Project:About Spivey's Corner
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This Wiki preserves the course materials for the lecture courses that I gave to Computer Science students in Oxford over a period of over thirty years, until my retirement in 2024.
In view of the name, I should make it clear that this Wiki bears no relationship to the community of Spivey's Corner, NC, despite the fact that the latter was at one time home to the U.S. National Hollerin' Contest.[1] To paraphrase the Wikipedia article, this Wiki ...
was inaugurated in order to revive the almost-lost art of "lecturin'", a sophisticated vocal tradition that served as a means of short-distance communication between individuals as well as an amusing form of entertainment, before the widespread adoption of PowerPoint.
- ↑ Some people have skeptically alleged that Spivey's Corner is no more than a PhotoShop-enhanced figment of my imagination. A Google map proves otherwise.