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