TOOLS Pacific '99 - November 22-25, Melbourne Australia

[Martin Dick]

TOOLS PACIFIC , part of the international TOOLS conference series, 
is the Australian software event of the year, bringing together the 
best international experts and practitioners for four days of in-depth 
discussions of objects, component-based development and other innovative 
software technologies. 

TOOLS PACIFIC 1999 is the most exciting ever, with a unique range of 
keynote and tutorial speakers including: 

   James Coplien of Patterns and C++ fame. 
   James Plamondon from Microsoft research on new Microsoft
   technologies. 
   Jean-Raymond Abrial on mission-critical applications of formal
   methods to safety-critical systems. 
   Steve Vinoski on CORBA. 
   Ian Joyner on O-O languages 
   James McKim, Richard Mitchell and Bertrand Meyer on Analysis, Design
   and Management by Contract. 
   Julian Edwards - Object Oriented Pty Ltd. 
   Brian Henderson-Sellers on UML and Open. 
   Mark Hammond - Python/COM. 
   Jan Newmarch on JINI. 
   David Holmes - Concurrent Java

TOOLS Pacific '99 will also be previewing a major new technology from a 
key global software company.

An extensive academic program will also be presented at the conference.
Proceedings published worldwide by the IEEE Computer Society.

For further details on the conference and registration, go to
 
        http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/tools/