OOPSLA!!
Posted by Skrud at Saturday, October 20th 2007 at 8:27pm
I’m a Student Volunteer at this year’s OOPSLA (Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications) conference. It’s the biggest nerd conference that I’ve heard of (and it’s probably safe to say that it’s the biggest programming conference there is). When I showed up today to man the information booth, I flipped through the list of speakers and panelists …
The names at this year’s conference are mindblowing. There are a number of former CUSEC speakers: Dave Thomas, Dave Parnas, Kathy Sierra and Ralph Johnson. I can’t even begin to express how happy I am that Kathy’s back on the speaking circuit! She delivered what was probably the best CUSEC keynote of all time.
But that’s not all, there are guys like Richard Gabriel (this year’s conference chair), Guy Steele, Ward Cunningham, James Gosling and Fred Brooks. And these are just the names that caught my eye at a glance!
Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel are giving a talk together called “50 in 50″, where they talk about 50 programming languages in 50 minutes. I was told not to miss it, and I won’t. :D
This next week is going to be insane.
