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Conference Program In Detail (Tentative)
November 10-13, 1998 - South Shore Harbour Resort, Houston, Texas
Tuesday, November 10 - Tutorials
See the separate tutorial program.
Wednesday, November 11 - Paper Presentations, Day One
See also the paper abstracts.
| 8:00 am | Registration | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 am | Opening | |
| 9:00 am | Keynote | Homesteading the Noosphere Eric Raymond Custom, ego, and property in the open-source community |
| 10:00 am | coffee break | |
| 10:30 am | Papers | Applications I: The Internet Implementing the SMS server, or why I switched from Tcl to PythonFrank Stajano, Olivetti-Oracle Research Laboratory Mailman: An Extensible Mailing List Manager using PythonKen Manheimer, Barry Warsaw, CNRI; John Viega, Reliable Software Technologies A Python-Based Production System for High Volume Electronic PublishingSean McGrath, Digitome |
| 12:00 noon | lunch break | |
| 1:30 pm | InvitedSpeaker | JPython Jim Hugunin Recent and coming events in the happy integration of Python and Java |
| 2:30 pm | Papers | Optimizing Python A Peephole Optimizer for PythonSkip Montanaro, Automatrix Converting Python Virtual Machine Code to CJohn Aycock, University of Victoria Virtual Method Tables in PythonMartin von L�wis, Humboldt-University of Berlin |
| 4:00 pm | tea break | |
| 4:30 pm | Demos andPosters | See separate program |
| 6:00 pm | adjourn | |
| 7:00 pm | ConferenceBanquet | (till 8:30 pm) |
Thursday, November 12 - Paper Presentations, Day Two
| 8:00 am | Registration | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 am | Keynote | Commodity Supercomputing with Python David Beazley 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 |
| 9:30 am | coffee break | |
| 10:00 am | Papers | Extending and Compiling A facility for creating Python extensions in C++Paul F. Dubois, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Compiling Little Languages in PythonJohn Aycock, University of Victoria PyFront: Conversion of Python to C Extension ModulesJonathan Riehl, United Space Alliance Evolutionary Prototyping: "Add Later" Static Types for PythonRoger Masse, CNRI |
| 12:00 noon | lunch break | |
| 1:30 pm | InvitedSpeaker | Python - the next seven years Guido van Rossum Recent and coming events in the development of the Python langauge |
| 2:30 pm | Papers | Applications II: Science and Simulation Beyond: A Portable 3D Simulation FrameworkJason L. AsbahrPython as a Discrete Event Simulation environmentF. Oliver Gathmann, D. Dudley Williams, University of Toronto Python Vuh: Mayan Calendrical Mathematics with PythonIvan Van Laningham |
| 4:00 pm | tea break | |
| 4:30 pm | Short talks | See separate program |
| 6:00 pm | adjourn |
Friday, November 13 - Developers' Day
See the separate Developers' Day program.