OOPSLA 2007 OOPSLA 2007

Speakers: Gregor Kiczales


The third and final day of ooPSLA 2007
began with Gregor Kiczales speaking about a theme that has underlay
his work throughout the years, from the metaobject protocol and
objects to aspect-oriented programming: the role played by context
in how people see software when they come to it as developer,
user, maintainer, and extender. His keynote address was titled

Context, Perspective and Programs.

Speakers: Pattie Maes


The ooPSLA 2007 keynote series closed
with Pattie Maes talking about

Meta-Objects for the World Around Us.
Her talk was a fitting bookend to Kiczales's address in the morning,
as Maes described ongoing work at the MIT Media Lab to make available
all of the information available to people when they need it as they
live their lives -- "users" using data and services in context.


Maes's topic also offered a fitting close to
ooPSLA, which has always ultimately
been about making the world a better place through programs, systems,
languages, and applications.

Speaker: Frederick Brooks


The second day of ooPSLA 2007 opened
with a keynote by computing pioneer Frederick Brooks, the author
of the classic The Mythical Man-Month. His talk is on

Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design.

Speakers: John McCarthy


The ooPSLA 2007 keynote series continued
with John McCarthy, the creator of Lisp and a pioneer of so many
fundamental ideas in programming languages. He spoke on one of his
recent language projects,

Elephant 2000: A Programming Language Based on Speech Acts.

Speakers: David Lorge Parnas


A day of pioneers speaking at ooPSLA 2007
ended with another seminal thinker in software engineering, David
Parnas, talking about

Precise Software Documentation:
Making Object Orientation Work Better.
In keeping with one of the longstanding themes of his work, Parnas
argues that for a true separation of concerns, one that extends to
documents we create for programmers and for people who will never
read our code.

Speaker: Peter Turchi


For the first time, ooPSLA is
podcasting its keynote talks. Watch this page for the
full line-up!


Opening the conference is acclaimed poet Peter Turchi, with

Once Upon a Time, Like Never Before:
The Challenge of Telling the Next Story.