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Sun Microsystems at OOPSLA, 2006October 31, 2006 - OOPSLA 2006, the premier conference for researchers, academicians and industry professionals who work in the realm of object-oriented technologies was held this week in Portland, Oregon. Sponsored by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), OOPSLA's extensive schedule featured a large number of events, including: Birds of a Feather, Demos, Symposia, Essays, Keynotes, Tutorials and Workshops. The highlight of the week was the award by the OOPSLA Steering Committee to Randy Smith, Sun Labs Senior Research Scientist, and Dave Ungar, formerly Sun Labs Distinguished Engineer, of the an award for one of the "Most Influential OOPSLA Papers". SIGPLAN and the OOPSLA Steering Committee decided to give a special award to the three most influential papers from the first 11 years of OOPSLA at a special event to celebrate a set of papers that have had a profound impact on the theory and practice of object-oriented development. The paper, co-authored by Randy and David Ungar, is titled: "Self: The Power of Simplicity." Sun Microsystems and Sun Labs were ably represented by a sizable group of engineers and researchers, highlighted by a Dr. Guy Steele Keynote on Fortress entitled "A Growable Language". This keynote was the followup, or bookend, to an extremely influential OOPSLA keynote given by Guy Steele in 1998: "Growing a Language." Jim Waldo presented an Essay: "On System Design", which considered present factors which make it difficult to do good system design, and what the solution might be. "On System Design" will be published soon as part of the Sun Labs Perspectives Series. Onward! ,a special session entitled "Conscientious Software" by Dick Gabriel and Ron Goldman, featured a look forward at next generation, adaptive software. The Sun SPOTs team of Randy Smith, Bernard Horan (Sun Labs), John Daniels and Dave Cleal (Syntropy LTD) presented several Sun SPOT demos, and participated in the Building Software for Sensor Networks Workshop. Brian Goetz, David Holmes, Sun Software Engineers presented two Tutorials: Intro to Concurrent Programming in Java 5.0, and Effective Concurrent Programming in Java. Tim Boudreau, Jaroslav Tulach (SMI), and Rich Unger (Nuance) presented a NetBeans Workshop on Plug-In/RCP Application Development. Kenneth Russell and David Detlefs presented a research p papers entitled "Eliminating Synchronization-Related Atomic Operations with Biased Locking and Bulk Rebiasing" and Craig Russell participated in a Panel entitled "Objects and Databases: State of the Union in 2006." Sun Microsystems At OOPSLA 2006 Sun Labs Researchers:
A Growable Language Dr. Guy L. Steele Jr. (Sun Labs) Essay: Onward! Demo: Sun Microsystems Engineers: Tutorials: Effective Concurrent Programming in Java, T44 Workshop: Panel: Research Paper: | ||||||||||||||||||||||