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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><h1 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; ">MacTechGroup</h1><p style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 16px; ">The MacTechGroup holds meetings for Macintosh programmers on the first Wednesday of each month at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.</p><h3 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 14px; text-align: center; ">Next Meeting:<br>Sept 5 2012 7:00 PM Building E51 Room 335 MIT Sloan School </h3><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">NOTE THAT OUR OFFICIAL ROOM IS 335 - but check the other rooms in that corridor!!!!!</div></span></h1></span></div></x-html><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><em style="font-weight: normal; ">Subject: The TJUMusicLibrary</em></span><div>Presenter: T.J. Usiyan</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; ">We come roaring out of our summer break with a great meeting on music.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">I've finally been able to coax T.J. to give us a presentation on the music work he's been doing. Here's his description of his presentation:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>Software is, in most ways, about abstraction. Abstraction is difficult. <br>Music theory is, in most ways, about abstraction. Abstraction is difficult.<br><br></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>These symmetrical realizations came to me while working on TJUMusicTheory. The goal of TJUMusicTheory is to represent core axioms of music theory in a meaningful and flexible manner. In this presentation I will narrate and discuss the evolution of the library. My goal is to excite you about music theory and/or shared code!</i></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272727"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272727"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px;">Note: I should have a good batch of fresh books to give away -- free to attendees. We'll raffle them off.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272727"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px;">The first half hour to hour, we have an open discussion session. </span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><br></span></font></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">************************</div><x-html><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: normal; "><div style="font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica; ">You can get a map showing building E51 at<br><<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off">http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off</a>.<span></span>y=1640&hi=bldg_e51&zoom.x=89&zoom.y=38><br><br><br>The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. (Sometimes I screw up the date of the notice, but it's always the first Wednesday)<br><br>You can get more information on the MacTechGrp and directions at <a href="http://www.mactechgroup.org/">http://www.mactechgroup.org</a>. We're also on <a href="http://Meetup.com">Meetup.com</a> now - check it out. Please sign up for our group on Meetup, and swell our ranks. It's free to sign up. I'm paying the bill.<br><br>To contact the unindicted co-conspirator irresponsible for this group,<br>email <a href="mailto:owen@clipboardinc.net">owen@clipboardinc.</a>com<br><br></div></font></div></span></h1></span></div>
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