October 14th, 2004

 

Funding

v     3 applicants in

v     3 more to consider

v     1 Jamika has herself

v     Total = 7

v     No money from last time

v     Fund per paper

v     Dennis Neale – affiliation with the Center for HCI – but too many people applied to consider

 

Tech Support

v     New Colleagues have been added

v     Go talk to Mohamed and things happen

v     CRC Meeting talk about Tech Staff

v     If anything, new students are the ones that we need to impress

 

Grad List Serve

v     It is always down

v     Move it to LISTSEVER.VT.EDU

v     Tabled

v     Maybe ask at the CRC Meeting

 

Space

v     655 Survey

v     Send out survey today

v     New Question: How many times would you like to use the room?

v     Already have monitors aligned and hours that they could work

v     Put up on Survey.vt.edu

v     Times? 1PMà 5PM,  5PM à Midnight

v     Coffee shop maybe if it works out

o       Bottom floor of Torg carpet

v     Need Budget – Need more info from Kafura

v     Propose idea to the design department?

v     Keep it open for a week?

o       Send it as a reminder

v     Undergraduates & HCI?

o       Send it to Terry Arthur or Libby Bradford

v     New Question: Do you want to share the space with undergraduates?

 

GTA Improving Perks

v     Parking

v     GSA Meeting (Partha) – it is ad  hoc and random, it depends on the department

v     Go to talk to the Dean one-on-one

v     Said that we need a consistent policy à make the parking services in charge of this

v     Instructor

o       GTA Salary with tuition reimbursement OR paid by the class with no reimbursement

v     Meeting with Ribbens or Kafura? They talk to each other?

 

HCI Open House

v     Jamika met with Dr. Quek

v     Quarter time GRA’s?

v     Make their presence known

v     Make a Rep from each area in CS?

 

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