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Last night, I stood in line outside of Concordia's Hall building for a good hour or so. dcoombs and I ate our dinners standing there, which was a fairly good plan because if we arrived any later, there wasn't any chance of us getting in. The line snaked all the way around the building, but the auditorium wouldn't fit us all.
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Oh no! Not another one!

Jef Raskin died of cancer on Saturday.

I wasted some time and set Gallery up on the Computer Science Club's website. Now the whole world can see my (lousy) photographs of Brian Kernighan.
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Yesterday, I had the honour of lunching with Prof. Brian Kernighan, from Princeton University. But you might recognise his other persona better. A couple of weeks ago, Director Vic DiCiccio approached me in the CSC about having some undergraduates talk with Kernighan. I told him that we'd be delighted, and asked if we could invite Kernighan to ( Read more... )

Alfred Aho, the "A" in awk, came to speak at Waterloo today. He talked about compilers and the work he was doing.
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