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Next Meeting:

    
Topic:     SUNFREEWARE.COM: Past, Present, and Future
Speaker:     Steven M. Christensen, Ph.D., sunfreeware.com
Time:     Monday, July 13, 2009
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Place:     UNC-TV
RTP, NC
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Abstract:

     In this presentation, Dr. Christensen will talk about his sunfreeware.com web site and how it works. Sunfreeware serves over 400,000 Solaris users in more than fifty countries providing packages for Solaris 2.5-10 and higher. He will go into some detail about why he started the project and what the difficulties -- as well as the joys -- of running such a site are. Other projects he does for Sun and others will also be discussed.     

Biography:

    

Steve Christensen is the founder and maintainer of the Sunfreeware.com web site. He is a theoretical physicist by training and a former professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Illinois, where he was also a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in its first five years. He created and moderates the Mathematica newsgroup comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica and is co-author of the MathTensor software system for doing tensor analysis by computer. He is a consultant in science, mathematics, and computing and is currently working on a book on relativity theory for fun.

Christensen received his BA in physics and mathematics from Augustana College in Illinois and his Ph.D. at the Center for Relativity Theory at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to UNC and the University of Illinois, he has held positions at Harvard, UC-Santa Barbara, and King's College-London. He lives in Durham, and has been doing computing for forty-four years.

    



Slides available:

     Slides for Simon Karpen's June 2008 presentation on High Availability Storage for Low Dollars are now available on the Past Meetings page.     



Upcoming Meetings:

    

We have some things in the works. But, if you have any ideas or suggestions for presentations or topics, please contact the Steering Committee!

    


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