OOPSLA 2007 early registration closes 13 September 2007
I'm taking a break from all things Office [1] to work on a few OOPSLA things. It's shaping up to be a great conference. I'm honoured to be a part of it. Early registration (which nets you a savings of a little over $100) closes on 13 September, pre-registration closes on 11 October. OOPSLA is in Montréal, and runs from 21-25 October.
Our invited talks list is so good that it's almost embarrassing. The conference kicks off with Peter Turchi's talk titled Once Upon a Time, Like Never Before: The Challenge of Telling the Next Story (who I see is also doing some readings here in the Bay Area a couple of weeks before his OOPSLA invited talk). Dick Gabriel and Guy Steele [2] are giving a reprise of their 50 in 50 talk, which they originally gave at HOPL earlier this year. This might be the talk I'm most looking forward to, since I heard so many positive things about it from HOPL attendees. Fred Brooks [3] is giving a talk titled Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design. Gregor Kiczales [4] is talking about Context, Perspective, and Programs. And that's just the four talks that I'll slit my wrists if I have to miss, that’s not even all of them.
Speaking of Fred Brooks, we've got a couple of No Silver Bullet related sessions going on. One of the workshops is titled No Silver Bullet - a Retrospective on the Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering. There's a panel discussion with Fred, too. The first OOPSLA 2007 podcasts talks about the workshop.
This year, I'm running the Posters session, as well as chairing the Student Research Competition. The students who are participating in the SRC have put together some world-class research. I've read all of their papers, so now I'm looking forward to seeing their posters and hearing their presentations.
That's all just the tip of the iceberg. I haven't even listed the research papers, Onward! Papers, or tutorials. Suffice it to say that this is another OOPSLA where I'm going to start running on Saturday morning (where I'll probably lend a hand to the student volunteers who are setting up, since I was SV chair last year) through to our committee dinner on Thursday night after it's all said and done.
[1] Which is hard to do at this point in our schedule, but it's a holiday weekend so hopefully no-one will be too upset.
[2] Yes, the father of Java. If you haven't met Guy, he's possibly one of the nicest men on earth. He's also from the old school of engineers, right down to the pocket protector. He wears it with aplomb. People talk about pocket protectors as if they're a bad thing and the geeks who wear them are barely capable of walking upright without written instructions, but Guy Steele single-handledly disproves that stereotype.
[3] He's the author of the seminal The Mythical Man-Month and is a Turing Award winner.
[4] Gregor developed aspect-oriented programming and the AspectJ programming language.