Fwd: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Damian Conway: Sufficiently Advanced Technologies | Saturday Oct 29, 2005

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

Kind of short notice, but if you're not doing anything this weekend
why not head to Pittsburgh and see Damian?  Hey, you even get an extra
hour Saturday night!

Walt

----- Forwarded message from Robert Blackwell <robertblackwell@yahoo.com> -----

Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:09:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Blackwell <robertblackwell@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Damian Conway: Sufficiently Advanced Technologies | Saturday Oct 29, 2005
To: waltman@pobox.com

Walt,

I thought you might want to post this to the Philly PM mailing list.

Thanks
Robert

--- Robert Blackwell <robert@robertblackwell.com> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:05:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Robert Blackwell <robert@robertblackwell.com>
> To: pgh-pm@mail.pm.org
> Subject: [pgh-pm] Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Damian Conway: Sufficiently
> 	Advanced Technologies | Saturday Oct 29, 2005
> 
> *Special Gathering*
> 
> Please join us for a special meeting with Damian Conway. 
> Please watch http://pgh.pm.org/ further details. 
> 
> *Location*
> 
>   CMU
>   Wean Hall Rooom 7500
>   Pittsburgh, PA 
>   
>   Driving Directions
>   http://www.cmu.edu/home/visitors/directions.html
>   
>   Campus Directions
>   http://www.cmu.edu/home/visitors/map/
> 
>   Saturday, October 29, 2005
>   18:30
> 
> *Talk*
> 
> * Sufficiently Advanced Technologies - Damian Conway *
> 
> In module design, interface is everything. Going one step beyond
> this dictum, Damian demonstrates and explains several practical
> applications of Clarke's Law ("Any sufficiently advanced technology
> is indistinguishable from magic") by presenting a series of useful
> modules whose interface is...nothing.
> 
> 
> *Damian Conway*
> 
>     Damian Conway holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is an
> Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science and Software
> Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
> 
>     A widely sought-after speaker and trainer, he is also the author
> of numerous well-known software modules including: Parse::RecDescent
> (a sophisticated parsing tool), Class::Contract (design-by-contract
> programming in Perl), Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English
> transformations for text generation), Class::Multimethods (multiple
> dispatch polymorphism), Text::Autoformat (intelligent automatic
> reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl's missing case statement),
> NEXT (resumptive method dispatch), Filter::Simple (Perl-based source
> code manipulation), Quantum::Superpositions (auto-parallelization of
> serial code using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and
> Lingua::Romana::Perligata (programming in Latin). All of this
> software is available free from your local CPAN mirror.
> 
>     A well-known member of the international Perl community, Damian
> was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for
> Practical Utility. The best technical paper at the annual Perl
> Conference was subsequently named in his honour. He is a member of
> the technical committee for The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker
> at many Open Source conferences, a former columnist for "The Perl
> Journal", and author of the book "Object Oriented Perl". In 2001
> Damian received the first "Perl Foundation Development Grant" and
> spent 20 months working on projects for the betterment of Perl.
> 
>     Currently he runs an international IT training company ?
> Thoughtstream ? which provides programmer training from beginner
> to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and
> Australasia.
> 
>     Most of his time is currently spent working with Larry Wall on
> the design of the new Perl 6 programming language and producing
> explanatory documents exploring Larry's design decisions.
> 
>     Other technical areas in which he has published internationally
> include programming language design, programmer education, object
> orientation, software engineering, natural language generation,
> synthetic language generation, emergent systems, declarative
> programming, image morphing, human-computer interaction, geometric
> modelling, the psychophysics of perception, nanoscale simulation,
> and parsing.
> 
> Hope to see you there.
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Blackwell 
> robert@robertblackwell.com 
> AIM: robertdblackwell 
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