[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thurs., Sept. 20, 2012 at 7:30pm

[Charles Shapiro]

damn. Damn. DAMN.  This is really fun. Alas, I am already going to see
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

-- CHS


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> The featured presentation for our next ALE CENTRAL
> meeting on Thursday, Sept. 20th, 2012 at 7:30pm will be a
> reprise of Orlando Karam's excellent presentation at the
> ALE-NW meeting in August:
>
>     Linux on ARM and the Raspberry Pi
>
> Abstract:
> -- ARM is a family of computer architectures, different from x86,
> and characterized for its low cost and low power consumption.
> Many cell-phones and tablets run on ARM, and now there are
> many low-cost low-power servers running on ARM. We will
> discuss some of the available hardware and the status of the
> software, with a special focus on the Raspberry-Pi, a $35
> computer system designed with a focus on education, but
> useful on many domains.
>
> Bio:
> -- Presenter: Orlando Karam was born in the US but grew up
> in Mexico. He got hooked up on Unix while a grad student at
> Tulane University, and has been running Linux on servers and
> laptops for more than 15 years. He teaches computer science
> at Southern Poly, and has been playing with his raspberry pi
> since it was delivered to him about 10 weeks ago.
>
> =======
> The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
> usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
> Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm
> Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
> <http://ale.org/?page_id=2>
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