Intel Research Berkeley Programming Systems Seminar Series

Overview

The Programming Systems Seminar Series has now completed.

The Intel Research Berkeley Programming Systems Seminar Series brought together some of the greatest minds in programming language design.

All seminars were held at 4pm at Intel Research Berkeley's Penthouse Suite on 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley. Seminars were open to anyone who wished to attend.

To request a poster, or more information, please contact Rob Ennals at robert.ennals@intel.com.

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The Speakers

September 18th - Hans Boehm
Designer of the Boehm-Weiser Garbage Collector. SIGPLAN Chair 2001-03.
Towards a Memory Model for C
(Slides) (Video - 85Mb WMV) (Video - 600Mb WMV)

September 25th - Herb Sutter
Chair of the ISO C++ standards committee. Lead architect of the Standard C++/CLI extensions to C++ for .NET. Author of "The Free Lunch Is Over".
Software and the Concurrency Revolution
(Slides) (Video - 91Mb WMV)

October 9th - Greg Morrisett
Co-designer of the Cyclone Language. Editor in Chief of the Journal of Functional Programming
Static Extended Checking for Cyclone
(Slides)(Video - 91Mb WMV)

October 23rd - Guido van Rossum
Creator of Python. Known by the Python community as the Benevolent Dictator for Life.
Design and Implementation of Python
(Slides) (Video - 93Mb WMV)

October 30th - Guy Steele
Responsible for the specification of the Java programming language and co-designer of the Scheme and Fortress languages.
Parallel Programming and Code Selection in Fortress
(Slides) (Video - 93Mb WMV)

November 6th - Martin Odersky
Creator of the Scala language and go-designer of Pizza and GJ.
Tackling Concurrency --- Language or Library?
(Slides) (Video - 73Mb WMV)

November 27th - Alan Kay
One of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing and graphical user interfaces
How Simply and Understandably Could The "Personal Computing Experience" Be Programmed?
(Slides not available)
(NSF Proposal) (Video - 109Mb WMV)

January 29th - Martin Rinard
Creator of Acceptability-Oriented Computing
Eliminating Fatal Errors in Software Systems
(Slides)
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February 26th - Bertrand Meyer
Designer of Eiffel and originator of the Design by Contract development method.
Contracts in Eiffel: old and new uses
(Slides)
(Video - 90Mb WMV)

THURSDAY March 15th - Bjarne Stroustrup
Designer and original implementor of C++
An outline of C++0x
(Slides)
(Video - 84mb WMV)

April 2nd - Charles Leiserson
Designer of the Cilk language. Head of the MIT supercomputing technologies research group
Multithreaded Programming in Cilk
(Slides)
(Video - 84Mb WMV)

April 30th - Philip Wadler
Contributed to the designs of Haskell, Java, and XQuery. 70th most cited author in Computer Science, according to CiteSeer.
Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages: From Haskell to Java
(Slides)
(Video - 75Mb WMV)

Posters

Download a poster.

To request a printed poster, or more information, please contact Rob Ennals at robert.ennals@intel.com.