IP: Boston IPers: Garfinkel: What's up with X? (OS X, that is.)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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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