[Pl-seminar] PL seminar schedule

[Aaron Turon]

Final update:

Dave's talk will be held *today*, Tuesday 1-11, in WVH366 at 3:30.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Aaron Turon <turon at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> UPDATE:
>
> Due to expected winter weather that may disrupt travel on Wednesday,
> we are attempting to move the talk to TUESDAY 1/11 at 3:30.  I will
> send another email once the location has been confirmed.
>
> Those who've requested a meeting with Dave: he will still be available
> both Tues and Weds, weather permitting, and I will send schedule
> details ASAP.
>
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Aaron Turon <turon at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> NEU Programming Languages Seminar presents
>>
>> Dave Herman
>> Mozilla Labs
>>
>> Wednesday, 1/12
>>
>> 11:45am - 1:30pm
>> Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)
>>
>> The Rust Programming Language
>>
>> Parallelism and security are two of the biggest technological
>> challenges Mozilla faces in developing next-generation web technology.
>> Yet despite its shortcomings on both scores, C++ is still the tool of
>> choice for systems engineering at Mozilla. We have recently begun
>> investing in the development of Rust, a new systems programming
>> language designed with memory safety, pervasive concurrency, and
>> task-level parallelism at its core. In this talk I will give an
>> overview of the current design of Rust as well as some of our thoughts
>> for upcoming features.
>>
>