Daily Bulletin, Wednesday, July 6, 1994

RUNNING UP NORTH:  Yesterday's Bulletin mentioned Bonnie Neglia, who
placed high among the runners in the recent Midnight Sun Marathon on
Baffin Island, but embarrassingly I failed to mention the UW person who
placed first overall in that 26.2-mile race.  He is Dave Northey, a staff
member in the kinesiology department, whose time for the run was 3 hours
3 minutes.

Another keen local runner, Duane Kennedy of the accountancy school, reports
that "There has been a regular Waterloo connection to Midnight Sun over
the last few years as Ralph Haas of civil engineering has run the marathon
three times (most recently in 1993) and I went up in 1992."

HAPPENING TODAY:  The last in the series of "Computer Revolution" videos
will be shown at 11:30 today in Davis Centre room 1302.  This one is
titled "Artificial Intelligence, Real Problems".  The series has been
sponsored by the Institute for Computer Research and the Centre for Society,
Technology and Values.  Everybody's welcome.

And, by coincidence, at 3:30 in the same room, ICR brings the topic up to 
date with a colloquium on "Artificial Languages for Artificial Intelligence 
Research", with a speaker from the University of Toronto. 

LEARNING TECHNOLOGY:  UW will be a site -- along with other spots in the
Americas, Europe and Russia -- for a videoconference tomorrow morning.
It's being held as part of the first international conference on distance
education in Russia, and the theme is a comparison of "Global Lecture
Hall" technology involving the World Wide Web, telephone lines and
satellites.  Says John Robinson of UW's teaching resource office: "All are
welcome to attend for lectures and demonstrations of computer/communications
technologies applied to teaching and learning."  The videoconference will
be on screen in Davis Centre 1302 from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow.  Robinson
can provide more information at ext. 2001 or john@monet.

UNDER THE STARS:  The physics department's observatory will be open to the
public this evening (from 9 p.m.), as it is on the first Wednesday of each
month.  Plans have also been announced for extra public viewing hours at
the observatory July 16 through 22, when something unusual is happening in
the heavens: the collision of fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the
planet Jupiter.

ALLONS, ENFANTS:  If anybody on campus is planning a private or public
celebration of Bastille Day next week, I'd be pleased to hear from them for
possible mention in a Gazette article.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
888-4567 ext. 3004      credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca