[Shacs] Re: FWD: TAMU Special Seminar -- Bjarne Stroustrup

[Dr. Tim McGuire]

I'm planning on heading over to the Stroustrup seminar tomorrow.  Let
me know if you'd like to go along.  Let's gather at the CS office,
and plan on leaving at 1pm.  

TJM

> Dear
Former Students, please help me get the word out to others that may
> have an interest in the following Special Seminar. Dr. Stroustrup
is
> eager to get an audience that will ask tough questions during
the Q&A
> session. (See abstract below.) I appreciate your
help.
> Thanks. -Kathy
> 
> Wednesday, 23 May
2007
> -------------------------------------
> SPECIAL
SEMINAR
> Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
> Professor and College of
Engineering Endowed Chair in Computer Science
> Texas A&M
University
> TITLE: "Evolving a language in and for the real
world: C++ 1991-2006"
> 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Frank J.
Malina Auditorium - H.R. Bright Building (room 124)
> 
>
ABSTRACT
> Every 15 years, the ACM holds the History of
Programming Languages
> conference (HOPL). The acceptance criteria
are Draconian and this time
> the talks and the Q&A sessions
will be recorded. This C++ talk will be
> the 1st ever second talk
on a language. The above seminar and following
> Q&A will be a
test run. Please come and ask hard questions.
> 
> A draft
of the (huge) paper can be found at
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl-almost-final.pdf
>
<http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl-almost-final.pdf>.
>

> The talk outlines the history of the C++ programming language
from the
> early days of its ISO standardization (1991), through
the 1998 ISO
> standard, to the later stages of the C++0x revision
of that standard
> (2007). The emphasis is on the ideals,
constraints, programming
> techniques, and people that shaped the
language, rather than the
> minutiae of language features. Among
the major themes are the emergence
> of generic programming and
the STL (the C++ standard library's
> algorithms and
containers).
> 
> BRIEF BIO
> 
> Bjarne
Stroustrup designed and implemented the C++ programming language
>
and remains active in the ISO C++ standards committee working on C++OX.
> He wrote The C++ Programming Language and The Design and Evolution
of
> C++. In 2004 he was elected member of The National Academy
of
> Engineering. More information about Dr. Stroustrup may be
found at
> http://www.research.att.com/~bs/.
-- 
Timothy
J. McGuire, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
Sam Houston
State University
Huntsville, Texas 77341-2090
mcguire at shsu.edu
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