IAM of the University of Berne, the SCG and CHOOSE is proud to announce the talk of Prof. Ralph Johnson. Title: "Toward's an Architect's Handbook" Ralph E. Johnson - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign One of the events that led to the book "Design Patterns" was an OOPSLA workshop to investigate what kind of handbook should be used by a software architect. Design patterns were one of the things that we thought should be in such a handbook. But the software engineering community in general, and patterns writers in particular, are still far from an architect's handbook. This talk will explain the vision, what is missing, a few recent books that in my opinion are big steps towards the goal, and what we should do to fulfill our vision. When: friday 21 February 2003 at 17h30 Where: IAM Room 001 (opposite of the cafetaria) Schutzenmattstrasse http://www.iam.unibe.ch/English/Texts/finding.html Stef Prof. Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse(a)iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes