adding an entry for herb sutter talk... feel free to modify

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+<eventitem date="2013-02-28" time="4:00 PM" room="DC 1302" title="Machine Architecture, Performance, and Scalability: Things Your Programming Language Never Told You">
+    <short>
+    <p>"Herb Sutter is a leading authority on software development. He is the best selling author of several books including Exceptional C++ and C++ Coding Standards, as well as hundreds of technical papers and articles [and] has served for a decade as chair of the ISO C++ standards committee. - http://herbsutter.com/about"</p>
+    </short>
+    <abstract>
+<p>High-level languages insulate the programmer from the machine. That's a
+wonderful thing -- except when it obscures the answers to the fundamental
+questions of "What does the program do?" and "How much does it cost?"</p>
+<p>The C++ and C# programmer is less insulated than most, and still we find
+that programmers are consistently surprised at what simple code actually
+does and how expensive it can be -- not because of any complexity of a
+language, but because of being unaware of the complexity of the machine on
+which the program actually runs.</p>
+<p>This talk examines the "real meanings" and "true costs" of the code we
+write and run especially on commodity and server systems, by delving into
+the performance effects of bandwidth vs. latency limitations, the
+ever-deepening memory hierarchy, the changing costs arising from the
+hardware concurrency explosion, memory model effects all the way from the
+compiler to the CPU to the chipset to the cache, and more -- and what you
+can do about them.</p>
+    </abstract>
+</eventitem>
+
 <eventitem date="2013-01-16" time="4:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Elections">
     <short>
     <p>CSC Elections have begun for the Winter 2013 term, nominations are open!</p>