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<br>
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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. <br>
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The topic is titled, Fun with Dead Languages:<br>
"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."<br>
<a href="http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/DeadLanguages.html" target="_blank">http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/DeadLanguages.html</a><br>
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WHEN: Evening of Tuesday July 29th. Tentatively 6pm-8pm but expect this to change as more details emerge.<br>
WHERE: The Ohio State University, Independence Hall 0100 ( the big lecture hall)<br>
WHO: Damian Conway, a perl contributor<br>
TOPIC: Fun with Dead Languages<br>
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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. <br>
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Also, there's a chance of refreshments, and perhaps even book signings afterward.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>==<br>Peter Dietz<br><br>Computer & Information Science -- The Ohio State University