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content/events/1994/fall/ACM-Style-Programming-Contest.md

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+---
+name: 'ACM-Style Programming Contest'
+short: 'No description available'
+date: 'Sat Oct 15 1994 11:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC 3022'
+---
+
+### Big Money and Prizes!
+
+So you think you're a pretty good programmer? Pit your skills	against others on campus in this triannual event! Contestants will	have three hours to solve five programming problems in either C or	Pascal.
+
+Last fall's winners went on to the International Finals and came	first overall! You could be there, too!
+

content/events/1994/fall/CSC-Elections.md

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+---
+name: 'CSC Elections'
+short: 'No description available'
+date: 'Fri Sep 16 1994 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC 4040'
+---
+
+No abstract available

content/events/1994/fall/Exploring-the-Internet.md

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+---
+name: 'Exploring the Internet'
+short: 'No description available'
+date: 'Thu Oct 20 1994 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC 3009'
+---
+
+### Need something to do between assignments/beers?
+
+Did you know that your undergrad account at Waterloo gives you access to the world's largest computer network? With thousands of discussion groups, gigabytes of files to download, multimedia information browsers, even on-line entertainment?
+
+The resources available on the Internet are vast and wondrous, but	the tools for navigating it are sometimes confusing and arcane. In	this hands-on tutorial you will get the chance to get your feet wet	with the world's most mind-bogglingly big computer network, the	protocols and programs used, and how to use them responsibly and	effectively.
+

content/events/1994/fall/Game-Theory.md

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+---
+name: 'Game Theory'
+short: 'No description available'
+date: 'Wed Nov 02 1994 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC 2038'
+---
+
+### From the Minimax Theorem, through Alpha-Beta, and beyond...
+
+This will be a discussion of the pitfalls of using mathematics and algorithms to play classical board games. Thorough descriptions shall be presented of the simple techniques used as the building blocks that make all modern computer game players. I will use tic-tac-toe as a control for my arguments. Other games such as Chess, Othello and Go shall be the be a greater measure of progress; and more importantly the targets of our dreams.
+
+To enhance the discussion of the future, Barney Pell's Metagamer shall be introduced. His work in define classes of games is important in identifying the features necessary for analysis.
+

content/events/1994/fall/Movie-Outing-Brainstorm.md

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+---
+name: 'Movie Outing: Brainstorm'
+short: '	No description available.	'
+date: 'Tue Sep 13 1994 22:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'Princess Cinema'
+---
+
+The first of this term's CSC social events, we will be going to see	the movie \`\`Brainstorm'' at the Princess Cinema. This outing is	intended primarily for the new first-year students.
+
+The Princess Cinema is Waterloo's repertoire theatre. This month	and next, they are featuring a \`\`Cyber Film Festival''. Upcoming	films include:
+
+- Brazil
+- Bladerunner (director's cut)
+- 2001: A Space Odyssey
+- Naked Lunch
+
+<!-- -->
+
+Admission is $4.25 for a Princess member, $7.50 for a non-member.	Membership to the Princess is $7.00 per year.
+

content/events/1994/fall/Prograph-Picture-the-Future.md

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+---
+name: 'Prograph: Picture the Future'
+short: 'No description available'
+date: 'Thu Oct 13 1994 18:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC 1302'
+---
+
+What is the next step in the evolution of computer languages?	Intelligent agents? Distributed objects? or visual languages?
+
+Visual languages overcome many of the drawbacks and limitations	of the textual languages that software development is based on	today. Do you think about programming in a linear fashion? Or do	you draw a mental picture of your algorithm and then linearize it	for the benefit of your compiler? Wouldn't it be nice if you could	code the same way you think?
+
+Visual C++ and Visual BASIC aren't visual languages, but Prograph	is. Prograph is a commercially available, visual, object-oriented,	data-flow language. It is well suited to graphical user interface	development, but is as powerful for general-purpose programming as	any textual language.
+
+The talk will comprise a discussion of the problems of textual	languages that visual languages solve, a live demonstration of	Prograph, and some of my observations of the applications of	Prograph to software development.
+

content/events/1994/fall/SIGGRAPH-Video-Night.md

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+---
+name: 'SIGGRAPH Video Night'
+short: 'No description available'
+date: 'Wed Sep 21 1994 19:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC 1302'
+---
+
+No abstract available

content/events/1994/fall/UNIX-I-Tutorial.md

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+---
+name: 'UNIX I Tutorial'
+short: 'No description available'
+date: 'Thu Sep 22 1994 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC 3022'
+---
+
+No abstract available

content/events/1994/fall/UNIX-II-Tutorial.md

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+---
+name: 'UNIX II Tutorial'
+short: 'No description available'
+date: 'Mon Sep 26 1994 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC 3022'
+---
+
+No abstract available

content/events/1999/fall/Calculational-Mathematics.md

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+---
+name: 'Calculational Mathematics'
+short: 'By Edgar Dijkstra'
+date: 'Thu Dec 02 1999 14:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1302'
+---
+
+By Edgar Dijkstra
+
+This talk will use partial orders, lattice theory, and, if time permits, the Galois connection as carriers to illustrate the use of calculi in mathematics. We hope to show the brevity of many calculations (in order to fight the superstition that formal proofs are necessarily impractically long), and the strong heuristic guidance that is available for their design.
+
+Dijkstra is known for early graph-theoretical algorithms, the first implementation of ALGOL 60, the first operating system composed of explicitly synchronized processes, the invention of guarded commands and of predicate transformers as a means for defining semantics, and programming methodology in the broadest sense of the word.
+
+His current research interests focus on the formal derivation of proofs and programs, and the streamlining of the mathematical argument in general.
+
+Dijkstra held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin until retiring in October.
+

content/events/1999/fall/Ctrl-D.md

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+---
+name: 'Ctrl-D'
+short: 'End-of-term dinner'
+date: 'Wed Dec 01 1999 20:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'Golf''s Steakhouse'
+---
+
+ No abstract available. 

content/events/1999/fall/GDB,-Purify-Tutorial.md

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+---
+name: 'GDB, Purify Tutorial'
+short: 'No description available.'
+date: 'Tue Oct 19 1999 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1304'
+---
+
+Debugging can be the most difficult and time consuming part of any program's life-cycle. Far from an exact science, it's more of an art ... and close to some kind of dark magic. Cryptic error messages, lousy error checking, and icky things like implicit casts can make it nearly impossible to know what's going on inside your program.
+
+Several tools are available to help automate your debugging. GDB and Purify are among the most powerful debugging tools available in a UNIX environment. GDB is an interactive debugger, allowing you to \`step' through a program, examine function calls, variable contents, stack traces and let you look at the state of a program after it crashes. Purify is a commercial program designed to help find and remove memory leaks from programs written in languages without automatic garbage collection.
+
+This talk will cover how to compile your C and C++ programs	for use with GDB and Purify, as well as how to use the	available X interfaces. If a purify license is available on	undergrad at the time of the talk, we will cover how to use it	during runtime.
+

content/events/1999/fall/Homebrew-Processors-and-Integrated-Systems-in-FPGAs.md

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+---
+name: 'Homebrew Processors and Integrated Systems in FPGAs'
+short: 'By Jan Gray'
+date: 'Wed Dec 01 1999 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2066'
+---
+
+by Jan Gray
+
+With the advent of large inexpensive field-programmable gate arrays and tools it is now practical for anyone to design and build custom processors and systems-on-a-chip. Jan will discuss designing with FPGAs, and present the design and implementation of xr16, yet another FPGA-based RISC computer system with integrated peripherals.
+
+Jan is a past CSC pres., B.Math. CS/EEE '87, and wrote compilers, tools, and middleware at Microsoft from 1987-1998. He built the first 32-bit FPGA CPU and system-on-a-chip in 1995.
+

content/events/1999/fall/Living-Laboratories-The-Future-Computing-Environments-at-Georgia-Tech.md

