Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
- Gerald Jay Sussman And The Art of the Propagator
Here is a follow up to my previous post with another talk by Gerald Jay Sussman at the University of Waterloo. This time it is on propagators, an interesting architecture pattern inspired by electronic circuits. Enjoy!
- Gerald Jay Sussman on Code and Poetry
I am back on campus in Waterloo, which means the talk season is now open again. The first talk I attended this term is a public lecture by Gerald Jay Sussman, the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He gave a pretty interesting presentation on how programming provides us with a set of tools [...]
- Open Phones?
Thursday the FOSSLC organised a conference named Free/Open Source Mobile Development in Waterloo. They invited three speakers, each working on a different platform, to talk about their projects and the advantages their platform have to offer for open source developers.
The first speaker was Jay Freeman, also known as Saurik, who is an important member of [...]
- A Free Speech by Richard Stallman
Yesterday was a busy day. Infusion Angels was on campus with a big conference in which it showed the features of the Microsoft XNA 3.0 platform, but more importantly, Richard Stallman gave a talk on the GNU Operating System and Free Software. Some of you may ask: who is this Richard Stallman? Well, to make [...]
- Joel on Software… at the University of Waterloo
Today I assisted to a talk by Joel Spolsky, know for his blog Joel on Software. I have read a bit on him before while reading Founders at Work, but it is the first time that I see one of his talks and I have to say that he is a pretty good speaker. Not [...]
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