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Date and Time
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location
MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Presenters
Kurt Keville, Thaumaturgical Engineer, MIT Clinical Research Center - kkeville alum mit edu
Tom Sohmers - trsohmers mit edu
Federico Lucifredi - flucifredi acm org
Brian DeLacey - bdelacey gmail com
Michael Larabel, Founder, Phoronix Media - michael michaellarabel com
Summary
Hardware hacking subgroup demonstrates the latest in SBCs and embedded computing
Abstract
Bring your double aught and pith hat as we go hunting the big game of the LeopardBoard, Pandaboard, Eagleboard, Hawkboard, Craneboard, Bug, Lizard, Beagle and a virtual cornnucopia of taxonomy!
About Federico Lucifredi
Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and the Ubuntu Advantage Product Manager at Canonical. As a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, Federico was part of the SUSE Linux team for five years, overseeing the update stack of a 150 million dollar maintenance business. Previously, Federico has been a CIO and a network software architect at technology and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent two years teaching in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon, LinuxWorld, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and the IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor's clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the large-corporation panel.
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