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+---
+name: 'Living Laboratories: The Future Computing Environments at
+  Georgia Tech'
+short: 'By Blair MacIntyre and Elizabeth Mynatt'
+date: 'Mon Oct 18 1999 15:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1304'
+---
+
+by Blair MacIntyre and Elizabeth Mynatt
+
+The Future Computing Environments (FCE) Group at Georgia Tech	is a collection of faculty and students that share a desire to	understand the partnership between humans and technology that	arises as computation and sensing become ubiquitous. With	expertise covering the breadth of Computer Science, but	focusing on HCI, Computational Perception, and Machine	Learning, the individual research agendas of the FCE faculty	are grounded in a number of shared "living laboratories" where	their research is applied to everyday life in the classroom	(Classroom 2000), the home (the Aware Home), the office	(Augmented Offices), and on one's person. Professors	MacIntyre and Mynatt will discuss a variety of these projects,	with an emphasis on the HCI and Computer Science aspects of	the FCE work.
+
+In addition to their affiliation with the FCE group,	Professors Mynatt and MacIntyre are both members of the	Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU) at Georgia	Tech. This interdisciplinary center brings together research	in computer science, psychology, industrial engineering,	architecture and media design by examining the role of	computation in our everyday lives. During the talk, they will	touch on some of the research and educational opportunities	available at both GVU and the College of Computing.
+

content/events/1999/fall/Open-Q&A-session.md

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+---
+name: 'Open Q&A session'
+short: 'By Edsger Dijkstra'
+date: 'Fri Dec 03 1999 16:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1351'
+---
+
+No description available.

content/events/1999/fall/Proofs-and-Programs.md

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+---
+name: 'Proofs and Programs'
+short: 'By Edsger Dijkstra'
+date: 'Fri Dec 03 1999 11:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'Siegfried Hall,
+  St Jerome''s'
+---
+
+This talk will show the use of programs for the proving of theorems. Its purpose is to show how our experience gained in the derivations of programs might be transferred to the derivation of proofs in general. The examples will go beyond the (traditional) existence theorems.
+
+Dijkstra is known for early graph-theoretical algorithms, the first implementation of ALGOL 60, the first operating system composed of explicitly synchronized processes, the invention of guarded commands and of predicate transformers as a means for defining semantics, and programming methodology in the broadest sense of the word.
+
+His current research interests focus on the formal derivation of proofs and programs, and the streamlining of the mathematical argument in general.
+
+Dijkstra held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin until retiring in October.
+

content/events/2000/fall/CSC-Elections.md

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+---
+name: 'CSC Elections'
+short: 'Fall 2000 Elections for the CSC.'
+date: 'Thu Sep 14 2000 19:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1302'
+---
+
+Would you like to get involved in the CSC? Would you like to have a	say in what the CSC does this term? Come out to the CSC Elections!	In addition to electing the executive for the Fall term, we will be	appointing office staff and other positions. Look for details in	uw.csc.
+
+Nominations for all positions are being taken in the CSC office, MC	3036.
+

content/events/2000/fall/Realising-the-Next-Generation-Internet.md

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+---
+name: 'Realising the Next Generation Internet'
+short: 'By Frank Clegg of Microsoft Canada'
+date: 'Mon Sep 25 2000 15:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1302'
+---
+
+### Vitals
+
+<dl><dt>By</dt><dd>Frank Clegg</dd><dd>President, Microsoft Canada</dd><dt>Date</dt><dd>Monday, September 25, 2000</dd><dt>Time</dt><dd>14:30 - 16:00</dd><dt>Place</dt><dd>DC 1302</dd><dd>(Davis Centre, Room 1302, University of Waterloo)</dd><dt>Cost</dt><dd>$0.00</dd><dt>Pre-registration</dt><dd>Recommended</dd><dd><a href="http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca:81/infranet/semform.htm">http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca:81/infranet/semform.htm</a></dd><dd>(519) 888-4004</dd></dl>
+
+### Abstract
+
+The Internet and the Web have revolutionized our communications, our access to information and our business methods. However, there is still much room for improvement. Frank Clegg will discuss Microsoft's vision for what is beyond browsing and the dotcom. Microsoft .NET (pronounced "dot-net") is a new platform, user experience and set of advanced software services planned to make all devices work together and connect seamlessly. With this next generation of software, Microsoft's goal is to make Internet-based computing and communications easier to use, more personalized, and more productive for businesses and consumers. In his new position of president of Microsoft Canada Co., Frank Clegg will be responsible for leading the organization toward the delivery of Microsoft .NET. He will speak about this new platform and the next generation Internet, how software developers and businesses will be able to take advantage of it, and what the .NET experience will look like for consumers and business users.
+
+### The Speaker
+
+Frank Clegg was appointed president of Microsoft Canada Co. this month. Prior to his new position, Mr. Clegg was vice-president, Central Region, Microsoft Corp. from 1996 to 2000. In this capacity, he was responsible for sales, support and marketing activities in 15 U.S. states. Mr. Clegg joined Microsoft Corp. in 1991 and headed the Canadian subsidiary until 1996. During that time, Mr. Clegg was instrumental in introducing several key initiatives to improve company efficiency, growth and market share. Mr. Clegg graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1977 with a B. Math.
+
+### For More Information
+
+<address> Shirley Fenton
+ The infraNET Project
+ University of Waterloo
+ 519-888-4567 ext. 5611
+<a href="http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca/">http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca/</a></address>
+

content/events/2000/fall/SIGGraph-Video-Night.md

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+---
+name: 'SIGGraph Video Night'
+short: ' SIGGraph Video Night Featuring some truly awesome computer animations from Siggraph ''99. '
+date: 'Thu Sep 14 2000 20:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1302'
+---
+
+Interested in Computer Graphics?
+
+Enjoy watching state-of-the-art Animation?
+
+Looking for a cheap place to take a date?
+
+SIGGraph Video Night -	Featuring some truly awesome computer animations from Siggraph '99.
+
+Come out for the Computer Science Club general elections at 6:00	pm, right before SIGGraph!
+

content/events/2000/spring/Ctrl-D.md

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+---
+name: 'Ctrl-D'
+short: 'End-of-term dinner'
+date: 'Thu Jul 20 2000 20:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'Ali Babas Steak
+  House, 130 King Street S, Waterloo'
+---
+
+No abstract available.

content/events/2000/winter/Enterprise-Java-APIs-and-Implementing-a-Web-Portal-(1).md

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+---
+name: 'Enterprise Java APIs and Implementing a Web Portal (1)'
+short: 'No description available.'
+date: 'Thu Mar 30 2000 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1304'
+---
+
+Real World J2EE - Design Patterns and architecture behind the	yet to be released J2EE portal: theserverside.com
+
+This talk will feature an exclusive look at the architecture	behind the new J2EE portal: theserverside.com. Join Floyd	Marinescu in a walk-through of the back-end of the portal,	while learning about J2EE and its real world patterns,	applications, problems and benefits.
+

content/events/2000/winter/Enterprise-Java-APIs-and-Implementing-a-Web-Portal.md

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+---
+name: 'Enterprise Java APIs and Implementing a Web Portal'
+short: 'No description available.'
+date: 'Fri Mar 24 2000 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1304'
+---
+
+### by Floyd Marinescu 
+
+The first talk will be an introduction to the Enterprise Java	API's: Servlets, JSP, EJB, and how to use them to build	eCommerce sites.
+
+The second talk will be about how these technologies were used	to implement a real world portal. The talk will include an	overview of the design patterns used and will feature	architectural information about the yet to be release portal	(which I am one of the developers) called theserverside.com.
+

content/events/2001/spring/ACM-Style-programming-contest.md

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+---
+name: 'ACM-Style programming contest'
+short: 'Practice for the ACM international programming contest'
+date: 'Sat Jun 02 2001 11:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3006'
+---
+
+Our ACM-Style practice contests involve answering five questions in three hours. Solutions are written in Pascal, C or C++. Seven years in a row, Waterloo's teams have been in the top ten at the world finals. For more information, see [the contest web page](<http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/>).
+
+### Easy Question:
+
+A palindrome is a sequence of letters that reads the same backwards and forwards, such as \`\`Madam, I'm Adam'' (note that case doesn't matter and only letters are important). Your task is to find the longest palindrome in a line of text (if there is a tie, print the leftmost one).
+
+<pre>Input:                              Output:
+
+asfgjh12dsfgg kj0ab12321BA wdDwkj   abBA
+abcbabCdcbaqwerewq                  abCdcba
+</pre>
+
+### Hard Question:
+
+An anagram is a word formed by reordering the letters of another word. Find all sets of anagrams that exist within a large dictionary. The input will be a sorted list of words (up to 4000 words), one per line. Output each set of anagrams on a separate line. Each set should be in alphabetical order, and all lines of sets should be in alphabetical order. A word with no anagrams is a set of anagrams itself, and should be displayed with no modifications.
+
+<pre>Input:      Output:
+
+post        post pots stop
+pots        start
+start
+stop
+</pre>
+

content/events/2001/winter/ACM-Style-programming-contest.md

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+---
+name: 'ACM-Style programming contest'
+short: 'Practice for the ACM international programming contest'
+date: 'Sat Jan 27 2001 11:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3006'
+---
+
+Our ACM-Style practice contests involve answering five questions in three hours. Solutions are written in Pascal, C or C++. Seven years in a row, Waterloo's teams have been in the top ten at the world finals. For more information, see [the contest web page](<http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/>).
+
+### Easy Question:
+
+A palindrome is a sequence of letters that reads the same backwards and forwards, such as \`\`Madam, I'm Adam'' (note that case doesn't matter and only letters are important). Your task is to find the longest palindrome in a line of text (if there is a tie, print the leftmost one).
+
+<pre>Input:                              Output:
+
+asfgjh12dsfgg kj0ab12321BA wdDwkj   abBA
+abcbabCdcbaqwerewq                  abCdcba
+</pre>
+
+### Hard Question:
+
+An anagram is a word formed by reordering the letters of another word. Find all sets of anagrams that exist within a large dictionary. The input will be a sorted list of words (up to 4000 words), one per line. Output each set of anagrams on a separate line. Each set should be in alphabetical order, and all lines of sets should be in alphabetical order. A word with no anagrams is a set of anagrams itself, and should be displayed with no modifications.
+
+<pre>Input:      Output:
+
+post        post pots stop
+pots        start
+start
+stop
+</pre>
+

content/events/2001/winter/Executive-elections.md

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+---
+name: 'Executive elections'
+short: 'Winter 2001 CSC Elections.'
+date: 'Mon Jan 15 2001 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3036'
+---
+
+Would you like to get involved in the CSC? Would you like to	have a say in what the CSC does this term? Come out to the CSC	Elections! In addition to electing the executive for the	Winter term, we will be appointing office staff and other	positions. Look for details in uw.csc.
+
+Nominations for all positions are being taken in the CSC	office, MC 3036.
+

content/events/2001/winter/Meeting-#2.md

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+---
+name: 'Meeting #2'
+short: 'Second CSC meeting for Winter 2001.'
+date: 'Mon Jan 22 2001 16:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3036'
+---
+
+### Proposed agenda
+
+<dl><dt>Book purchases</dt><dd><p>They haven't been done in 2 terms. We have an old list of books to buy. Any suggestions from uw.csc are welcome.</p></dd><dt>CD Burner</dt><dd><p>For doing Linux burns. It was allocated money on the budget request - about $300. We should be able to get a decent 12x burner with that (8x rewrite).</p><p>The obvious things to sell are Linux Distros and BSD variants. Are there any other software that we can legally burn and sell to students?</p></dd><dt>Unix talks</dt><dd><p>Just a talk of the topics to be covered, when, where, whatnot. Mike was right on this one, this should have been done earlier in the term. Oh well, maybe we can fix this for next fall term.</p></dd><dt>Game Contest</dt><dd><p>We already put a bit of work into planning the Othello contest before I read Mike's post. I still think it's viable. I've got at least 2 people interested in writing entries for it. This will be talked about more on Monday. Hopefully, Rory and I will be able to present a basic outline of how the contest is going to be run at that time.</p></dd><dt>Peri's closet cleaning</dt><dd><p>Current sysadmin (jmbeverl) and I (kvijayan) and President (geduggan) had a nice conversation about this 2 days ago, having to do with completely erasing all of peri, installing a clean stable potato debian on it, and priming it for being a gradual replacement to calum. We'll probably discuss how much we want to get done on this front on Monday.</p></dd></dl>
+
+Any [comments](<nntp://news.math.uwaterloo.ca/uw.csc/8305>) from [the newsgroup](<news:uw.csc>) are welcome.
+

content/events/2001/winter/Meeting-#3.md

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+---
+name: 'Meeting #3'
+short: 'No description available.'
+date: 'Mon Jan 29 2001 15:39:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3036'
+---
+
+No abstract available.

content/events/2001/winter/Meeting-#4.md

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+---
+name: 'Meeting #4'
+short: 'No description available.'
+date: 'Mon Feb 05 2001 16:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3036'
+---
+
+No abstract available.

content/events/2001/winter/Meeting-#5.md

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+---
+name: 'Meeting #5'
+short: 'No description available.'
+date: 'Mon Feb 12 2001 16:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3036'
+---
+
+No abstract available.

content/events/2002/fall/A-GNU-Approach-to-Virtual-Memory-Management-in-a-Multiserver-Operating-System.md

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+---
+name: 'A GNU Approach to Virtual Memory Management in a Multiserver Operating System'
+short: 'Neal Walfield, a GNU Hurd developer, talks about a possible Virtual Memory Management subsystem for the GNU Hurd'
+date: 'Sat Oct 26 2002 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2066'
+---
+
+Virtual memory management is one of the cornerstones of multiuser operating systems. Most systems available today place all of the policy in a monolithic virtual memory manager, VMM, isolated from the rest of the system. Although secure and lightweight, users have no way to communicate their anticipated memory needs and usage to the system pager. As a result, the VMM can only implement a global paging policy (typically, an approximation of LRU) which may be good on average but is best for nobody.
+
+With the port of Hurd to the L4 microkernel, this situation is being readdressed. Due to its more distributed nature, a centralized resource manager is not only more difficult to implement efficiently but also contrary to the philosophy of the rest of the system. We are currently exploring a model whereby each program is fully self-paged and all compete for memory from a physical memory server. This talk will first discuss how paging currently works in Mach and other systems. An argument for an external paging policy will then be presented followed by the requirements of such a design and the design itself.
+
+---
+
+Neal Walfield, a GNU Hurd developer, is from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Neal spent the summer of 2002 at University of Karlsruhe working on porting the GNU Hurd to L4.
+

content/events/2002/fall/Automatic-Memory-Management-and-Garbage-Collection.md

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+---
+name: 'Automatic Memory Management and Garbage Collection'
+short: 'A talk by James A. Morrison'
+date: 'Tue Nov 12 2002 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC4058'
+---
+
+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?
+
+Come out to this talk and learn these things and more. No prior knowledge of Garbage Collection or memory management is needed.
+

content/events/2002/fall/Business-Meeting.md

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+---
+name: 'Business Meeting'
+short: 'Vote on a constitutional change.'
+date: 'Mon Sep 30 2002 19:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'Comfy lounge, MC3001'
+---
+
+The executive has unanimously decided to try to change our constitution to comply with MathSoc policy. The clause we are trying to change is the membership clause. The following is the proposed new reading of the clause.
+
+*	In compliance with MathSoc regulations and in recognition of the club being primarily targeted at undergraduate students, full membership is open to all undergraduate students in the Faculty of Mathematics and restricted to the same.*
+
+The proposed change is illustrated [on	a web page](<http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution-change-20020920>).
+
+There will be a business meeting on 30 Sept 2002 at 18:30 in	the comfy lounge, MC 3001. Please come and vote
+

content/events/2002/fall/Debian-in-the-Enterprise.md

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+---
+name: 'Debian in the Enterprise'
+short: 'A talk by Simon Law'
+date: 'Thu Oct 17 2002 18:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2065'
+---
+
+The Debian Project produces a "Universal Operating System" that is comprised entirely of Free Software. This talk focuses on using Debian GNU/Linux in an enterprise environment. This includes:
+
+- Where Debian can be deployed
+- Strategic advantages of Debian
+- Ways for business to give back to Debian
+
+<!-- -->
+

content/events/2002/fall/F02-elections.md

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+---
+name: 'F02 elections'
+short: 'Come and vote for this term''s exec'
+date: 'Mon Sep 16 2002 18:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'Comfy lounge'
+---
+
+Vote for the exec this term. Meet at the comfy lounge. There will be an opportunity to obtain or renew memberships. This term's CRO is Siyan Li (s8li@csclub.uwaterloo.ca).
+

content/events/2002/fall/GNULinux-InstallFest-with-KW-LUG-and-UW-DIG.md

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+---
+name: 'GNU/Linux InstallFest with KW-LUG and UW-DIG'
+short: 'Bring over your computer and we''ll help you install GNU/Linux'
+date: 'Sat Nov 02 2002 12:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3002 (Math Coffee and Donut Store)'
+---
+
+The [CSC](<http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/>), the [KW-Linux User Group](<http://www.kwlug.org/>), and the [UW Debian Interest Group](<http://uw-dig.uwaterloo.ca/>) are jointly hosting a GNU/Linux InstallFest. GNU/Linux is a powerful, free operating system for your computer. It is mostly written by talented volunteers who like to share their efforts and help each other.
+
+Perhaps you have are you interested in installing GNU/Linux. If so, bring your computer, monitor and keyboard; and we will help you install GNU/Linux on your machine. You can also find knowledgeable people who can answer your questions about GNU/Linux.
+
+---
+
+### Frequently Asked Questions
+
+**Q: **What is GNU/Linux?
+
+
+**A: **GNU/Linux is a free operating system for your computer. It is mostly written by talented volunteers who like to share their efforts.
+
+**Q: **Free?
+
+
+**A: **GNU/Linux is available for zero-cost. As well, it allows you such freedom to share it with your friends, or to modify the software to your own needs and share that with your friends. It's very friendly.
+
+**Q: **What is an InstallFest?
+
+
+**A: **An InstallFest is a meeting where volunteers help people install GNU/Linux on their computers. It's also a place to meet users, and talk to them about running GNU/Linux.
+
+**Q: **What kind of computer do I need to use GNU/Linux?
+
+
+**A: **Almost any recent computer will do. If you have an old machine kicking around, you can install GNU/Linux on it as well. If it is at least 5 years old, it should be good enough.
+
+**Q: **Can I have Windows and GNU/Linux on the same computer?
+
+
+**A: **If you can run Windows now, and you have an extra gigabyte (GB) of disk space to spare; then it should be possible.
+
+**Q: **What should I bring if I want to install GNU/Linux?
+
+
+**A: **You will want to bring:
+
+1. Computer
+2. Monitor and monitor cable
+3. Power cords
+4. Keyboard and mouse
+
+<!-- -->
+

content/events/2002/fall/GNULinux-on-HPPA.md

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+---
+name: 'GNU/Linux on HPPA'
+short: 'Carlos O''Donnell talks about "the last of the legacy processors to fall before the barbarian horde"'
+date: 'Sat Oct 26 2002 14:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2066'
+---
+
+This whirlwind talk is aimed at providing an overview of the GNU/Linux port for the HP PARISC processor. The talk will focus on the "intricacies" of the processor, and in particular the implementations of the Linux kernel and GNU Libc. After the talk you should be acutely aware of how little code needs to be written to support a new architecture! Carlos has been working on the port for two years, and enjoying the fruits of his labour on a 46-node PARISC cluster.
+
+---
+
+Carlos is currently in his 5th year of study at the University of Western Ontario. This is his last year in a concurrent Computer Engineering and Computer Science degree. His research interest range from distributed and parallel systems to low level optimized hardware design. He likes playing guitar and just bought a Cort NTL-20, jumbo body, solid spruce top with a mahogany back. Carlos hacks on the PARISC Linux kernel, GNU libc, GNU Debugger, GNU Binutils and various Debian packages.
+

content/events/2002/fall/Metaprogramming-GPUs.md

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+---
+name: 'Metaprogramming GPUs'
+short: 'A talk by Michael McCool of the Computer Graphics Lab.'
+date: 'Tue Nov 19 2002 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC4058'
+---
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+

content/events/2002/fall/Perl-6.md

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+---
+name: 'Perl 6'
+short: 'A talk by Simon Law'
+date: 'Thu Nov 21 2002 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2066'
+---
+
+Perl, the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language can only	be described as an eclectic language, invented and refined by	a deranged system administrator, who was trained as a	linguist. This man, however, has declared:
+
+> * Perl 5 was my rewrite of Perl. I want Perl 6 to be the community's rewrite of Perl and of the community.	*
+
+> 
+> \--- Larry Wall
+
+Whenever a language is designed by a committee, it is common	wisdom to avoid it. Not so with Perl, for it cannot get	worse. However strange these Perl people seem, Perl 6 is a	good thing coming. In this talk, I will demonstrate some Perl	5 programs, and talk about their Perl 6 counterparts, to show	you that Perl 6 will be cleaner, friendlier, and prettier.
+

content/events/2002/fall/Pints-with-the-Profs.md

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+---
+name: 'Pints with the Profs'
+short: 'Get to know your profs and be the envy of your friends!'
+date: 'Tue Oct 01 2002 19:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'The Bomber'
+---
+
+Come out and meet your professors. This is a great opportunity to meet professors for Undergraduate Research jobs or to find out who you might have for future courses.
+
+Profs who have confirmed their attendance are:
+
+- Troy Vasiga, School of Computer Science
+- J.P. Pretti, St. Jerome's and School of Computer Science
+- Michael McCool, School of Computer Science, CGL
+- Martin Karsten, School of Computer Science, BBCR
+- Gisli Hjaltason, School of Computer Science, DB
+
+<!-- -->
+
+There will also be...
+
+- Free Food
+- Free Food
+- Free Food
+
+<!-- -->
+

