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Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

  • Fotango
  • Intel
  • Microsoft

Gold Sponsors

  • Dell Inc.
  • Hewlett Packard
  • IBM
  • Mozilla Corporation

Silver Sponsors

  • ActiveState
  • Autodesk
  • Google
  • Greenplum
  • Ingres
  • Novell, Inc.
  • NYTimes.com
  • OpSource
  • Rearden Commerce
  • SnapLogic
  • ThoughtWorks
  • Ticketmaster

Sponsors & Exhibitors

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the convention, contact Sharon Cordesse

For Media Partnership opportunities, please contact Avila Reese

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Programming

Pthreads Programming: A Hands-on Introduction
Adrien Lamothe
Date: Monday, July 23, 2007
Time: 8:30AM - 12:00PM
Location:  D139-140
Advanced VIM Scripting
Steve Oualline
Date: Monday, July 23, 2007
Time: 8:30AM - 12:00PM
Location:  Portland 255
A Taste of Haskell
Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft
Date: Monday, July 23, 2007
Time: 1:30PM - 5:00PM
Location:  D136
New Parallel Programming Tools for a Multicore World
James Reinders, Director, Intel Corporation
Victoria Gromova, Intel
Robert Reed, Intel
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Time: 8:30AM - 12:00PM
Location:  D139-140
Open Source Geospatial Boot Camp
Schuyler Erle, MetaCarta
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Time: 8:30AM - 12:00PM
Location:  Portland 251
Simple Ways To Be a Better Programmer
Michael G. Schwern
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Time: 1:30PM - 5:00PM
Location:  Portland 256
The Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform
Beth Tibbitts, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Research
Craig E. Rasmussen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wyatt Spear
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Time: 1:30PM - 5:00PM
Location:  Portland 255
Managing Technical Debt
Andy Lester, Senior Programmer, Follett Library Resources
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 10:45AM - 11:30AM
Location:  E143-144
Subversion: Powerful New Toys
Justin Erenkrantz, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Irvine
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 10:45AM - 11:30AM
Location:  D135
Open Design, Not by Committee
Ted Leung, Senior Engineer, OSAF
Mimi Yin, OSAF
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 11:35AM - 12:20PM
Location:  D135
Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell
Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 1:45PM - 2:30PM
Location:  Portland 252
Improving the Embedded Development Process
Matt Fletcher, Developer, Atomic Object, LLC
William Bereza, Co-founder, Atomic Object
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 2:35PM - 3:20PM
Location:  D137-138
The Holistic Programmer
Adam Keys
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 2:35PM - 3:20PM
Location:  D139-140
Bytecode Translation: From .Net to Parrot
Jonathan Worthington
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 5:20PM - 6:05PM
Location:  D135
Automatic Parallelization with GCC
David LaPalomento, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007
Time: 11:35AM - 12:20PM
Location:  F150
Next Generation Version Control Systems
Sam Vilain, Hacker, Catalyst IT (NZ) Ltd
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007
Time: 1:45PM - 2:30PM
Location:  F151
The LLVM Compiler System
Chris Lattner, LLVM Head Honcho, Apple Inc.
Date: Friday, July 27, 2007
Time: 10:45AM - 11:30AM
Location:  Portland 255
Subversion Worst Practices
Ben Collins-Sussman, Software Engineer, Google
Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Software Engineer, Google, Inc.
Date: Friday, July 27, 2007
Time: 10:45AM - 11:30AM
Location:  F150
Running Your Programming Language on Parrot
chromatic, Technical Evangelist, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Patrick Michaud, Consultant, pmichaud.com
Date: Friday, July 27, 2007
Time: 11:35AM - 12:20PM
Location:  Portland 255