[Seth-Trips] Guido van Rossum at Stanford, Oct. 29

[Seth David Schoen]

Thanks to Dan Moniz.

>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:08:57 -0700 (PDT)
>Subject: [CSL Colloq] What's new in Python? * 4:15PM, Wed October 29, 2003
> in Gates B03
>
>
>               COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
>                4:15PM, Wednesday, October 29, 2003
>        NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
>                    http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]
>
>Topic:    What's new in Python?
>           Not your usual list of new features
>
>Speaker:  Guido van Rossum
>           Elemental Security, Inc.
>
>About the talk:
>
>Python is an OO programming language that is usable for
>pedestrian tasks typically called "scripting", as well as for the
>construction of highly advanced class libraries. The latest
>versions, Python 2.2 and 2.3, have added significant power to
>Python's competence in the latter area, primarily through the
>introduction of two new concepts: iterators (a generalization of
>for loops) and descriptors (a generalization of customizable
>attributes).
>
>In this talk I will present the principles and some examples of
>these additions, and show how they are useful for lowly scripting
>tasks as well as for advanced class library authors. I encourage
>audience participation and will be available for questions
>afterwards.
>
>About the speaker:
>
>Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the major free
>scripting languages. He created Python in the early 1990s at CWI[2]
>in Amsterdam, and is still actively involved in the development
>of the language.
>
>In 1995 he moved to the US; first to work for CNRI[3] in Reston,
>VA as a researcher, then for Zope Corporation[4] as Director of
>PythonLabs, and since 2003, after a move to the SF bay area, for
>Elemental Security[5].
>
>His home on the web is http://www.python.org/~guido/[6].
>
>Contact information:
>
>Guido van Rossum
>Elemental Security
>155 Bovet Rd, Suite 600
>San Mateo, CA 94402
>650-578-6708
>650-578-6701
>guido at python.org
>
>
>Embedded Links:
>[ 1 ]    http://ee380.stanford.edu
>[ 2 ]    http://www.cwi.nl
>[ 3 ]    http://www.cnri.reston.va.us
>[ 4 ]    http://www.zope.com
>[ 5 ]    http://www.elementalsecurity.com
>[ 6 ]    http://www.python.org/~guido/

-- 
Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | Very frankly, I am opposed to people
     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | being programmed by others.
     http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/     |     -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003),
                                       |        464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)