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== Planned Talks (Winter 2008) ==
== Planned Talks (Winter 2009) ==
* March 12th
* February 1st
** IQC - Intro to QC and Programming the QC
** Research In Motion
* March 10th or 11th
* February 29th (Confirmed): Overview of Quantum Computing
** Prabhakar - Functional Lexing and Parsing
** Raymond Laflamme (Director, IQC)
* March 30th or April 1st
* Week of March 3rd (Proposed)
** Craig Kaplan - Computer Aided Manufacturing/Creative uses of rapid prototyping
** Second IQC talk
* TBA
* Week of March 10th (Proposed)
** Geoff Norton - Mono development
** Kate Larson (Game Theory)


== Possible Speakers/Talks (not yet requested) ==


== Requested ==
=== Local Open Forums ===
* Michael Geist
** Canadian Law and Technologist Blogger
* Wayne Beaton
** Technical Evangelist for The Eclipse Foundation
* Keith Packard
** X Windows
** Holden has contacted him again to ask him to come in October
* Walter Bright
** D Programming Language
* Hans Peter Anvin
** Linux kernel hacker
* Cory Doctorow
** Co-editor of Boing Boing
* CSCF/MFCF/IST Open Forum
* CSCF/MFCF/IST Open Forum
** Dave Gawley [CSCF]
** Dave Gawley [CSCF]
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** Stephen Mann [SCS]
** Stephen Mann [SCS]
** Bruce Campbell [IST]
** Bruce Campbell [IST]
* SCS Undergraduate Open Forum
** Director or Associate Director of the School
** Director or Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
** Undergraduate Operations Coordinator
** Members of Undergrad Committees

=== UNIX/Linux/Operating Systems ===
* Bill Joy
** Location:
** Known for his work on BSD Unix, vi and csh
** Contact:
* Andrew Tanenbaum
** Location: Vrije Universiteit
** Author of MINIX and well known for his work in the area of operating systems
** Contact: ast@cs.vu.nl
* Keith Packard
** Location: http://keithp.com/
** X Windows
** Holden has contacted him in F2007 to ask him to come in that October
** Contact: http://keithp.com/
* Hans Peter Anvin
** Location:
** Linux kernel hacker
** Contact

=== Languages: Formal and Otherwise ===
* Noam Chomsky
** Location: MIT
** Its Noam Fucking Chomsky. Need I say more?
** Contact: http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html
* Walter Bright
** Location: ???
** D Programming Language
** Contact: http://www.walterbright.com/
* Jeffrey Shallit
* Jeffrey Shallit
** Location: Here
** Its Jeff Fucking Shallit. Need I say more?
** Contact: Go to his office or something.

=== AI/LISP ===
*Marvin Minsky
** Location: MIT
** Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.
** Contact: minsky at media.mit.edu
* John McCarthy
** Location: Stanford
** John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts), is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference and is the inventor of the Lisp programming language.
** Contact: jmc@cs.stanford.edu
* Gerald Jay Sussman
** Location: MIT
** He received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973 respectively. He has been involved in artificial intelligence research at MIT since 1964. His research has centered on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, with the goals of automating parts of the process and formalizing it to provide more effective methods of science and engineering education.
** Contact:

=== Misc ===
* Douglas Hofstadter
** Location: Indiana University
** Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979, for which he was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. [1]
** We have asked Hofstadter in Fall 2008, but he was busy
** Contact:
* Wayne Beaton
** Location:
** Technical Evangelist for The Eclipse Foundation
** Contact:
* Cory Doctorow
** Location:
** Co-editor of Boing Boing
** Contact:
* Ron Rivest
** Location:
** Helped create the RSA scheme, also helped write the CLRS book
** Contact:
* Phillipe Khan
** Location:
** Founded Borland in the 1980s, helped develop several successful languages and products (also inveted camera phone)
** Contact:


== Possible Speakers/Talks (not yet requested) ==
*Noam Chompsky
*Richard Stallman
**Holden has suggested that perhaps he can give another talk?
*Ron Rivest
**Helped create the RSA scheme, also helped write the CLRS book
*Phillipe Khan
**Founded Borland in the 1980s, helped develop several successful languages and products (also inveted camera phone)
*Bill Joy
**Known for his work on BSD Unix, vi and csh
*John McCarthy
**Known for his work on the LISP functional language
*Andrew Tanenbaum
**Author of MINIX and well known for his work in the area of operating systems
== Encoding ==
== Encoding ==


Revision as of 09:20, 24 February 2009

Planned Talks (Winter 2009)

  • March 12th
    • IQC - Intro to QC and Programming the QC
  • March 10th or 11th
    • Prabhakar - Functional Lexing and Parsing
  • March 30th or April 1st
    • Craig Kaplan - Computer Aided Manufacturing/Creative uses of rapid prototyping
  • TBA
    • Geoff Norton - Mono development

Possible Speakers/Talks (not yet requested)

Local Open Forums

  • CSCF/MFCF/IST Open Forum
    • Dave Gawley [CSCF]
    • Dawn Keenan [IST]
    • Jim Pell [MFCF]
    • Stephen Mann [SCS]
    • Bruce Campbell [IST]
  • SCS Undergraduate Open Forum
    • Director or Associate Director of the School
    • Director or Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
    • Undergraduate Operations Coordinator
    • Members of Undergrad Committees

UNIX/Linux/Operating Systems

  • Bill Joy
    • Location:
    • Known for his work on BSD Unix, vi and csh
    • Contact:
  • Andrew Tanenbaum
    • Location: Vrije Universiteit
    • Author of MINIX and well known for his work in the area of operating systems
    • Contact: ast@cs.vu.nl
  • Keith Packard
  • Hans Peter Anvin
    • Location:
    • Linux kernel hacker
    • Contact

Languages: Formal and Otherwise

AI/LISP

  • Marvin Minsky
    • Location: MIT
    • Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.
    • Contact: minsky at media.mit.edu
  • John McCarthy
    • Location: Stanford
    • John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts), is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference and is the inventor of the Lisp programming language.
    • Contact: jmc@cs.stanford.edu
  • Gerald Jay Sussman
    • Location: MIT
    • He received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973 respectively. He has been involved in artificial intelligence research at MIT since 1964. His research has centered on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, with the goals of automating parts of the process and formalizing it to provide more effective methods of science and engineering education.
    • Contact:

Misc

  • Douglas Hofstadter
    • Location: Indiana University
    • Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979, for which he was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. [1]
    • We have asked Hofstadter in Fall 2008, but he was busy
    • Contact:
  • Wayne Beaton
    • Location:
    • Technical Evangelist for The Eclipse Foundation
    • Contact:
  • Cory Doctorow
    • Location:
    • Co-editor of Boing Boing
    • Contact:
  • Ron Rivest
    • Location:
    • Helped create the RSA scheme, also helped write the CLRS book
    • Contact:
  • Phillipe Khan
    • Location:
    • Founded Borland in the 1980s, helped develop several successful languages and products (also inveted camera phone)
    • Contact:

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