From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us>
Subject: CONFERENCE: 7th International Python Conference, Program
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:02:49 GMT

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           Call for Participation and Advance Program    
              7th International Python Conference
        http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/

South Shore Harbour Resort
Houston, Texas
November 10-13, 1998
Sponsored by CNRI and the PSA

The Python Conference brings together a broad range of users, vendors,
researchers, and developers from the Python community.  The conference
is the premier opportunity to meet other Python programmers, share
information, and learn about the latest happenings -- including an
update on the future of Python from its creator, Guido van Rossum.

The program also includes a day of tutorials, two days of papers and
invited talks, and Developers' Day.  The conference program has been
expanded this year to include a session for demos and posters to
highlight work that is more interesting to see and interact with.

For registration information, visit:
http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/registration.html


INVITED SPEAKERS

Eric Raymond, "Homesteading the Noosphere." Custom, ego, and property
in the open source community.

David Beazley, "Commodity Supercomputing with Python."  Python on
supercomputing systems, and its role in the 1998 Gordon Bell Prize
Competition, where a Python-driven application achieved 10 Gflops
sustained performance on a Linux cluster.

Jim Hugunin, "JPython."  Recent and
coming events in the happy integration of Python and Java.

Guido van Rossum, "Python -- the next seven years."  Recent and coming
events in the development of the Python langauge.


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

- ----------------- Wednesday, November 11 ----------------

8:30 am Welcome
9:00 Keynote Speaker: Homesteading the Noosphere, Eric S. Raymond

10:30 Papers, Applications I: Internet

Implementing the SMS server, or why I switched from Tcl to Python
Frank Stajano, Olivetti-Oracle Research Laboratory 

Mailman: An Extensible Mailing List Manager using Python
Ken Manheimer, Barry Warsaw, CNRI; John Viega, Reliable Software
Technologies   

A Python Based Production System for High Volume Electronic Publishing 
Sean McGrath, Digitome 

1:30 pm Invited Speaker: JPython, Jim Hugunin

2:30 Papers, Optimizing Python

A Peephole Optimizer for Python
Skip Montanaro, Automatrix

Converting Python Virtual Machine Code to C
John Aycock, University of Victoria 

Virtual Methods Tables in Python.
Martin von Löwis, Humboldt-University of Berlin 

4:30 Demos and Posters

See http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/demo.html

- ----------------- Thursday, November 12 -----------------

8:30 am Keynote Speaker: Commodity Supercomputing with Python, David
Beazley. 

10:00 Papers, Extending and Compiling

A facility for creating Python extensions in C++
Paul F. Dubois, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 

Compiling Little Languages in Python
John Aycock, University of Victoria

PyFront: Conversion of Python to C Extension Modules
Jonathan Riehl, United Space Alliance

Evolutionary Prototyping: "Add Later" Static Types for Python
Roger Masse, CNRI

1:30 pm Invited Speaker: Guido van Rossum, Python -- the next seven years 

2:30 Papers, Applications II: Science and Simulation

Beyond: A Portable 3D Simulation Framework
Jason L. Asbahr

Python as a Discrete Event Simulation environment
F. Oliver Gathmann, D. Dudley Williams, University of Toronto

Python Vuh: Maya Calendrical Mathematics with Python
Ivan van Laningham

4:30 Short talks

See http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/short.html


For more information about the tutorial program and Developers' Day,
see the separate Web page for these days.

TUTORIALS:
http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/tutorial-program.html

DEVELOPERS' DAY:
http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/devday.html

ORGANIZERS:
Guido van Rossum, general chair 
Jeremy Hylton, program chair 
Roger Masse, tutorial chair 
Barry Warsaw, developers' day chair 
Jim Hugunin, chair for short talks & demos and posters 



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