Re: TODAY!! Meeting - Guava! James!

I would like to publicly thank James for scheduling his GUAVA talk at
the same time as my final:

*~^"~*`.-> Thank you James for scheduling your talk at the same
time as my final. <-.'*~"^~*

;)

On Jun 12, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Selena Deckelmann wrote:

> Topic: Guava (Gui-As-View)
> Speaker: James Terwilliger
> When: Tuesday, June 12th, 7:15pm
> Where: Room 102, Engineering Building, PSU
> Corner of SW 4th and College Ave
>
>
> PLEASE NOTE: Change of VENUE and change of Tuesday!!
>
> We will have the meeting room for exactly one hour. After we'll
> take a poll and then go to a nearby pub. Email me privately if
> you'd like me to call/text you regarding which pub we choose.
>
> So see him talk while you can!
>
> ---
>
>
> Guava (Gui-As-View) is a project that I started for my Ph.D.
> dissertation. The basic idea of Guava is to transform the user
> interface of a forms- based
>
> application (or any application whose use is for both data entry and
>
> retrieval) into a query interface that connects to the same data
> but retains all of the contextual information of the original user
> interface. The idea here is that the new query interface could be
> easy to learn to a non- geek, since the original UI may have had
> considerable design effort behind it to
>
> make it accessible to domain experts.
>
>
> Thus far, the prototype for Guava has been implemented on Microsoft
> tools (boo! hiss!). However, if our NIH funding comes through, we
> will be opening up the source code under the Apache 2.0 license. At
> some point, we would
>
> like to migrate the tools to that they can work for other systems, and
> Postgres is the most likely first candidate.
>
>
> The most likely places for after-talk alcohol would be the Cheerful
> Tortoise (sports bar, and closest venue), or the Market Street Pub
> (McMenamins).
>
>
>
>
>
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