[4eyes] Fwd: [faculty] Reminder: MAT seminar: Stephen Travis Pope talks tomorrow @ 5:30

[Tobias Hollerer]

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Subject: 	[faculty] Reminder: MAT seminar: Stephen Travis Pope talks 
tomorrow @ 5:30
Date: 	Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:50:25 -0800
From: 	Marco Pinter <marco at marcopinter.com>
To: 	mat-announce at mat.ucsb.edu, Students <students at mat.ucsb.edu>, 
faculty at mat.ucsb.edu



Tomorrow afternoon we'll be hearing from Stephen Travis Pope, former MAT 
faculty member, artist, musician and software engineer.  Also, just 
prior to the talk we'll hear a 5-minute presentation on proposed 
inter-departmental collaboration with MAT from another campus 
department.  See you all there.


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  Why I Still Use Smalltalk

January 14, 2013
5:30 pm 	to 	6:45 pm

*Speaker: *Stephen Travis Pope, Software Engineer and Composer


        Abstract:

The Smalltalk-80 programming system is celebrating its 30th birthday 
this year; Smalltalk-80 version 2 was released and documented in a 
series of books in 1982. The system was the first popular software 
development tool that incorporated a number of features we take for 
granted today, including an object-oriented programming language, a 
comprehensive open-source class library, an integrated window-based 
development environment, and a cross-platform virtual-machine-based 
delivery system.

This talk will outline the requirements for software development 
environments, introduce the Smalltalk language, libraries and tools, and 
then contrast them with other languages in current use. Several aspects 
of the Smalltalk system make it especially good for developing 
multimedia applications, and these will be introduced and compared to 
the multimedia support in other development systems. The talk will end 
with a manifesto of what developers should expect of their languages, 
libraries and tools.


        Bio:

Stephen Travis Pope is a software engineer and composer based in Santa 
Barbara. He taught at UCSB (in the departments of Music and Computer 
Science, and the Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology) from 
1996-2010, and is now known as FASTLabInc.com (for multimedia software) 
and HeavenEverywhere.com (for music and film). Stephen was among the 
very first to use Smalltalk for real-world applications (in 1984), and 
worked on the Smalltalk team at Xerox PARC and their spin-off ParcPlace 
Systems from 1986-94.


        Links

http://FASTLabInc.com <http://fastlabinc.com/>
http://HeavenEverywhere.com/ <http://heaveneverywhere.com/>



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