New Directions in Systems Development 1999

The School of Computing and Information Technology at the University of Wolverhampton, in conjunction with the British Computer Society, announces the topics of its annual seminar series.

The programme and speakers for 1999 was:

Visual Programming - Wednesday 24 March 1999

• What is a Visual Programming Language?
• 
  Arline F. Wilson, Wolverhampton University
• Visual Programming: Theory and Practice, an academic's viewpoint
• 
  Pete Cheetham, Staffordshire University
• Visual Programming with AVS/Express
• 
  Paul Lever, Manchester Visualization Centre
• LabVIEW: the scientific answer to programming
• 
  Tim Fountain, National Instruments
• Visual Programming Business Systems in Java: Going beyond the GUI
• 
  Russell Prince-Wright, Objectshare

Enterprise Computing - Wednesday 21 April 1999

• Enterprise Application Integration - Truth and Reality?
• 
  Andy Joss, Software AG (UK) Ltd
• Enterprise Applications - the latest technological silver bullet?
• 
  Professor Rob Moreton, University of Wolverhampton
• Building Distributed Applications in Visual Basic
• 
  Graham Parker, Chairman of UK Visual Basic Users Group (VBUG)
• Component Management
• 
  Geoff Wells, SELECT Software Tools
• Experiences With Linux
• 
  Mark Zachos, Dearborn Group Technology

Web Technologies - Wednesday 19 May 1999

• Dynamic Interfaces for the Web
• 
  Dave Clarke, Visualize Software Ltd
• Graphics on the Web
• 
  David Duce, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• XML - Extensible Mark-up Language
• 
  Prof. Peter Murray-Rust, University of Nottingham
• RDF and Metadata
• 
  Andy Powell, The UK Office for Library and Information Networking
• SMIL: Multimedia on the Web
• 
  Michael Wilson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

All the seminars took place at the Wolverhampton Molineux Conference Centre (Wolves Football Ground).