| Title: | Technical Computing on Mac OS X |
| Date: |
October 25, 2007 (Thursday)
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| Time: |
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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| Venue: |
LT1, Lady Shaw Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. |
| Speaker: |
Matt MacInnis
Senior Manager for Education Markets, Apple Asia |
Mac OS X combines the power of UNIX® with the convenience and ease-of-use of the Macintosh. And Mac OS X Leopard is UNIX® certified, making it even easier to port applications from other platforms. The operating system is highly optimized for the Intel® architecture, provides a full set of development tools for free, and is virtually virus free.
During this one hour talk, attendees will hear about the core foundation of Mac OS X and how the Mach kernel provides a stable foundation for the operating system. The Mac OS X development environment, built-in distributed computing with Xgrid and powerful GPU-based image and video processing will also be discussed. There will also be plenty of opportunity to see the user interface features that make Mac OS X second to none for ease of use. Q&A will follow the talk.
About the speaker:
Matt MacInnis, a native of Nova Scotia, Canada, graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. With a focus on artificial intelligence and speech processing, he has experience in the area of human speech modeling using hidden markov models and neural networks. Matt also has extensive experience in the implementation of high performance computing clusters with Mac OS X and Xserve.
After five years of working with higher education and commercial science markets in the US, Matt now heads Apple's education marketing group in Asia. His team continues to drive Apple's growth in the scientific and technical computing arena.
Refreshment will be provided after seminar.
For more information, please refer to http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/seminar