Meetings:2006-03

From GTALUG

Date

Tuesday March 14, 2006

Time

7:30 pm

Topic

grep and Regular Expressions

Speaker

Tony Abou-Assaleh

Tony Abou-Assaleh is a a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Brock University, and a Ph.D. Candidate at Dalhousie University. He has a Master of Mathematics in Computer Science from University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with first-class honours from Brock University. His research interests include probabilistic logic, unification-based grammars, natural language processing and question answering, machine learning, and detection of malicious code.

Tony is an active member of the GNU grep development team. Tony's first involvement with open source was in 1999 when he started the first Linux-based laboratory at Brock University. Tony is a Co-chair of the Conference on Engaging in Open Source (CEOS'06)

Home page: http://www.cosc.brocku.ca/~taa/

Description

What is grep? Why you should care? What 'flavours' of grep are out there? And how to use them?

Based on audience interest, I may talk about what regular expressions are, different flavours of regular expression, useability and efficiency considerations, and the expressive power of regular expressions.

Location

   Room GB220, Galbraith Building, University of Toronto
   Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 
   University of Toronto 

Map

http://oracle.osm.utoronto.ca/map/ http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=35+St+George+St,+Toronto,+ON&hl=en

Speakers Requirements

A blackboard or a whiteboard. A data projector would be a big plus.