Montreal Tech Watch

CUSEC 2009, the best software engineering conference in Montreal, is due tomorrow.

World-renowned software engineers and programmers (RMS, someone?) are scheduled for the conference. 

See also here [techentreprise] and official website.

CUSEC (the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference) is referred to by many as the gathering of the future of Software Engineering. Students who are passionate about Software Engineering, from across Canada and diverse concentrations, gather under one roof for three full days to learn from the worlds most famous and sought after software engineering speakers, researchers and professionals.

CUSEC is not just about the presentations though. The conference gives you the opportunity to meet others who share your passion. To see what your peers are up to and learning at their schools. CUSEC gives you the opportunity to have open conversations with many of the authors of the books you read as well as the people you read and hear about in school. Allowing you to learn directly from the people you look up to. And don’t forget, we also have a growing career fair that might be of interest to you.

• Dan Ingalls, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, is best known for his work on the Smalltalk programming environment, which revolutionized computing for both users and developers through human-computer interaction, the object-oriented paradigm, and development in integrated environments. He also revolutionized graphics with BitBlt and its variations with rotation and antialiasing. For his noteworthy contributions, he has received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award and the ACM Software System Award. His most recent work takes these ideas to the World Wide Web through Sun Lab’s Lively Kernel Project.
• Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
• Avi Bryant is the co-founder of Dabble DB, a venture-backed startup based in Vancouver, BC. He’s also the creator of the Seaside web framework, and has given keynotes at RailsConf, Smalltalk Solutions, and elsewhere about his unusual – some say heretical – approaches to web development.
• Leah Culver founded Pownce with her friends Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka as a way of sending messages, links, files and events to friends. Leah is the lead developer for the site and spends most of her time working on feature development, fixing bugs, scaling the site, and maintaining the API. She’s a recent computer science graduate from the University of Minnesota and enjoys the challenge of developing a web application from scratch. Leah will be speaking about the career choices for recent computer science university graduates.

Francis Hwang is a writer, artist and software engineer. An active member of the Ruby community, he founded Ruby-NYC in 2003, helps organize the annual Gotham Ruby Conference, and is currently a software engineer at Diversion Media. His writing on technology and culture has appeared in Spin, Wired, ArtByte, and FEED Magazine. His artwork has received press coverage in Wired News, Art in America, and Liberátion (France).

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