Eleventh Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA ’96)

06/10/1996 to 10/10/1996

San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Conference, Professional Event

Keynote Speech on “The Origins of Pattern Theory: The Future of the Theory, and the Generation of a Living World”, published in “IEEE Software” Journal in 1999.

Organized by:

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (ACM/SIGPLAN) - James Coplien of Bell Laboratories, Program Committee Chair

Contents

Correspondence

Visual & Audio Materials

Records

The Origins of Pattern Theory: The Future of the Theory, and the Generation of a Living World, keynote speech to the 1996 OOPSLA Convention 06/10/1996

Event Document, Lecture Transcript

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

19-page transcript of the live recording of Christopher Alexander’s keynote speech at the ACM Convention on “Object Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications”, with an introduction by Jim Coplien.

References

Scientific Research

Patterns in Software Development

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Software Development

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...

Articles

The Origins of Pattern Theory: The Future of the Theory, and the Generation of a Living World 01/09/1999

Publication, Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

IEEE Software, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 71-82

Publisher:

IEEE Computer Society, U.S.A.