x10-innovation

[Evelyn D. <du...@us...>]

   If you will be attending SPLASH (http://splashcon.org/) next week in
   Reno, please stop by the X10 BoF and learn what others are doing with
   x10! The BoF will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2010, 7:00pm-8:00pm.



   Event type:  Birds-of-a-Feather
   Title:	X10: Performance and Productivity at Scale

   Organizers:
   		Steve Blackburn, Australian National University (ANU)
   		Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM
   		Vivek Sarkar, Rice University
   		John Thomas, IBM

   Description:

   Come have a drink and learn what leading researchers from around the
   world are doing with the X10 Programming Language.  We will have a
   chance to hear about a broad range of X10 research topics, including
   work by Corky Cartwright (Rice University), Daniel Frampton (ANU),
   Anthony Hosking (Purdue University),  Jens Palsberg (UCLA),  Tetsu Soh
   (University of Tokyo) and Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech).   We will also
   hear from Evelyn Duesterwald (IBM), Michael Hind (IBM), and Vijay
   Saraswat (IBM) about the future direction of the X10 language and its
   ecosystem. Refreshments and freebies will be provided.