[Hartford-pm] [Perl 6 and Fall 2004 GBC/ACM Professional Development Seminars]

[Dale Ulrich]

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Subject: Perl 6 and Fall 2004 GBC/ACM Professional Development Seminars
From:    "Edward Freedman" <Edward.Freedman at acm.org>
Date:    Sun, September 26, 2004 10:44 pm
To:      "Dale Ulrich" <daleu at owls.com>
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The following Perl seminar, part of our Fall 2004 series, should be of
exceptional interest to your members.  Please forward this to any who
might be interested.  This is being sent to the Perl Monger announce lists
or contact persons for Boston, Cambridge, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
 Also please forgive me if you think this is spam or an intrusion on your
privacy.  We are very excited about this seminar and are just trying to
get the word out.
  "Perl 6 and Parrot"
  with Dan Sugalski
  Saturday October 2, 2004 at MIT
Edward Freedman
GBC/ACM Publicity Coordinator


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Fall, 2004 GBC/ACM Professional Development Seminars
<http://www.gbcacm.org> for online registration and information.
Questions: 781-862-1181

Saturday October 2, 2004
   - Perl 6 and Parrot with Dan Sugalski

Saturday October 23, 2004
   - Web Bloopers: Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them with
Jeff Johnson

Saturday November 20, 2004
   - Weaving Meaning: An Overview of The Semantic Web with Eric Miller

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"Perl 6 and Parrot"
with Dan Sugalski
Saturday October 2, 2004 at MIT room 54-100

Parrot is a new language-independent virtual machine intended to run Perl
6, Perl 5, Python, Ruby, and z-machine code. It is a
register-based, bytecode-driven, asynchronous, event-capable, threaded VM
with a built-in just-in-time compiler. This tutorial will provide an
overview of Parrot and some technologies in the Parrot engine.

Who Should Attend
-----------------
Perl and Python users interested in finding out what is coming down the
pike and system developers interested in learning about some
breakthrough technologies for language runtime systems.

Seminar Topics
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* Overview of Parrot
* Overview of Perl 6 and comparison to Perl 5
* Perl versus Python versus Ruby: what are the tradeoffs?
* Tricks of building a Virtual Machine
* Tutorial on some of the technologies of the Parrot engine

Lecturer
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Dan Sugalski is the chief architect for the Parrot interpreter engine. Dan
has been a Perl 5 core developer for years, writing more than a dozen
modules in the process. Dan has been a contributor to The Perl Journal and
The Perl Review, as well as the O'Reilly Network.

Session Chair: Peter Mager <p.mager at computer.org>

Seminar Book Offer:
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Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials. 2nd Edition
By Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Leopold Totsch
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
List: $29.95; PDS Price: $20

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"Web Bloopers: Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them"
with Jeff Johnson
Saturday October 23, 2004 at MIT room 34-101

This seminar presents common Web design bloopers and ways to avoid them.
The seminar includes exercises in which participants spot
bloopers on pages provided by the instructor and on live websites. There
will be discussions on how to avoid and correct them. After
completing this seminar, participants will have a checklist for
evaluating their own Web development projects. Participants will
become better designers and customers of websites and online services.

Who Should Attend
-----------------
Beginner to intermediate Web designers, Web developers, Web QA
engineers, usability testers, development managers and anyone who
would benefit from an overview of the principles of good Website and
application design.

Seminar Topics
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* Content Bloopers
* Task-Support Bloopers
* Navigation Bloopers
* Search Bloopers
* Text and Writing Bloopers
* Link Presentation Bloopers
* Graphic & Layout Bloopers

Lecturer
--------
Jeff Johnson is a Principal Consultant at UI Wizards, Inc., a product
usability consulting firm. He has worked in Human-Computer Interaction
since 1978. After earning B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and
Stanford, he worked as a UI designer and implementer, engineer
manager, usability tester, and researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US West,
Hewlett-Packard Labs and Sun. He has published numerous articles and books
on HCI and the impact of technology on society.

Session Chair: Jared Spool <jspool at uie.com>

Seminar Book Offers:
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Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them By Jeff
Johnson
Publisher: Morgan Kauffman
List: $49.95; PDS Price: $35

GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers By
Jeff Johnson
Publisher: Morgan Kauffman
List: $47.95; PDS Price: $35

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"Weaving Meaning: An Overview of The Semantic Web"
with Eric Miller
Saturday November 20, 2004 at MIT room 34-101

The goal of the Semantic Web initiative is to create a universal
medium for the exchange of data. Facilities to put
machine-understandable data on the Web are quickly becoming a high
priority for many organizations, individuals and communities. The Web can
reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be
shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web
to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and
process data even when these programs are designed independently. This
tutorial will provide an overview of the Semantic Web as well as a
discussion of the supporting standards, novel applications and
increasingly available tools and technologies.  Attendees will learn to
prototype business relationships via URIs in RDF and to think in
distributed resource relationships.

Who Should Attend
-----------------
Anyone interested in understanding or applying the Semantic Web
principles today.

Seminar Topics
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The Semantic Web and: * Data Integration
                      * Metadata
                      * Distributed Information
                      * the World Wide Web

Lecturer
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Eric Miller is the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web
Consortium's Semantic Web Initiative. Eric's responsibilities include
architectural and technical leadership in the design and evolution of
Semantic Web infrastructure. Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior
Research Scientist at OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc., and the
co-founder and Associate Director of the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative. Eric is a Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Session Chair: Jay Conne <conne at acm.org>

Seminar Book Offers:
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A Semantic Web Primer
By Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen
Publisher: MIT Press
List: $40.00  PDS Price: $30

Practical RDF
By Shelley Powers
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
List: $39.95  PDS Price: $30


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