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Dr. Jim Mitchell
Sun Fellow
and
Vice President of Architecture & Technology
JavaSoft

Java Hot Spots

Thursday, 16 April 1998

4:00 pm, Wean Hall 7500

3:45 pm - Refreshments Outside Wean Hall 7500


ABSTRACT
The Java technology is hot no matter how you look at it: The performance of the VM is heating up with Just In Time compilers and the soon to be released HotSpot(TM) VM with its adaptive compilation. Working to make Java a standard has created a lot of heat (and much less light) in the trade press and in standards bodies worldwide. The race between Java and WinCE in digital TV, telephones, cars, and PDAs is being hotly contested. This seminar will concentrate mostly on the HotSpot(TM) technology, but there will also be a few anecdotes from the public battlefields in which Java is being contested.

SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Jim Mitchell is vice president of Architecture and Technology for JavaSoft and is a Sun Fellow. Prior to JavaSoft, Dr. Mitchell was in charge of the Spring distributed, object-oriented operating system research in Sun Laboratories and SunSoft.

Before joining Sun in 1988, Dr. Mitchell was head of research and development for Acorn Computers (U.K.) and President of the Acorn Research Center in Palo Alto, California. In 1980-81 he was Senior Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge University Computing Laboratory. From 1971-84 he was at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and was a Xerox Fellow.

Dr. Mitchell has been working with computers since 1962 at the University of Waterloo where he and three other undergraduates developed the first WATFOR compiler. He has a Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University and has worked on compilers, interactive programming systems, programming language design (Mesa, Euclid, C++), document preparation systems, user interface design, graphics hardware, distributed transactional file systems, and distributed, object-oriented operating systems.

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