Tom Van Cutsem
(primary contact) is a researcher at the Software Languages
Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is the
co-designer of the distributed programming language
AmbientTalk. His broad research interests include
concurrent and distributed languages, computational
reflection and object composition abstractions. He is a
post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation, Flanders
(FWO) and is currently a Visiting Faculty researcher at
Google in Mountain View, USA.
Jorge Fox is a
research fellow in Lero - The Irish Software Engineering
Research Centre, and is based in Trinity College Dublin. He
obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2007 from the
Technical University of Munich at the chair of Software
Engineering. His research interests include
service-oriented development, aspect orientation and
adaptive systems.
Ole Lehrmann Madsen
is a professor of Computer Science at Aarhus University,
and managing director of the Alexandra Institute Ltd. – a
non-profit company doing application-oriented research
within ICT in partnership with universities, companies and
public institutions. He has worked with object-technology
for more than 25 years starting with Simula programming. He
developed the BETA programming language together with
Kristen Nygaard, Birger Møller-Pedersen and Bent Bruun
Kristensen.
Eric Jul is a professor
at the University of Oslo, Norway and a member of Bell Labs
Ireland. Previously, he was professor in the DistLab Group
at DIKU in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also president of
AITO, the non-profit organization behind ECOOP. He is the
principal architect of the Emerald runtime system. His main
research interests are distributed operating systems and
their implementation including cryptology, object-oriented
languages and systems and their implementation including
garbage collection and interaction with operating systems,
and object-oriented design.
Gilad
Bracha Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak
programming language. Previously, he was a Distinguished
Engineer at Cadence, and a Computational Theologist and
Distinguished Engineer at Sun. He is co-author of the Java
Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of
object-oriented programming languages. Prior to joining
Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk
System. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer
Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the University of Utah.
William Cook is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His research is focused on object-oriented programming, programming languages, modeling languages, and the interface between programming languages and databases. Prior to joining UT in 2003, Dr. Cook was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Allegis Corporation. He was chief architect for several award-winning products, including the eBusiness Suite at Allegis, the Writer's Solution for Prentice Hall, and the AppleScript language at Apple Computer. At HP Labs his research focused on the foundations of object-oriented languages, including formal models of mixins, inheritance, and typed models of object-oriented languages. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Brown University in 1989.