General talk about software patterns

[Eugene Wallingford <wallingf AT cs.uni.edu>]

     OOPSLA is delighted to announce the availability of scholarships
     for educators from 2- and 4-year colleges to attend OOPSLA 2004
     and its Educators' Symposium.  These scholarships are sponsored
     by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest
     Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).

     Scholarship recipients receive:
        - Registration to the OOPSLA 2004 conference.
        - Registration to the OOPSLA 2004 Educators' Symposium.
        - Registration to 1 full-day tutorial, or 2 half-day tutorials,
          at the conference.
        - Reimbursement for transportation and accommodation expenses
          up to a maximum of $600 (within North America) or $900
          (outside of North America).

     This year's Educators Symposium offers an exciting program aimed
     at helping OO educators and trainers do their jobs better.  We
     are honored this year to have as our keynote speaker the 2003
     Turing Award winner, Dr. Alan Kay!  We also have a strong
     selection of paper presentations, nifty assignments, posters
     and software demos, group activities, and a teaching games
     session led by Steve Metsker and Bill Wake.

     To learn more about the scholarships, please visit the Educators
     Symposium's call for submissions at:

                 http://www.oopsla.org/EducatorsSymposium

     ... and click on "Educator Scholarships".  There, you'll find
     a link to details on the Educator Scholarship program and
     information about how to apply.

     Be sure to come back to the http://www.oopsla.org/ on June 14
     to see the Educators Symposium program, as well as the rest of
     the advance program for OOPSLA 2004.

     We encourage you to join us for OOPSLA this fall in Vancouver!

---- Eugene Wallingford, chair
     OOPSLA 2004 Educators Symposium program committee

     Joe Bergin, Pace University, USA
     Robert Biddle, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
     Robert Duvall, Duke University, USA
     Rick Mercer, University of Arizona, USA
     Linda Rising, Independent Consultant, USA
     Helen Sharp, The Open University, UK
     Mary Lynn Manns, University of North Carolina. Asheville, USA
     Owen Astrachan, Duke University, USA