VL 2000 Call for Participation

[Margaret Burnett]

VL'2000: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
September 10-14, 2000
Seattle, Washington
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/

Call for Participation

VL'2000 is the premier international conference on visual and
multimedia languages for creating/understanding software.

We hope you will plan to join us at this year's conference, which
includes keynote talks by Brad Myers and Tony DeRose, a special
session by S.-K. Chang, tutorials, satellite workshops, a social
program to provide a sampling of some of Seattle's unique attractions,
and more. Here are some of the details:

Opening keynote: Brad Myers (Carnegie-Mellon University).
Brad Myers is an extremely well known researcher in programming by
demonstration. His topic will be "Creating More Natural Programming
Languages," a description of his new line of research into
deriving the design of a programming language from the results of
human-factors experiments and principles.

Closing keynote: Tony DeRose (Pixar Animation Studios).
Tony DeRose is a senior scientist at Pixar, and was a major
contributor
to the Oscar winning short film "Geri's Game." In 1999 he received
the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. His topic
will be "How Computer Graphics is Changing Hollywood," a behind-the-
scenes look at how fully digital films --- such as Pixar's "A Bug's
Life" and "Toy Story 2"--- are made, with particular emphasis on the
role that geometry plays in the revolution.

Tutorial -- Diagrammatic Reasoning and Visual Languages: How to draw
upon research findings from psychology, art, mathematics, and
human-computer interaction to design a diagrammatic visual
language or environment.
Tutorial -- Object-Oriented Software Development of Multimedia
Applications with UML: UML is becoming extremely popular. This
tutorial will introduce participants to UML diagrams, and will
preview
the currently proposed UML extensions to model multimedia
applications.
Tutorial -- Advanced Visual Modelling: Beyond UML:
An overview of UML and some of its strengths and weaknesses, and
alternative visual reasoning mechanisms that can be used instead of

or in conjunction with UML.
Tutorial -- Programming by Example Techniques: Introduction and survey
of a broad range of techniques used in programming systems that
allow the user to give examples of the desired behaviors and
contents, from which the system generalizes.

Satellite Workshop -- The Visual End User:
http://borg.cs.dal.ca/~smedley/veu/index.html
Satellite Workshop -- Visual Methods for Parallel/Distributed
Programming:
http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/math/u/guidow/wsvl2000/index.html
Satellite Workshop -- Multimedia Computing on the World Wide Web:
http://grail.cba.csuohio.edu/~mcwww2k/Vl2000.html

Also, S.-K. Chang will be doing a special presentation on the emerging
subarea of Multimedia Software Engineering.

Finally, our social program this year includes two receptions, an
excursion to Paradise on Mount Rainier, and a banquet. See the web
page for details.

Please join us! More information, including the advance program
and registration details, is available at:
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/

Hotel reservation deadline for the special VL rates: August 9.
Conference registration deadline for the early rates: August 15.