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Revision as of 03:49, 5 October 2008
Scheduled
| Date: October 7, 2008, at 4:30 PM |
| Presenters: Marc Horowitz (marc) |
| Location: 4-231 |
| Notes: How Athena Works (slides) |
| Abstract: Athena is a ubiquitous part of the computing infrastructure at MIT, often taken for granted. Its history goes back more than twenty years, encompassing the invention of a number of technologies which are widespread today. However, its development marked a time of rapid change in distributed computing. In some ways, Athena is still well ahead of a typical distributed computing environment.
I will discuss the history of Athena, its notable inventions, and give an overview of each of the network and workstation services which make up Athena today, including Kerberos, AFS, Moira, Hesiod, and the installation and update processes. |
| Bio: Marc Horowitz arrived at MIT in 1988, when Athena was still a funded research project. As a Watchmaker (student developer) at Project Athena, he worked on the Kerberos, Zephyr, and Moira projects. Marc was also vice-chairman of the Student Information Processing Board in 1991, and Secretary in 1992. From 1992 to 2000, Marc continued to maintain an informal relationship with Athena, working on commercial versions of technologies born there, especially Kerberos, and participating in follow-on open source development and IETF standards activities. Today, he is Vice President of Engineering at Square Products Corporation, a startup focusing on software for social music listening. |
| Date: October 21, 2008, at 4:30 PM |
| Presenters: Nelson Elhage (nelhage) and Anders Kaseorg (andersk) |
| Location: 4-231 |
| Notes: Understanding Git (slides) (source for slides) |
| Abstract: Git is a free software distributed version control system originally written by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It is increasingly commonly used, and learning to use it can be greatly benefited by a little help from those who understand how to use it. This talk will provide a brief tutorial on how to use Git and a technical overview how it works under the covers. |
[edit] Technical overview of scripts.mit.edu
| Date: October 28, 2008, at 4:30 PM |
| Presenters: Geoffrey Thomas (geofft), Quentin Smith (quentin) |
| Location: 4-231 |
| Notes: Technical overview of scripts.mit.edu (slides) |
| Abstract: The scripts.mit.edu web script service allows individuals and groups to put CGI scripts (perl, php, python, ruby, scheme, etc) on the web using nothing more than an Athena account. Integrating this functionality with Athena presented certain challenges that had to be overcome before the service could be launched.
In this talk, the SIPB script services' maintainers will describe the design and implementation of the services. This talk is intended to be a technical overview of the internals of the services rather than a gentle introduction to the services (for documentation intended for potential new users, see http://scripts.mit.edu). Technical documentation about scripts is available at http://scripts.mit.edu/wiki, and the code is available via |
Unscheduled
- Kerberos
- Audio/video compression
