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IMPORTANT DATES: Pre-Registration Deadline: Monday, August 24, 1998 - Hotel Discount Deadline: Friday, August 21, 1998

 
 
Tutorial Instructors


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Tom Poindexter  (M1 is President of Talus Technologies, Inc., a Denver based software consulting company. Tom has authored and maintains the Sybtcl and Oratcl Tcl database extensions. Tom has 18+ years experience in software design and programming and has been developing Tcl-based database applications for Denver area telecommunications clients since 1992. He is also a contributing author of Tcl/Tk Tools, an upcoming title from O'Reilly & Associates.Tom also writes robot simulation games in C and Tcl. Tom has earned an MBA from Illinois State University.

Michael McLennan  (M2, M5, T2, T5 has been a Tcl/Tk enthusiast since 1992, and is currently a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs Innovations for Lucent Technologies. He has taught more than 60 Tcl/Tk courses, and is co-author of Effective Tcl/Tk Programming (Addison-Wesley) and Tcl/Tk Tools (O'Reilly & Associates). He also developed [incr Tcl], an object-oriented extension of Tcl/Tk. He has developed many other extensions and applications, including the cover application for John Ousterhout's book Tcl and the Tk Toolkit (Addison-Wesley). Michael received a PhD in 1990 from Purdue University.

Vicki A. Murphy  (M3, M4 has extensive training experience in a variety of educational settings. She currently teaches Tcl classes for Computerized Processes Unlimited, Inc., (CPU). She also teaches a series of customized Tcl classes worldwide for a third party software vendors. Vicki has a BS in computer information systems a BS in business administration.

Gerald W. Lester  (M4 founded the Training, Networking and Support Department at Computerized Processes Unlimited, Inc. (CPU). He currently serves as the department manager where he teaches customized Tcl classes for a third party software vendors and classes on CPU's real-time Tcl extensions, called SCL(R). Having used Tcl since 1992, he chaired the Tcl User Group meeting in 1994 and served on the group's program committee in 1995 & 1997. Gerald has been been in software development since 1979, and he primarily designs real-time control systems. He holds a BS in computer science and physics, and a MS in computer science.

Jeffrey Hobbs  (M6 has worked on Tcl projects ranging from 5 to 100,000 LOC at Siemens AG. He is author of TkCon and TkTable, among other Tcl utilities, and maintains the Tk Usage FAQ. Jeffrey received a BA and MS in computer science from the University of Oregon, where he taught classes on using Tcl/Tk.

Dave Beazley  (T1 is the developer of SWIG, a freely available tool for building Tcl, Perl,and Python interfaces to C/C++ applications. He has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and published a variety of articles on the use of scripting environments with high-performance scientific and engineering applications. He is a PhD Candidate at the University of Utah and will be joining the University of Chicago as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science.

Brent Welch  (T3 is a Senior Web Engineer at Scriptics Corporation. He is the author of Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk. He has developed many applications in Tcl and Tk, including the exam email user interface, the TclHttpd web server, and the WebTk HTML editor. Brent worked for Xerox PARC for five years and Sun Microsystems Laboratories for three years before joining Scriptics. Brent received a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

George Howlett  (T4 is a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, where he has been developing software for Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD) tools. He is an ardent fan of Tcl, having built several CAD applications with it since 1989. He is the author of the BLT toolkit and the chapter "The BLT Toolkit" from the book Tcl/Tk Tools.

John Reekie  (T6 is a post-doctoral researcher for the Ptolemy Project at UC Berkeley, and Christopher Hylands is the software manager. They are two of the principal authors of Tycho, a Tcl/Tk user interface for the Ptolemy simulator project, and are currently involved in the design and development of the Java version of Ptolemy.

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