Keynote Announcements

[Tim Ney <ten gnome org>]

Jaime,

Can you add:

News Item:

Keynotes announced:  Jon 'maddog' Hall (Linux International) and Michi
Henning (CORBA) will deliver keynotes at GUAD3C.


Link to a Keynote page under Conference Schedule.  (I am waiting to hear
back from Gregorio Robles on the time slots.  Mad dog will be on User
Day - April 6th.)

Full Text for page (Titles & Names in BOLD, please.)

Michi Henning

        Computing Fallacies (or: What is the World Coming To?)

Abstract:
        This talk presents a look at the software industry and the
        practices that are rampant therein, muses about the utility
        (or otherwise) of current-generation computer systems, and
        challenges some of the so-called "accepted wisdom" that is
        passed down from generation to generation of engineers.
        Currently, creation of software is not an engineering discipline
        but akin to alchemy; this talk presents some of the problems
        the industry will have to solve in order to be taken seriously
        (and suggests to abandon the search for the Philosopher's
        Stone of software engineering).

Bio:
        Michi Henning is Chief CORBA Scientist of IONA Technologies,
        a major vendor of CORBA-compliant middleware, where he spends
        much of his time developing new software and consulting to
        international customers. Michi achieved international
	recognition through his expert advice given in countless postings to
        numerous mailing lists and the comp.object.corba newsgroup.
        Together with Steve Vinoski, Michi wrote "Advanced CORBA
	Programming with C++", which among CORBA experts is rated as the
	definitive text in the field, and he has developed several CORBA
	training courses for different ORB vendors.

        Through his work as an OMG member, Michi substantially
	influenced and formed the CORBA standard. He was a major contributor to
	the OMG  Trading, Notification, Interoperable Naming, and 	Telecom
Logging Service specifications, and has made substantial 	contributions
to the CORBA Core, IIOP, and C++ Mapping 	specifications. He is a 
member of the OMG Architecture Board and Chair 	of the OMG C+ Revision
Task Force.

        Michi holds an Honours Degree in Computer Science from the
        University of Queensland, is a founding member of Australian
        UNIX Users Group Queensland, and has acted as program chair and
        program committee member for numerous technical computer
	conferences.

        When not doing computer-related things, he desperately tries to
        improve his golf handicap. Hope springs eternal...
--

 Jon 'maddog' Hall
 Executive Director, Linux International


	The Many Faces of Linux

Abstract

	We talk about having Linux on the desktop, Linux as a server, 	and even
Linux as a supercomputer...but what about Linux as a toaster, 	Linux as
a refrigerator or even Linux as a washing machine?  Linux as a 	PDA is
different than Linux as a 36" Sony screen, and Linux on 	the office
desktop is different than Linux for Mom&PoP(TM) at home.  	Hear from the
person who has had to suffer from bad interface design 	for twenty years
with his mother and father asking him questions why 	he thinks that
"breaking the surface" will be one of the
	hardest projects in Linux history.

	"I have no answers, but I sure have a lot of questions." - md


	While most people think of Jon Hall as a kind, smiling, jolly,
	white-bearded old marketing geek, few know of his first life as 	a
software engineer responsible for usability of products, nor 	of his
struggles to get Unix engineers to understand the complexities 	of human
interface.  As a professor who made his students design 	projects three
times before they were allowed to write a single 	line of code, he
indeed earned the nickname of "maddog".  Mr. 	Hall has an undergraduate
degree in Commerce and Engineering
	from Drexel University (1973) and a Masters in Computer Science 	from
RPI  (1977)