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[PLUG] [PLUG-Announce] Philip Greenspun to talk at Penn
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Philip Greenspun, author of "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web
Publishing," will be giving two talks on the Penn campus, April 8th
and 9th, from 10-5 each day. A short bio and description for each
talk is below, as well as directions to where each talk will be
held.
Dr. Greenspun developed MIT's course "Software Engineering of
Innovative Web Services," which is also being taught at Caltech and
Stanford. He is also the CEO of Ars Digita, a company that builds
open-source enterprise software and uses it to support their
business as a mass-customized application service provider (ASP).
Starting with his first community based website <http://photo.net>,
a forum for photographers that gets more than a million hits a day,
Dr. Greenspun has developed more that 200 database-backend Web
sites. He is also the author of "SQL for Web Nerds" and "Philip and
Alex's Guide to Web Publishing".
Philip will be giving two talks on the weekend of April 8th and 9th.
Registration forms are available from the links below, and while
registration is _not_ required to attend these talks, it is encouraged.
Saturday April 8th
10-5 in Stiteler Hall B-26
From 9-10, there will be an informal gathering for coffee.
Philip will be giving his Web Application Design" class. This class
covers "the big picture" of designing applications for the web,
specifically user-centered Web-sites. Details of this talk, as well
as a registration form, are available here:
<http://photo.net/teaching/one-day-web.html>
Stiteler Hall is on 37th and Walnut.
<http://www.upenn.edu/fm/map/sect6.html>
<http://www.upenn.edu/fm/facts/bi/bi0550.html>
Sunday April 9th
10-5 in DRL A-5
From 9-10, there will be an informal gathering for coffee.
Philip will be giving his Web Tool for Online Communities class.
This class is more technical than the Saturday class, and is
intended for professional programmers and computer science students.
Details of this talk, as well as a registration form, are available
here:
<http://photo.net/teaching/one-day-tools.html>
The David Rittenhouse Lab is on 33rd and Walnut.
A-4 is towards the back of the building, you need to enter through
the 33rd street entrance, process to the back of the building, and
turn left.
<http://www.upenn.edu/fm/map/sect8.html>
<http://www.upenn.edu/fm/facts/bi/bi0510.html>
These events are co-sponsored by:
Dining Philosophers <http://dp.seas.upenn.edu>
Wharton Technoloy Group <http://wtg.wharton.upenn.edu>
Please contact speakers@dp.seas.upenn.edu with any questions
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