content/events/2002/fall/Samba-and-You.md

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+---
+name: 'Samba and You'
+short: 'A talk by Dan Brovkovich, Mathsoc''s Computing Director'
+date: 'Thu Nov 21 2002 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2066'
+---
+
+Samba is a free implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. It also implements the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, used by Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP to share files and printers.
+
+SMB was originally developed in the early to mid-80's by IBM and was further improved by Microsoft, Intel, SCO, Network Appliances, Digital and many others over a period of 15 years. It has now morphed into CIFS, a form strongly influenced by Microsoft.
+
+Samba is considered to be one of the key projects for the acceptance of GNU/Linux and other Free operating systems (e.g. FreeBSD) in the corporate world: a traditional Windows NT/2000 stronghold.
+
+We will talk about interfacing Samba servers and desktops with the Windows world. From a simple GNU/Linux desktop in your home to the corporate server that provides collaborative file/printer sharing, logons and home directories to hundreds of users a day.
+

content/events/2002/fall/The-Evil-Side-of-C++.md

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+---
+name: 'The Evil Side of C++'
+short: 'Abusing template metaprogramming in C++; aka. writing a Mandelbrot generator that runs at compile time'
+date: 'Tue Nov 05 2002 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC 2065'
+---
+
+Templates are a useful feature in C++ when it comes to writing type-independent data structures and algorithms. Relatively soon after their appearance it was realised that they could be used to do much more than this. Essentially it is possible to write certain programs in C++ that execute *completely at compile time* rather than run time. Combined with constant-expression optimisation this is an interesting twist on regular C++ programming.
+
+This talk will give a short overview of the features of templates and then go on to describe how to "abuse" templates to perform complex computations at compile time. The speaker will present three programs of increasing complexity which execute at compile time. First a factorial listing program, then a prime listing program will be presented. Finally the talk will conclude with the presentation of a **Mandelbrot generator running at compile time**.
+
+If you are interested in programming for the fun of it, the C++ language or silly tricks to do with languages, this talk is for you. No C++ knowledge should be necessary to enjoy this talk, but programming experience will make it more worthwile for you.
+

content/events/2002/fall/The-GNU-General-Public-License.md

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+---
+name: 'The GNU General Public License'
+short: 'The teeth of Free Software'
+date: 'Thu Nov 07 2002 18:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC4063'
+---
+
+
+
+> * The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software---to make sure the software is free for all its users. *
+
+> 
+> \--- Excerpt from the GNU GPL
+
+The GNU General Public License is one of the most influential software licenses in this day. Written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project, it is used by software developers around the world to protect their work.
+
+Unfortunately, software developers do not read licenses thoroughly, nor well. In this talk, we will read the entire GNU GPL and explain the implications of its passages. Along the way, we will debunk some myths and clarify common misunderstandings.
+
+After this session, you ought to understand what the GNU GPL means, how to use it, and when you cannot use it. This session should also give you some insight into the social implications of this work.
+

content/events/2002/fall/The-Hurd-Interfaces.md

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+---
+name: 'The Hurd Interfaces'
+short: 'Marcus Brinkmann, a GNU Hurd developer, talks about the Hurd server interfaces, at the heart of a GNU/Hurd system'
+date: 'Sat Oct 26 2002 16:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2066'
+---
+
+The Hurd server interfaces are at the heart of the Hurd system. They define the remote procedure calls (RPCs) that are used by the servers, the GNU C library and the utility programs to communicate with the Hurd system and to implement the POSIX personality of the Hurd as well as other features.
+
+This talk is a walk through the Hurd RPCs, and will give an overview of how they are used to implement the system. Individual RPCs will be used to illustrate important or exciting features of the Hurd system in general, and it will be shown how those features are accessible to the user at the command line, too.
+
+---
+
+Marcus Brinkmann is a math student at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum in Germany. He is one of maintainers of the GNU Hurd project and the initiator of the Debian GNU/Hurd binary distribution. He designed and implemented the console subsystem of the Hurd, wrote the FAT filesystem server, and fixed a lot of bugs, thus increasing the stability and usability of the system.
+

content/events/2002/fall/Trip-to-York-University.md

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+---
+name: 'Trip to York University'
+short: 'Going to visit the York University Computer Club'
+date: 'Sat Nov 16 2002 14:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'York University'
+---
+
+YUCC and the UW CSC have having a join meeting at York University. Dave Makalsky, the President of YUCC, will be giving a talk on Design-by-contract and Eiffel. Stefanus Du Toit, Vice-President of the UW CSC, will be giving a talk on the evil depths of the black art known as C++.
+
+Schedule
+
+- 1:30pm: Leave UW
+- 3:00pm: Arrive at York University.
+- 3:30pm: The Evil side of C++
+- 4:30pm: Design-by-Contract and Eiffel
+- 6:00pm: Dinner
+- 9:00pm: Arrive back at UW
+
+<!-- -->
+

content/events/2002/fall/UNIX-101.md

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+---
+name: 'UNIX 101'
+short: 'First Steps with UNIX'
+date: 'Thu Sep 26 2002 18:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3006'
+---
+
+Get to know UNIX and be the envy of your friends!
+
+This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use	of the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of	applications, both in academia and industry. We will provide	you with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX	environment in this seminar.
+
+Topics that will be discussed include:
+
+- Navigating the UNIX environment
+- Using common UNIX commands
+- Using the PICO text editor
+- Reading electronic mail and news with PINE
+
+<!-- -->
+
+If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent to you for the duration of this class.
+

content/events/2002/fall/UNIX-102.md

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+---
+name: 'UNIX 102'
+short: 'Talking to your UNIX can be fun and profitable.'
+date: 'Thu Oct 03 2002 18:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3006'
+---
+
+This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of applications, both in academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment in this tutorial.
+
+Topics that will be discussed include:
+
+- Interacting with Bourne and C shells
+- Editing text using the vi text editor
+- Editing text using the Emacs display editor
+- Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer
+
+<!-- -->
+
+If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent to you for the duration of this class.
+

content/events/2002/fall/UNIX-103.md

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+---
+name: 'UNIX 103'
+short: ''
+date: 'Thu Oct 10 2002 18:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3006'
+---
+
+No abstract available yet.

content/events/2002/fall/Video-cards,-Linux-display-drivers-and-the-Kernel-Graphics-Interface-(KGI).md

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+---
+name: 'Video cards, Linux display drivers and the Kernel Graphics Interface (KGI)'
+short: 'A talk by Filip Spacek, KGI developer'
+date: 'Tue Oct 08 2002 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC4045'
+---
+
+ Linux has proven itself as a reliable operating system but arguably, it still lacks in support of high performance graphics acceleration. This talk will describe basic components of a PC video card and the design and limitations the current Linux display driver architecture. Finally a an overview of a new architecture, the Kernel Graphics Interface (KGI), will be given. KGI attempts to solve the shortcomings of the current design, and provide a lightweight and portable interface to the display subsystem. 

