The CHOOSE executive board is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Gilad Bracha (Sun Microsystems) on 'Objects as Software Services: Toward a World without Releases'.

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Objects as Software Services: Toward a World without Releases =============================================================

Feb 9, 2006

Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 001.

Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/

Speaker ------- Gilad Bracha, Computational Theologist & Distinguished Engineer - Java SE Sun Microsystems

Agenda ------ 17h15 Talk and Q/A Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.

Abstract ======== Software services seek to combine the advantages of traditional client applications and web services. Software services go beyond web services in supporting rich interaction when networks are slow, unreliable or nonexistent. At the same time, software services retain the advantages associated with web services: they are always available and always up to date. Software services have the potential to radically transform software development, as they enable a world without versions and releases. We discuss the advantages of dynamic object oriented language principles in facilitating the design of an object based platform for software services.

Bio === Gilad Bracha is a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He is co-author and maintainer 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.

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