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Late breaking news ... once again the deep network of Ann Arbor Computer Society members has come through with an interesting talk. The AACS program chair (Jay Wren) has just let me know that Chris Sellers will speak on Amazon EC2 at the AACS meeting on Wednesday, July 2. The meeting will start at 6...

Yes, it's the first week of the month again. The Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting is tomorrow night, April 2, at 6 pm. Jay Wren will be speaking on the Boo Programming Language and DSLs (Domain Specific Languages). Boo is a statically typed language that runs on the CLR. It has Python-inspired...

If you're in town, feel free to show up for lightning talks. Pizza is still expected. I hope that we're able to rescheule Joe O'Brien for sometime soon. I was really looking forward to his talk.

Joe O'Brien is braving the weather, en route from Columbus up to Ann Arbor for tonight's Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting. Ann Arbor is getting some ice, but evidently the rest of the area seems to be getting snow. If you're already in Ann Arbor, definitely stop by. I'm, sadly, not...

We had a discussion at the office this afternoon that centered around how to attract a younger group of people to the computer user group meetings. We got several suggestions out of this, but are looking for more ideas. First of all, WHY do we want to attract a younger crowd? Well, the average age of...

Joe O'Brien, of the Columbus Ruby Brigade and EdgeCase, will be in Ann Arbor this week. He's presenting a talk at the Ann Arbor Computer Society - "Domain Specific Languages: Molding Ruby". A summary appears below. "Ever wondered what all the fuss is about when it comes to DSL's...

The Michigan Python User Group is meeting here tonight. The meeting will be a Python free-for-all, which should be a lot of fun. Lightning Talk Fridays contine tomorrow (November 2), from 3-5. Come with a topic or just your interest. Wednesday November 7 is the Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting, and...

On Tuesday night, we had an open house for customers and friends at our new office, 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, in Ann Arbor (across from the Blue Nile, just above the Linux Box). It was great to see people we haven't seen in a while, and we had a lot of fun. The media seems interested when you...

If you've heard about FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) or perhaps just have an interest in high performance computing, tonight's Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting is where you want to be. I'm going, because I have an interest in such things, but also because I've known Dave Strenski...

Ah, a new month and more tech events in Ann Arbor. All meetings are free and open to the public. SRT is happy to say that we will be hosting several of these meetings in our new office, at 206 S. Fifth, Suite 200. That's at the corner of Fifth and Washington, directly above the Linux Box. Entrance...