Allen Wirfs-Brock, Instantiations Inc.
Allen Wirfs-Brock has spent the last twenty years working to make object-oriented programming languages practical for large-scale application development. Allen is currently Chief Technology Officer of Instantiations Inc. Previously, He was Chief Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. and Vice President of Technology at Digitalk, Inc. Allen lead the development of the first commercial Smalltalk products at Tektronix and was a major contributor to the development of the ANSI Smalltalk standard. Allen has spoken on object-oriented technology at numerous conferences.