[Baypiggies] ACCU meeting on Wednesday

[Charles Merriam]

Given the current thread on multitasking and concurrency, I was
wondering if the slides, audio, or video was available from Alex's
talk.

Thank you in advance,

Charles


On 9/9/07, Walter Vannini <walterv at gbbservices.com> wrote:
> Feel free to forward this notice to anyone who is interested.
>
> When:      Wednesday, September 12, 2007
> Topic:     Some Python Patterns for Multitasking
>              and Event-Driven Processing
> Speaker:   Alex Martelli
> Time:      7:00pm
> Where:     VMware
>                 3210 Porter Drive
>                 Palo Alto, CA 94304
>                (Please don't go to the other VMware building
>                 on the same street.)
> Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/3965zb>
> Cost:      Free
> More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>
> Speaker:   Alex Martelli
>
> Doing multiple things at once -- or, at least, giving the appearance of
> so doing -- is an obvious and inescapable necessity in almost all
> programming areas today. This talk shows some architecture, design and
> coding patterns (focused on the Python programming language) supporting
> such needs, from event-driven processing, to threading (preemptive and
> non), to some highly scalable approaches based on multiple processes
> possibly running on multiple processors.
>
> The talk's audience should have at least some modest previous exposure
> to Python, but will not necessarily need previous knowledge of either
> event-driven processing or multitasking.
>
> Alex Martelli is Uber Technical Lead at Google, Inc. Alex holds a laurea
> in Ingegneria Elettronica from Bologna University. He wrote Python in a
> Nutshell, and also co-edited the Python Cookbook. He's a member of the
> Python Software Foundation, and won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award
> and the 2006 Frank Willison Memorial Award.
>
> Alex spent 8 years with IBM Research (earning three Outstanding
> Technical Achievement Awards), 12 years as senior consultant (Win32,
> Fortran, C, C++, Java, etc) at Think3 inc, and 3 years as a Python
> freelance consultant (mostly for AB Strakt). He has taught Programming,
> Numerical Computing, and Object Oriented Design at Ferrara University
> and other venues.
>
> The ACCU meets monthly. To suggest topics and speakers please email
> Walter Vannini via walterv at gbbservices.com
>
> Walter Vannini
> <http://www.accu-usa.org/>
> <http://www.gbbservices.com/>
>
>
>
>
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