From 64590aa2682aa2a0173f4b55bab02c2120171b95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Edgar Bering <ebering@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:13:51 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] b4taylor talk

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 events.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

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 <eventdefs>
 
 <!-- Winter 2010 -->
+<eventitem date="2010-03-09" time="4:30 PM" room="DC1304" title="Software Transactional Memory and Using STM in Haskell">
+  
+    <short><p>The fourth Undergraduate Seminar in Computer Science will be presented by Brennan Taylor, a club member. He will be discussing various concurrent computing problems, and introducing Software Transactional Memory as a solution to them.
+</p></short>
+  
+  
+    <abstract><p>Concurrency is hard. Well maybe not hard, but it sure is annoying to get right. Even the
+simplest of synchronization tasks are hard to implement correctly when using synchronization
+primitives such as locks and semaphores.
+</p><p>In this talk we explore what Software Transactional Memory (STM) is, what problems STM solves,
+and how to use STM in Haskell. We explore a number of examples that show how easy STM is to use
+and how expressive Haskell can be. The goal of this talk is to convince attendees that STM is
+not only a viable synchronization solution, but superior to how synchronization is typically
+done today.
+</p></abstract>
+  
+</eventitem>
 <eventitem date="2010-03-06" time="5:00 PM" room="Waterloo Bowling Lanes" title="Bowling">
     <short><p>The CSC is going bowling. $9.75 for shoes and two games. The bowling alley serves fried food and beer. Join us for
     some or all of the above</p></short>