Important Information:
November 4: Workshop #24 starts at 8:45am Monday
Location: Washington State Convention & Trade Center Seattle, Washington, USA Convention Ctr - Room 613-614
Themes and Goals:
The topics of our workshop are: determining what is required in runtime kernels to better support dynamic languages, and component based architectures. While the problem domain is restricted to addressing kernel requirement issues, experience reports from researchers targeting alternative dynamic languages and component models to the JVM, Squeak VM, CLI, or other virtual machine architectures are also welcome. The topics for the workshop may include, but are not restricted to the following: Type Safety issues in component architectures Kernel support for contracts/contract verification Component deployment and packagining issues Release-to-release binary compatibility issues Intermediate language issues Base/object model extensibility issues Approaches to implementing component models on top of host object models Interpretation/compilation/hybrid support The goal of this workshop is to discuss and possibly come to a consensus on what cross section of language features determine the majority of the dynamic language spectrum. We would like to discuss the issues required to better support these dynamic language features directly in the kernel of a language agnostic runtime, and how to go about doing that. We will also discuss in depth the engineering characteristics of component software, such as packaging, deployment,and release-to-release binary compatability.

Organization Committee:

Primary Contact Person:

Yahya H. Mirza
Aurora Borealis Software
yahya_mirza@hotmail.com

Jurg Gutknecht
ETH
gutknecht@inf.ethz.ch

David Intersimone
Borland Software Corporation
davidi@borland.com

Ralph E. Johnson
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
johnson@cs.uiuc.edu

Program Committee:

George Bosworth
Microsoft Corporation
georgeb@microsoft.com

Stan Lippman
Microsoft Corporation
slippman@microsoft.com

Yukihiro Matsumoto
Ruby
matz@ruby-lang.org

Elliot Miranda
Cincom(Visual Works Smalltalk)
eliot@parcplace.com

Bob Rorschach
Franz(CLOS)
rfr@franz.com

David Simmons
SmallScript LLC
David.Simmons@smallscript.com

Gregory T. Sullivan
MIT(Dylan)
gregs@ai.mit.edu

David Stutz
Microsoft(Rotor/Visual Basic/COM)
davidstu@microsoft.com