[svfig-announce] Promoting Joe Latone in Live in Person at SVFIG 26 January

[Kevin Appert]

Her is Dave's very elegant promo flyer (if anyone wants to post the link 
in places like Hackaday):

https://events.stanford.edu/events/819/81926/


On 1/6/2019 10:14 AM, Kevin Appert wrote:
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> Live talk, no webcast!
>
> Joe Latone, a Big Wheel at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San 
> Francisco,  will be addressing us in person at 2:00 PM on the 26th.  
> There will be no YouTube stream!
>
> I welcome any ideas for promoting this talk.  Unless it's something 
> prosaic (such as Redit, LinkedIn, Meetup) please run it by me before 
> proceeding.   No Mercury News!  No news:comp.lang.forth !!!
>
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> Joe on LinkedIn:
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> https://www.linkedin.com/in/latone/
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> On 1/5/2019 4:51 PM, Joseph A Latone wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> How does this sound:
>
> I was thinking of doing an interactive session with the simple 
> objective of introducing quantum computing to software engineers by 
> way of giving an overview and citing useful references to help 
> developers get started, i.e., something along the lines of this 
> "presentation of links" I maintain, http://bit.ly/latone-qlinks. I've 
> found there's so much new to learn for a developer--a QC is a new 
> instruction set + new programming model + new complexity class, not to 
> mention the new software stack--that trying to do anything practical 
> for a beginner is either too overwhelming or useless. So, instead, I 
> try to give developers what I think they'll need to learn hands-on on 
> their own, based on my experiences doing the same for the past two 
> years and all the right & wrong paths I took.
>
> Feel free to promote it in any way you'd like, and use anything from 
> my LI and the presentation above to describe it.
>
> I'd prefer to start at 2PM if that's OK since it usually goes for 2 
> hours given all the questions/discussion.
>
> --joe
>
> Joe Latone
> IBM Almaden Research Center
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