content/events/2002/spring/S02-elections.md

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+---
+name: 'S02
+    elections'
+short: 'Come and vote for this term''s exec'
+date: 'Sat May 11 2002 20:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3036'
+---
+
+Vote for the exec this term. Meet at the CSC office.
+

content/events/2002/winter/An-Introduction-to-GNU-Hurd.md

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+---
+name: 'An Introduction to GNU Hurd'
+short: 'Bored of GNU/Linux? Try this experimental operating system!'
+date: 'Sat Jan 26 2002 15:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'Comfy Lounge MC3001'
+---
+
+GNU Hurd is an operating system kernel based on the microkernel architecture design. It was the original GNU kernel, predating Linux, and is still being actively developed by many volunteers.
+
+The Toronto-area Hurd Users Group, in co-operation with the Computer Science Club, is hosting an afternoon to show the Hurd to anyone interested. Jeff Bailey, a Hurd developer, will give a presentation on the Hurd, followed by a GnuPG/PGP keysigning party. To finish it off, James Morrison, also a Hurd developer, will be hosting a Debian GNU/Hurd installation session.
+
+All interested are invited to attend. Bring your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint and mail your key to sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject \`\`keysigning'' (see separate announcement).
+
+Questions? Suggestions? Contact [James Morrison](<ja2morri@uwaterloo.ca>).
+

content/events/2002/winter/Computer-Go,-The-Ultimate.md

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+---
+name: 'Computer Go, The Ultimate'
+short: 'Thomas Wolf from Brock University will be holding a talk on the Asian game of Go. All are welcome.'
+date: 'Fri Mar 01 2002 18:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC4060'
+---
+
+The Asian game go is unique in a number of ways. It is the oldest board game known. It is a strategy game with very simple rules. Computer programs are very weak despite huge efforts and prizes of US$ > 1.5M for a program beating professional players. The talk will quickly explain the rules of go, compare go and chess, mention various attempts to program go and describe our own efforts in this field. Students will have an opportunity to solve computer generated go problems. Prizes will be available.
+

content/events/2002/winter/DVD-Video-Under-Linux.md

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+---
+name: 'DVD-Video Under Linux'
+short: 'Billy Biggs will be holding a talk on DVD technology (in particular, CSS and playback issues) under Linux, giving some technical details as well as an overview of the current status of Free Software efforts. All are welcome.'
+date: 'Wed Feb 13 2002 17:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC4060'
+---
+
+DVD copy protection: Content Scrambling System (CSS)
+
+- A technical introduction to CSS and an overview of the ongoing legal battle to allow distribution of non-commercial DVD players
+- The current Linux software efforts and open issues
+- How applications and Linux distributions are handling the legal issues involved
+
+<!-- -->
+
+DVD-Video specifics: Menus and navigation
+
+- An overview of the DVD-Video standard
+- Reverse engineering efforts and their implementation status
+- Progress of integration into Linux media players
+
+<!-- -->
+

content/events/2002/winter/GnuPGPGP-Keysigning-Party.md

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+---
+name: 'GnuPG/PGP Keysigning Party'
+short: 'Get more signatures on your key!'
+date: 'Sat Jan 26 2002 15:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'Comfy Lounge MC3001'
+---
+
+GnuPG and PGP provide public-key based encryption for e-mail and other electronic communication. In addition to preventing others from reading your private e-mail, this allows you to verify that an e-mail or file was indeed written by its perceived author.
+
+In order to make sure a GnuPG/PGP key belongs to the respective person, the key must be signed by someone who has checked the user's key fingerprint and verified the user's identification.
+
+A keysigning party is an ideal occasion to have your key signed by many people, thus strengthening the authority of your key. Everyone showing up exchanges key signatures after verifying ID and fingerprints. The Computer Science Club will be hosting such a keysigning party together with the Hurd presentation by THUG (see separate announcement). See [ the keysigning party homepage](<http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~sjdutoit/>) for more information.
+
+Before attending it is important that you mail your key to sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject \`\`keysigning.'' Also make sure to bring photo ID and a copy of your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint on a sheet of paper to the event.
+

content/events/2002/winter/UNIX-101-First-Steps-With-UNIX.md

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+---
+name: 'UNIX 101: First Steps With UNIX'
+short: ' This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of applications, both in academia and industry. We will be covering the basics of the UNIX environment, as well as the use of PINE, an electronic mail and news reader. '
+date: 'Thu Jan 31 2002 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2037'
+---
+
+ This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of applications, both in academia and industry. We will be covering the basics of the UNIX environment, as well as the use of PINE, an electronic mail and news reader. 

content/events/2002/winter/Unix-102-Fun-With-UNIX.md

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+---
+name: 'Unix 102: Fun With UNIX'
+short: 'This the second in a series of UNIX tutorials. Simon Law and James Perry will be presenting some more advanced UNIX techniques. All are welcome. Accounts will be provided for those needing them.'
+date: 'Thu Feb 07 2002 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2037'
+---
+
+This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of applications, both in academia and industry. We will provide you with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment in this tutorial.
+
+Topics that will be discussed include:
+
+- Interacting with Bourne and C shells
+- Editing text using the vi text editor
+- Editing text using the Emacs display editor
+- Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer
+
+<!-- -->
+
+If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will be lent to you for the duration of this class.
+

content/events/2003/fall/.NET-&-Linux-When-Worlds-Collide.md

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+---
+name: '.NET & Linux: When Worlds Collide'
+short: 'A talk by James Perry'
+date: 'Tue Oct 21 2003 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2065'
+---
+
+.NET is Microsoft's new development platform, including amongst other things a language called C# and a class library for various operating system services. .NET aims to be portable, although it is currently mostly only used on Windows systems.
+
+With the full backing of Microsoft, it seems unlikely that .NET will disappear any time soon. There are several efforts underway to bring .NET to the GNU/Linux platform. Hosted by the Computer Science Club, this talk will discuss a number of the issues surrounding .NET and Linux.
+

content/events/2003/fall/CS-Pints-With-Profs.md

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+---
+name: 'CS Pints With Profs'
+short: 'Come have a pint with your favourite CS profs!'
+date: 'Wed Nov 05 2003 17:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'Grad House Pub (Green Room)'
+---
+
+Come meet CS profs in a relaxed atmosphere this Wednesday at the Grad House (by South Campus Hall). This is your chance to meet those CS profs you enjoyed in lectures in person, have a chat with them and find out what they're doing outside the lecture halls.
+
+We'll be providing free food, including hamburgers and nachos, and the Grad House offers a great selection of drinks.
+
+If you'd like to invite a particular prof, stop by on the third floor of the MC (outside of the Comfy) to pick up an invitation.
+
+Persons of all ages are welcome!
+

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+---
+name: 'CSC Elections'
+short: 'CSC Fall 2003 Elections'
+date: 'Wed Sep 17 2003 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3001 (Comfy)'
+---
+
+Elections will be held on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 at 4:30 PM in the Comfy Lounge, MC3001.
+
+I invite you to nominate yourself or others for executive positions, starting immediately. Simply e-mail me at cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with the name of the person who is to be nominated and the position they're nominated for.
+
+Nominees must be full-time undergraduate students in Math. Sorry!
+
+Positions open for elections are:
+
+- President: Organises the club, appoints committees, keeps everyone busy. If you have lots of ideas about the club in general and like bossing people around, go for it!
+- Vice President: Organises events, acts as the president if he's not available. If you have lots of ideas for events, and spare time, go for it!
+- Treasurer: Keeps track of the club's finances. Gets to sign cheques and stuff. If you enjoy dealing with money and have ideas on how to spend it, go for it!
+- Secretary: Takes care of minutes and outside correspondence. If you enjoy writing things down and want to use our nifty new letterhead style, go for it!
+
+<!-- -->
+
+Nominations will be accepted until Tuesday, September 16 at 4:30 PM.
+
+Additionally, a Sysadmin will be appointed after the elections. If you like working with Unix systems and have experience setting up and maintaining them, go for it!
+
+I hope that lots of people will show up; hopefully we'll have a great term with plenty of events. We always need other volunteers, so if you want to get involved just talk to the new exec after the meeting. Librarians, webmasters, poster runners, etc. are always sought after!
+
+There will also be free pop.
+
+Memberships can be purchased at the elections or at least half an hour prior to at the CSC. Only undergrad math members can vote, but anyone can become a member.
+

content/events/2003/fall/Jon-'maddog'-Hall-Free-and-Open-Source-Its-uses-in-Business-and-Education.md

