Computer Science Department, University of Houston are organizing.
Please visit the conference web site for more details.
The registration is free and they have organized some exceptional speakers and topics in this two days event:
Neil Ford (ThoughWorks) will present (must see talk by anyone who develops software) "Polyglot Programming"
Vali Ali of HP will be giving a talk about Software in the industry
Bjarne Stroustrup (Creator of C++, now at TAMU) will give a talk entitled "C++0x: An overview" [I can't wait to see
him talk]
Sridhar Vajapey (Sun Microsystems) will talk about "Chip Level Multi-threading" [I met Sridhar earlier this year and
look forward to meeting him again]
Ben Galbraith (Feature50) [Best UI guy to walk this planet in my opinion] will talk about "Creating a Compelling User Experience"
Jon Schwartz (Phrogram Company) will talk about "When User-Created Content Meets Gaming: a Revolution is Coming" [I have
been waiting to see this talk ever since I heard about his work last year]
Peter A. Freeman (Former Asst. Director of NSF, now at Georgia Tech) will talk about "GENI at Age Three: Origins, Objectives, Outlook"
[I have seen him talk two years ago and I look forward again]
Venkat Subramaniam (AgileDeveloper, Inc.) will talk on "Practices of an Agile Developer" [I have never attended this talk ;)]
Please advertise this event in any user groups (especially around Houston and Texas).
And if your organization is interested in sponsoring the event, please contact the organizers of the event as well.
I look forward to being there on both the days of the event so I can hang around with everyone there.
