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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Smalltalk Solutions 2005 will be here before you know it.
Make sure you sign<br>
<span class=GramE>up</span> early to take advantage of the savings. Visit<br>
<a href="http://www.smalltalksolutions.com/"><span class=GramE>http://www.smalltalksolutions.com/</span></a><span
class=GramE> to register.</span> Here are a few samples of<br>
<span class=GramE>what</span> you can expect from this year's show in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Orlando</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Don’t forget to sign up for the Smalltalk coding contest
as well. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>More info at <a
href="http://www.stic.org/">www.stic.org</a> <br>
<br>
Smalltalk in an Autonomous Ground Vehicle -- A New Direction<br>
<span class=GramE>presentation</span><br>
Hylands, Jon:<br>
Tuesday 10:30 am to 11:15 am<br>
<br>
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles are <span class=GramE>an emerging technology that
are</span> ideally<br>
<span class=GramE>suited</span> for exploration, reconnaissance, inspection,
and monitoring. The<br>
<span class=GramE>software</span> required to successfully pilot an autonomous
vehicle must be very<br>
<span class=GramE>robust</span>, capable of complex behaviors, and also be easy
to maintain and<br>
<span class=GramE>extend</span>. Smalltalk fits the bill on all of these requirements.<br>
This demo will show Orion, a simple hobby-level autonomous ground vehicle<br>
<span class=GramE>built</span> by the presenter's brother, with the high-level
"brain" of the system<br>
<span class=GramE>running</span> in Squeak Smalltalk on an embedded Linux
single-board computer. The<br>
<span class=GramE>autonomous</span> controller for this vehicle can also
control many other<br>
<span class=GramE>autonomous</span> vehicles, including <span class=SpellE>MicroSeeker</span>,
the presenter's autonomous<br>
<span class=GramE>underwater</span> vehicle. Orion is being built to compete in
the <span class=SpellE>RoboMagellan</span><br>
<span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>compeition</span></span> held by the
Seattle Robotics Society in September.<br>
<br>
Bio: Jon Hylands has been doing Smalltalk programming since 1987. Jon's main<br>
<span class=GramE>interests</span> include hobby robotics and autonomous
submersibles, and making<br>
<span class=GramE>Smalltalk work on embedded devices.</span><br>
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VA Smalltalk Going Forward<br>
<span class=GramE>presentation</span> O'Keefe, John and Clayberg, Eric:<br>
IBM, <span class=SpellE>InstantiationsTuesday</span> 10:30 am to 12 pm<br>
<br>
Bio: John O'Keefe is the lead developer of the IBM VisualAge Smalltalk team.<br>
After spending the first 2/3 of his career at IBM working on process control<br>
<span class=GramE>software</span> and mainframe systems, he was introduced to
Smalltalk by Bob Hinkle<br>
<span class=GramE>in</span> 1988 and found his niche. He has been working on
the IBM VisualAge<br>
Smalltalk product since before Version 1 and has been the technical lead of<br>
<span class=GramE>the</span> team since Version 4. Eric Clayberg, Sr. Vice
President of Product<br>
Development for Instantiations, Inc<span class=GramE>.,</span> was Executive
Vice President of<br>
<span class=SpellE>Objectshare</span> Systems, Inc. and Vice President of
Development for<br>
ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. He is the primary author and architect of over a<br>
<span class=GramE>dozen</span> commercial Smalltalk add-on products including
the popular VA Assist<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class=GramE>Enterprise</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
class=GramE> and WindowBuilder Pro product lines.</span> He has a BS from MIT
and an<br>
<span class=GramE>MBA from Harvard.</span><br style='mso-special-character:
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