OOPSLA

OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications) is an annual ACM conference.

OOPSLA is an annual conference covering topics on object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications. Like other conferences, OOPSLA offers various tracks and many simultaneous sessions, and thus has different meaning to different people. It is more academic than some conferences, with doctoral students presenting papers for credit, and less academic than others.

The first OOPSLA was held in Portland, Oregon in 1986. It operates under the auspices of the Special Interest Group for Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

OOPSLA’s venue changes every year, and the categories of its program vary. Historically OOPSLA has combined the presentation of academic papers with comparatively practical experience reports, panels, workshops and tutorials.

OOPSLA helped object-oriented programming develop into what is now mainstream programming, and helped incubate a number of related disciplines, including design patterns, refactoring, aspect-oriented programming, Model Driven Engineering, agile software development, and Domain Specific Language.

The sister conference of OOPSLA in Europe is ECOOP.

Locations and Organizers

Year	Location	Conference Chair	Program Chair
2007	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Richard P. Gabriel	David Bacon
2006	Portland, Oregon	Peri Tarr	William Cook
2005	San Diego, California	Ralph Johnson	Richard P. Gabriel
2004	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	John Vlissides	Doug Schmidt
2003	Anaheim, California	Ron Crocker	Guy L. Steele, Jr.
2002	Seattle, Washington	Mamdouh Ibrahim	Satoshi Matsuoka
2001	Tampa Bay, Florida	Linda Northrop	John Vlissides
2000	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Mary Beth Rosson	Doug Lea
1999	Denver, Colorado	Brent Hailpern	Linda Northrop
1998	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Bjorn Freeman-Benson	Craig Chambers
1997	Atlanta, Georgia	Mary Loomis	Toby Bloom
1996	San Jose, California	Lougie Anderson	James Coplien
1995	Austin, Texas	Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock	Mary Loomis
1994	Portland, Oregon	Jeff McKenna	J. Eliot B. Moss
1993	Washington, D.C.	Timlynn Babitsky and Jim Salmons	Ralph Johnson
1992	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	John Pugh	Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock
1991	Phoenix, Arizona	John Richards	Alan Snyder
1990	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (co-located with ECOOP)	David Thomas and Pierre Cointe	Akinori Yonezawa
1989	New Orleans, Louisiana	George Bosworth	Kent Beck
1988	San Diego, California	Alan Otis and Larry Tesler	Kurt Shmucker
1987	Orlando, Florida	Adele Goldberg and Chet Wisinski	Jerry L. Archibald
1986	Portland, Oregon	Daniel G Bobrow and Alan Purdy	Daniel Ingalls

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