Anyone up to check it out? I'm going to try and go.
-Mike
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 18:00 -0700, horst wrote:
> ... and more Open Source :-)
>
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> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:26:08 -0700
> From: Cheri Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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