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The OOPSLA podcast brings you up to speed on topics covered
at the 2007 conference. The podcast is co-produced with
Software Engineering Radio and DimSumThinking. Episodes
include coverage of notable tutorials, workshops, technical
papers, essays, invited talks, and Onward! events. The show
is hosted at http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/, and you can
get the feed from www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/podcasts/rss .
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Episode 23: Keynote -- Gregor Kiczales
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
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Episode 24: Keynote -- Pattie Maes
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,
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Episode 20: Keynote -- Frederick Brooks
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. -
Episode 21: Keynote -- John McCarthy
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. -
Episode 22: Keynote -- David Lorge Parnas
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
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Episode 16: Keynote -- Peter Turchi
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.