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Title:        "ANSI/ISO C++ Standards Committee Press Conference"
Panel:        Thomas Plum,  Plum Hall (Hawaii),  Convener of WG21
              Andrew Koenig,  AT&T Labs-Research, Project Editor of WG21
              Stephen Clamage,  Sun Microsystems (Calif),  Chair of J16
              Bjarne Stroustrup,  AT&T Labs-Research,  Inventor of C++

Date:         Friday Nov 14, 1997
Time:         1-3pm (afternoon)
Sponsor:      ANSI C++ Standards Committee X3J16
Location:     Headquarters Plaza Hotel, (HQ Plaza and Speedwell Ave)
              Morristown, New Jersey
Travel:       * By Train -- The hotel is a short walk from the
                  Morristown train station, which can be reached from
                  Hoboken and from NYC Penn Station
              * By Car -- please mention if you can offer a ride, or
                  need a ride, and your start / end locations.
                  Directions available to pre-registered list.

Register:     RSVP requested, please use http://www.objdev.org/register
              or email register@objdev.org with your name, organization,
              title, phone, email address.
Cost:         Free
Note:         1) Limited seating
              2) Please register, for an attendance estimate, and so we
                 can notify you in case the event changes time/location.

Agenda:       The ANSI C++ Standards Committee X3J16 is meeting the week
              of Nov. 10-14, 1997.  There are some remaining language
              issues, fortunately none major.

              There is a formal vote scheduled for the morning of Friday
              Nov 14, for the Committee to recommend advancing the Draft
              to the ISO (International Standards Organization) as the
              American vote for an international standard.

              Becoming a standard is a key milestone in the life of a
              language, and should permit C++ vendors to concentrate on
              quality, performance and compatible implementations,
              rather than playing catchup on the latest syntax changes.

              1) Press conference announcement:
                 Results of the ANSI C++ Standards Commitee vote
                 on advancing the current Draft to an international
                 standard.
                 // indications so far are good -- stay tuned!

              2) (Time permitting) Q&A with C++ Committee members.
                 Technical questions, particularly about the new C++
                 Standard, however all C++ questions are welcome.
                 (send in advance to questions@objdev.org )

              Press representatives:  please identify yourself for
                 direct contacts.

              ODG members:  You are invited to attend this historic
                 occasion, 8+ years in the making.  It is also a rare
                 opportunity to see noted experts, who are usually
                 scattered around the world.

Bio:          Thomas Plum is the Convener of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21, the
              international standards committee for C++.

              Thomas Plum is a co-founder of Plum Hall, Inc
              http://www.plumhall.com which has been actively involved
              in C and later C++ Standardization from the very beginning
              They offer comprehensive validation test suites, which
              have greatly benefited both vendors and users.

              Plum Hall also offers software quality tools for C and
              C++, a Java test suite, shell scripting tools, and several
              noted technical textbooks on C and C++.

Bio:          Andrew Koenig is the Project Editor of the ANSI/ISO C++
              Standards Committee, and coordinates the text for the
              standard.  He has participated in the Committee since its
              formation in 1989.

              Andrew Koenig  http://www.research.att.com/info/ark
              is a "Principal Research Staff Member" of the Large-Scale
              Programming Research Dept at AT&T Labs-Research (formerly
              part of Bell Laboratories).  He joined Bell Labs in 1977,
              and has been working on C++ since 1986, building some of
              the earliest C++ class libraries and tools, and collabor-
              ating with Bjarne Stroustrup in refining the language.  He
              chaired the first full-scale C++ conference, in 1988.

              His books include "Ruminations on C++" (Addison-Wesley,
              1996) and "C Traps and Pitfalls" (Addison-Wesley).  He has
              written more than 100 articles about C++, including to the
              "Journal of Object-Oriented Programming" (JOOP) and the
              "C++ Report" magazine (both SIGS Publications).

Bio:          Stephen D Clamage is the Chair of the ANSI J16 Committee.

              He is a Senior Engineer with the Architecture, Technology
              and Tools department of the SunSoft division of Sun
              Microsystems, Inc, working on Solaris related projects.

              He has been in the software development field for 30
              years.  In 1983 he co-founded TauMetric Corporation with
              Mike Ball, which became a leading OEM supplier of C++
              compilers to companies who resold them under their own
              names.  The TauMetric compiler was the first commercial
              C++ compiler not derived from AT&T's Cfront.  Taumetric
              closed in 1993.

              Stephen Clamage co-authors the "C++ Oracle" column for the
              "C++ Report" magazine (SIGS).

Bio:          Bjarne Stroustrup
                 http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
              is the designer and original implementor of C++ and the
              author of

              * "The C++ Programming Language" (Addison Wesley Longman,
               1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1991, 3rd edition 1997).

               // This is one of the all time classic C++ works, that
               defined the C++ language, and the shape of developer
               software for hundreds of thousands of programmers.
               Each edition heralded a new phase of C++ capabilities.

              * "The Design and Evolution of C++" (Addison-Wesley, 1994)
               which won Dr. Dobbs Software Productivity Award in 1995.
               D&E discusses why C++ is the way it is.

              * "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual" (Addison-Wesley,
               1990) which substantially defined the C++ language, prior
               to the latest C++ Committee efforts.
               Co-author with Margaret A Ellis

              Bjarne's research interests include distributed systems,
              operating systems, simulation, design and programming.
              He is the head of AT&T Labs' Large-scale Programming
              Research Department and an AT&T Fellow.

              He is actively involved in the ANSI/ISO standardization of
              C++.  He is the recipient of the 1993 ACM Grace Murray
              Hopper award and an ACM Fellow.  He received the Cand.
              Scient. degree from the University of Aarhus, Denmark,
              and the Ph.D. in computer science from Cambridge Univ.

Enjoy!
Saul J Rosenberg   rosenberg@objdev.org   http://www.objdev.org
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