From e968868797764070f4add8db61a2352525d519e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bartley Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:32:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Converted most
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's. --- events.xml | 23 ++++++------ media/index.xml | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- xsl/media.xsl | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 3 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-) diff --git a/events.xml b/events.xml index 41682d8..250f92c 100644 --- a/events.xml +++ b/events.xml @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Richard Stallman has cancelled his trip to Canada. recording of his 1989 talk at the Computer Science Club. As Bill has always had a soft-spot for the Computer Science Club, he has decided to pay us a surprise visit. -

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Bill promises to give away free copies of Windows Vista Ultimate, because frankly, nobody here (except j2simpso) wants to pay for a frisbee. Be sure to bring your resumes kids, because Bill will be recruiting for some @@ -588,17 +588,16 @@ together, solder, and eat free food (probably pizza). Come out to discuss current & future plans/projects for the Club

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If you have ideas, but can't attend, please email them to president@csclub.uwaterloo.ca and they will be read them at the meeting.

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What is the typical monitor resolution of a GIMP user? How many monitors do they have? What size images do they work on? How many layers are in their images? The answers to these questions are generally unknown: no @@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ data we collect, how we make the data available on the web, and initial results that begin to answer the motivating questions. ingimp can be found at http://www.ingimp.org. -

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The slides from the talk are available here: ingimp_uw_csc_talk_6_27_2007.pdf. - +

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Ralph Stanton reflects on the founding of the University of Waterloo Math Faculty. - +

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Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU Operating System, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide. -

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Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. -

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"The reason I care especially, is that there is a philosophy associated with the GNU project, and this philosophy is actually the reason why there is a system -- and that is that free software is not just convenient and @@ -115,31 +115,31 @@ individual people or companies so much as the kind of way of life that we have. That's why I think it's a distraction to think about fighting Microsoft." -

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Biography: Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. -

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The Question and Answer session (starting shortly after the hour and half mark) possed a number of interesting questions including, "Do you support the Creative Commons license?" and "Can I use ATI and NVIDIA drivers because Mesa isn't nearly as complete?". -

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The talk is only available in Ogg Theora, in keeping with Richard Stallman's wishes. - +

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A talk for those interested in 3-dimensional graphics but unsure of where to start. Covers the basic math and theory behind projecting 3-dimensional polygons on screen, as well as simple cropping techniques to improve efficiency. Translation and rotation of polygons will also be discussed. - +

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A discussion of software start-ups founded by UW students and what they did that helped them grow and what failed to help. In order to share the most insights and guard the confidences of the individuals involved, none of the companies will be identifed. - +

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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 @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ 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. - +

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The ReactOS operating system has been in development for over eight years and aims to provide users with a fully functional and Windows-compatible distribution under the GPL license. ReactOS comes with its own Windows 2003-based kernel and system utilities and applications, resulting in an environment identical to Windows, both visually and internally. -

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More than just an alternative to Windows, ReactOS is a powerful platform for academia, allowing students to learn a variety of skills useful to software testing, development and management, as well as providing a rich and clean implementation of Windows NT, with a kernel compatible to published internals book on the subject. -

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This talk will introduce the ReactOS project, as well as the various software engineering challenges behind it. The building platform and development philosophies and utilities will be shown, and attendees will @@ -206,12 +206,12 @@ speaker will gladly answer questions related to his background, experience and interests and information on joining the project, as well as any other related information. -

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Slides from the talk are available here. -

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Alex Ionescu is currently studying in Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and is a Microsoft Technical Student Ambassador. He is the lead kernel developer of the ReactOS Project and @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ International Free Software Forum in Brazil this April, as well as providing hands-on workshops and lectures on Windows NT internals and security to various companies. - +

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Bill Gates discusses the software and computer industry, and how Microsoft has contributed. Gates also discusses his views on the future of the computing industry. The talk was recorded in 1989 but was only recently digitized. -

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Topics include:

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  • Multimedia applications
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Do spam filters work? Which is the best one? How might filters be improved? Without standards, one must depend on unreliable evidence, such as subjective impressions, testimonials, incomparable and unrepeatable measurements, and vendor claims for the answers to these questions. -

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You might think that your spam filter works well and couldn't be improved. Are you sure? You may think that the risk of losing important mail outweighs the benefit of using a filter. Could you @@ -287,10 +288,10 @@ filter was 99-percent accurate, would you believe me? Would you know what I meant? Would you be able to translate that 99-percent into the risk of losing an important message? -

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Gord Cormack talks about the science, logistics, and politics of Spam Filter Evaluation. - +

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Simon Law leads the Quality teams for Ubuntu, a free-software operating system built on Debian GNU/Linux. As such, he leads one of the largest community-based testing efforts for a software product. This does get a bit busy sometimes. -

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In this talk, we'll be exploring how the Internet is changing how software is developed. Concepts like open source and technologies like message forums are blurring the lines between producer and consumer. And this melting pot of people is causing people to take note, and changing the way they sling code. -

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The Computer Science Club would like to thank the CS-Commons Committee for co-sponsoring this talk. - +

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Could you write a good image recognizer for a 100 MHz mobile phone processor with 1 MB heap, 320x240 image, on a poorly-optimized Java stack? It needs to locate and read two-dimensional barcodes made up of square @@ -330,14 +331,14 @@ software barcode reader for cell phones. The applications vary from ubiquitous computing to advertising. Simon Woodside (founder) will discuss what it's like to start a business and how the imaging code works. - +

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Eric LaForest delivers a crash-course on modern stack computing, the Forth programming language, and some projects of his own. Stack systems have faster procedure calls and reduced complexity (shorter pipeline, simpler @@ -345,11 +346,10 @@ consistent performance, which is very important for real-time systems. Many consider stack-based architecture's crowning feature, however, to be the unrivalled price-to-performance ratio. -

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Note: the slides are hard to make out in the video, so make sure to download the slides as well. -

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A discussion of how software creators can identify application opportunities that offer the promise of great social and commercial significance. Particular attention will be paid to the challenge of acquiring cross domain knowledge and setting up effective collaboration. - +

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Rico Mariani, (BMath CS/EEE 1988) now an (almost) 18 year Microsoft veteran but then a CSC president comes to talk to us about the evolution of software tools for microcomputers. This talk promises to be a little @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ software industry more effective at what it does, and sometimes succeed! Particularly illuminating are his responses to advocates of free/open-source software. - +

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