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Technical Program   Wednesday, May 5, 1999


9:00am - 10:30am     Opening Session

Opening Remarks & Awards
Murthy Devarakonda, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Keynote Address
James Arthur Gosling, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Java Software; VP and Fellow, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

 James Gosling is currently a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint based drawing editor and a text editor called `Emacs' for Unix systems. At Sun his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system. He did the original design of the Java programming language and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. He received a BS in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. His thesis was entitled "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints".


10:30am - 11:00am     Break


11:00am - 12:30pm
Design Patterns
Session Chair: Steve Vinoski, IONA Technologies, Inc.
Filters as a Language Support for Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Scripting Languages
Gustaf Neumann and Uwe Zdun, University of Essen, Germany

Performance Patterns: Automated Scenario Based ORB Performance Evaluation
Sridhar Nimmagadda, Chanaka Liyanaarchchi, Douglas Niehaus, Anil Gopinath and Arvind Kaushal University of Kansas

Object-Oriented Pattern-Based Parallel Programming with Automatically Generated Frameworks
Steve MacDonald, Duane Szafron, and Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta, Canada


12:30pm - 2:00pm     Lunch (on your own)


2:00pm - 3:30pm
Runtime Issues
Session Chair: Yi-Min Wang, Microsoft Research
Intercepting and Instrumenting COM Applications
Galen C. Hunt, Microsoft Research and Michael L. Scott , University of Rochester

Implementing Causal Logging Using OrbixWeb Interception
Chanathip Namprempre, Jeremy Sussman, and Keith Marzullo, University of California, San Diego

Quality of Service Aware Distributed Object Systems
Svend Frolund and Jari Koistinen, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories


3:30pm - 4:00pm     Break


4:00pm - 5:00pm
Objects and Databases
Session Chair: Rajendra Raj, Morgan Stanley & Company
Resource Control for Java Database Extensions
Grzegorz Czajkowski, Tobias Mayr, Praveen Seshadri, and Thorsten von Eicken, Cornell University

Address Translation Strategies in the Texas Persistent Store
Sheetal V. Kakkad and Paul R. Wilson, University of Texas, Austin

 

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