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As part of SCS Undergraduate GEEK WEEK!
All are invited to a special presentation by...


         JIM WALDO
	          Distinguished Engineer, and Lead Architect for JINI
		           Sun Microsystems


        "NETWORKS OF THINGS: CHANGING THE NETWORK RULES"

        Wednesday, 8 November 2000
        Doherty Hall 2315 -- 4:30 pm
       ---A reception will follow

Jim Waldo is a Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems, where
he is the lead architect for Jini, a distributed programming system
based on Java. Prior to Jini, Jim worked in JavaSoft and Sun
Microsystems Laboratories, where he did research in the areas of
object-oriented programming and systems, distributed computing,
and user environments.

Before joining Sun, Jim spent eight years at Apollo Computer and
Hewlett Packard working in the areas of distributed object systems,
user interfaces, class libraries, text and internationalization.
While at HP, he led the design and development of the first
Object Request Broker, and was instrumental in getting that
technology incorporated into the first OMG CORBA specification. He
edited the book "The Evolution of C++: Language Design in
the Marketplace of Ideas" (MIT Press), and was one of the
authors of "The Jini Specification" (Addison Wesley).

Jim is an adjunct faculty member of Harvard University, where
he teaches distributed computing in the Department of Computer
Science.
jim received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of
Massachusetts (Amherst). He also holds M.A. degrees in both
linguistics and philosophy from the University of Utah. He is
a member of the IEEE and ACM.