[VPM] 2006 Jan 4th - January RCSS meeting

[Darren Duncan]

Forwarded from the "Recreational Computer Science Society" mailing 
list. -- Darren Duncan

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:30:40 -0800
From: "Peter van Hardenberg" <pvh at pvh.ca>
To: reccompsci at googlegroups.com, stege at cs.uvic.ca
Subject: [reccompsci] RCSS meeting next week
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Hello again everybody,

this month's meeting will be held one week from today on Thursday,
January 4th at 7:00PM in the same room we met in last month. (First
lecture hall on your right as you enter the ECS building from the
campus-side of the main lobby.)

Aaron has promised to put a few demos on for our enjoyment while we
wait for people to arrive which is always good.

Our guest lecturer this month is Dr. Stege. She will be presenting a
talk on her research into parameterizing computational complexity and
teaching us how to write a program to play Minesweeper.

I'll be talking a bit about the memory fragmentation paper I posted
last week, with an emphasis on dlmalloc. dlmalloc is Doug Lea's memory
allocation algorithm (hence the name) and is widely considered the one
of the best-general purpose memory allocators in the world.

If anyone else would like to present a talk on anything, there should
be room for one more speaker.

After the meeting, we'll head over to Felicita's to celebrate the end
of the holidays and a return to the same old drudgery in a new colder
and darker year. Hopefully there will be a good price on beer.

-pvh

-- 
Peter van Hardenberg
Victoria, BC, Canada
"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." -- Kurt Vonnegut