From: John C Shockey Subject: MacTechGrp Meeting - May 3, 2000 Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:55 AM Straight from the keyboard of our fearless leader, Owen: MacTechGrp Meeting May 3, 2000 7-9PM Room 395 Bldg E51 MIT Sloan School This month, unless Janet Reno's troopers come and take him away again, Eric Slosser will be talking about creating a Mac version of a Windows-based application. In particular, he'll touch on a variety of techniques developed, problems encountered, and technologies used if not actually mastered. The software is Lernout & Hauspie's Kurzweil 3000, designed for the learning and/or reading disabled. It incorporates major off-the-shelf components of scanning, character-recognition, and speech synthesis, as well as OLE's compound documents and large numbers of C++ components that were originally written as ActiveX controls that are integrated with Visual Basic. Eric Slosser works for "virtual fx, inc.", a Boston-based consulting and technology firm specializing in digital video (when not porting software for the reading disabled). He also has a sordid past in being the former leader of this group, in addition to working at Apple Computer. Bill Gates has posted bond to allow all the usual Mac gurus to show up again, and May is their bath month, so they should all arrive freshly clean and scrubbed to answer programming questions, propose solutions and receive process servers. As always, the usual suspects will be rounded up for exciting Macintosh jabbering, of the sort you love, and we hope you'll participate. Please bring your whole mind, a quart of jabber, and any Macintosh news, questions, or rumors to MIT building E51 Wednesday night, and let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons and necking in the parlor. Note: The room number is 395, but we often move to a room with a better projector, so 395 is often just a pointer to our real address. I always write the real room number on the blackboard in 395, so just dereference that. You can get a map showing building E51 at http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off.y=1640&hi=bldg_e51 &zoom.x=89&zoom.y=38 You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant (excepting Alice). The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. Post no bills. You can get more information on the MacTechGrp (and undoubtedly out of date meeting information) at http://www.codewell.com/mactechgrp To contact the unindicted co-conspirators irresponsible for this group, email owen@ids.net or sgs@codewell.com.