ANN: Baypiggies meeting for Thursday, February 12, 2004

[Danny Yoo]

Hi everyone,

Let me add abstract information to the initial announcement for this
month's Baypiggies meeting:

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When: Thursday, February 12, 2004
Where: Carnegie Institute of Washington at Stanford University
Agenda: Multi-threaded Anti-Spam Shareware Application
Speaker: Dennis Reinhardt, DAIR Computer Systems


This is progress and status report on SpamAI, a commercial anti-spam
shareware application, implemented in Python and first reported to
BayPiggies in Feb. 2002. The technical approaches and experience with
packaging, updating, and supporting a ready to run Python distribution are
discussed. This app hosts multiple client and server threads having both
email and web protocols. The internal thread and process tree to support
this are reviewed. as well as the object and module architecture.


Dennis Reinhardt has been designing computer hardware and software since
graduating from MIT with dual degrees in 1965 and 1966. He was previously
a Senior Architect at Intel and is now owner of DAIR Computer Systems. He
was chair of the Hot Chips 8 conference and of the Santa Clara Valley
Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. He holds 7 US patents. He was
elected to the board of the 1300+ member Association of Shareware
Professionals for a 2-year term starting Jan. 1, 2004.


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