Quick Notes¶

18th of September¶

• 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)

28th of August¶

• 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)

20th of February¶

• 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

5th of December¶

• 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

14th of November¶

• People's availability towards the end of the year
  • Hannes: Available - maybe short meeting in Paris in December (1-2 days). Regular vacation.
  • Hossein: Available
  • Hafdis: Friday 21st exams over. 3 week course. Regular vacation.
  • Ásgeir: No exams. 3 week course? MS thesis work. Regular vacation (e.g. 18th)
  • Unnar: Monday 24th exams over. Use 3 week period for independent study. Regular vacation.
  • Stefán: ?
  • Valdi: ?
  • Siewart: Arrives Tuesday the 18th of November

24th of October¶

• 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

25th of September¶

• 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