorded response)
- Social Path Following, people interested, demo comes with practice
UPCOMING DEMO: UT Messan (February 5th - 6th)
- Maybe update some demos, e.g. get Virtual Reykjavik with VR + avatar + character responding
- Look into better microphones
AWAY DATES: Helsinki 9th - 12th November (SLUSH)
NOTES: Keep research notebooks
NOTES: The library will help you borrow papers that are behind paywalls

PRESENT: Brynjar, Steve, Ari, Hafdís, Tumi
DEADLINE: AI Festival 2015 Scheduled for Friday October 23rd
- 14:00 - Setup in Sun
- 15:00 - 17:00 Talks and Panel in V101
- 17:00 - 18:30 Poster / Demo Session in the Sun (with Beer and Music!)
AWAY DATES: Boston 29th-31st of October (Hannes) MIT
AWAY DATES: Helsinki 10th-13th of November (Hannes) SLUSH
(AWAY DATES: Paris 16th-19th of November (Hannes?) Motion in Games)

PRESENT: Hafdís, Tumi, Unnar, Ari, Steve, Brynjar
TODO (Hannes): Need to fix new student "projects.cs.ru.is" accounts (ASAP)
TODO (Students): Sign up for meeting with Hannes (http://signupschedule.com/hanneshogni)
INFO: Technology Innovation Fund Grant Appliation, Icelandic Centre for Research Application
INFO: Workshop with Icelandic Institute for Financial Literacy and Gagarin (last Friday)
INFO: EAP Paper presented at MMSYM 2015
DEADLINE: AI Festival 2015 Scheduled for Friday October 23rd
AWAY DATES: Helsinki 7th-10th of October (Hannes) Aalto University
AWAY DATES: Boston 29th-31st of October (Hannes) MIT
AWAY DATES: Paris 16th-19th of November (Hannes?) Motion in Games
INFO: Access to http://aigamedev.com/ is with user name "yngvi" and password "cadia"

TODO
- Sign up new students to this system (Hannes)
Upcoming Events
- AI Festival 2015 Scheduled for Friday October 23rd
Project Management system
- This one! Plus version control systems such as SVN (just migrated to different server, will come back into the menu here)
Messaging systems
- Zulip (zulip.com)
- Facebook (group chats based on projects mostly)

Student Innovation Fund - Deadline March 4
- VR in VR
- Procedural Animation for Purposeful Idling
- Pain management training for surgery patients
- Psychological modeling for game characters
Project Grants
- Virtual Reykjavik
- Cities that Sustain Us

Upcoming Events
- CADIA Christmas Party: Thursday 11th of December, 16-18
- UT Messan : 6th and 7th of February
- Intelligent Virtual Agents: Due 15th of March
- ANIREY: End of March (20th..)
- Talk/demo for the medical sector: February (?)
Important Dates:
- Hannes in Paris 17th-19th of December
- Siewart leaves on 28th of February

Introducing Hossein Miri, postdoctoral researcher on the Cities that Sustain Us
Hannes will be at ACM SIGGRAPH Motion in Games in Los Angeles November 5th - 9th
Starting a page to sketch projects up for grabs (e.g. for BS projects): Project Ideas
AI Festival preparation discussion

The AI Festival will be on October 31st!
- Everyone needs to present research/projects as posters in the Sun
- Posters need to be ready for printing on Monday the 27th
- Use the "Virtual Reykjavik" poster as template: VirtualReykjavikPoster.pptx
Hannes will be away in the US from Sept 29. until October 17th, mostly on leave with family
Hannes will be visiting Carnegie Mellon University (the Human Computer Interaction Institute and Entertainment Technology Center October 7th-9th)
Hannes will present "Prediction in Social Path Following" short paper by former student Carmine Oliva at the Motion in Games November 6th-9th at USC/ICT
Postdoc Hossein Miri will be joining us in the next couple of weeks, working on the Cities that Sustain Us project
Branislav Bedí is now in Portugal and is about to defend PhD thesis proposal

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