| Walt Mankowski on 12 Oct 2004 17:57:02 -0000 |
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I realize this is going to be difficult for most people on the list to get to (I doubt I'll be going), but it sounds like such a great talk I thought I had to share it with the list in case someone can make it. Walt ----- Forwarded message from "Michael E. Smith" <mesmith@panix.com> ----- Subject: LXNY meeting 14 Oct 2004 - Steve Bourne To: New York Perl Mongers <ny@lists.pm.org> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:53:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael E. Smith" <mesmith@panix.com> What: Special visitor meeting of LXNY. Who: Our speaker will be Steve Bourne. Date: Thursday, 14 October 2004 Time: 6:30 pm Location: Columbia University in the City of New York Exact Location: Somewhere in the Engineering Buildings, which lie in the Northeast part of the campus of Columbia University. We will place signs at the Gate at 116th Street and Broadway, and also near the Engineering Buildings. These signs will tell the exact location. Subway: The 1 and 9 trains stop at 116th Street and Broadway, the Columbia University stop. Official Directions to Columbia University: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/directions.html We will gather for food and drink after the meeting, location to be determined at the meeting. This meeting of LXNY is free and open to the public. About the speaker: S. R. Bourne is the designer and author of the Bourne Shell. The shell is a principal part of the operating environment of the UNIX Operating System. It is both the command interpreter and a programming language. The Bourne shell was the first widely used UNIX shell, is often known as "the shell" (sh) and is still itself in wide use today as are its descendents, the compatible shells (ksh, zsh and bash). Bourne is the author of the ADB debugging tool. Bourne is also the author of "The UNIX System", one of the better books on UNIX. Steve Bourne recently served as elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an international organization founded in 1947, that is one of the two venerable very large professional organizations in the computer field in the USA. In addition to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Bourne worked at senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). Steve Bourne's description of the talk: "The talk begins with the early days of UNIX from the speaker's own experience at Bell Labs and discusses some of the key advances made including the shell. Some of the shell innovations will be discussed including some of the challenges faced introducing it to the user community. "The second part of the talk is devoted more to the speaker's recent experience at El Dorado Ventures where he is currently CTO. This part will discuss the role of Venture Capital, what makes a good VC presentation and why some things get funded and others do not. It wraps up with the elements of a good business plan and some anecdotes on companies that have failed." LXNY thanks the Columbia University Chapter of the ACM for their generous assistance in hosting this meeting on short notice and in the midst of their other activities including the programming contest and the NYCBUG meeting at Columbia, Saturday 16 October 2:00 pm with Marshall Kirk McKusick and Eric Allman as speakers! http://www.cs.columbia.edu/acm Please feel free to copy this notice to any person or any suitable list. We ask that the text body be copied entire and uncorrupt. -- Michael E. Smith <mesmith@panix.com> Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org> LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe ny" to majordomo@lists.pm.org** ----- End forwarded message ----- Attachment:
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