Re: [9fans] Talk by Charles Forsyth on Feb 1st at Imperial College London, 13:00 -14:00

[Hugues Evrard <h.evrard@imperial.ac.uk>]

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Yes it should be recorded, and made available online later on (I needed
confirmation before answering here).

Thanks,
Hugues

On 24/01/18 09:32, Fran. J Ballesteros wrote:
> will it be avail online, somehow?
> thanks. 
>
> El 24 ene 2018, a las 10:16, Hugues Evrard <h.evrard@imperial.ac.uk
> <mailto:h.evrard@imperial.ac.uk>> escribió:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On Thursday Feb. 1st (next week), Charles Forsyth will kindly give an
>> introduction talk to plan9 and inferno at Imperial College in London.
>> If you are in the London area, don't hesitate to join and to relay
>> this announce!
>>
>> Here is the abstract:
>>
>> Plan 9 and Inferno are two operating systems (originally developed by
>> the Bell Labs centre that produced Unix decades earlier). Both were
>> designed to allow systems to be composed from smaller cooperating
>> systems performing specific tasks.They provide structural support for
>> distribution, at the operating system level. Their defining novelty
>> is the representation of all distributable resources as hierarchical
>> name spaces. There are conventional names for certain resources, but
>> no global name space. Instead, the kernel provides operations that
>> compose name spaces of local and remote resources, at per-process
>> granularity, to build a unique space to suit a given application.
>> That can aid design, development, testing and integration. I'll give
>> brief summaries of the two operating systems, and present examples of
>> their use, with an emphasis on naming.
>>
>> The talk is at 13:00-14:00 in amphitheatre 311 of the Huxley
>> building, whose entrance is at 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2AZ. It
>> is part of the iPr0gram talk series (
>> https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rbc/iPr0gram/ ), where people external to
>> Imperial College are warmly welcome, please just get in touch with
>> Robert ( https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rbc/ ) beforehand if you plan to join.
>>
>> As most of you already know, Charles has made numerous contributions
>> to plan9 and inferno, and was instrumental in open-sourcing inferno.
>> For more info, check out his homepage: http://www.terzarima.net/
>> Please get in touch with me if you would like to have a chat with
>> Charles in the afternoon, I can arrange a meeting room.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hugues
>>


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