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h1. Quick Notes
h2. 6th of November
* 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
h2. 16th of October
* 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":http://www.slush.org/
* (AWAY DATES: Paris 16th-19th of November (Hannes?) Motion in Games)
h2. 18th of September
* 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"
h2. 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)
h2. 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
h2. 5th of December
* Upcoming Events
** CADIA Christmas Party: Thursday 11th of December, 16-18
** "UT Messan":http://utmessan.is/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91:2015-utmessan&catid=8:almennt&Itemid=144 : 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
h2. 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
h2. 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
h2. 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":https://www.hcii.cmu.edu/ and "Entertainment Technology Center":http://www.etc.cmu.edu/ October 7th-9th)
* Hannes will present "Prediction in Social Path Following" short paper by former student Carmine Oliva at the "Motion in Games":http://mig2014.ict.usc.edu/ 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