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+---
+name: 'Jon ''maddog'' Hall: Free and Open Source: Its uses in Business and Education'
+short: ' Free and Open Source software has been around for a long time, even longer then shrink-wrapped code.'
+date: 'Mon Dec 01 2003 20:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'RCH 101'
+---
+
+Free and Open Source software has been around for a long time, even longer then shrink-wrapped code. It has a long and noble history in the annals of education. Even more than ever, due to the drop of hardware prices and the increase of worldwide communications, Free and Open Source can open new avenues of teaching and doing research, not only in computer science, but in other university fields as well.
+
+Learn how Linux as an operating system can run on anything from a PDA to a supercomputer, and how Linux is reducing the cost of computing dramatically as the fastest growing operating system in the world. Learn how other Free and Open Source projects, such as office suites, audio and video editing and playing software, relational databases, etc. are created and are freely available.
+
+[Map and directions](<http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~cpbell/>)
+
+### Speaker's Biography
+
+Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of [Linux International](<http://www.li.org/>), a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux Operating System. During his career which spans over thirty years, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager and educator. He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and is currently funded by SGI.
+
+He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College and Daniel Webster College. He still likes talking to students over pizza and beer (the pizza can be optional).
+
+Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies".
+
+Mr. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit organizations, including the USENIX Association.
+
+Mr. Hall has traveled the world speaking on the benefits of Open Source Software, and received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University, and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York.
+
+In his spare time maddog is working on his retirement project:
+
+<center>maddog's monastery for microcomputing and microbrewing</center>
+

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+---
+name: 'Poster Team Meeting'
+short: 'Join the Poster Team and get Free Pizza!'
+date: 'Mon Oct 06 2003 17:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3001 (Comfy)'
+---
+
+- Do you like computer science?
+- Do you like posters?
+- Do you like free pizza?
+
+<!-- -->
+
+If the answer to one of these questions is yes, then come out to the first meeting of the Computer Science Club Poster Team! The CSC is looking for interested students to help out with promotion and publicity for this term's events. We promise good times and free pizza!
+

content/events/2003/fall/Real-Time-Graphics-Compilers.md

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+---
+name: 'Real-Time Graphics Compilers'
+short: 'Sh is a GPU metaprogramming language developed at the UW Computer Graphics Lab'
+date: 'Wed Oct 22 2003 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC4061'
+---
+
+Sh is a GPU metaprogramming language developed at the University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab. It allows graphics programmers to write programs which run directly on the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) using familiar C++ syntax. Furthermore, it allows metaprogramming of such programs, that is, writing programs which generate other programs, in an easy and natural manner.
+
+This talk will give a brief overview of how Sh works, the design of its intermediate representation and the (still somewhat simplistic) optimizer that the current reference implementation has and problems with applying traditional compiler optimizations.
+
+Stefanus Du Toit is an undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo. He is also a Research Assistant for Michael McCool from the University of Waterloo Graphics Lab. Over the Summer of 2003 Stefanus reimplemented the Sh reference implementation and designed and implemented the current Sh optimizer.
+

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+---
+name: 'UNIX 101: Text Editors'
+short: 'vi vs. emacs: The Ultimate Showdown'
+date: 'Thu Oct 02 2003 17:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2037'
+---
+
+Have you ever wondered how those cryptic UNIX text editors work? Have you ever woken up at night with a cold sweat wondering "Is it CTRL-A, or CTRL-X CTRL-A?" Do you just hate pico with a passion?
+
+Then come to this tutorial and learn how to use vi and emacs!
+
+Basic UNIX commands will also be covered. This tutorial will be especially useful for first and second year students.
+

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+---
+name: 'UNIX 103: Development Tools'
+short: 'GCC, GDB, Make'
+date: 'Thu Oct 16 2003 17:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2037'
+---
+
+This tutorial will provide you with a practical introduction to GNU development tools on Unix such as the gcc compiler, the gdb debugger and the GNU make build tool.
+
+This talk is geared primarily at those mostly unfamiliar with these tools. Amongst other things we will introduce:
+
+- gcc options, version differences, and peculiarities
+- using gdb to debug segfaults, set breakpoints and find out what's wrong
+- tiny Makefiles that will compile all of your 2nd and 3rd year CS projects.
+
+<!-- -->
+
+If you're in second year CS and unfamiliar with UNIX development it is highly recommended you go to this talk. All are welcome, including non-math students.
+
+Arrive early!
+

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+---
+name: 'A Brief History of Computer Science'
+short: 'War, insanity, espionage, beauty, domination, sacrifice, and tragic death... not what one might associate with the history of computer science. In this talk I will focus on the origin of our discipline in the fields of engineering, mathematics, and science, and on the complicated personalities that shaped its evolution. No advanced technical knowledge is required.'
+date: 'Tue Jun 10 2003 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2066'
+---
+
+War, insanity, espionage, beauty, domination, sacrifice, and tragic death... not what one might associate with the history of computer science. In this talk I will focus on the origin of our discipline in the fields of engineering, mathematics, and science, and on the complicated personalities that shaped its evolution. No advanced technical knowledge is required.
+

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+---
+name: 'Friday Flicks'
+short: ' SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre Showing '
+date: 'Fri Jun 27 2003 15:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'DC1302'
+---
+
+SIGGRAPH is the ACM's Special Interest Group for Graphics and simultaneously the world's largest graphics conference and exhibition, where the cutting edge of graphics research is presented every year.
+
+With support from UW's Computer Graphics Lab, the CSC invites you to capture a glimpse of SIGGRAPH 2002. We will be presenting the Electronic Theatre showings from 2002, demonstrating the best of the animated, CG-produced movies presented at SIGGRAPH.
+
+Don't miss this free showing!
+

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+---
+name: 'Guelph Trip'
+short: 'Come Visit the University of Guelph''s Computer Science Club'
+date: 'Fri Jul 04 2003 16:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'University of Guelph'
+---
+
+The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club is going to visit the University of Guelph Computer Science Club. There will be a talk given as well as dinner with a fun social atmosphere.
+
+Drivers Wanted
+
+Cancelled -- sorry Guelph cancelled on us.
+

