Date & Time: Wednesday March 13, 2002
6:00-9:30 p.m. (speaker at 7:00)

Speaker: Brent Young, Software Engineer and Technology Evangelist, Curl Corporation

Sponsor: IBM developerWorks

Topic: High-Performance, Client-Side Web Services

Abstract: As web services become a reality, so does the need for finding the right software infrastructure for supporting these services. By moving leaders in the software industry to agree upon standards such as UDDI, SOAP and WSDL, they will show that the industry is relying on web services to drive the next evolution of Internet and intranet technologies. Additionally, the focus has to be expanded to include the client side of the web experience.

Join us to find out how the Curl(tm) content language will play an integral role in exposing the power of web services. Curl marries the simple formatting and rapid development of HTML with the power and extensibility of object-oriented programming languages like C++ and Java. The Curl language is designed to be compact and include built-in support for XML and SOAP parsing, which makes deploying lightweight Curl web pages and applications which easily consume Web services. Offloading the consumption of web services to the client has numerous architectural and implementation benefits, the least of which are reduced server load and application responsiveness.

Curl Corporation, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the leading software infrastructure company whose content development and delivery platform enables true client/server functionality in a web-based environment. Included among Curl customers are Siemens, adisoft AG, BT, and Space Machine. Curl Corporation is a recipient of the Crossroads 2002 A-List Award and has been named by Computerworld as one of the top 100 companies to watch in 2002.

About the Speaker: Since joining Curl, Brent Young has been responsible for the development of the SAX2-compliant XML parser and has been instrumental in developing prototypes and products for customers. Prior to joining Curl Corporation, he was with shoppinglist.com, where he was responsible for implementing web site features in a variety of programming languages as well as designing database infrastructures to support specific features. Young holds a Bachelors of Arts degree and a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Schedule:

6:50 pm: General announcements (have jobs, want jobs, etc.)

7:00 pm: Main speaker

8:20 pm: Door prizes (must be present to win)

8:30 pm: Special interest groups Free and open to the public. RSVPs not required.

Please invite your friends and colleagues!