June meeting of the Mountain View Java Users Group

Date: Wednesday, June 24nd, 1998
Time: 7.00pm-9.00pm
Location: California Zephyr Room, Building One (SC1) Bay Networks
 see directions below

MTVJUG completed 24th months the December'97. MTVJUG was founded in december '95.
Agenda:
7.00 to 7.05-Announcements
7.05 to 8.00-The Taming of the Brew
by Terence Parr
8.00 to 8.15-Q&A
8.15 to 9.00-Product Demos

(All are welcome, no membership fee, no prior reservation necessary)
Note: For the "Announcements" section if you have something you would like announced, or any "News" (upcoming conferences, information about similar groups, applets...etc) please send mail to (Sudhakar Ramakrishnan) sudha@best.com prior to the meeting. A bulletin board would be placed for product announcements/job openings/miscellaneous announcements.


The Taming of the Brew

by Terence Parr

Terence likes to hear himself talk. He also has a few favorite things about Java he wants to share with you. Come learn more than you ever wanted to know about JITs, interpreters, and on-the-fly compilers like HotSpot. But wait! There's more. Act now, and you'll also discover how Arnold Schwarzenegger is related to interfaces and how you should think about these strange critters. As an added bonus, we'll even throw in a brief discussion of the Java progenitors, reflection, threads, and garbage collection. You'll hear all this and some irrelevant stories. He's wacky; he's highly-caffeinated, he's the Lead Mage at MageLang Institute.


Biography: Terence Parr

Terence Parr is the president and co-founder of the MageLang Institute--founded to promote the growth of Java by providing excellent Java education and by acting as an independent resource. He received a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Purdue University, Lafayette, IN (1993) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Army High Performance Computing Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Parr is the primary author of the public-domain PCCTS language toolkit, which is used extensively throughout the research and industrial community to develop compilers, translators and interpreters. He has published a book on PCCTS and a variety of technical papers on the application of language theory. By day, Terence is a wild-eyed highly-caffeinated Java evangelist. By night, Terence plays blues piano and works on the 2.xx version of ANTLR, a complete rewrite of PCCTS in Java to generate Java. You may contact him at parrt@MageLang.com.


Directions:

Bay Networks
California Zephyr Room, Building One (SC1)
4401 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA

From 101 North - SF Area

take 101 South
(Approximately 25 miles from SFO)
Exit Great America Parkway, turn left onto Great America Parkway, 1/4 mile Bay Networks is located at the corner of Great America Parkway & Mission College Blvd. Building One (SC1) is @ 4401 Great America Parkway - Santa Clara. Go into the lobby. California Zephyr Room is located on the first floor on the right hand side.

From 101 South Area:

take 101 North
(Approximately 4 miles)
Exit Great America Parkway, turn right onto Great America Parkway, 1/4 mile Bay Networks is located at the corner of Great America Parkway & Mission College Blvd.

It is advised that if you are coming from the Peninsula take 280 South and make an interchange @ 92 East to 101 South (Follow other directions from there).
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