[Speakers] SVLUG Dec 03: Paul F. Kunz: Bringing the Web to America

[stevegt@svlug.org]

We're pleased to announce the next meeting of the Silicon Valley Linux
Users Group!  


WHAT:

  Bringing the Web to America

WHEN:

  Wednesday, 03 Dec, 7pm-9pm or so.

WHO:

  Paul F. Kunz, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
  
BACKGROUND:

  On 12 December 1991, Paul Kunz installed the first Web server outside
of Europe at SLAC.  Today, if you do not have access to the Web you
are considered disadvantaged.

Before it made sense for Tim Berners-Lee to invent the Web at CERN,
there had to a number of ingredients in place.  Paul will present a
history of how these ingredients were developed and the role the
academic research community had in producing them.  In particular, he
will address the role played by big science including high energy
physics in giving us the World Wide Web and the Internet as we know it
today.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

  Paul Kunz received his Ph. D. from Princeton University in 1968 and
first went to CERN that year to do an experiment as a member of the
Saclay group.  In 1971 he went on to Michigan State and worked on one
of the first experiments at Fermilab.  He joined SLAC in 1974 where he
has been ever since.

In the late 1970s, Dr. Kunz invented the 168/E emulators and the
concept of event processing via parallel processor farms.  Dr. Kunz
has been a pioneer amongst physics colleagues in adopting new computer
technologies.  Examples include his move to UNIX and object oriented
programming over ten years ago.  Lately, he has been giving a course,
"C++ for Particle Physicists," a course that has now been held
fifty-one times all over the world for more than 1700 students.

WHERE:

Cisco Building 9.  The land of NUMBERS.  The VINEYARDS conference
center.  The side we are on is the Silver Oak/Jordan conference rooms,
where a large Cisco fountain is usually not turned on.  Directions on
how to get there are listed at:

        http://www.svlug.org/directions/cisco-9.shtml

We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.  If you
have any improvements to make, please let our Web Team know!
web-team at svlug.org

NOTES:

It's best if you arrive close to on time, as otherwise there may not
be someone posted at the door to let you in.  After the speakers end
their presentation there is usually a Q&A session, time for job
seekers and employers to meet, and often a few door prizes.  When the
meeting is over people are encouraged to chat a bit, but also to exit
the building so Cisco can lock up.  Don't worry, a lot of us go to
dinner afterward so there's plenty of time to chat outdoors or
offsite.

We look forward to seeing you there!