Re: Vancouver : Gregor Kiczales at Meetup.

From: drewc (drewc_at_rift.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:04:47 GMT

drewc wrote:

I will of course be taking notes and pictures, and i'll post them all
here for everybody to enjoy. I'm really looking forward to this.

drewc

> Vancouver, BC : Lispers Take Note!
>
> I convinced Guy Lancaster, who runs the monthly software developers
> meetup here, to invite Gregor Kiczales to speak. Co-author of _The Art
> of the Meta Object Protocol_ and the original developer of Portable
> Common Loops (from which most CLOS implemetations are based), he is now
> doing work with Aspect Oriented Programming (AspectJ).
>
> This is only the third meetup, and it's the second with some lisp
> content (i spoke at the first), so any vancouver lispers should come out.
>
> He plans to talk mostly about AOP and AspectJ, but if i can get a few
> more lispnicks there, we can grill him on AMOP and PCL...
>
> Here are the details :
>
> We open this meeting with a presentation by Prof. Gregor Kiczales of
> UBC's Software Practices Lab about his work with aspect-oriented
> programming and AspectJ. We'll follow this with questions, a round of
> introductions, and open discussion. This is a networking event so bring
> your business cards and find out from each other who's doing what in
> Vancouver.
>
> When:
> Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 7:00 PM
>
> Where:
> UBC Robson Square C550
> 800 Robson Steet
> Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7
> 604.822.3333
> Map
>
> Notes:
> Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is designed to address limitations
> that object-oriented programming has with requirements that don't fit
> into narrowly focussed objects. AOP supports a simple, natural
> implementation of behavior that crosscuts a set of objects. The
> presentation will introduce AOP in general and the AspectJ
> implementation in particular.
>
> Now with UBC's Software Practices Lab (see
> http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spl/ ), Gregor Kiczales was doing research on
> AOP since the mid 1990's as a member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research
> Center and on object-oriented programming before that. He is a
> recognized authority on AOP and will be able to give us a clear
> perspective on how we can use this powerful tool.
>
> For more information on Gregor Kiczales see his homepage at
> http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~gregor/ .
>
> Hope to see you all there.
>
> drewc

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