Dr. Adele Goldberg / David Leibs Neometron (USA)

Adele Goldberg is currently working with Neometron, Inc, of Redwood City, Ca. As a founder and director, Adele is responsible for Neometron's product design and business development. Prior to forming Neometron, Dr. Goldberg was the Chairman of the Board and a Founder of ParcPlace Systems, Inc. ParcPlace was formed in 1988 from technology Adele helped develop while at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. She served as CEO and President from inception until 1991, and Chairman until 1995. Dr. Goldberg received a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Chicago and spent 14 years as researcher and laboratory manager at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. From 1984-1986, she served as president of the ACM, the U.S. computer professional society. Solely and with others, Adele wrote the definitive books on the Smalltalk-80 programming system, has authored many papers on project management and analysis methodology using object-oriented technology, and lectured worldwide. She has been recipient of numerous industry awards, including PC Magazine's 1990 Lifetime Achievement Award. Adele is a Board member of several private technology companies, and a member of the governing board of the SF Exploratorium, Science Advisory Board of the GMD (German National Research Center), and the visiting committee of the Physical Sciences division of the University of Chicago.

David Leibs is Neometron's president and chief product architect. He comes to Neometron with 20 years' experience in creating innovative application development environments. Most recently, he was Director of Technical Research at ParcPlace Systems, Inc., where he was a chief architect, systems designer, and implementer. To his personal credit is the invention and implementation of the direct manipulation, graphical construction interface known as VisualWorks 1.0 (ParcPlace's most successful product). The architecture that he devised enabled ParcPlace to bring the new Internet-based VisualWave product from inception to delivery in only five months. As a senior development engineer for ParcPlace, David developed and enhanced the programming environment for the Smalltalk-80 language. He was the key resource in the development of experimental frameworks that became the superstructure for new products. Prerequisites for Tutorial: The knowledge level of the participants should be intermediate to advance in architectural thinking and Smalltalk/Java language concepts.

Tutorial: Project Communities: From concept to implementation

Prerequisites for Tutorial: The knowledge level of the participants should be intermediate to advance in architectural thinking and Smalltalk/Java language concepts.