| Date: | Wednesday, October 27th, 1999 |
| Time: | 7.00pm-8.45pm |
| Location: | California Zephyr Room, Building One (SC1) Nortel Networks |
| see directions below |
| Agenda: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 7.00 to 7.05 | - | Announcements |
| 7.05 to 8.15 | - | Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition |
| by Bill Day, Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems | ||
| 8.15 to 8.45 | - | Q&A |
| (All are welcome, no membership fee, no prior reservation necessary) |
| Note: For the "Announcements" section if you have something you would like announced, or any "News" (upcoming conferences, information about similar groups, applets...etc) please send mail to (Sudhakar Ramakrishnan) sudha@best.com prior to the meeting. A bulletin board would be placed for product announcements/job openings/miscellaneous announcements. |
By Bill Day
Most of us use more computers embedded in devices and appliances than we do PCs, workstations, and mainframes combined. Not only are CPUs everywhere, but almost all of our interactions with CPUs involve (or very soon will involve) interactions with networks.
The Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition addresses this vast space of ubiquitous networked consumer and embedded devices, from smart cards to pagers and mobile phones and all the way up to set-top boxes and Internet screenphones.
Within the J2ME framework, major types of consumer devices are grouped into a number of categories, such as TV set-top, screenphone, wireless (pagers and cell phones, for example), automotive, and digital assistant. To help content developers, each category has a profile, that is, a specification of the minimum set of APIs useful for that category of device and a specification of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) functions required to support those APIs.
Come learn more about the underlying technologies and the various profiles that are taking shape under J2ME. Specifically, this presentation will give you an under-the-hood view (including status and roadmap) of J2ME technologies including the core technologies and the various profiles. We will discuss the use of the K Virtual Machine (KVM) in mobile phones, pagers, and Palm handhelds, the PersonalJavaTM profile and VM and their use in Internet screenphones and settop boxes, and EmbeddedJava's application to deeply embedded devices. We will also explore JavaCard and related technologies, as time allows.
Bill Day is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. He writes Java Device Programming, a monthly technical column for JavaWorld magazine, as well as a weekly Computing Careers column for the Java Career Dispatch and Dr. Dobb's Developer Careers. Bill has contributed feature articles to CNN.com, SunWorld, Gamasutra, and Sun's Java site and speaks frequently on Java-based multimedia and consumer device programming.
Prior to joining Sun, Bill was a software engineer at Silicon Graphics. Bill held fellowships with the Honeywell Technology Center, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Bill has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and completed one year of graduate studies in Scientific Computation at the University of Minnesota.
More information is available from Bill's web site: http://www.billday.com
Nortel Networks
California Zephyr Room, Building One (SC1)
4401 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA
From 101 North - SF Area
From 101 South Area:
It is advised that if you are coming from the Peninsula take 280 South and
make an interchange @ 92 East to 101 South (Follow other directions from
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