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+---
+name: 'July
+  Exec Meeting'
+short: ' See Abstract for minutes '
+date: 'Thu Jul 24 2003 16:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'CSC Office'
+---
+
+<pre>--paying Simon for Sugar
+-Unanimous yea.
+-ACTION ITEM: Mark
+	Expense this to MathSoc in lieu of foreign speaker.
+
+--We currently have (including CD-R and pop-income not
+currently in safe) $972.85
+-We have $359.02 on budget that we can expense to MathSoc.
+
+--We got MEF money for books and video card. Funding for
+wireless microphone is dependent on whether MFCF is
+willing to host it.
+-Funding for casters was denied.
+-Shopping for the Video card.
+-Expecting it after August (Stefanus shopping for it.)
+-Will have to hear back regarding the microphone, best to
+delay that now, discuss it with MEF.
+	-Better to do it this term, so it doesn't get lost.
+	-Let MFCF know about this concern.
+-Regarding books, can be done anytime before September.
+
+--Events feedback
+	-Generally, Jim Eliot talk when really well.
+		-Apparently he was generally offensive.
+	-When was the LaTeX talk? End of the month.
+	-Kegger at Jim's place on the 16th.
+
+--Getting people in on the 6th, 7th, 8th for csc commercials
+filmed by Jason
+	-Hang out in here, and he'll make a CSC commercial.
+	-Co-ordinate when everyone should be in here, so we can email Jason.
+
+--CEO progress
+	-CEO needs it's database changed to use ISBN as a primary key.
+	-Needs functionality to take out/return books.
+
+--Mark just entered financial stuff into GNUcash
+
+--Choose CRO for next term.
+-Stefanus has expressed desire not to be CRO.
+-Gary Simmons was suggested (and he accepted)
+-Unanimous yea
+
+--Mike Biggs has to get here naked.
+	-Four unanimous votes.
+	-Nakedness only applies to getting here, not being here.
+
+
+From last meeting:
+ACTION ITEM: Biggs and Cass
+-get labelmaker tape, masking tape
+whiteboard makers, coloured paper, CD sleeves
+-keep receipts for CSC office expenses.
+
+How is the progress on allowing executives and voters to be non-math
+members?
+-The vote is coming up Monday.
+-Proposal: Anyone who is a paying member can be a member
+	-So you can either do two things:
+	Pay MathSoc fees, or
+	Get your faculty society to recognize CSC as a club.
+
+Stefanus wanted to mention that we should talk to Yolanda,
+Craig or Louie about a EYT event for frosh week.
+-Organized by Meg.
+-Sugar Mountain trying to hook all the Frosh
+ACTION ITEM: Jim
+-Email Meg
+
+Reminder for Next Year's executive.
+-September 16th @ 5:00pm, get a table for Clubs day, and 17th
+and 18th, maintain the booth (full day events).
+-Update pamphlets.
+ACTION ITEM: Gary
+-There should be executive before then
+
+Note: There needs to be a private section in the CSC Procedures Manual.
+(Only accessible by shell)
+ACTION ITEM: Simon
+-Do it.
+
+ACTION ITEM: Mike
+-Talk to Plantops about:
+-Locks on doors
+-Mounting corkboard.
+-Talk about CSC Sign
+  </pre>
+

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+---
+name: 'June 12 Exec Meeting'
+short: 'Have an issue that should be brought up? We''d love to hear it!'
+date: 'Thu Jun 12 2003 16:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC3036 CSC Office'
+---
+
+<pre>
+Budget: All the money we requested
+	--No money from Pints from Profs
+	--MathSoc has promised us $1250
+
+Feedback from Completed Events
+	UNIX Talks: 17 people for first
+			--12 people for second
+			--Things going well
+			--Last talk today
+			--VI next week
+	IPsec
+	--Sparse crowd
+	--People Jim didn't know talked to him for 1/2 hour
+
+	History of CSC talk went well
+	--Good variety of people
+
+	Pints with Profs
+	--NO CS Profs
+	--Only 1 E&amp; CE prof
+	--Only 2 Math profs
+	--Jim will harass the profs at the School of CS Council meeting.
+
+	We're starting to fall behind in planning
+
+	RoShamBo rules
+	--Got a web site up
+	--Might have to move RSB back
+	--International site has a few test samples
+	--Stefanus had some ideas
+	--Coding will probably take an afternoon/evening
+	--We need volunteers to run the competition
+	--We have volunteers to code: Phil and Stefanus
+
+	ACTION ITEM: Phil and Stefanus
+	--code whatever you volunteered to code for.
+
+	--Mike intends to visit classes and directly advertise
+	--Email Christina Hotz
+
+	--GH guy: Mike has an abstract, will have posters by tomorrow
+
+	CSC Movie Night
+	--Mathnet, Hackers, Wargames, Tron
+	--Mike will get a room
+	--Will be closed member
+
+	Mike McCool is offering rooms for showing SIGGRAPH
+	ACTION ITEM: Jim
+	-check with Mike McCool.
+
+	ACTION ITEM: Mike
+	-Make posters for Movie Nights
+
+	When is other movie night? (Will plan some time in July)
+
+	Who is our foreign speaker?
+	Action Item: jelliot@ca.ibm.com (Check name first) about
+	getting a foreign speaker -- Note: Has already been contacted.
+
+	Simon got money from Engsoc
+
+	Cass needs coloured paper (CSC is out)
+
+	ACTION ITEM: Cass and Mark
+	--get labelmaker tape, masking tape,
+	whiteboard makers, coloured paper
+	--keep receipts for CSC office expenses
+
+	NOTICE: Mike is now Imapd
+
+	Simon distributed budget list
+	Mark got the money from Mathsoc for last budget, deposited it.
+
+	ACTION ITEM:Mark
+	--Get MEF funding by July 4th (equipment)
+	ACTION ITEM: Simon
+	--Get WEEF funding by June 27th (book)
+
+	Jim still working on allowing executives and voters to be
+	non-math members
+
+	We get free photocopying from MathSoc
+	ACTION ITEM: Mike
+	--write down code for free photocopying from MathSoc
+
+	Simon has been able to get into the cscdisk account, still
+	looking into getting into the cscceo account.
+
+	Damien got an e-mail stating that the files for cscdisk are
+	out of date.
+
+	ACTION ITEM: Simon
+	--provide SSH key to Phil for getting into cscdisk, cscceo, etc...
+	--Renumber bootup scripts for sugar and powerpc so that they
+	boot up happily.
+
+	ACTION ITEM: Mike needs to do all the plantops stuff again.
+
+	ACTION ITEM: Mike -- "Stapler if you say please" sign.
+
+	CVS Tree for CEO has been exported.
+	Damien has volunteered to finish CEO (found by Cass)
+
+	All books with barcodes have been scanned
+	All books without barcodes need to be bar-coded.
+
+	ACTION ITEM: Mark
+	--Find a Credit-card with a $500 or less limit.
+
+	Note: There needs to be a private section in the
+	CSC Procedures Manual. (Only accessible by shell)
+
+	Stefanus Wanted to mention that we should talk to
+	Yolanda, Craig or Louie about a EYT event for Frosh Week.
+  </pre>
+

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+---
+name: 'LaTeX and Work Reports'
+short: 'Writing beautiful work reports'
+date: 'Thu Jul 31 2003 17:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC4064'
+---
+
+The work report is a familiar chore for any co-op student. Not only is there a report to write, but to add insult to injury, your report is returned if you do not follow your departmental guidelines.
+
+Fear no more! In this talk, you will learn how to use LaTeX and a specially developed class to automatically format your work reports. This talk is especially useful to Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Software Engineeering co-op students about to go on work term.
+
+[http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/\~sfllaw/programs/uw-wkrpt/](<http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~sfllaw/programs/uw-wkrpt/>)
+

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+---
+name: 'Mainframes and Linux'
+short: 'A talk by Jim Elliott. Jim is responsible for IBM''s in Open Source activities and IBM''s mainframe operating systems for Canada and the Carribbean.'
+date: 'Tue Jul 08 2003 17:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
+online: false
+location: 'MC2065'
+---
+
+Linux and Open Source have become a significant reality in the working world of Information Technology. An indirect result has been a "rebirth" of the mainframe as a strategic platform for enterprise computing. In this session Jim Elliott, IBM's Linux Advocate, will provide an overview of these technologies and an inside look at IBM's participation in the community. Jim will examine Linux usage on the desktop, embedded systems and servers, a reality check on the common misconceptions that surround Linux and Open Source, and an overview of the history and current design of IBM's mainframe servers.
+
+Jim Elliott is the Linux Advocate for IBM Canada. He is responsible for IBM's participation in Linux and Open Source activities and IBM's mainframe operating systems in Canada and the Caribbean. Jim is a popular speaker on Linux and Open Source at conferences and user groups across the Americas and Europe and has spoken to over 300 organizations over the past three years. Over his 30 years with IBM he has been the co-author of over 15 IBM publications and he also coordinated the launch of Linux on IBM mainframes in the Americas. In his spare time, Jim is addicted to reading historical mystery novels and travel to their locales.
+
+[Slides](<http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/events.html&