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Recent talks by Nelson H. F. Beebe

Original version: Mon Mar 25 11:20:18 2002
Last updates: Thu Jul 1 05:31:43 2004 ... Fri Apr 11 19:27:11 2008               

2007

• New directions in floating-point arithmetic
  ICCMSE 2007, Hotel Marbella, Agios Ioannis Peristeron, Corfu, Greece, 25--30 September, 2007
  PDF of extended abstract (published in proceedings), [84KB], PDF of full paper (unpublished), [128KB], Slides PDF [600KB], Slides PDF (reduced 3x2 per page) PDF [91KB].
• Extending TeX and METAFONT with Floating-Point Arithmetic
  TUG 2007, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, 17--20 July, 2007.
  Article PDF [234KB], Slides PDF [522KB], Slides (reduced 2x2 per page) PDF [512KB]

2006

• Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 17-Jan-2006 and Blue Chips computer group 11-Oct-2006: Poster PDF [4KB] Handout PDF [6KB], Slides PDF [0.2MB]

2005

• The design of TeX and METAFONT: A retrospective [keynote Address]
  Practical TeX 2005 [14--17 June 2005, Chapel Hill, NC]
  preprint article (PDF) [232KB]    slides (PDF) [129KB]    final article (PDF) [330KB]    (PostScript) [377KB]    (gzipped PostScript) [175KB]    (BibTeX file) [106KB]
• The design of TeX and METAFONT: A retrospective
  TUG 2005 [23--25 August 2005, Wuhan, China P. R.]
  slides (PDF)    final article (PDF) [330KB] [same as Practical TeX 2005 article]    (PostScript) [377KB]    (gzipped PostScript) [175KB]    BibTeX file [106KB]
• Pseudo-random numbers: [mostly] a line [of code] at a time
  Undergraduate Colloquium, Mathematics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 11 October 2005
  Handout PDF [4.6MB: black and white]    Slides PDF [5MB: extensive use of color]    Slides PDF (four per page) [3.6MB: extensive use of color]    Announcement poster PDF [0.2MB: color].
  Earlier editions were presented as Undergraduate Colloquia (course Mathematics 3000) in 2002 and 2003, and at an IBM AIX User Group meeting in 2004. This version uses a new slide format, and has many small changes and rearrangements.
• Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Guest lecture in Physics 1905: Einstein's Legacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 30 November 2005
  Slides PDF [0.2MB],
• Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic Science Affects Everyone
  Forum for Questioning Minds, Salt Lake City Public Library, 11 December 2005.
  Slides PDF [200KB], Announcement poster PDF [60KB], Handout PDF [6KB]

2004

• A Bibliographer's Toolbox
  Practical TeX '2004: 19--22 July 2004, Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California
  Article PDF [276KB]    Article DVI [32KB]    Slides PDF [116KB]    Slides PostScript [461KB]    BibTeX file [32KB]
  Also presented to a smaller group at TUG'2004: 30-August--1-September 2004, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
• Pseudo-random numbers: [mostly] a line [of code] at a time
  IBM AIX Users Group, Research Park, Salt Lake City, UT, 23 March 2004
  Handout PDF    Slides PDF Earlier editions were presented as Undergraduate Colloquia (course Mathematics 3000) in 2002 and 2003.

2003

• 25 Years of TeX and METAFONT: Looking Back and Looking Forward: TUG'2003 Keynote Address
  TUG'2003 Conference: Waikaloa Beach Marriott, Big Island, Hawaii 20--24 July 2003
  one-column preprint PDF [1862KB]    two-column article PDF [718KB]    BibTeX file [76KB]    slides PDF [4249KB]    slides PostScript [212302KB]    slides gzipped PostScript [52452KB]

2002

• Microprocessor Performance
  Utah Tomography and Modeling/Migration (UTAM) consortium cluster computing conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 26 March 2002
  PDF (1-up)    PDF (2-up)    PDF (6-up)    gzipped PS (1-up)    gzipped PS (2-up)    gzipped PS (6-up)
  PDF of selected Math Utah benchmarks    gzipped PS of selected Math Utah benchmarks

2001

• Microprocessor Overview
  Second Cluster Computing in the Sciences Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 8--9 February, 2001
  HTML    B&W PDF (6-up)    color PDF (6-up)    B&W gzipped PS (6-up)    color gzipped PS (6-up)

1998

• Tips on Indexing LaTeX documents
  PDF [intended to be published in TUGboat, but never submitted]

1993

• Bibliography prettyprinting and syntax checking:
  PDF [published in TUGboat 14(3) 222, October (1993) and 14(4) 395--419, December (1993)]