| Who: | Jordan Hubbard (Apple), and other speakers |
| When: |
Monday 1st November, 2004 10:30am start; 10am doors |
| Where: | Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London |
| Cost: | Free entry. You do not have to be a UKUUG member to attend |
On November 1st, in association with Apple, UKUUG
is proud to be organising its second
“Apple Technology briefing – Mac OS X and High Performance Heterogenous Environments”
| 10:00 | Registration with Tea & coffee. |
|---|---|
| 10:30 | Introduction |
| 10:35 | OS X within Particle Physics – Sabah Silah |
| 11:30 | Short break |
| 11:35 | Introduction to Cocoa programming on Mac OS X – Ken Tabb – Slides (pdf) |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Jordan Hubbard (Apple) – Mac OS X |
| 15:00 | Tea & Coffee |
| 15:15 | Robert Watson |
| 15:45 | Discussion |
| 16:00 | Close. |
Jordan Hubbard will talk on Mac OS X and:
Jordan is the manager of BSD Technologies for Apple, large
portions of which constitute Darwin (the UNIX-based core of
the Mac OS X), and is substantially involved in Apple’s open source
activities. Before arriving at Apple, he was a Principal Technologist
for Wind River Systems and was responsible for the FreeBSD CDROM
product line at BSDi. Jordan co-founded and helped manage the FreeBSD
project for many years and is a long-time contributor to the Open
Source community. He’s held various engineering and management
positions in the U.S. and Europe, having begun his career as a teen,
working on minicomputers back in the 1970’s.
Ken Tabb will introduce the Xcode and Interface Builder
developer tools that ship with Mac OS X, using them to demonstrate how easy
it is to write Mac OS X applications in the Cocoa programming environment.
Demonstrations will show how to wrap Aqua
GUI front ends onto arbitrary UNIX shell command/scripts, illustrating the integration
between Mac OS X’s UNIX underpinnings and the Quartz / Aqua window manager.
Robert Watson is a Principal Research Scientist at McAfee Research, a
commercial research organization performing computer security research
for US government customers, and member of the FreeBSD Core Team. His
recent work on FreeBSD includes the TrustedBSD MAC Framework, and
fine-grained SMP locking of the network stack. He will talk about his
work on porting this work to Darwin, and the similarities/differences
between the two and how they were addressed.
Sabah Silah is a researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at
the University of Manchester. He uses a cluster of Apple servers for CPU
intensive processing tasks. He will provide detail information about the use of
OS X in Particle Physics community. How we found it much
easy to work with Apple software and Hardware.
This event is aimed at all UNIX users, particularly those
interested in its core technologies and the associated
development environments.
Registration for this event is free and open to all.
Registrations must be confirmed
and can be cancelled
at any point after confirmation.
Lunch is provided free of charge.
Registrations will open shortly.
Apple will have a number of systems available for attendees to
use during the day.
O’Reilly and Associates will be present selling books at a 25% discount.
If you are attending the event, and wish to view/purchase a particular book,
email Sarah at O’Reilly before October 24th, giving
the full title, author, and your details. Also state that you will
collect the book from the “UKUUG event on November 1st”.
Acknowledgements:
The UKUUG is grateful to Jordan Hubbard for agreeing to speak, Alan Bennett and
Apple for providing the main speaker, venue and publicity; along with a raft of
other support.
About UKUUG
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United Kingdom. It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area
and, being totally funded by membership subscriptions, is completely
independent of specific hardware and software vendors. All profits are
used to further the activities of the organisation.
(More details about UKUUG at http://www.ukuug.org/about/).