Brian Foote, University of Illinois

Brian Foote has over twenty-one years of professional software development experience. He has been working with Smalltalk and objects since 1985. Brian has written numerous papers on Smalltalk, object-oriented design, software reuse, patterns, and software architecture. Brian was involved in the development of the object-oriented enterprise frameworks developed at the Illinois Department of Public Health. His current research, on using objects to build better object-oriented languages, is being conducted in Smalltalk.