Talks

Planned Talks (Winter 2008)

• February 1st
  • Research In Motion
• February 29th (Confirmed): Overview of Quantum Computing
  • Raymond Laflamme (Director, IQC)
• Week of March 3rd (Proposed)
  • Second IQC talk
• Week of March 10th (Proposed)
  • Kate Larson (Game Theory)

Requested

• 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
  • Dave Gawley [CSCF]
  • Dawn Keenan [IST]
  • Jim Pell [MFCF]
  • Stephen Mann [SCS]
  • Bruce Campbell [IST]
• Jeffrey Shallit

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

We use dvgrab to rip the talks from the camera and ffmpeg to encode.