[TYPES/announce] OOPSLA 2006 Call for Participation (Portland, Oct 22-26)

[William Cook]

OOPSLA 2006 will be held October 22-26 in historic Portland, Oregon (USA).
You can learn all about OOPSLA at www.oopsla.org, and/or download the
Advance Program PDF at
http://www.oopsla.org/2006//program/oopsla_06_advance_program.pdf .

OOPSLA is the premier gathering of professionals from industry and academia,
all sharing their experiences with today's object technologies and its
offshoots. OOPSLA appeals to practitioners, researchers, students,
educators, and managers, all of whom discover a wealth of information and
the chance to meet others with similar interests and varied experiences and
knowledge.

You can mold your own OOPSLA experience, attending your choices of technical
papers, practitioner reports, expert panels, demonstrations, essays,
lightning talks, formal and informal educator symposia, workshops, and
diverse tutorials and certificate courses from world-class experts.

Our invited speakers this year include:

    * Dr. Brenda Laurel  (Chair and graduate faculty member of the graduate
Media Design
      Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California)

    * Dr. Guy Steele  (A Sun Fellow and researcher for Sun Microsystems
Laboratories)

    * Dr. Philip Wadler (Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the
University
      of Edinburgh.)

    * Joshua Bloch (Chief Java Architect at Google)

Please see http://www.oopsla.org/2006/program/sessions/invited_speakers.html
for more background on our invited speakers.

OOPSLA provides nearly 70 tutorials to choose from! OOPSLA gathers the
world's finest educators covering the full breadth of classic and
cutting-edge topics. Our presenters not only have world-class expertise,
they're also successful presenters who know how to share their hard-won
knowledge with you.  Visit
www.oopsla.org/2006/submission/tutorials/introduction_to_tutorials.html .

There will also be nearly 20 workshops at OOPSLA. They're fun! These
workshops are highly interactive events, where groups of technologists meet
to surface, discuss, and attempt to solve challenging problems. You learn a
lot when you share your ideas and experiences with others in the field, and
build relationships that are an essential part of the OOPSLA experience.
Check out
http://www.oopsla.org/2006/submission/workshops/introduction_to_workshops.ht
ml .

The popular Onward! track presents out-of-the-box thinking at the frontiers
of computing. Posters discuss late-breaking results, culminating in the ACM
Student Research Competition. Try your hand at solving the DesignFestR
design challenge. And of course there are plenty of social opportunities for
mingling and professional networking.

In addition to all the great offerings at OOPSLA, four other conferences are
collocated this year, including:

     * Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'06)
     * Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP'06)
     * Dynamic Languages Symposium

You can find links to more information about these collocated conferences at
OOPSLA's main page, www.oopsla.org . It's important to register soon, to
reserve your place at OOPSLA 2006. Before you register, you should partially
plan your week, deciding which tutorials, symposia, and collocated
conferences you'd like to attend. Then you can register at
https://regmaster2.com/cgi-bin/OOP06/on1/RMSs.cgi .

Go to the web (www.oopsla.org) today to reserve your place at OOPSLA '06.
See you in Portland!

William Cook
OOPSLA 2006 Program Chair