Perl event, Damian Conway, July 5, U of T

[jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org]

Noticed this upcoming event at U of T this week, I'm sure many know about it
already. For those who don't, here is the event description, brief bio etc.:

Seminar Time: 2006 Jul 5 18:30:00

Location: BA 1180

Speaker: Damian Conway, Thoughtstream, an International IT training company

Abstract:
Damian Conway, a well-known and influential figure in the Perl community will be
speaking about Perl, as well as modern archaeological techniques, bidirectional
cross-dressing, Ancient Greeks hackers, and a host of other improbable topics.

Bio:

Damian Conway holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

A widely sought-after speaker and trainer, he is also the author of numerous
well-known software modules including: Parse::RecDescent (a sophisticated
parsing tool), Class::Contract (design-by-contract programming in Perl),
Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English transformations for text generation),
Class::Multimethods (multiple dispatch polymorphism), Text::Autoformat
(intelligent automatic reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl's missing case
statement), NEXT (resumptive method dispatch), Filter::Simple (Perl-based source
code manipulation), Quantum::Superpositions (auto-parallelization of serial code
using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and Lingua::Romana::Perligata (programming
in Latin). All of this software is available free from your local CPAN mirror.

A well-known member of the international Perl community, Damian was the winner
of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. The best
technical paper at the annual Perl Conference was subsequently named in his
honour. He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl Conference, a
keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, a former columnist for "The
Perl Journal", and author of the books "Object Oriented Perl" and "Perl Best
Practices". In 2001 Damian received the first "Perl Foundation Development
Grant" and spent 20 months working on projects for the betterment of Perl.

Currently he runs an international IT training company – Thoughtstream – which
provides programmer training from beginner to masterclass level throughout
Europe, North America, and Australasia.

Most of his time is currently spent working with Larry Wall on the design of the
new Perl 6 programming language and producing explanatory documents exploring
Larry's design decisions.

Other technical and academic areas in which he has published internationally
include programming language design, programmer education, object orientation,
software engineering, natural language generation, synthetic language
generation, emergent systems, declarative programming, image morphing,
human-computer interaction, geometric modelling, the psychophysics of
perception, nanoscale simulation, and parsing.  
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