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Newest (July 28): Final Eiffel Summit program now online (August 1st).
New (July 26): TOOLS attendees will receive the Microsoft .NET preview CD, not yet available to the general public.
New (July 16): The first in-depth tutorials
on Microsoft's just announced .NET technology, including Programming the .NET environment by Raphael Simon and Emmanuel Stapf,
programming in C#
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ASP+ Web programming,
plus the keynotes by Jim Miller (.NET technology leader) and Clemens Szyperski of Microsoft.
New (June 27): TOOLS will feature an in-depth tutorial on Microsoft's just announced C# language. New (June 21): Conference brochure in PDF format. | |||
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Sponsors
TOOLS USA 2000 is sponsored by Microsoft and will feature a special track on Microsoft component technologies. Other sponsors include Borders bookstores, the Software Council of So. California, PC AI magazine and Interactive Software Engrg. See sponsorship details. |
KeynotesKent Beck, Don Box, Martin Fowler, Martin Griss, Bertrand Meyer, Jim Miller, Clemens Szyperski. See keynote details. | ||
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Tutorials by the world's software technology expertsThe widest range of topics and subjects ever! COM, COM+, CORBA 3, Java, JINI, mobile agents, refactoring, Extreme Programming, UML, Unified Process, databases, real-time, aspect-oriented programming, patterns, C++, O-O Cobol, Requirements management, enterprise application integration, rapid application development, and more. See tutorial details (speakers, abstracts). | |||
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Special introductory tutorialOn Sunday, July 30: An executive overview of Object Technology, taught by Cliff Ritchie. Details here |
WET (Workshop on Education and Training)Must-attend for trainers and teachers, with an industrial training component chaired by Pete McBreen and a university-oriented component chaired by James McKim and Richard Mitchell, also on Sunday, July 30. See WET details, | ||
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The famous TOOLS language panelChaired by Richard Riehle: the conference's Great Finale on Thursday, August 3. Come cheer for your favorite development language! |
Component-based development panelChaired by Roger Smith of Software Development magazine, with Clemens Szyperski, Bertrand Meyer and Gilda Pour. | ||
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Project management panelchaired by Mark Mastman, with Bill Duncan and other leading project managers. Relating business needs to IT workshopChaired by Haim Kilov. |
Project management of O-O systems workshopChaired by Guy Carter and Dilip Patel. See workshop Web site at http://www.cios.sbu.ac.uk/pmtools2. Software Technology for E-Commerce panelChaired by Denny Bollay. | ||
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A superb scientific program28 papers have been selected by the TOOLS scientific program committee cochaired by Qiaoyun Li and Donald Firesmith, on the most advanced topics of component and object-oriented software development, with proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Press. | |||
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Special events for Eiffel developers and enthusiasts | |||
Eiffel SummitThe yearly meeting for Eiffelists worldwide. Experience reports, new libraries, product announcements. August 1; chaired by Paul Ford and Darren Hiebert. Details and submission information here. |
Extreme Eiffel Design and Code FestChaired by Richie Bielak. Show off your O-O design and implementation skills on a real problem! For details see event's web page at http://www.netlabs.net/~richieb/eedcf/. | ||
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Post-conference tutorialsOn Friday, August 4, choose from three in-depth one-day tutorials: Design by Contract by Bertrand Meyer; Project Management by Bill Duncan; and Metrics for Object-Oriented Development by Christine Mingins. | |||
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Many more!Stay tuned as this page gets updated with new TOOLS events. Don't forget the superb TOOLS social program, with the Beach Barbecue on Monday, Dinner and Classical Concert Under the Stars on Wednesday, and the endless resources of the magnificent Santa Barbara area. | |||