I believe that the technical portion of this, i.e. the talk on Parrot by Dan, is open to the public. (But I have not checked. Dan, do you know?)
Steve -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Baclawski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:03 PM To: Tolkin, Steve Subject: GBC/ACM Announcements Announcements this month include: Annual GBC/ACM Meeting and Election of Officers June GBC/ACM Monthly Meeting --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM Annual Business Meeting Thursday, June 17, 2004 MIT Room 34-101 7:00 - 7:15 pm - President nomination: Peter Carmichael who is currently VP and PDS Brochure and Lecture Notes Editor; and PDS and Volunteer Committee member. - VP nomination: Jay Conne who is currently a member of the PDS and Volunteer committees and is a former President, Membership Chair and PDS Registrar. - Secretary nomination: Ed Bristol who is the incumbent Secretary and former President of the IEEE Control Society. - Treasurer nomination: Yona Carmichael who is currently PDS Brochure Editor and recently hosted a volunteer appreciation party at her and Peter's home. Yona is also Treasurer for the local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM will be having a Monthly Meeting on Thursday, June 17, 2004 MIT Room 34-101, Cambridge, MA 7:15 - 9:15 pm (note time) Parrot: Structure and Building of a Virtual Machine Dan Sugalski Abstract: This is a two-part talk. In the first part we'll sketch a broad outline of the architecture of Parrot, a virtual machine being designed to efficiently run the so-called dynamic languages. (Primarily Perl 5, Perl 6, Python, and Ruby) In the second part of the talk we'll cover some of the techniques and build tools we've developed as part of the process to abstract out the building and platform-specific optimizing of the VM source. (Somewhere between 75 and 80% of Parrot's source is preprocessed or autogenerated, some of it quite significantly) Dan is the lead designer of Parrot and past contributor to Perl. He's currently employed writing compilers for a metals wholesaling company, much to his surprise, and has written a number of articles and parts of books on Perl and Parrot. There will be a business meeting from 7:00 to 7:15 pm immediately preceding the talk. Directions to MIT, building 34, room 101: MIT is located at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, just on the north side of Memorial Drive in Cambridge, MA. The URL <http://whereis.mit.edu> contains a map of the area. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
