March 15, 1999
Tutorials The high quality, breadth, and depth of the Tutorials have always been a strong point of OOPSLA. Tutorials cover all aspects of object-oriented technology from introductory surveys to industrial software engineering practices to leading-edge research topics. In addition to the traditional topics, we especially encourage proposals for innovative tutorials: tutorials that depart from lecture-style delivery and tutorials on highly advanced, bleeding-edge object technology. Tutorials are presented in half-day, full-day, or two-day sessions at the beginning of the conference week, and a few are repeated during the technical conference itself. Tutorial Submission Guidelines Educator’s Symposium The Educator’s Symposium is for academic and industry professionals who have a vested interest in object technology education and training. This one-day symposium is a unique forum for these professionals to discuss their needs and ideas for incorporating object technology into courses, curricula, and training plans. The symposium will include invited talks, short presentations and panels, demonstrations and posters, and interactive sessions. Educator’s Symposium Submission Guidelines Panels & Debates Successful panels raise important issues and encourage discussion, both among panelists and between panelists and the audience. Creativity in panel format, audience engagement, and actual discussion by panel participants are key factors in making panels stimulating and useful. We especially encourage formal debates between experts (or panels of experts) on opposite sides of an issue. Panels Submission Guidelines Workshops Workshops are intensive collaborative sessions where object technologists meet to surface, discuss, and solve challenging problems facing the field. Workshops also provide the opportunity for representatives of a technical community to coordinate efforts and establish collective plans of action. OOPSLA workshops are full-day events on either of the first two days before the conference. Workshops Submission Guidelines DesignFest The DesignFest is designed to give attendees the opportunity to learn more about design by actually doing design rather than just reading about it. The DesignFest is not about passively sitting and listening to experts talk about design -- it is about sharpening your design skills by rolling up your sleeves and working a real design problem with others in the field. The DesignFest is neither a design class nor a tutorial; it is an opportunity for designers to sharpen and measure their skills by interacting with their peers. DesignFest Submission Guidelines
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Chair: Jay Almarode
Submissions due date: March 15, 1999.
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Chair: Mary Lynn Manns
Submissions due date: March 15, 1999.
We solicit a variety of proposals in such areas as: teaching experience in object technology at any level, effective object technology case studies and exercises, collaboration efforts between academic and industry for technology education and training, and innovative approaches and techniques for teaching object technology. Selection will be based on relevance, clarity, and originality, as well as technical and educational merit.
ACM SIGPLAN and OOPSLA will provide a number of scholarships for educators from two and four year colleges. Scholarships will cover conference expenses and contribute to travel expenses. Interested educators should see the "Educator Scholarship" information on the OOPSLA web page.
Educator Scholarships
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Chair: Jim Haungs
Submissions due date: March 15, 1999.
Panels and Debates are presented in 90 minute sessions in the Technical Program and have an abstract/position paper published in the OOPSLA Companion and a final panel report in the conference addendum.
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Chair: Gus Lopez
Submissions due date: March 15, 1999.
To ensure a sufficiently small group for effective interaction, workshop attendance is managed by the organizers based on short position papers from potential attendees. However, this call for participation is for workshop organizers (a later call will occur for workshop attendees) -- we encourage innovative workshops and require that each workshop have at least two organizers, preferably from different organizations.
We particularly encourage proposals for novel, highly-interactive workshops that fall outside the conventional workshop format.
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Chair: Peter Smith
Submissions due date: March 15, 1999.
This call-for-participation is for design problems, not participants. Design problems should be sufficiently large that they present an interesting challenge, and yet sufficiently small that the participants can complete a design in a single day. We invite authors to submit problem proposals, especially ones extracted from real-world projects.
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