2002.03.18 Meeting Notes

News

• AMD reports many working on its Hammer 64-bit processor are from the ex-Alpha CPU team at DEC.
• AOL changing from IE to Mozilla.
• SuSE 8.0 coming April 22nd.
• Mandrake 8.2 out - Mandrake requesting money
• Althon XP chips can be modified for use on dual-MP motherboards.
• Microsoft monopoly case goes to penalty phase.
• Many Java engines have vunerabilities (incl. Netscape 6.1's)
• zlib has a memory bug which may cause vunerabilities.
• PHP3/PHP4 file-upload code can lead to remote command execution.
• GNU's HURD will finally be ready by the end of the year.
• WINE has moved to LGPL.

Project Reports

• Demo - The next demo will probably be Sat. March 23rd at the Davis Food Co-Op at 3pm.

• Installfests - Our last Installfest was yesterday. About 12 people showed up.

• LERT - No news.

• Library - No news.

Other Business

• California 4-H Presentation - Henry House and possibly Nicole Carlson and Bill Kendrick, will be representing LUGOD at a presentation to California 4-H kids at a leadership conference in the coming months. Details are still being ironed out.

• Game - John Alden won a copy of Heretic II for making the closest guess as to how many lines of C code a Fortran95 compiler is made of: 200,000.

• Raffle - We raffled off two Ikea plush penguins (Rod Roard and Tom won them), a copy of theKompany's "Kivio" design tool (Zach Johnson won it), and two DVD movies: Antitrust (Han won it) and AI: Artificial Intelligence, which, in an amazingly ironic stroke of luck, our speaker, Dr. Wallace, won!

• Food - Steve Nguyen of TekSystems recruiting in Sacramento brought three deli sandwhiches, which were devoured within minutes. LUGOD then bought 8 pizzas, which didn't last much longer.

• Financial Report - $98.96 in voluntary dues were collected.

Presentation

• Dr. Richard S. Wallace of the A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation discussed "The Anatomy of A.L.I.C.E."

  Presentation slides (Powerpoint Presentation)

Attendance

• Pete Salzman
• Henry House
• Bill Kendrick
• Rhonda Bailey
• Melissa Hardenbrook
• Alexandra Thorn
• Gabe Rosa
• Marianne Waage
• Joel Baumert
• Nicole Carlson
• Rod Roark
• Foo Lim
• Jeff Newmiller
• Matt Johnson
• Dr. Richard S. Wallace
• Mike Simons
• Seth Nagao
• Seth Z.
• Brian Lavender
• Marc Hasbrouck
• Ryan
• Mark K. Kim
• Stephen Helms
• Eric
• Mike Simons
• Zach Johnson
• Jeff DeFay
• Han
• John Alden
• ... and about 15-20 others

Photos:

Quote of the Meeting:

• "But you're nicer than I am" - Pete Salzman to Nicole Carlson, on why she'd be a better speaker for the 4-H presentation.

• "I called my friend and said, 'I've committed the cardinal sin of computer science.' 'Oh no!,' he said, 'You've written a new [programming] language!'" - Dr. Wallace

• "The brain is a really sh***y computer. The last thing I'd build a computer out of is meat." - Dr. Wallace