Jack Aboutboul Visits Campus
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Jack Aboutboul, Redhat’s community engineer, came to Oregon State on Monday to meet students involved in the open source community as well as share his experiences in open source and at Redhat.
The day started with a tour of the EECS department, focusing on Carlos Jensen’s work with social computing and Tim Budd’s involvement with open source education. After lunch, Jack visited the Open Source Lab then met the director of EECS.
For many, the highlight of Jack’s visit was his colloquium presentation in Kelly. Students literally lined the walls to listen to Jack talk about what he describes as how a billion little collisions define everything. In the case of open source, many small events have compounded to make a huge impact.