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Informal AARMS Workshop
March 11-12, 2004
Dalhousie Faculty of Computer Science
Following conversations, Dr Hermann Brunner (AARMS Director) and Dr.
Jon Borwein (a newly arrived research Chair in CS at Dalhousie) decided to
get together in Halifax on March 11 and 12 (Thursday/Friday) to discuss how
Computer Science in Atlantic Canada (not just at Dalhousie) and AARMS
can work together more closely. This will encompass areas like future
summer school courses (and/or workshops) and computational issues (both academic and technical). These
discussions will also involve Keith Taylor (Dean of Science) and possibly Dr. Breckenridge (VP Research).
Out of town participants expected include:
Herman Brunner, AARMS Director, MUN
Virendra Bhavsar, Dean of CS, UNB (high performance computing)
Dan Kucerovsky, Math-Stat, UNB (operator algebras)
James Watmough, Math-Stat, UNB (mathematical biology)
Abraham Punnen, Math-Sci, UNB (operations research)
John Bonnett, NRC E-Commerce Lab
Schedule
(4th floor demo room, Faculty of CS, 6050 University Ave)
Thursday March 11. 11.30-12.30: Robby Robson, Oregon and EduWorks, Digital Rights Management in the
Academy Colloquium, Main Theatre
Abstract: Authors want attribution, publishers want copy protection and most people just want to use what
they find. Intellectual property laws differ from country to country and are becoming evermore complex.
Meanwhile, the academy is investing in digital repositories with the expectation that content will eventually
be widely shared and reused within and across institutional and national boundaries. If this is to happen,
something must be done about managing rights. But what?
Traditional digital rights management associated with commercial music, video and e-books focuses on
protection rather than sharing. It does not address issues critical to the academy such as allowing fair use,
enforcing scholarly attribution, and supporting open source development and distribution models. However,
new approaches that show more promise are emerging and being prototyped. We will describe these
approaches and examine how they are clarifying the rights management requirements of the academy. We
will look at what is being done, what might work, what probably won’t work, and where there are gaps to fill.
Biographical Sketch: Robby Robson is PI of the National Science Digital Library reusable learning project,
chair of the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and president of Eduworks Corporation. He is
an internationally known innovator, researcher and strategist in e-learning and e-learning technology,
spanning the education, research and commercial worlds.
2.00-4.00: Brief Research Presentations by AARMS members (Abstracts are below)
2.00-2.35: Dan Kucerovsky, Algebraic topology of non-commutative spaces
2.40-3.15: Richard Wood, Complete Distributivity
3.20-3.50: Jon Borwein, Maximizing surprise
4.00-5.30: Dalhousie Collaborative and Distributed Research Initiative Seminar (Room 311)
Andrew Rau-Chapman speaks on The LaHave House Project
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