******************************************************************* * Middleware early registration deadline has been extended to * * Thursday, September 30th (3 days from now) * * * * Wednesday, October 6th: online registration closes * ******************************************************************* ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2004 Call for Participation Renaissance Toronto Hotel at SkyDome Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 18th - 22nd, 2004 http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/middleware2004/ Important Dates: Early Registration Rate Ends: 30 September 2004 (extended) Last Day to Pre-Register: 06 October 2004 Hotel Cut-Off Date: 25 September 2004 Hotel room reservations (Canada/US): 1-800-237-1512 Program Summary: For details and exact dates see: http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/middleware2004/ Keynotes: How Wrong Can You Be? Getting Lost on the Road to Massive Scalability Werner Vogels, Director of Systems Research, Amazon.com Experiences Building a 24x7 Real-time ASP Service at Citrix Online Thorsten von Eicken, Chief Architect, Citrix Online Aspect-Oriented Programming - The promise and the controversy Gregor Kiczales, University of British Columbia Main conference program Single-track conference with 26 technical paper presentations and 6 work-in-progress presentations. For details see http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/middleware2004/programstruct.htm Tutorials (Monday and Tuesday): Building Distributed .NET Applications - Technologies, Architecture, Comparison with J2EE. By Michael Stal, Siemens AG Germany (Monday, full day.) Getting Started with Aspect-Oriented Programming for Middleware. By Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada (Monday, morning.) Middleware and Data Management for Sensor Networks. By Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA and Sharad Mehrotra,University of California, Irvine, USA (Tuesday, morning.) Enterprise Integration Patterns: Asynchronous Messaging Architectures in Practice. By Gregor Hohpe, ThoughtWorks Inc., USA (Tuesday, morning.) Data Grid Management Systems. By Arun Swaran Jagatheesan, University of California, San Diego, USA (Tuesday, afternoon.) DDS: The Real-Time Publish-Subscribe Standard for Data Distribution By Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Real-Time Innovations Inc., USA (Tuesday, afternoon.) Workshops (Monday and Tuesday): 2nd Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing. Organizers: Bruno Schulze - National Scientific Computing Laboratory (Brazil) and Radha Nandkumar - NCSA/UIUC (USA) (Monday, October 18th.) 2nd Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing Organizer: Paddy Nixon - Strathclyde University (UK) (Monday, October 18th.) 3rd Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware. Organizer: Fabio Costa, Federal University of Goi�s - (Brazil) and Nanbor Wang - Tech-X Corporation (USA) (Tuesday, October 19th.) 1st Middleware Doctoral Symposium. Organizers: Edward Curry - National University of Ireland (Ireland) and Doug Lea - SUNY Oswego (USA) (Tuesday, October 19th.) ---