Updated events

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     </abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
-  <eventitem date="2006-01-30" time="4:30 PM"
-   room="TBA" title="TBA">
-   <short>A talk by Stefanus Du Toit</short>
+  <eventitem date="2006-02-07" time="4:30 PM"
+   room="" title="Riding The Multi-core Revolution">
+   <short>How a Waterloo software company is changing the way people program computers.</short>
    <abstract>
    <p>
-	To be announced
+	For decades, mainstream parallel processing has been thought of as
+inevitable. Up until recent years, however, improvements in
+manufacturing processes and increases in clock speed have provided
+software with free Moore's Law-scale performance improvements on
+traditional single-core CPUs. As per-core CPU speed increases have
+slowed to a halt, processor vendors are embracing parallelism by
+multiplying the number of cores on CPUs, following what Graphics
+Processing Unit (GPU) vendors have been doing for years. The Multi-
+core revolution promises to provide unparalleled increases in
+performance, but it comes with a catch: traditional serial
+programming methods are not at all suited to programming these
+processors and methods such as multi-threading are cumbersome and
+rarely scale beyond a few cores. Learn how, with hundreds of cores in
+desktop computers on the horizon, a local software company is looking
+to revolutionize the way software is written to deliver on the
+promise multi-core holds.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+	Refreshments (and possible pizzaa!) will be provided.
     </p>
     </abstract>
   </eventitem>
 
-  <eventitem date="2006-01-24" time="4:00 PM"
+<!--  <eventitem date="2006-01-24" time="4:00 PM"
    room="TBA" title="TBA">
    <short>A talk by Reg Quinton</short>
    <abstract>
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     </p>
     </abstract>
   </eventitem>
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