[racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-03 Thread Jay McCarthy
Many of you have seen many emails and commits from my PhD student, Neil Toronto, who has worked on projects like math and plot. He will be defending his dissertation soon and we're going to stream the talk for anyone who is interested. The defense is Wednesday, June 11th, 2:00pm MDT and we'll use

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-04 Thread Matthias Felleisen
How are we going to toast him remotely? Are you shipping cold champagne first :-) On Jun 4, 2014, at 12:47 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > Many of you have seen many emails and commits from my PhD student, > Neil Toronto, who has worked on projects like math and plot. He will > be defending his dis

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-04 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Matthias Felleisen writes: > > How are we going to toast him remotely? Are you shipping cold champagne > first :-) Maybe this ingenious device can be adapted to champagne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRL1SeTJ1rk There's still one week to adapt the software, get going! ;-) Konrad. __

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-04 Thread Jay McCarthy
Champagne? At BYU? We use Martinelli's for everything "fancy" in Utah. :) Jay Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 4, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > > Matthias Felleisen writes: >> >> How are we going to toast him remotely? Are you shipping cold champagne >> first :-) > > Maybe this ingen

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-04 Thread Jos Koot
users > Subject: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's > Dissertation Defense > > Many of you have seen many emails and commits from my PhD student, > Neil Toronto, who has worked on projects like math and plot. He will > be defending his dissertation soon and we&#

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-11 Thread Jay McCarthy
This event is eminent! Jay On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > Many of you have seen many emails and commits from my PhD student, > Neil Toronto, who has worked on projects like math and plot. He will > be defending his dissertation soon and we're going to stream the talk > fo

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-11 Thread Jay McCarthy
Neil passed and is now Dr. Toronto. All hail. The Hangout site now has the archive video, which starts after about 15 minutes of testing content, which this link skips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqMUin-MDOg#t=883 We'll be editing and posting another copy shortly. Jay On Wed, Jun 11, 2014

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-11 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Congratulations Neil! 3 PLT PhDs in one season, not a bad yield. On Jun 11, 2014, at 7:59 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > Neil passed and is now Dr. Toronto. All hail. The Hangout site now has > the archive video, which starts after about 15 minutes of testing > content, which this link skips: >

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-12 Thread Neil Toronto
Here's the edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKKkj-M34So Streaming and recording dissertation defenses should be How It's Done. There were plenty of people who wanted to be there but couldn't: PLT friends, friends and family who have moved away, people with scheduling conflicts (such

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-12 Thread Greg Hendershott
I have nothing intelligent to add. Just congratulations! (Also, "Doctor Toronto" is a pretty awesome superhero title.) On Jun 12, 2014 8:53 AM, "Neil Toronto" wrote: > Here's the edit: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKKkj-M34So > > Streaming and recording dissertation defenses should be

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-12 Thread Eugene Wallingford
> I have nothing intelligent to add. Just congratulations! (Also, "Doctor > Toronto" is a pretty awesome superhero title.) I was thinking that we have the makings of a new television procedural: "Doctor Toronto, PLT". Congratulations, and thanks for posting the video. Eugene

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-13 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Neil Toronto writes: > Here's the edit: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKKkj-M34So Good job. Having watched this, I now feel qualified to congratulate! Konrad. Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] You're invited to Neil Toronto's Dissertation Defense

2014-06-13 Thread Laurent
That was a cool defense! Lots of good work in there for sure, congratulations! On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Neil Toronto writes: > > > Here's the edit: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKKkj-M34So > > Good job. Having watched this, I now feel qualified