Tom Van Cutsem (primary contact)
is a researcher at the Programming Technology Laboratory
(PROG) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He
finished his PhD dissertation in 2008 on object designation
in mobile ad hoc networks. He is the co-designer of the
distributed programming language AmbientTalk. His broad
research interests include programming language design and
implementation, distributed programming and reflective
architectures. He is a post-doctoral fellow of the Research
Foundation, Flanders (FWO). Website.
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. Website.
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. Website.
Eric Jul is a professor in the
DistLab Group at DIKU which is the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Copenhagen in 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.