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IP: Boston IPers: Garfinkel: What's up with X? (OS X, that is.)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:37:45 -0500
Subject: GBC/ACM Announcements Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:51:33 -0500 (EST) From: kenb () ccs neu edu (Kenneth Baclawski) Announcements this month include: GBC/ACM January Meeting --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM will be having a Monthly Meeting on Thursday, January 17, 2001 in Room 4-231 MIT, Cambridge, MA "What's up with X? (OSX, that is.) Simson Garfinkel Sandstorm Enterprises Meeting starts at 7:00 PM. The talk is open to the public. OSX is Apple's new operating system for the Apple Macintosh. Based partly on Apple's OS9 and in part on NeXTSTEP, the operating system that Apple acquired with Steve Jobs when it purchased NeXT in 1996, OSX is a UNIX operating system with a Mac-like veneer. In this talk, Simson Garfinkel, author of a forthcoming book on OSX programming, will introduce OSX the Cocoa object-oriented application development environment. By the end of the hour-long talk, you too will be able to write simple applications with Objective-C, Interface Builder, and Project Builder. Speaker Biography Simson L. Garfinkel is Chief Technology Officer at Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security company that develops offensive information warfare tools used to probe the security of computer systems and test defenses. Garfinkel was the founder of Sandstorm Enterprises in 1998 and remains one of its principal stockholders. Besides his activities as an entrepreneur, Garfinkel is a journalist and author. Since graduating from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1988, Garfinkel has been affiliated with some of the nation's leading publications, including The Boston Globe, the San Jose Mercury News, the Christian Science Monitor, and Technology Review Magazine. He was one of the founding contributors to Wired Magazine. His articles have appeared in more than 50 publications including ComputerWorld, Forbes, The New York Times, Omni and Discover. Garfinkel is the author or co-author of nine books, published by O'Reilly and Associates, Springer-Verlag, and IDG Books. His most recent book, Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, was endorsed by Ralph Nader, who called it "A graphic and blistering indictment" of the techniques used by businesses to invade our privacy and our lives. His web page is <www.simson.net>. Directions to MIT MIT is at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, just on the north side of Memorial Drive (on the north shore of the Charles River), in Cambridge, MA. Our usual meeting room is 4-231. One way to find room 4-231, which is on the second floor of building 4, is to enter the main complex of MIT buildings by coming in the main entrance at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, then walk straight through "the infinite corridor" until you reach building 4.
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