I’ll be leaving Boston for Europe on June 1st, and am likely to spend the summer there. If you want to come see me off or just say hello and commiserate about the world, the human condition, and the heart-breaking ennui of it all, you’ve now got a chance.

For some time, I’ve been giving talks about OLPC and systems security; my slide deck from AusCERT 2007 captures the gist of my positions. So far, however, I’ve never discussed another subject that deeply interests me: the tense and uncomfortable relationship of programming languages and security.

I’m pretty excited to have written a new talk on just that topic, and will be giving it at the Boston Lisp meeting on May 27th, 6PM at MIT building 34, room 401B. Come hear me talk about attempts to secure everything from Perl to Python, C, Java and Javascript, and be treated to dinner courtesy of the awesome Lispers at ITA Software. The talk is short, sweet, and will feature one of my patent-pending Ask Me Anything™ segments at the end. That’s where I brilliantly field all questions I can answer, and make up incredibly convincing answers for any I can’t. (In the past, I’ve been asked about computer science, geophysics, abstract algebra, and British post-modern literary theory. Really.)

Faré has the details, including dinner RSVP instructions. Hope to see you there!