OOPSLA History
In 1985 a group of 4 pioneers in object-oriented programming decided to plan and organize a North American conference on object-oriented programming systems. The group was Adele Goldberg, Tom Love, David Smith, and Allen Wirfs-Brock, and the conference was OOPSLA – Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. The first OOPSLA was held at the Marriott Hotel in Portland, Oregon, in November 1986. About 600 people attended, about 50 papers were presented, and the attendees heard about Smalltalk, Lisp, Flavors, CommonLoops, Emerald, Trellis/Owl, Mach, Prolog, ABCL/1, prototypes, and distributed/concurrent programming from people like Danny Bobrow, Gregor Kiczales, Rick Rashid, Andrew Black, Dave Ungar, Henry Lieberman, Ralph Johnson, Dan Ingalls, Ward Cunningham, Kent Beck, Ivar Jacobson, and Bertrand Meyer.
This wide range of topics and researchers set the tone for the conference, which became the forum for some of the most important software developments over the last couple of decades. OOPSLA was the incubator for CRC cards, CLOS, design patterns, Self, the agile methodologies, service-oriented architectures, wikis, Unified Modeling Language (UML), test driven design (TDD), refactoring, Java, dynamic compilation, and aspect-oriented programming, to name just some of them. Never only about objects but never straying far from them, the conference grew from 600 attendees to around 2500 at its peak, and is still strong at around 1300 even after spawning off a series of patterns conferences, Eclipse and EclipseCon, the Agile conference, and AOSD.
Toward the end of the 1990s – in the wake of successes by Smalltalk and Java in business and C++ in engineering – OO went mainstream, and OOPSLA transitioned from a conference that worked at making OO practical and understandable to one that works at the problems of a changing computing world, both by devising new techniques and technologies and by extending and expanding theory. What has remained unchanged is a passion for innovation and a habit of building communities.
OOPSLA is proud of its heritage of creativity and openness.
The OOPSLA website for the current year is always available at http://www.oopsla.org/.
The SPLASH website for the current year is always available at http://www.splashcon.org/.
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SPLASH 2010 Conference Chair: William R. Cook Program Chair: Martin Rinard Reno/Tahoe Nevada |
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OOPSLA 2009 Conference Chair: Shail Arora Program Chair: Gary Leavens Orlando, Florida |
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OOPSLA 2008 Conference Chair: Gail E. Harris Program Chair: Gregor Kiczales Nashville, Tennessee |
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OOPSLA 2007 Conference Chair: Richard P. Gabriel Program Chair: David Bacon Montréal, Québec, Canada |
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OOPSLA 2006 Conference Chair: Peri Tarr Program Chair: William Cook Portland, Oregon |
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OOPSLA 2005 Conference Chair: Ralph Johnson Program Chair: Richard P. Gabriel San Diego, California |
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OOPSLA 2004 Conference Chair: John Vlissides Program Chair: Doug Schmidt Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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OOPSLA 2003 Conference Chair: Ron Crocker Program Chair: Guy L. Steele, Jr. Anaheim, California |
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OOPSLA 2002 Conference Chair: Mamdouh Ibrahim Program Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka Seattle, Washington |
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OOPSLA 2001 Conference Chair: Linda Northrop Program Chair: John Vlissides Tampa, Florida |
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OOPSLA 2000 Conference Chair: Mary Beth Rosson Program Chair: Doug Lea Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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OOPSLA 1999 Conference Chair: Brent Hailpern Program Chair: Linda Northrop Denver, Colorado |
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OOPSLA 1998 Conference Chair: Bjorn Freeman-Benson Program Chair: Craig Chambers Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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OOPSLA 1997 Conference Chair: Mary Loomis Program Chair: Toby Bloom Atlanta, Georgia |
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OOPSLA 1996 Conference Chair: Lougie Anderson Program Chair: James Coplien San José, California |
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OOPSLA 1995 Conference Chair: Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock Program Chair: Mary Loomis Austin, Texas |
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OOPSLA 1994 Conference Chair: Jeff McKenna Program Chair: J. Eliot B. Moss Portland, Oregon |
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OOPSLA 1993 Conference Chair: Timlynn Babitsky and Jim Salmons Program Chair: Ralph Johnson Washington, D.C. |
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OOPSLA 1992 Conference Chair: John Pugh Program Chair: Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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OOPSLA 1991 Conference Chair: John Richards Program Chair: Alan Snyder Phoenix, Arizona |
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OOPSLA 1990 Conference Chair: David Thomas and Pierre Cointe Program Chair: Akinori Yonezawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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OOPSLA 1989 Conference Chair: George Bosworth Program Chair: Kent Beck New Orleans, Louisiana |
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OOPSLA 1988 Conference Chair: Alan Otis and Larry Tesler Program Chair: Kurt Schmucker San Diego, California |
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OOPSLA 1987 Conference Chair: Adele Goldberg and Chet Wisinski Program Chair: Jerry L. Archibald Orlando, Florida |
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OOPSLA 1986 Conference Chair: Daniel G Bobrow and Alan Purdy Program Chair: Daniel Ingalls Portland, Oregon |
