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<DIV>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
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<DIV><STRONG>"Perl 6 and Parrot"</STRONG> <BR>with Dan Sugalski<BR>Saturday
October 2, 2004 at MIT </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Edward Freedman</DIV>
<DIV>GBC/ACM Publicity Coordinator</DIV>
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<BR><B>Fall, 2004 GBC/ACM Professional Development Seminars<BR></B><<A
href="http://www.gbcacm.org> " eudora="autourl">http://www.gbcacm.org>
</A>for online registration and information.<BR>Questions:
781-862-1181<BR><BR>Saturday October 2, 2004 <BR> - Perl
6 and Parrot with Dan Sugalski<BR><BR>Saturday October 23, 2004
<BR> - Web Bloopers: Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid
Them with Jeff Johnson<BR><BR>Saturday November 20, 2004 <BR> -
Weaving Meaning: An Overview of The Semantic Web with Eric Miller<BR><BR> -
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-<BR><BR><B>"Perl 6 and Parrot"</B> <BR>with Dan Sugalski<BR>Saturday October 2,
2004 at MIT room 54-100<BR><BR>Parrot is a new language-independent virtual
machine intended to run<BR>Perl 6, Perl 5, Python, Ruby, and z-machine code. It
is a<BR>register-based, bytecode-driven, asynchronous, event-capable,
threaded<BR>VM with a built-in just-in-time compiler. This tutorial will
provide<BR>an overview of Parrot and some technologies in the Parrot
engine.<BR><BR>Who Should Attend<BR>-----------------<BR>Perl and Python users
interested in finding out what is coming down<BR>the pike and system developers
interested in learning about some<BR>breakthrough technologies for language
runtime systems.<BR><BR>Seminar Topics<BR>--------------<BR>* Overview of
Parrot<BR>* Overview of Perl 6 and comparison to Perl 5<BR>* Perl versus Python
versus Ruby: what are the tradeoffs?<BR>* Tricks of building a Virtual
Machine<BR>* Tutorial on some of the technologies of the Parrot
engine<BR><BR>Lecturer<BR>--------<BR>Dan Sugalski is the chief architect for
the Parrot interpreter engine.<BR>Dan has been a Perl 5 core developer for
years, writing more than a<BR>dozen modules in the process. Dan has been a
contributor to The Perl<BR>Journal and The Perl Review, as well as the O'Reilly
Network.<BR><BR>Session Chair: Peter Mager <<A
href="mailto:p.mager@computer.org">p.mager@computer.org</A>><BR><BR>Seminar
Book Offer:<BR>-------------------<BR><B>Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials</B>. 2nd
Edition<BR>By Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Leopold Totsch<BR>Publisher:
O'Reilly & Associates<BR>List: $29.95; <B>PDS Price: $20<BR></B><BR> -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-<BR><BR><B>"Web Bloopers: Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid
Them"<BR></B>with Jeff Johnson<BR>Saturday October 23, 2004 at MIT room
34-101<BR><BR>This seminar presents common Web design bloopers and ways to
avoid<BR>them. The seminar includes exercises in which participants
spot<BR>bloopers on pages provided by the instructor and on live
websites.<BR>There will be discussions on how to avoid and correct them.
After<BR>completing this seminar, participants will have a checklist
for<BR>evaluating their own Web development projects. Participants
will<BR>become better designers and customers of websites and online
services.<BR><BR>Who Should Attend<BR>-----------------<BR>Beginner to
intermediate Web designers, Web developers, Web QA<BR>engineers, usability
testers, development managers and anyone who<BR>would benefit from an overview
of the principles of good Website and<BR>application design.<BR><BR>Seminar
Topics<BR>--------------<BR>* Content Bloopers<BR>* Task-Support Bloopers<BR>*
Navigation Bloopers<BR>* Search Bloopers<BR>* Text and Writing Bloopers<BR>*
Link Presentation Bloopers<BR>* Graphic & Layout
Bloopers<BR><BR>Lecturer<BR>--------<BR>Jeff Johnson is a Principal Consultant
at UI Wizards, Inc., a product<BR>usability consulting firm. He has worked in
Human-Computer Interaction<BR>since 1978. After earning B.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from Yale and<BR>Stanford, he worked as a UI designer and implementer,
engineer<BR>manager, usability tester, and researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US
West,<BR>Hewlett-Packard Labs and Sun. He has published numerous articles
and<BR>books on HCI and the impact of technology on society.<BR><BR>Session
Chair: Jared Spool <jspool@uie.com><BR><BR>Seminar Book
Offers:<BR>--------------------<BR><B>Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design
Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them<BR></B>By Jeff Johnson<BR>Publisher: Morgan
Kauffman<BR>List: $49.95; <B>PDS Price: $35<BR></B><BR><B>GUI Bloopers: Don'ts
and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers<BR></B>By Jeff
Johnson<BR>Publisher: Morgan Kauffman<BR>List: $47.95; <B>PDS Price:
$35<BR></B><BR> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - -<BR><BR><B>"Weaving Meaning: An Overview of The Semantic Web"
<BR></B>with Eric Miller<BR>Saturday November 20, 2004 at MIT room
34-101<BR><BR>The goal of the Semantic Web initiative is to create a
universal<BR>medium for the exchange of data. Facilities to
put<BR>machine-understandable data on the Web are quickly becoming a
high<BR>priority for many organizations, individuals and communities. The
Web<BR>can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data
can<BR>be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people.
For<BR>the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share
and<BR>process data even when these programs are designed independently.
This<BR>tutorial will provide an overview of the Semantic Web as well as
a<BR>discussion of the supporting standards, novel applications
and<BR>increasingly available tools and technologies. Attendees will
learn<BR>to prototype business relationships via URIs in RDF and to think
in<BR>distributed resource relationships.<BR><BR>Who Should
Attend<BR>-----------------<BR>Anyone interested in understanding or applying
the Semantic Web<BR>principles today.<BR><BR>Seminar
Topics<BR>--------------<BR>The Semantic Web and: * Data
Integration<BR>
*
Metadata<BR>
* Distributed
Information<BR>
* the World Wide Web<BR><BR>Lecturer<BR>--------<BR>Eric Miller is the Activity
Lead for the W3C World Wide Web<BR>Consortium's Semantic Web Initiative. Eric's
responsibilities include<BR>architectural and technical leadership in the design
and evolution of<BR>Semantic Web infrastructure. Before joining the W3C, Eric
was a Senior<BR>Research Scientist at OCLC, Online Computer Library Center,
Inc., and<BR>the co-founder and Associate Director of the Dublin Core
Metadata<BR>Initiative. Eric is a Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science
and<BR>Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.<BR><BR>Session Chair: Jay Conne
<conne@acm.org><BR><BR>Seminar Book
Offers:<BR>--------------------<BR><B>A Semantic Web Primer<BR></B>By Grigoris
Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen<BR>Publisher: MIT Press<BR>List: $40.00
<B>PDS Price: $30<BR></B><BR><B>Practical RDF<BR></B>By Shelley
Powers<BR>Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates<BR>List: $39.95 <B>PDS
Price: $30</DIV><X-SIGSEP>
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