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Please advertise the following seminar to be held at City University. Thank
you.
Further details are avaliable at
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~msch/seminar/announce.html
SEMINAR AT CITY UNIVERSITY
Wed, 29 March 2000, 2:00pm, Room A366
"THE NATURE of the NATURE OF ORDER"
JIM COPLIEN
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Bell Laboratories
Member Emeritus, Hillside Group Student
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Abstract
The software community is deriving its understanding of patterns from
Alexander's thinking as it stood in about 1970 and as it was published in
about 1977. His thinking has come a long way since then, incorporating a
theory of centers and an articulation of a process for the suitable
application of patterns and geometry to achieve wholeness in systems. This
informal presentation overviews the progression of Alexander's ideas through
his forthcoming work, Nature of Order, and discusses its relevance to the
software community. The talk ranges in focus from the qualities of great
design through geometrically grounded theories of beauty and group theoretic
foundations of patterns to a full system of metaphysics about life, the
universe and everything.
Short biography
Jim Coplien is a member of the Software Production Research Department in
Bell Laboratories. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
an MS in Computer Science, both from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
His early career work includes applied research in software development
environments, version and configuration management models, and in object-
oriented design and programming.
He is currently studying organization communication patterns to help guide
process evolution. This research has already created a generative pattern
language that has successfully been used for business process engineering in
corporations worldwide. His other research areas include multi-paradigm
design and architectural patterns of telecommunication software.
He is author of "C++ Programming Styles and Idioms," the foremost high-end
C++ book in the industry, and of "Multi-Paradigm Design for C++." He was
co-editor of two volumes of "Pattern Languages of Program Design." He writes
a patterns column for the C++ Report. He is a Member Emeritus of the
Hillside Group, a small consortium of industry leaders providing
industry-wide leadership and support in the pattern discipline. He was
program chair of ACM OOPSLA '96.
Further details of Jim Coplien's career can be found on his web site
http://www.bell-labs.com/user/cope/
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