Updated to all current events.

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@@ -953,13 +953,13 @@ lent to you for the duration of this class.</p>
     </abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
-  <eventitem date="2002-10-10" time="TBA" room="TBA"
+  <eventitem date="2002-10-10" time="5:30pm" room="MC3006"
   title="UNIX 103">
     <short></short>
     <abstract>No abstract available yet.</abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
-  <eventitem date="2002-11-05" time="4:30 PM" room="TBA"
+  <eventitem date="2002-11-05" time="5:30 PM" room="MC 4063"
   title="The Evil Side of C++">
     <short>Abusing template metaprogramming in C++ for fun and profit</short>
     <abstract>No abstract available yet.</abstract>
@@ -1028,16 +1028,47 @@ lent to you for the duration of this class.</p>
     </abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
-  <eventitem date="2002-11-07" time="TBA" room="TBA"
+  <eventitem date="2002-11-07" time="5:30pm" room="MC4063"
   title="The GNU General Public License">
     <short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
     <abstract>No abstract available yet.</abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
-  <eventitem date="2002-11-12" time="TBA" room="TBA"
-  title="Memory Management">
-    <short>A talk by Jim Morrison</short>
-    <abstract>No abstract available yet.</abstract>
+  <eventitem date="2002-11-19" time="4:30pm" room="MC4058"
+   title="Metaprogramming GPUs">
+   <short>A talk by Michael McCool of the Computer Graphics Lab.</short>
+   <abstract>
+<p>
+Modern graphics accelerators, or "GPUs", have embedded high-performance 
+programmable components in the form of vertex and fragment shading units. 
+Recently, these units have evolved from 8-bit computations to floating-point,
+and other operations provide array gather, scatter, and summation.
+These capabilities make GPUs akin to array processors of the 
+past, but with a difference: every PC now has one!  I am interested 
+in finding the best way to exploit this computational capacity for not
+only graphics but for general-purpose computation.
+</p><p>
+Current APIs permit specification of the programs for GPUs
+using an assembly-language level interface.  Compilers for high-level 
+shading languages are available, such as NVIDIA's Cg, and OpenGL 2.0 and 
+DirectX will also include standardized shading languages.  This talk will 
+review these.  However, compilers for these languages read in an external 
+string specification, which can be inconvenient.   
+</p><p>
+However, it is possible, using standard C++, to define a high-level
+shading language directly in the API.  Such a language can be nearly
+indistinguishable from a special-purpose programming language, yet  
+permits more direct interaction with the specification of textures 
+(arrays) and parameters, simplifies implementation, and enables
+on-the-fly generation, manipulation, and specialization of shader programs.
+A shading language built into the API also permits the lifting of
+C++ host language type, modularity, and scoping constructs into the shading
+language without any additional implementation effort.   Such an
+embedded language could be used to program other embedded processors
+(such as DSP chips in sound cards) or even to generate machine language
+on the fly for the host CPU.
+</p>
+    </abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
   <eventitem date="2002-11-16" time="TBA" room="TBA"
@@ -1046,12 +1077,18 @@ lent to you for the duration of this class.</p>
     <abstract>No abstract available yet.</abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
-  <eventitem date="2002-11-22" time="TBA" room="TBA"
+  <eventitem date="2002-11-21" time="6:00pm" room="MC2066"
   title="Perl 6">
     <short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
     <abstract>No abstract available yet.</abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
+  <eventitem date="2002-11-21" time="4:30pm" room="MC4060"
+   title="Samba and you">
+    <short>A talk by Dan Brovkovich, Mathsoc's Computing Director</short>
+    <abstract>No abstract available yet.</abstract>
+  </eventitem>
+
   <eventitem date="2002-10-26" time="1:30PM" room="MC2066"
   title="GNU/Linux on HPPA">
     <short>Carlos O'Donnell talks about &quot;the last of the legacy processors to fall before the barbarian horde&quot;</short>
@@ -1157,4 +1194,20 @@ GNU/Linux in an enterprise environment.  This includes:</p>
    </abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
+  <eventitem date="2002-11-12" time="4:30PM" room="MC4058"
+  title="Automatic Memory Management and Garbage Collection">
+    <short>A talk by James A. Morrison</short>
+    <abstract>
+<p>
+  Do you ever wonder what java is doing while you wait?  Have you ever used
+Modula-3?  Do you wonder how lazily you can Mark and Sweep?  Would you like to
+know how to Stop-and-Copy?
+</p><p>
+ Come out to this talk and learn these things and more.  No prior knowledge of
+Garbage Collection or memory management is needed.
+</p>
+   </abstract>
+  </eventitem>
+
 </eventdefs>
+