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Wednesday, February 16
9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening Remarks & Best Paper Awards
De Clarke, UCO Lick Observatory, and Tom Poindexter, Talus Technologies Inc., Program Co-Chairs
9:15 am - 10:30 am Keynote Address
Tcl in AOL Digital City: The Architecture of a Multithreaded High-Performance Web Site Jim Davidson, America Online, Inc. Today's dynamic, high-performance, database-driven Web sites require a platform that is fast, scalable, and provides for rapid application development and publishing. To address these challenges, AOL's Digital City uses a Tcl-enabled multithreaded Web server called AOLserver. This talk will describe the collection of optimized AOLserver Tcl extensions and the flexible Tcl-embedded HTML template architecture which power the Digital City service and publishing environment. In particular, it will highlight the advantages and pitfalls of scalable, mulithreaded Tcl application development. Jim Davidson is Vice President of Technology at AOL's Digital City. Before he came to AOL, he was chief architect of Navisoft's Naviserver, the multithreaded, Tcl and database-driven Web server which has evolved into the latest AOLserver. He has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
10:30 am - 11:00 am Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Middleware
Session Chair: Melissa Chawla, Scriptics Corp. Rapid CORBA Server Development in Tcl: A Case Study Jason Brazile and Andrej Vckovski, Netcetera AG AGNI: A Multi-threaded Middleware for Distributed Scripting M. Ranganathan, Mark Bednarek, Fernand Pors, and Doug Montgomery, National Institute of Standards and Technology Introducing QoS Awareness in Tcl Programming: QTcl Roberto Canonico, Maurizio D'Arienzo, Simon P. Romanao, and Giorgio Ventre, Università di Napoli CollabWiseTk: A Toolkit for Rendering Stand-alone Applications Collaborative Hemang Lavana and Franc Brglez, North Carolina State University
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Tcl Update
John Ousterhout, CEO, and Jeffrey Hobbs, Tcl Ambassador, Scriptics Corp.
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Break
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Testing and Integration
Session Chair: Dave Griffin, SiteScape, Inc. GDBTk: Integrating Tk into a Recalcitrant Command-line Application James Ingham, Cygnus Solutions, Inc. Tcl/Tk: A Strong Basis for Complex Load Testing Systems Ahmet C. Keskin, Till I. Patzchke, and Ernst vonVoight, Patzschke + Rasp Software AG Using Tcl to Build a Buzzword-Compliant Environment That Glues Together Legacy Analysis Programs Carsten H. Lawrenz and Rajkumar Madhuram, Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp.
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