{"id":487,"date":"2014-10-17T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=487"},"modified":"2014-10-17T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:48:28","slug":"school-sponsors-object-oriented-programming-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/10\/17\/school-sponsors-object-oriented-programming-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"School sponsors object-oriented programming conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Computing sponsored the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (<a title=\"ECOOP14\" href=\"http:\/\/ecoop14.it.uu.se\" target=\"_blank\">ECOOP<\/a>), held in Uppsala, Sweden, in July\/August 2014. The School has a long history of Object Oriented Programming and was one of the first UK universities to introduce the Java programming language as a teaching tool.<\/p>\n<p>ECOOP is the premier European (arguably the world leading) conference on all aspects of object oriented programming. It is also the venue for the award of the Dahl-Nygaard Prizes, named after\u00a0Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard in honour of their pioneering work on object-orientation. The other high profile sponsors of the conference included Spotify, Google, Oracle, Samsung and IBM research.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Richard Jones was the Chair of the ECOOP&#8217;14 Programme Committee which met in the School of Computing in February; the School also hosted a small workshop immediately prior to the Programme Committee meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Computing sponsored the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP), held in Uppsala, Sweden, in July\/August 2014. The School has a long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/10\/17\/school-sponsors-object-oriented-programming-conference\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[58002,497,58003,58004],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}