bertrand@hub.ucsb.edu (Bertrand Meyer) (02/20/89)
This was posted a few weeks ago but apparently the posting failed. In case anyone saw the original, there one error has been corrected in this version: the meeting will be held on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower, not the second floor. See you there. -- Bertrand Meyer bertrand@eiffel.com ---------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------------- THIRD INTERNATIONAL EIFFEL USER GROUP CONFERENCE THE EIFFEL TOWER, PARIS April 21, 1989 Call for participation and registration form The Eiffel language and environment have attracted considerable attention as a vehicle for applying object-oriented concepts to practical software development in business as well as industrial and scientific applications. A growing number of companies in the US, Canada, Japan and Europe have adopted Eiffel and are applying it to the production of software systems. Eiffel is also being increasingly used by universities around the world for teaching software engineering. The developers of Eiffel, Interactive Software Engineering Inc., have announced their objective of making Eiffel one of the major programming languages and environments for the end of the 20th century. The development of Eiffel has created a need for users to share experiences and to interact with the developers on a systematic basis. This has led to the organization of regular Eiffel User Group conferences, currently scheduled twice a year, with a Winter/Spring meeting in Europe and a Summer/Fall meeting in North America. The first two conferences, held in Paris (January 1988) and San Diego (September 1988) were instrumental in establishing contacts between users with a variety of interests and backgrounds; they provided the opportunity for many useful technical presentations. The Third International Conference will be held in Paris on April 21, 1989. In honor of the first centennial of the Eiffel tower, the venue of the conference is the conference room on the first floor of the Tower. The conference will proceed all day, from 9am to 6pm, followed by a reception. The morning will be devoted to user presentations and the afternoon to demonstrations and panel discussions. Representatives of Interactive Software Engineering will give a preview of future developments of Eiffel technology; the latest Eiffel release (2.2) will be introduced at the conference. The conference is open to Eiffel users and to anyone maintaining a serious interest in Eiffel. Participants are invited to submit contributions on Eiffel-related topics; contributions may be in the form of technical presentations, demonstrations, or proposals for working groups or panels. Authors of accepted contributions will receive a discount on the registration fee. Technical presentations may be submitted as either complete papers or one-page abstracts. Examples include: + Reports on experiences with Eiffel. + Description of current or future projects. + Presentations of reusable components written in Eiffel. + Role of Eiffel for teaching software engineering, computer science and other topics. Reports of ongoing or incomplete work are acceptable. Presentations may be made in either English or French. Demonstrations of software written in Eiffel may also be submitted. Workstations will be available. Possible topics for working groups or panels are: + Procedures for sharing reusable classes between users. + Language standardization. + Using Eiffel for teaching. + User views on the evolution of the language, tools and library. + User Group Activities. For any information on the format of the meeting, or to discuss a possible contribution, you may contact: (Ms) Frederique Sada, Eiffel User Group Representative Service INT, Thomson-DTC 66 rue du Fosse' Blanc 92231 Gennevilliers Cedex Telephone (1) 47 91 89 76, Fax 47 91 86 86 REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSIONS All prospective participants, whether or not they wish to submit a presentation, should return the form below to Societe des Outils du Logiciel Attn.: User Group Conference Centre d'Affaires 3MPP 4 rue Rene Barthelemy 92120 Montrouge (France) Telephone (33) 1-46 57 13 36, Telex 205 359 F, Fax (33) 1-46 57 01 03. Participants from North America may send the form to Interactive Software Engineering Inc. Attn.: User Group Conference 270 Storke Road, Suite 7 Goleta, CA 93117 USA Telephone 805-685-1006, Fax 805-685-6869 Electronic mail: users@eiffel.com Please use one copy of the form per participant. The form should be mailed as soon as possible to ensure space in the conference. The registration fee is FF 950 (US$ 160) for non-contributors and FF 650 (US$ 105) for contributors. The fee includes conference material, lunch and the evening reception. Practical information (schedule etc.) will be mailed to registered participants. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME ADDRESS / / I am submitting / / a presentation / / a demo Please enclose title and abstract; for demos, indicate hardware requirements. / / I would like to chair / / a working group / / a panel on the following topic: