VL 2000 Call for Participation

From: Margaret Burnett <burnett_at_cs.orst.edu>
Date: 2000/07/10
Message-ID: <396A2ACE.527B9380_at_cs.orst.edu>#1/1

              VL'2000:  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
                         September 10-14, 2000
                          Seattle, Washington
                 http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/

                       Call for Participation

VL'2000 is the premier international conference on visual and multimedia languages for creating/understanding software.

We hope you will plan to join us at this year's conference, which includes keynote talks by Brad Myers and Tony DeRose, a special session by S.-K. Chang, tutorials, satellite workshops, a social program to provide a sampling of some of Seattle's unique attractions, and more. Here are some of the details:

Opening keynote: Brad Myers (Carnegie-Mellon University).   Brad Myers is an extremely well known researcher in programming by   demonstration. His topic will be "Creating More Natural Programming   Languages," a description of his new line of research into   deriving the design of a programming language from the results of   human-factors experiments and principles.

Closing keynote: Tony DeRose (Pixar Animation Studios).   Tony DeRose is a senior scientist at Pixar, and was a major contributor
  to the Oscar winning short film "Geri's Game." In 1999 he received   the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. His topic   will be "How Computer Graphics is Changing Hollywood," a behind-the-   scenes look at how fully digital films --- such as Pixar's "A Bug's   Life" and "Toy Story 2"--- are made, with particular emphasis on the   role that geometry plays in the revolution.

Tutorial -- Diagrammatic Reasoning and Visual Languages: How to draw

     upon research findings from psychology, art, mathematics, and
     human-computer interaction to design a diagrammatic visual
     language or environment.
Tutorial -- Object-Oriented Software Development of Multimedia
     Applications with UML: UML is becoming extremely popular.  This
     tutorial will introduce participants to UML diagrams, and will
preview
     the currently proposed UML extensions to model multimedia
     applications.
Tutorial -- Advanced Visual Modelling: Beyond UML:
     An overview of UML and some of its strengths and weaknesses, and
     alternative visual reasoning mechanisms that can be used instead of

     or in conjunction with UML.
Tutorial -- Programming by Example Techniques: Introduction and survey
     of a broad range of techniques used in programming systems that
     allow the user to give examples of the desired behaviors and
     contents, from which the system generalizes.

Satellite Workshop -- The Visual End User:
     http://borg.cs.dal.ca/~smedley/veu/index.html

Satellite Workshop -- Visual Methods for Parallel/Distributed Programming:

     http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/math/u/guidow/wsvl2000/index.html Satellite Workshop -- Multimedia Computing on the World Wide Web:

     http://grail.cba.csuohio.edu/~mcwww2k/Vl2000.html

Also, S.-K. Chang will be doing a special presentation on the emerging subarea of Multimedia Software Engineering.

Finally, our social program this year includes two receptions, an excursion to Paradise on Mount Rainier, and a banquet. See the web page for details.

Please join us! More information, including the advance program and registration details, is available at:

    http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/

Hotel reservation deadline for the special VL rates: August 9. Conference registration deadline for the early rates: August 15. Received on Mon Jul 10 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST