NEW YORK, October 10, 2000 - SYS-CON Media and Camelot Communications announced today that XML DevCon Fall 2000, to be presented November 12-15, 2000 at the San Jose DoubleTree Hotel, has assembled a faculty that includes a W3C Fellow, ACM Fellow, Seybold Fellow, STC Honorary Fellow, and Turing Award winner. The distinguished faculty (including the co-inventors of XML, SQL, and SGML) will instruct XML enthusiasts from around the world -- programmers, developers, engineers, software architects, system engineers, Web developers, product managers, project leaders, consultants and educators. Updates on the event may be found at www.sys-con.com/xmlcon/.
The four-day technical conference features 6 tracks with over 100 sessions. Highlighting the event is a technical program that includes recognized industry best-selling authors who have written books on XML, HTML, XHTML, SGML, Java, and SQL. They include:
Charles Goldfarb, father of SGML, editor of Prentice Hall's SGML/XML series, author of The XML Handbook, XML Web Kit
Don Chamberlin, co-designed SQL and Quilt, author of A Complete Guide to DB2 Universal Database
Jim Gray, editor of Morgan-Kaufmann's data management series, coauthor of Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques and The Benchmark Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems
Joe Celko, author of SQL for Smarties, Instant SQL, Data and Databases, and Joe Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers
Barbara Bouldin, author of Agents of Change
Martin Bryan, author of SGML - An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language
Kurt Cagle, author of XML Developer's Handbook
Michael Floyd, author of Building Web Sites with XML
Peter Haggar, author of Practical Java
Elliotte Rusty Harold, author of the XML Bible, Java I/O, Java Network Programming, XML: Extensible Markup Language, Java Network Programming, Java Secrets: With CDROM, Java Developer's Resource : A Tutorial and On-Line Supplement
Ken Holman, author of Practical Transformation Using XSLT and Xpath
Molly Holschlag, author of about a dozen books, including Special Edition with XHTML 1.0
David Linthicum, author of David Linthicum's Guide to Client Server Development and Enterprise Application Integration
Brian Loesgen, coauthor of Professional XML, Professional ASP/XML and Professional Windows DNA
Didier Martin, coauthor of Professional XML
Bruce Peat, coauthor of Professional XML
Mark Scardina, coauthor of Oracle XML Handbook
Simon St. Laurent, author of XML:A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Building XML Applications, Cookies, and Sharing Bandwidth
Henry Balen, Distributed Object Architecture with CORBA
Jason Hunter, author of Java Servlet Programming
Tommie Usdin, Editor of Markup Languages: Theory & Practice, MIT Press
Paul Brown, coauthor of Object-Relational Databases: The Next Great Wave
Alex Chaffee, contributed to The Official Gamelan Java Directory
Brett McLaughlin, author of Java and XML and Enterprise Applications in Java
Vijay Kanibar, coauthor of XML Fundamentals
Piroz Mosheni author of Professional Java Server Programming: with Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), XML, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), JNDI, CORBA, Jini and Javaspaces; Java Beans Developers Guide with CDROM; The Waite Group's Nc Guide; and Web Database Primer Plus : Connect Your Database to the World Wide Web Using Html, Cgi, and Java
James K. Pinkelman, coauthor of Microsoft OLAP Unleashed
Shelley Powers author of Developing ASP Components
Tarun Sharma, coauthor of Programming Web Components
Madhu Siddalingaia, author of Java How-To: The Definitive Java Problem-Solver and Java API For Dummies Quick Reference
Ken North, author of Windows Multi-DBMS Programming, Database Magic with Ken North, contributed to Dr. Dobb's Database Development: Tools and Techniques and Windows NT System Management and Security
Peter Coffee, author of How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs
Kevin Dick, author of XML: A Manager's Guide
"We've assembled a world-class faculty for XML DevCon Fall 2000 to present a superlative technical program that focuses on enterprise XML The roster of speakers includes 33 authors and the pioneers who created markup languages and SQL. We also have eBusiness experts and people such as Tim Bray, Henry Thompson, and a dozen others whose work in the W3C has given us important XML specifications. Simply put, we've assembled an unprecedented dream-team lineup of speakers. XML DevCon's technical program and interactive exhibit floor will continue to set the standard in conference education for the software development community." said Ken North, Conference Chair.
Media/Analysts representatives are invited to register for a Press Pass, which will allow access to all technical sessions and special events. To register for a Press Pass, please provide the following information, along with supporting documentation as outlined below and email to terry@camelot-com.com. Once approved, you will receive an email confirmation and be sent a press/analyst conference pass.
Acceptable Press Credentials Media and analyst credentials are reserved for editorial and broadcast production staff, and industry/research/financial analysts. To qualify, you must be currently employed by a publication, news organization or a research institution. To expedite your request, please provide the following documentation:
CONTACT: Terry DeGiuli, Camelot Communications Corp. terry@camelot-com.com or 212-251-0006.
ABOUT CAMELOT COMMUNICATIONS CORP.: Camelot Communications Corp. produces IT conferences focusing on emerging technologies including open-source, XML, Java, and Wireless Business & Technology. Strategic partnerships with leading IT and software organizations such as the Apache Software Foundation and Oasis and the OMG as well as alliances with industry media and analyst groups have allowed us to embrace the IT community in the United States and Europe. For a list of upcoming projects, visit http://www.camelot-com.com/html/integrate_pr.html.
ABOUT SYS-CON MEDIA: SYS-CON, recently named as the fastest-growing, privately held publishing company in America by Inc. 500, publishes technical journals for information technology professionals, which currently include:
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