[opensource-announce] Summer Lecture: Damian Conway has "Fun with Dead Languages"

[James Dinan]

Hi All,

Update: the talk will be held on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 from 7:00pm -
8:30pm in Hitchcock Hall room 131 with a book signing afterwards.

I'd also like to thank Heath Bair of the Columbus Perl Mongers
(http://columbus.pm.org/) for bringing this speaker to us!

Best,
 ~jim.

Peter Dietz wrote:
> I hope everyone is having a great summer, and to make it better, we have
> the wonderful opportunity to host a guest lecturer. Thus begins the Open
> Source Summer Lecture Series
> 
> Damian Conway a world renowned perl contributor, and overall technology
> guru is being flown in from Australia (courtesy of Nationwide
> Insurance), and will be performing a free lecture to the opensource
> community.
> 
> The topic is titled, Fun with Dead Languages:
> "Watch in mesmerized terror as Damian hacks code in five unrelated
> languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also learn about
> modern archaeological techniques, bidirectional cross- dressing, Ancient
> Greeks hackers, improbable romances, the real Club Med, why programmers
> shouldn't frequent casinos, the language of moisture vaporators, C++
> mysticism, conversational Latin, state machines on steroids, feeding the
> dog the old-fashioned way, the shocking truth about anime, programming
> without variables or subroutines, the Four Voids of the Apocalypse,
> Microsoft's new advertising campaign, what the Romans used instead of
> braces, drunken stonemasons, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of
> bodkins, how to kill a language with a single byte, and the price of fish."
> http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/DeadLanguages.html
> 
> 
> WHEN: Evening of Tuesday July 29th. Tentatively 6pm-8pm but expect this
> to change as more details emerge.
> WHERE: The Ohio State University, Independence Hall 0100 ( the big
> lecture hall)
> WHO: Damian Conway, a perl contributor
> TOPIC: Fun with Dead Languages
> 
> We're expecting a decently large crowd, so please come out as this is
> likely going to be a pretty interesting talk, and since the hall is
> large enough, tell a friend.Also, the talk relies heavily on visuals, so
> that should add to the entertainment.
> 
> Also, there's a chance of refreshments, and perhaps even book signings
> afterward.
> 
> -- 
> ==
> Peter Dietz
> 
> Computer & Information Science -- The Ohio State University
> 
> 
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