Re: Lua Workshop 2015

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 18/08/2015 15:11, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> On 18/08/2015 09:02, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > Am 18.08.15 um 01:35 schrieb Lorenzo Donati:
> > > On 05/05/2015 12:13, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > > > The Lua Workshop 2015 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on October
> > > > 15-16,
> > > > courtesy of King. There is a web page for the Workshop at
> > >
> > > For a moment I thought it was "The King" of Sweden!
> > > Too good to be true to be recognized at such an high level for we poor
> > > SW developer! We don't even have a Nobel prize! :-)
> >
> > There is the Turing Award which is widely seen as the Nobel prize in
> > informatics.  FWIW, his years laureate is Prof. Michael Stonebreaker of
> > PostgreSQL fame.
>
> Yep! But, let's be honest, how many laymen know what a Turing award is?
> Probably if you went to the grocery store and told the owner you won a
> Turing award vs. you won a Nobel prize I suspect the effect would be
> remarkably different! Well, unless the owner were a former computer
> scientist. :-)

Anyway, at least we don't risk this:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/what-it-s-like-to-carry-your-nobel-prize-through-airport-security/

:-D


> Sad truth, though :-(
>
> > > >      http://luastockholm2015.se/
> > > >
> > > > A page at lua.org will be up soon at
> > > >      http://www.lua.org/wshop15.html
> > > >
> > > > Registration is open:
> > > >      http://luastockholm2015.se/#ATTEND
> > > >
> > > > We hope to see many of you there.
> > > >
> > > > --lhf, for the Lua team
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > -- Lorenzo