TITLE: Missing OOPSLA
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: October 24, 2007  4:12 PM
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I am sad this week to be missing
<A HREF="http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/">
   OOPSLA 2007</A>.
You might guess from my
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2007-10.html#e2007-10-04T18_40_13.htm">
   recent positive words</A>
that missing the conference would make me <EM>really</EM>
sad, and you'd be right.  But demands of work and family
made traveling to Montreal a work infeasible.  After
attending eleven straight OOPSLAs, my fall schedule has
a whole in it.  My blog might, too; OOPSLA has been the
source of many, many writing inspirations in the three
years since I began blogging.

One piece of good news for me -- and for you, too -- is
that we are podcasting all of OOPSLA's keynote talks this
year.  That would be a bonus for any conference, but with
OOPSLA it is an almost sinfully delicious treat.  I was
reading someone else's blog recently, and the writer --
a functional programming guy, as I recall -- went down
the roster of OOPSLA keynote speakers:
<UL>
<LI> Peter Turchi </LI>
<LI> Kathy Sierra </LI>
<LI> Jim Purbrick &amp; Mark Lentczner </LI>
<LI> Guy Steele &amp; Richard Gabriel </LI>
<LI> Fred Brooks </LI>
<LI> John McCarthy </LI>
<LI> David Parnas </LI>
<LI> Gregor Kiczales </LI>
<LI> Pattie Maes </LI>
</UL>

... and wondered if this was perhaps the strongest lineup
of speakers ever assembled for a CS conference.  It is
an impressive list!

If you are interested in listening in on what these deep
thinkers and contributors to computing are telling the
OOPSLA crowd this week, checkout the
<A HREF="http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/index.php?page=podcasts/">
   conference podcast</A>
page.  We have all of Tuesday's keynotes (through Steele
&amp; Gabriel in the above list) available now, and we
hope to post today's and tomorrow's audio in the next day
or so.  Enjoy!
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