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5/24/2000 NWCHP Professional Seminar (photos of this event)

Latest Trends in Internet Computing: XML and Distributed Object Technology

Following its first successful E-Commerce seminar last month, NWCHP is cooking another big technical seminar, in collaboration with Microsoft’s diversity group CHIME (Chinese Microsoft Employees), on Latest Trends in Internet Computing: XML and Distributed Object Technology.

Computer software industry is evolving at a mind-boggling speed today, among all other new developments, however, XML and Distributed Object Technology are the most striking two and have aroused tremendous excitements. Both of them would have revolutionary and far-reaching impacts on the way information systems are structured and the way data and documents are exchanged and published on the web.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is rapidly becoming the universal format used by companies to share business information on the Web. By allowing different legacy computer systems to 'talk to each other,' XML permits the sharing of important business information like order entry, pricing and inventory levels - dramatically improving efficiencies and reducing costs. Leading industry experts believe XML will be the basis for all B2B Internet activity in the future. On the other hand, XML has the potential in B2C web applications to make goods and services be easily found on the web.

Distributed Object Computing (DOC) is one of the most exciting developments in software engineering. DOC is revolutionizing the way organizations do their business and the way people live. Various object-oriented technologies and standards such as Java, CORBA and DCOM have also progressed rapidly in the past few years. This seminar also aims to investigate the combined use of these technologies to support practical application needs in a variety of domains such as e-commerce, finance, healthcare, publishing, insurance and manufacturing and system integration.

NWCHP and CHIME have invited Dr. Arun Das and Mr. Michael Rys and Mr. Nanshan Zeng to talk on these two subjects. Dr. Das (Boeing Co.) is an information system expert with 33 years industry experiences. He is one of the earliest researchers on Distributed Object Computing technology and enjoyed a high recognition in this field. He has been teaching a series of courses on DOC technology in the University of Washington since 1992. Mr. Rys is the program manager on Microsoft’s XML team and Mr. Zeng is a software design engineer with Microsoft’s Web Data team. Both of them are among the earliest researchers on the XML and are playing in the very forefront of the industry. They both possess thorough understanding about the XML technology and have rich experiences in its applications.

Seminar details:

Time: May 24, 2000. 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 1560 Jefferson Room, Building 43, Microsoft Co. campus (Address: 15580 NE 31st St. Redmond WA 98052 [map] [directions])
Cost: Member $5, non-member $15 (membership due $20/year), food is provided.
Parking: free (underground parking).
Language: English.

Registration Forms: Registration Form, Membership Form.
Registration: you can choose one of the following:
1. fill out the forms and send with check (payable to NWCHP) to:

NWCHP
U.S. Bank Center,
1420 Fifth Ave. Ste. 2975
Seattle, WA 98101

(Membership enrollment also needs to fill out the Membership Form)

2. fax forms to (206) 363-6195, pay the due at door.

3. email the form to nwchp@yahoo.com, pay the due at door.

4. Pay at door (note: please register early as spaces are limited)

For questions please contact Richard at 206-574-0088, Carol at 425-687-2647 or Frazer at 206-363-3496, or email to nwchp@yahoo.com

Directions to this event:

from I-90: Exit at 156th Ave NE (north bound), going north, turn left at NE 31st St. at the first entry, turn right on to Bldg 43's parking lot. (more parking available underground).

from SR-520: Exit at 148th Ave NE (south bound), stay on left lane, turn left onto NE 24th St. turn left onto 156th Ave NE (north bound), turn left at NE 31st St. at the first entry, turn right on to Bldg 43's parking lot. (more parking available underground).

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report of this event

It is believed that Wednesday is the toughest day in a week. If you can survive this day, pretty much the dawn of a pleasant weekend starts brewing. On Wednesday of May 24, 2000, NWCHP sponsored its first technical seminar together with Microsoft CHIME. The audience started coming in around 6:00pm on Microsoft Campus in Redmond. Although some of the audience showed fatigue after a whole day's work, the three coherent talks with fascinating contents and vivid presentation actually made almost all the audience refreshed technically as well as physically. After the last speaker, Dr. Michael Rys, finished his presentation around 9:05pm, there were so many people surrounding him for further questions and deeper discussions. As a matter of fact, we have to ask our members and audience to their conversations outside the room because the facility people have started cleaning up the room.

Here are some highlights on the speakers and their presentations. Dr. Arun Das started the whole session with very accurate and clear introduction to Object-Orient Design and Programming. Backed by his unique experience and background in Boeing to deal with large scale programming projects and its evolution, Dr. Das has told us a very convincing story on why Object-Oriented Computing is a natural choice and selection to be the modern de-facto computation models that are used by most of software projects.

Mr. Nanshan Zeng, a long time XML practitioner and software design engineer, gave the audience a short while very accurate description about XML semantics as well as syntax. In particular, his insight on Microsoft’s emphasis, implementation, and extension of XML is excellent and useful.

Following up Mr Zeng's talk, Dr. Michael Rys gave a very impressive presentation on Microsoft SQL 2000 and its interaction with XML and BizTalk technology. As we all know XML is marketed as the basis for all B2B Internet activity in the future. coming years. We are seeing Microsoft once again taking a leading role to promote XML technology as the industry standard for the next generation of E-Commerce. More importantly, Dr. Rys has illustrated with many live examples that how Microsoft products, like SQL Server 2000, supports this emerging technology. What is the most interesting part of the talk, as a lot of audience also pointed out, is that Microsoft, following its pursuit of simplifying how people use computers, to make build a B2B E-Commerce system much simpler and plausible even for small businesses.