For more than 20 years Carl Sassenrath has been leading the design and implementation of fundamental advances in computer languages, operating systems, and distributed computing. In 1985 Carl was responsible for the design and implementation of the highly acclaimed Amiga Multitasking Operating System. His background includes senior development roles at Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group, Hewlett-Packard (Computer Systems Division), and Commodore Amiga. He was also the founder and president of Pantaray and American Multimedia, and was the co-founder and VP of Development for Videostream Inc.
Carl has headed the development of Internet set-top boxes, CDTV (the world’s first CD-ROM set-top box), programming languages, and multimedia content authoring systems. Carl holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California.
Baron R. K. Von Wolfsheild is an industry veteran with over a quarter century in software architecture and hardware design. He has designed hundreds of popular consumer products spanning half a dozen industries. His clients read like a who's who of entertainment and industry. He has held a key role in the conception and creation of a wide array of entertainment titles including Activision's Die Hard, Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Walt Disney Magical Racing Quest, 102 Dalmatians, Mattel's Hotwheels Crash and Caterpillar Construction Zone, and Dreamwork's Shrek Fairy Tale Freak Down.
In the exciting world of gambling Von Wolfsheild pioneered the multimedia slot industry, heading the creation of the Bandit Video Slot system, the first multi-media video slot systems built on top of Microsoft Windows. He has also designed and produced dozens of titles for company such as Bally, ShuffleMaster, and Konami.
Recently he headed the software development for Boeing's Remote Aerial Refueling Operator (RARO) II demonstrator station on the KC-767, making manned and unmanned operations safer, and more effective.
Over the past 2 years he refocused his company on the single endeavour to create a complete whole life management system, called Qtask, it is a truly innovative web-based service that lets your whole team collaborate, be informed, and focus on priorities. "Today we have less time, are working with more people, and need to deal with more complex issues." Said Von Wolfsheild. Qtask is an innovative web-based service that lets your whole team collaborate, be informed, and remain focused. There is nothing to install, it does not require help from your IT, and it works on anything that can connect to the Web, including your PC, Susan's Mac, and Joe's cell phone. Qtask simplifies and organizes everything, puts the big picture at your fingertips, and gives you control of every detail.
Addicted to computers at age 8, Max went through a series of computers (TRS-80/1, C64, PC) when he adopted the amiga as his second best friend with which he lost many evenings analysing and designing a next generation operating environment (starting at age 18). After the ups and downs of College, life eventually brought him to start work as a demo-artist & integration expert in the field of high-end digital Visual effects (softimage, discreet logic, SGI, etc). After 6 years of specialisation and constant learning, Max jumped the boat and landed two successive jobs in the VFX industry itself, the later allowing him to flex his muscles writing custom crowd simulation, custom FX and production pipeline tools for 100% CGI, or Effects intensive shows and films like scooby doo, the fantastic four, the exorcist, and the dino series from discovery channel IMDB Profile. Max has recently shifted his career when he started work implementing mission-critical webservices and back-end integration modules as well as other custom solutions, all in REBOL, at his latest employer, Coginov.
For a time now, Max has been doing research, analysis and design, on IDE and Operating Environment APIs and workflows and found REBOL when it was still young. This language was so close to his own design that he adopted REBOL instead of writing his own and then continued on his Adaptive Work Environment, using REBOL as his main platform. After all these years (and many re-writes), the first concrete implementations are starting to emerge as prototypes or even release-candidate level APIs. Some very compelling demos are planned for DevCon 2007 where he plans to unveil the first glimpses of his AWE.
François Jouen, Neuroscientist, Director of the Human and Artificial Cognition (CHArt) at EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes). For more than 25 years, he worked at the CNRS (French National Scientific Reseach Organisation) and studied the epigenetic approaches of the human development. Recent topics of research concern the human supervised learning in cognitive robotics in complex collective tasks. The method used is about mimicking human behavior at the level of strategies and at the level of motor coordination in a way that helps to solve the correspondence problem between humans and robots. François Jouen is also working on the development of a simulation software of the main functions of the organism, based on a systemic approach of biology. The principle is to simulate an organism function by the means of a model with several levels (called integrated model) built with dynamical systems slightly coupled in a hierarchical metric space. Each dynamical system, also called elementary model, evolves in its own time scale and a certain area of space, its parameters being able to be modified if they correspond to state variables of other models. From the biological point of view, each elementary model corresponds to a physiological mechanism. From the computer science point of view, each system corresponds to an agent whose state is recomputed only at a rate which corresponds to its time scale.
François Jouen began to use computer during a post-doc in the MIT at the early of 80’s for the implementation of multitasking operating system on x86 computers. He wrote open source programs for BeOS operating system and use Rebol for scientific experimentation since the first versions.
Living in the Three Land Corner (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland) area, in Liberec.
REBOL exposition: almost ten years (started writing scripts for an investment fund in 1997), taught REBOL at Technical University in Liberec, currently working as a software developer.
Sunanda's been programming for over 30 years, starting out when mainframes ruled the earth.
He stumbled across REBOL when reading an article in Dr Dobbs, and was hooked immeditately.
For the last few years he'd been leading the REBOL Community's efforts to make REBOL.org a rich resource for the community.
When he's not programming, he can be found teaching meditation in high security prisons, and advising the UK military on Buddhism.
He lives in Birmingham, England (the birth place of the Industrial Revolution), in sight of the HQ of Cadbury's chocolate empire. He has no pets.
I'm an amateur Rebol programmer since 2001. My goal is to develop a fully featured Chinese language course and make it
available on the internet with the use of the Rebol plug in.
I'm not a Rebol expert but I spend my hours writing scripts and I like to share my experience whenever it is possible.
Believing in the simplicity of Rebol, I'm convinced that there is always an easy solution for all problems.
Ron Everett
From Relavance Technologies, is an industry veteran in ADBMS technology. Having worked at LMI (Lisp Machines Incorporated) and NASA, Ron has been working on Associative Systems for the last 14 years.
Ron has a claim for fame, being the very first person to have purchased an Amiga (A1000) in Canada. So somehow, it seems natural that he has an interest in another project which Carl is working on (REBOL).
One of the reasons for coming to the Devcon is an interest in synthesizing some of his technology with REBOL 3, providing native REBOL scripting within his toolset.