COMING UP
San Francisco Comedy Competition Ready to Rock Person Theater
On Thurs., Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Person Theater, the 34th annual San Francisco Comedy Competition comes to Sonoma State for its preliminary round where 15 comedians have seven minutes to win over audiences with their knee slapping sets, with a chance at $30,000 in prize money.
The San Francisco International Comedy Competition has traveled to SSU for the last six years, selling out with each performance. Past competitors include Robin Williams, Dane Cook, Dana Carvey, Ellen DeGeneres and many more. Admission is free to SSU students, $10 general admission. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, call the Student Union at 4-2382.
"Bounty of the County - Local and Sustainable Literary Arts" at the 10th Annual Sonoma County Book Festival
The 10th annual Sonoma County Book Festival takes place Sat., Sept. 19 in Santa Rosa's Old Courthouse Square, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The theme of this year’s Festival is “Bounty of the County – Local and Sustainable Literary Arts.” Admission is free and includes readings, panels, and activities for all ages. Among the broad range of topics and genres represented are mystery, thriller, nonfiction, debut fiction, poetry, self-help, travel, children’s and teen/young adult. Throughout the day, poetry and drama are presented on the main stage of Courthouse Square.
This year’s authors and presenters include: Gaye LeBaron, who is hosting a panel on Sonoma County history; Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE magazine; Gerald Rosen, reading from his newest book "Cold Eye, Warm Heart"; Barbara Baer, reading from her novella "Grisha the Scrivener," and many more. For a full list of authors, panels, and programs visit the Book Festival website.
Computer Science Colloquium Welcomes Allan B. Cruse
In the next installment of the Computer Science Colloquium series, Allan B. Cruse (right), University of San Francisco, delivers his lecture, "A Dynamic Visualization of Core-2 Duo Interrupts."
The presentation takes place Thurs., Sept. 17 at noon in Salazar 2016.
The ability of a Linux programmer to insert user-programmed 'modules' into a running kernel opens up the possibility of exploring processor behavior in real time, in whatever
ways a user can imagine, unencumbered by CPU privilege-level restrictions of a multitasking environment. As an example, Cruse shows how this technique can let us watch the
'live' occurrence of interrupt activities being dispatched among multiple CPUs on an x86 SMP Linux platform.
For more information, visit the Computer Science Colloquium website.
M*A*T*H Colloquium: "Why Do We Teach This Stuff Anyway?"
On Wed., September 16 at 4 p.m. in Darwin 104, Eric Hsu of San Francisco State University, will present "Why Do We Teach This Stuff Anyway? A Brief History of School Math." He discusses how Algebra 1 became the course that it did and how it has changed over the years, who put certain topics in and kept other topics out, and which aspects of the school mathematics curricula are coherent and which aspects are historical accidents. For more information, visit the M*A*T*H Colloquium website.
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