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Subject: UW Comp. Graphic Seminar, Mr. Tanner on "Adagio, A Robotics Multitasking Multiprocessor Workstation"
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

COMPUTER GRAPHICS SEMINAR

                    - Friday, October 18, 1985.

Peter  Tanner  of  National  Research Council of Canada
will  speak  on  ``Adagio, A Robotics Multitasking Mul-
tiprocessor Workstation.''

TIME:                3:30 PM

ROOM:              MC 5158

ABSTRACT

Adagio  is  a robotics simulation workstation currently
under  development  at the National Research Council of
Canada.  The workstation, when completed, will give the
user  the  capability  of  manipulating 3D objects in a
robot  environment,  of  programming the robot interac-
tively,  and  of viewing the results of a robot simula-
tion.   It is based on the Harmony O/S, a multitasking,
multiprocessor  message-passing  system.  Adagio's user
interface   management   system,  taking  advantage  of
Harmony's  multitasking  capabilities,  is  based  on a
switchboard model of input.  It encourages the applica-
tion  programmer  to  make  extensive  use  of parallel
input, that is, having several input devices simultane-
ously  ready  to accept user control.  Also designed to
take  advantage of multitasking is the menu system that
controls  which tasks are executing, and to which tasks
input is sent.

Refreshments will be served at 3:00 pm.

                         October 9, 1985


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