General talk about software patterns

[John Vlissides <vlis AT us.ibm.com>]

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                19th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on
  Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications

                         October 24-28, 2004
              Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre
                 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

                        http://oopsla.org/2004/

                       Co-located Conferences:
                 GPCE 2004 (http://gpce04.gpce.org/)
           ISMM 2004 (http://www.research.ibm.com/ismm04/)

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    Take part in OOPSLA 2004 in Vancouver---Canada's Coolest City!

You're invited to contribute and actively participate in OOPSLA 2004,
to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 24-28, 2004. As
past participants can attest, OOPSLA is widely recognized as the
premier gathering of practitioners, researchers, educators, and
students sharing their thoughts and experiences with object technology
and its offshoots.

OOPSLA offers many venues for your participation, including technical
papers, practitioner reports, expert panels, stimulating invited
talks, demonstrations, exhibits, posters, participant-led workshops,
conferences-within-a-conference (one designed for educators and a
second for doctoral students), informal "birds-of-a-feather" sessions,
and plenty of social opportunities for networking (or just mingling).

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IMPORTANT DATES

Friday, March 19, 2004 - Due date for Technical Papers, Onward!
Submissions, Practitioner Reports, Tutorials, Panel Proposals,
Workshop Proposals, DesignFest(R) Proposals, and Educators' Symposium
submissions.

Friday, July 2, 2004 - Due date for Posters, Demonstration Proposals,
and Doctorial Symposium and Student Volunteers submissions.
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Becoming an active participant in OOPSLA is easier than you may think.
Simply identify the events that match your work and interests, review
the submission requirements from the OOPSLA 2004 submissions page
(http://oopsla.org/Submissions), and submit your contribution using
the online submission system. If you have ideas for additional OOPSLA
events, such as one-day symposia or student activities, please email a
proposal to the Conference Chair. For more information on submission
requirements for each event, please follow the corresponding link
below:

TECHNICAL PAPERS
(http://oopsla.org/Papers)
Rigorously reviewed archival papers that contribute to the foundations
of object technology.

ONWARD!
(http://oopsla.org/Onward)
A technical track for papers that present new thinking and new paradigms
for computing.

PANELS
(http://oopsla.org/Panels)
Small groups of experts who discuss issues in object technology, with
audience participation.

PRACTITIONER REPORTS
(http://oopsla.org/PractitionerReports)
Reports from the field describing real-world experience with object
technology.

TUTORIALS
(http://oopsla.org/Tutorials)
Half- and full-day courses given by internationally renowned experts on
wide-ranging topics relating to objects. Tutorials are assigned one of
three levels: introductory, intermediate, or advanced.

WORKSHOPS
(http://oopsla.org/Workshops)
Intensive, collaborative environments where participants surface,
discuss, and solve challenging problems facing the field.

POSTERS
(http://oopsla.org/Posters)
Presentations of informal or exploratory work in a visual and
interactive setting.

DEMONSTRATIONS
(http://oopsla.org/Demonstrations)
Show-and-tell sessions for state-of-the art systems, languages,
environments, and applications.

DESIGNFEST(R)
(http://oopsla.org/DesignFest)
Small groups of designers and developers work on prepared analysis and
design problems.

EDUCATORS' SYMPOSIUM
(http://oopsla.org/EducatorsSymposium)
A one-day forum in which university educators and industry training
experts share experiences, issues, and techniques.

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
(http://oopsla.org/DoctoralSymposium)
A one-day session where a panel of experts provides guidance and
feedback to Ph.D. students on their dissertation topics.

EXHIBITS
(http://oopsla.org/Exhibits)
Displays and demonstrations of the latest products from software
companies, consultants, training specialists, personal electronics
vendors, and publishers.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Conference Chair
John Vlissides, IBM Research 
(mailto:chair AT oopsla.org)

Program Chair
Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt 
(mailto:papers_info AT oopsla.org)

Communications Chair
Dwight Deugo, Espirity 
(mailto:communications AT oopsla.acm.org)
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I urge you to help shape the future of software development by
contributing to OOPSLA 2004. We look forward to your submissions and
to seeing you in Vancouver!

Dwight Deugo, OOPSLA 2004 Communications Chair