-From the Frontiers of Research to the Heart of the Enterprise
O'REILLY CONFERENCE NEWSLETTER UPDATE - 071902e
-Conference Highlights - Bruce Sterling on Open Source
-OSCON Tracks - It's not just about Perl, you know.
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Check out this year's program for a look into the future of
Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, critic, presents
A Contrarian Position on Open Source, Friday, July 26,
Sterling is the author of several science fiction novels including
Involution Ocean, The Artificial Kid, Schismatrix, Islands in the
Net, and Heavy Weather. He edited the collection Mirrorshades, the
definitive document of the cyberpunk movement, and co-authored
the novel The Difference Engine with William Gibson. He writes a
critical column for Science Fiction Eye and a popular-science
column for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
His non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown describes the law
enforcement and computer-crime activities that led to the start
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990.
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-Java, featuring Jakarta, Jserv, Ant, and Jboss
-Operating Systems: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X
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The Free Software Movement: Where All This Started
Richard M. Stallman (representing the Free Software Movement),
Hacking the Genome: Open Source in Bioinformatics
Ewan Birney, European Bioinformatics Institute
UC Santa Cruz Genome Bioinformatics Group
The Changing Relationship Between Business and Developers
Paul Pangaro, Ph.D., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Elaine B.
Challenges of Open Source in Visual Effects
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