Correspondence

Eleventh Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA ’96): Reaching out to communicate the big impact Christopher Alexander’s speech had on him as a professional and forwarding a paper with his major concerns and thoughts about computers

01/01/1997

Post-event Communication, Request for Feedback

Sender:

Ian Simmonds, Dobbs Ferry, NY, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Public Event

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

Organized by:

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

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.

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 ...