Speaker

Bjarne Stroustrup
Texas A&M University

Bjarne Stroustrup is the College of Engineering Professor in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow and an AT&T Fellow. He is actively involved in the ANSI/ISO standardization of C++. Recipient of the 1993 ACM Grace Murray Hopper award. ACM fellow. Bjarne Stroustrup designed and implemented C++.

Presentation: "Generic programming in C++"

Monday 10:45 - 11:30, Conference Hall

Generic and generative programming are fashionable. C# and Java are growing generic extensions, there are metaprogramming dialects of Haskell and ML, and most novel C++ techniques rely on templates. The reason is simple: these techniques leads to code that is both type safe and more efficient than alternatives. Here, I trace the C++ usage from the earliest days through current libraries, to plausible future language extensions. Providing statically type safe containiers and outperforming qsort() with simpler code is important, but it is just the beginning.

Generic programming in C++ - (slides)

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Presentation: "Panel discussion:CORBA vs. ICE and Standard vs. Innovation"

Wednesday 14:15 - 15:00 Conference Hall

Choosing to use any technology, such as a middleware technology like CORBA or ICE in a software project, has implications for parameters like:
* Application performance
* Productivity
* Portability
* Interoperability
* Vendor dependency and lock-in
* Availability of developers with knowledge about the technology
* Long term availability


How does ICE compare with CORBA on these parameters, and how important is the CORBA standard and other open, formal standards to software development ?
The discussion is headed by a unique collection of the worlds leading CORBA, ICE and distributed computing experts.

Presentation: "Standardization from a C++ perspective"

Tuesday 13:00 - 13:45, Conference Hall

First, I'll try to give an impression of what standardization and standards are: How is standardization done? Who does standardization? Why? Who benefits? How? There is much more to the C++ standards process than the carricature of a few grey bureaucrats fighting over the placement of a comma in a document where nothing of practical importance ever changes. Secondly, I'll describe how the standards process is helping shape the future definition of C++ and describe likely directions of growth. The C++ standards committee aims to be agressive in the extension of the standard library while being relatively conservative with core language extensions.

Standardization from a C++ perspective - (slides)

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