Dear Friends,
Thank you for your participation in IIC seminars and colloquia over the years. I'm
pleased to let you know that most of the IIC talks are now online in video, with links
available via the archive site,
http://iic.seas.harvard.edu. Additional talks will soon be
posted on Harvard's channel at iTunes U.
I write to inform you also that the IIC-Colloquium mailing list will go out of existence
tomorrow; however, the subscriptions will be migrated to a new list, IACS-Events, which
will announce events at SEAS related to computational science.
IACS refers to the Institute for Applied Computational Science, a new undertaking launched
at SEAS under the direction of Prof. Efthimios Kaxiras. (See
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/iacs?) IACS is charged with
developing a graduate curriculum in applied computational science along with associated
activities, including technical seminars, lectures and new research collaborations.
Please mark your calendar for these upcoming IACS events:
--Monday, Sept., 27, noon-1 pm: SciGPU Seminar
Milos Hasan, a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS, will discuss Shadie, his new domain-specific
shading language for rapid development of complex custom volume visualizations in
radiation oncology. Maxwell Dworkin 323.
--Thursday, Oct. 14, noon-1 pm: SciGPU Seminar/IACS Technical Seminar
Robert McLay from the Texas Advanced Computing Center will speak on "Defensive
Programming: Regression Testing in Scientific Computing." MD 323
--Thursday, Oct. 14, 4 pm: Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science
Ben Shneiderman from the University of Maryland will speak on "Information
Visualization for Knowledge Discovery." MD G-115 (Co-sponsored with the Computer
Science faculty.)
Also of interest may be *today's* CS Colloquium. Details:
Brian Kernighan of Princeton University will give a
talk entitled "The Changing Face of Programming"
Thursday, September 23, 2010
4:00 p.m.
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
Ice cream at 3:30 p.m., MD 2nd floor lounge
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*"The Changing Face of Programming"
The rapid evolution of languages, tools, environments and expectations presents major
challenges and opportunities for programmers and for software engineering education. This
is true across all kinds of programming, but is especially so for Web systems, which are
now routinely written in untyped scripting languages and include Ajax, mashups, toolkits,
frameworks like Rails and Django, and a profusion of interfaces, all operating
asynchronously on distributed systems. The growing popularity of phone applications has
not made life easier for programmers or instructors.
For the past ten years I have been teaching a course on advanced programming techniques
that is more and more stretched between important old material and new unproven material
that might be important. In this talk I will illustrate some of the challenges and discuss
ways in which we might use complexity and rapid change to advantage.
Host: Michael Mitzenmacher
Brian Kernighan received a BASc from the University of Toronto in 1964 and a PhD in
electrical engineering from Princeton in 1969. He was in the Computing Science Research
center at Bell Labs until 2000, and is now in the Computer Science Department at
Princeton. His research areas include programming languages, tools and interfaces that
make computers easier to use, often for non-specialist users. He is also interested in
technology education for non-technical audiences.
We hope you'll find these events of interest. In the case that you prefer not to
subscribe to IACS-Events, I will include unsubscribe instructions with the first mailing.
If you wish for me to delete you now, just send a note.
Rosalind Reid
IACS/SEAS
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Rosalind Reid
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
rreid(a)seas.harvard.edu | 617-384-9091
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