Jim Coplien

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Cope is a 1977 graduate of the UW College of Engineering, a 1979 graduate of UW Computer Sciences, and a student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He works in the Software and Systems Research Center at Bell Laboratories. He is a Member Emeritus of the Hillside Group, a group of industry software designers committed to studying the applicability of software patterns. He has a short bio here.

Publications: Cope's bibliography has pointers to HTML and Postscript for many documents and books. He is author of Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ and of Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms (see also here). His book on Software Patterns was named Best New Book of 1996 by JOOP. He co-edited Pattern Languages of Program Design (volume 1) (see here for detailed information and links to on-line chapters!) in which he wrote a chapter on organizational and process patterns. He helped edit Volume 2, too. Cope is a regular columnist for the C++ Report. Cope looks at the future of OO here.

Patterns: Sample patterns. Telecom patterns. ChiliPLoP '99. Follow the collaborative effort to build a combined organizational pattern language using the ThoughtsWeaver system, a WikiWikiClone. Read about the Nature of Order, Alexander's forthcoming work.

Talks and Conferences: OT '99; SD '99; EDOC '99; CHOOSE; TOOLS Europe; Israel OO Day; EuroPLoP '97 Pictures!!. ChiliPLoP '99; ChiliPLoP '98 Pictures! EuroPLoP '99; OOPSLA; GCSE '99; ECOOP '98 in Brussels. Cope was program chair of OOPSLA'96 (technical program is here) and was on the program committee of COOTS/97 and EDOC '98.

'Questing and genealogy are Cope's favorite hobbies.

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