... and more Open Source :-)
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:26:08 -0700
From: Cheri Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: UO CIS Colloquium-Thursday, May 25, 2006
The Golem: Open Source In The Academy
Bart Massey
Portland State University
ABSTRACT
The "open source" movement has roots as old as computing, but in the last few
years it has burst upon the consciousness of the computing community and the
general public. Academic reaction to open source has been mixed, and has to
some degree followed patterns established in previous responses to new
approaches to computing, faddish or otherwise.
Today, there are several commonly-voiced and sensible-sounding objections to
the computer scientist wishing to pursue a career in open source: open source
isn't science; open source isn't "even" engineering; open source is so broad
and ill-defined as to not be anything. (This list omits several other minor
objections.)
In this talk, I propose answers to all of these objections. Further, I describe
a synthesis that suggests that technically-oriented open source researchers
will be at the forefront of academia's most exciting new area of scholarship.
As promised by the title, there will be a golem in the talk.
Biography
Bart Massey is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Portland State
University, working on open source software engineering and artificial
intelligence. Bart's open source development experience includes NASA-funded
rocket avionics, X Window System infrastructure, a programming language, and
mentoring many student projects. Bart received a thesis Masters Degree in
Computer Science from the University of Oregon in 1992 for research in
concurrent logic programming language implementation. He received his Doctoral
Degree from the University of Oregon in 1999 for work on general-purpose
planning at the Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 25, 2006
TIME: 3:30 p.m. talk, refreshments following talk
PLACE: 220 Deschutes Hall (Colloquium Room), University of Oregon
For all CIS public talks, go to:
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/activities/talks/
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