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CUSEC 2008Making it Fun

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Speakers & Presentations

The voices that took the stage at this CUSEC.

Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood

Co-founder of Stack Overflow and programming blogger behind Coding Horror

Jeff Ullman

Jeff Ullman

Stanford computer science professor known for databases and compiler theory

Zed Shaw

Tim Bray

Marcel Molina

Jon Udell

Marsha Chechik

Jeremy Cooperstock

Ettore Merlo

Adrian Thurston

Sylvain Carle

Julian Spillane

Presentations

  • Hard Problems in Network Computing

    Tim BrayDirector of Web Technologies, Sun Microsystems

  • We Didn't Start the Fire

    Sylvain CarleFounder and CTO, Praized Media

  • Performance Analysis and Tuning Techniques witin Enterprise Applications

    Chris CollitionManager, Enterprise Architecture, TELUS

  • Hacking the Noosphere

    Jon UdellTechnical Evangelist, Microsoft

  • Living with Concurrency

    Dr. Peter GrogonoProfessor, Concordia University

  • When Theory Matters

    Dr. Jeffrey UllmanProfessor Emeritus, Stanford University

  • The ACL is Dead

    Zed ShawDeveloper, Mongrel Web Server

  • Is Writing More Important Than Programming?

    Jeff AtwoodBlogger, codinghorror.com

  • Zed Shaw on Factor

    Zed ShawDeveloper, Mongrel Web Server

  • Technology, Creativity, Stress and Hockey

    Bruce MinerDirect Energy

  • Building your software start up and having fun doing it!

    Leila Boujnane and Paul BlooreCo-Founders, Idee Inc.

  • Music and Games: How Fun Applications Stimulate Core Technologies

    Dr. Jeremy CooperstockProfessor, McGill University

  • Keeping It Fun: Hacking on Open Source After Graduation

    Jeff BaileyGoogle

  • Creating fast, maintainable and secure parsers with Ragel

    Adrian ThurstonPh.D Student, Queen's University

Organizing Team

The students who brought this conference to life.

  • Abdullah Salim

    Co-Chair

  • Hugo Levasseur

    Co-Chair

  • Neeraj Mathrani

    Director of Finance

  • Edward Ocampo-Gooding

    Director of Presentations and Keynotes

  • Aran Donohue

    Director of Academic Presentations

  • Igor Foox

    Director of Corporate Presentations

  • Louis-Philippe Huberdeau

    Account Manager

  • Rami Ayyad

    Account Manager

  • Linda Wang

    Co-Director of Logistics

  • Michelle Chua

    Co-Director of Logistics

  • Juan Musleh

    Director of University Relations

  • Eitan Levi

    Director of Promotions

  • Julie Hache

    Director of Events

  • Richard Shih

    Website Director

  • Abdo Mazloum

    Head Delegate - Bishop's University

  • Denis Zgonjanin and Gerald Orban

    Head Delegate - Carleton University

  • Claudiu Scotnotis

    Head Delegate - Concordia University

  • Julien Godin-Viau

    Head Delegate - École de technologie supérieure

  • Colin Martel

    Head Delegate - École Polytechnique de Montréal

  • Steve Fortier

    Head Delegate - Université Laval

  • Ashton Anderson

    Head Delegate - McGill University

  • Juan Musleh

    Head Delegate - McMaster University

  • Jacques-Andre Doucet

    Head Delegate - Université de Moncton

  • Alex McNamara

    Head Delegate - University of Ottawa

  • Ngouana Sugewe G. Francis

    Head Delegate - Université du Québec en Outaouais

  • Tim Ginn

    Head Delegate - Queen's University

  • Robyn Scholes

    Head Delegate - Royal Military College

  • Andrew Louis

    Head Delegate - University of Toronto

  • Marieke Talens and Yubin Kim

    Head Delegate - University of Waterloo

  • Mila Milojevic and Victoria Odeyemi

    Head Delegate - University of Western Ontario

Sponsors

The partners who made this CUSEC possible.

Sponsor information for this year is being compiled.

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Highlights

Proceedings, photos, and more from this CUSEC.