Public Erlang talk in London at Erlang-Consulting

[David Hopwood]

It occurs to me that there may be an overlap in potential audience between
this talk, and another public talk that is taking place in London on the
same day, a short tube ride away:

<http://www.bcs-facs.org/events/EveningSeminars/cliff_jones_06.html>

> BCS-FACS Evening Seminar Series
> 
> Joint Event with FME
> 
> Specifying Systems that Connect to the Physical World
> 
> Professor Cliff Jones
> (Joint work with Ian Hayes and Michael Jackson)
> 
> 24 April 2006
> 
> 5.45pm
> 
> BCS London Offices
> First Floor, The Davidson Building
> 5 Southampton Street
> London WC2E 7HA
> 
> We all know about developing programs from formal specifications. For "closed"
> systems, such methods offer a gold standard against which less formal
> approaches can be measured. But there is an increasing demand for "open systems"
> which interact with the physical world. The overall system might include sensors
> and actuators whose signals flow to and from some control program. The task of
> obtaining a specification for the control program can be more challenging than
> that of deriving a program from that specification. This talk argues that
> recording an initial specification of the behaviour of the whole system in the
> physical world gives a way to derive a specification of a control system and
> also to record precisely the assumptions being made about those components
> which sit outside the computer.
> 
> 
> Refreshments will be served from 5.15pm
> 
> The seminar is free of charge and open to everyone. If you would like to attend,
> please email Paul Boca <mailto:Paul.Boca@REDACTED> your name by 19 April 2006.
> Pre-registration is required, as security at the BCS Offices is tight. 


The timing is very tight, though, especially with the Q&A session after the
Erlang talk:

16:30 - 17:30  Erlang talk (excluding Q&A)

walk to Liverpool Street (~500 m)
<http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=533629&y=181745&z=0&sv=E1+6EL>

Liverpool Street -> Temple on the Circle Line
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/downloads/tube_map.html>

walk to BCS offices (~650 m)
<http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=530432&y=180813&z=0&sv=WC2E+7HA>

17:45 -        BCS talk


Can the Erlang talk possibly be moved, say, half an hour earlier? How many people
would be interested in attending both talks?


Eric Merritt wrote:
> Is there any possibility of getting this recorded and posted somewhere?

I have a video camera. I'm not absolutely sure yet that I will be able to
attend, though.

> On 4/14/06, Jan Henry Nystrom <jann@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>On Monday, April 24th, I will present the results of a  three
>>year research project conducted at Heriot-Watt University in collaboration
>>with Motorola Labs in Basingstoke. The project aim  has been to produce
>>scientific evidence that Erlang can improve distributed quality and
>>productivity, and to investigate the impact of programming constructs on
>>distributed  software. This talk  focuses on a comparative study done on a
>>Motorola distributed C++ application that has been re-engineered in
>>Erlang. The study  clearly indicates that great benefits can be gained
>>from using Erlang for this type of applications.
>>
>>The talk will start at 16.30 pm, and is expected to take about an  hour,
>>followed by a Q&A session. It will be held in the conference  room of
>>Erlang_Consulting's London offices,
>>http://www.erlang-consulting.com/contact.html.
>>
>>Please let me know if you are planning to attend, so we know how many
>>people to expect. Refreshments will be served after the talk.
>>
>>It would be great if you could make it.
>>
>>Welcome!
>>Henry Nystrom and Erlang-Consulting
>>
>>--
>>Jan Henry Nyström
>>
>>Skolgatan 20B
>>753 32 UPPSALA
>>Sweden
>>
>>E-mail: jann@REDACTED
>>Phone: +46 (0)18 14 24 04
>>WWW: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~jann

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@REDACTED>