Java: It's Better Than You Think, For Reasons You Haven't Realized You Already Know

William Grosso, Mountain View

Stevenson Hall 1300
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

In this talk, the speaker will draw upon his past experience as chair of SDForum's Java SIG (www.sdforum.org/sigs/java) and his current role as the chair of SD Forum's Emerging Technology SIG (www.sdforum.org/sigs/emerging) to explain why beginning and intermediate programmers should learn Java, why most (practical) software innovations over the next few years will involve programs written in Java, and why programmers using Java-based systems are going to reinvent the internet overthe next 5 years.