It's that time of year again and for the second year I'll be giving a tutorial on "Real-time Programming on the Java Platform". This covers mostly generic RTSJ information, as well as some specifics on Sun's Java RTS Real-time GC mechanism, presented by well known "sanitation engineer" Tony Printezis.

The OOPSLA Chair persons would like me to extend this invitation to you all:

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OOPSLA 2008

October 19-23, 2008
Nashville Convention Center
Nashville, Tennessee
http://www.oopsla.org/

Registration is now open for the 23rd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications

So what is in store? Here are some highlights of keynotes to entertain, inform and challenge you:

• Mark Lehner who works on discovering the story that the Giza pyramids and plateau have to tell.
• Lucy Suchman studies the way people work together and with technological artifacts. She will challenge us to rethink our ideas on what information systems are and how they should be designed.
• Janos Sztipanovits works on model integrated computing and embedded systems at Vanderbilt University and the Institute for Software Integrated Systems in Nashville.

And there is more. Expect food for thought from Sonali Shah, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Mark Jason Dominus and David Gries.

There are also

• 33 excellent research papers,
• 44 world-class tutorials,
• 15 workshops including Lisp50
• 5 panels
• 4 symposia and co-located events

and a lengthy list of practitioner reports, posters, demonstrations, the Onward! program and much, much more addressing a wide range of important new and well-established topics.

Please join me at OOPSLA 2008 in the heart of Nashville.

David Holmes
OOPSLA 2008
http://www.oopsla.org/