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<eventitem date="2018-03-13" time="6:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
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title="Discussion with maddog">
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<short>
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<p>
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We'll be having a discussion session with maddog, an out-of-town speaker
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from the LPI. Food will be provided, as well as good company. Come out!
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International, an
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association of computer users who wish to support and promote the Linux
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Operating System. During his career in commercial computing which
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started in 1969 (almost a half-century ago), Mr. Hall has been a
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programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager,
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technical marketing manager, educator, and consultant.
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He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna
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Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA
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Linux Systems, SGI and Futura Networks (Campus Party).
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Mr. Hall is currently the CEO of OptDyn, Inc (www.optdyn.com) which
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creates the Subutai(tm) suite of Open Source Peer-to-Peer Cloud
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computing tools. He also works as an independent consultant, and is
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involved with bringing environmentally friendly computing to emerging
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marketplaces, as well as working on performance and educational issues
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with Free and Open Source Software via the Linaro Association. He is
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the Chairman Emeritus of wit.com
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Mr Hall has worked on many systems, both proprietary and open, having
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concentrated on Unix systems since 1980 and Linux systems since 1994
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(almost a quarter century ago), when he first met Linus Torvalds and
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correctly recognized the commercial importance of Linux and Free and
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Open Source Software.
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He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College
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and Daniel Webster College. He still likes talking to students over
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pizza and beer (the pizza can be optional).
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Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles,
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many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies". He currently
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writes a monthly article for Linux Pro Magazine and occasionally blogs
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for them on their web site.
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Mr. Hall has consulted with the governments of China, Malaysia and
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Brazil as well as the United Nations and many local and state
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governments on the use of Free and Open Source Software.
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Mr. Hall has served and serves on the boards of several companies,
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universities and several non-profit organizations. He is currently
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very active with the University of Sao Paulo's Centro Interdisciplinar
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Em Tecnologias Interativas (CITI), acting as a member of their advisory
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board. Mr. Hall is also the Board Chair of the Linux Professional
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Institute, the world's premier Open Source Certification organization,
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and is the senior advisor and co-founder of Caninos Loucos, bringing
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inexpensive, locally designed and manufactured single board computers
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to Brazil. He is also the President of Project Caua.
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Mr. Hall has traveled the world (over 100 countries) speaking on the
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benefits of Free and Open Source Software, and received his BS in
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Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973), and his MSCS
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from RPI in Troy, New York (1977).
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<eventitem date="2018-03-12" time="6:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
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title="Programming for the 22nd Century">
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We are bringing an out-of-town speaker, John "maddog" Hall, to come speak!
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Come to this event, where he will be talking about changes in programming
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paradigms since the invention of C, and the discussion event tomorrow.
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</p>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Abstract: Many things have changed since the early days of programming,
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but many programs are written as if they were for the machines of the 20th
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century which had small memories, no cache, single core CPUs, small
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address spaces. Even the definition of "performance" has changed. This
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talk will investigate some of these issues and hopefully lead people to
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better programming.
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<eventitem date="2018-02-07" time="5:30pm" room="QNC 1502"
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title="Technical Interview Prep">
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title="Technical Interview Prep">
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