One of the many great reasons to attend the Tcl conference is the
tutorials presented by renowned leaders and experts in the Tcl
community. They will be sharing with you their knowledge of Tcl/Tk
and its extensions, and experience in developing large, versatile and
robust applications - information and techniques which will assist you
in your day-to-day Tcl programming needs.
Steve Collins is an attitude control system engineer at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. He has been a flight team member on Mars
Observer, Galileo, Deep Space One, MER and most recently, NASA's Deep
Impact mission to blow a hole in the comet Tempel 1.
Steve is responsible for keeping the spacecraft pointed in the right
direction, making trajectory corrections and figuring out "what the
heck just happened??" Steve tends to build his tools using C and
TCL and likes crisp interfaces and simple-minded code.
Steve has degrees in Physics and Theatre Arts from UC Santa Cruz.
When he's not flying spacecraft around the solar system, he can be
found on the soccer field, playing Theremin in the rock band
"Artichoke" or performing in one of Caltech's Shakespeare productions.
Tutorial Presenters
As part of John Ousterhout's team at UCB, Brent Welch has been writing
Tcl code since before Tcl formally existed. He wrote the exmh
E-Mail reader, portions of the Tcl and Tk interpreters, the best selling
book Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, the Tclhttpd
package and more.
D. Richard Hipp has developed many Tcl tools including a table widget,
html display widget, mkTclApp, and TOBE. He's been a member of the
Core Team since its creation.
Bruce Johnson is the author of the Swank GUI toolkit and is the Founder and President of
One Moon Scientific, Inc. a company specializing in developing tools and applications
for scientific data analysis. Prior to One Moon Scientific, Inc., Bruce was a Senior
Research Fellow at Merck & Co., Inc. During his 15 year career at Merck he specialized
in applying the methods of structural biology, molecular modeling, and cheminformatics
to research in drug discovery.
At Merck, Dr. Johnson used Tcl/Tk and Jacl/Swank in a wide range of applications. These
included: scientific data analysis and visualization, laboratory robot control, Oracle
database access, and client-server applications in a high performance computing
environment. NMRViewJ, which is the flagship product of One Moon Scientific, Inc., uses
Java, Jacl and Swank to provide advanced visualization and analysis of of data from
scientific instruments.
Clif Flynt has been a professional programmer since 1978, and a Tcl
advocate since 1993. His dual interests in programming and teaching
have led him to developing both scientific and business software,
teaching at Grinnell College, writing about Tcl/Tk and delivering
Tcl/Tk corporate training.
Clif's Tcl projects include TclTutor, a computer based instruction
package, The book Tcl/Tk:A Developer's Guide from Morgan Kauffman,
and regular Tclsh Spot articles for ;login: magazine.
Jeff Hobbs (Mr. Tclguy) is the Core Release Manager for the Tcl
language. He has maintained the TK Usage FAQ since 1996. Jeff is the
technical lead for Tcl technologies at ActiveState. Previously, he was the
Tcl Ambassador at Scriptics, maintaining communications between the Tcl
community and Scriptics and managing development of the Tcl core.
Jeff is probably responsible for more Tcl bug fixes than anyone else and
is a co-author of Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (Fourth
Edition), published by Prentice Hall.
Gerald Lester has been giving tutorials at conferences for over 20
years. Gerald works for HMS Software as a Senior Implementation
Engineer, prior to that he had worked for Computerized Processes
Unlimited for over 15 years where he was one of the early adapters of
Tcl/Tk and presented a paper at first Tcl/Tk Conference (then called the
Tcl/Tk Workshop) about the first "large" Tcl/Tk application (~300,000
lines of Tcl/Tk code). Gerald has been on the Tcl/Tk Conference
Committee numerous times is has twice chaired the conference.
Gerald is one of the maintainers for both TclHttpd and TclLib.
Ken Jones, President of Avia Training and Consulting, has hundreds of
in-class hours teaching advanced technical topics, and almost 20 years
experience in technical training and documentation targeted towards software
developers.
Prior to founding Avia, Ken was lead instructor at Ajuba Solutions (formerly
Scriptics), which provided advanced business-to-business e-commerce
solutions based on XML and Tcl. While at Ajuba Solutions, Ken worked with
John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl, Brent Welch, author of Practical
Programming in Tcl and Tk, and other key developers of the Tcl language. Ken
also has worked for companies including Borland, Silicon Graphics, and
Sybase where he specialized in products for creating graphical user
interfaces and for providing database connectivity.
Steve Landers is the Senior Consultant at Digital Smarties. He is
active within the Tcl/Tk community, where he regularly contributes both
software and expertise. He has a particular interest in the development
of cross-platform scripted applications, and is a leading proponent of
Tclkit, Starkit, Starpacks and Metakit for developing complex and robust
cross-platform applications.
Steve has over twenty years experience in the Open Software marketplace,
being a founding member of both AUUG (the Australian Open Systems User
Group) and SAGE-AU (the Systems Administrators Guild of Australia). He
was a pioneer of the commercial application of the UNIX operating system
and relational database technology in Australia during the early 1980's
implementing the first commercial Unix/Oracle installation in the
country.
He was a founder and technical director of Functional Software - one
of Australia's most successful software development companies, whose
COSMOS products and technology are used worldwide in the management of
large IT installations.
Steve regularly speaks at conferences, both in Australia and
internationally. He has spoken at a number of SAGE-AU and AUUG annual
conferences, and was a speaker at the Tcl2001 And Tcl2002 conferences.
Will Duquette is the author of the well-known "Will's Guide
to Namespaces and Packages" and "Will's Guide to Object Commands",
the Notebook personal wiki application, and the Snit object
and widget framework. When not working on Snit, Notebook, and
suchlike projects, he's a software engineer responsible for more
projects than are easily mentioned.
Contact Information
tcl2005@tcl.tk
