Rotor BOF notes
Last Thursday I went to the Birds-Of-A-Feather session about Rotor at the Virtual Machine (VM'04) conference. There were over a dozen attendees. Most people haven't done much work with Rotor yet and they were there out of curiosity. I managed to write down names of most but not all of the participants. If I missed you and you want to be included, please let me know.
- John Gough had handouts of the newly written Appendix D for his book. This part talks about unsafe code and unmanaged data.
- Neal Glew from Intel talked about their experiences integrating a new JIT and GC into Rotor. This work will be presented at the .NET workshop in a few weeks.
- Lingli Zhang, a graduate student from UCSB, is considering using Rotor for her thesis.
- Deepak Chandra, a grad student from UC Irvine, is considering using Rotor for his information flow work.
- Mark Lewin from MSR was helping me present the winners of the Rotor RFP2. A few people asked for a link to a web page with that list but I think that it's not available yet (I will try to find out). The list of RFP1 winners is online.
- Yahya Mirza announced a workshop he's organizing for OOPSLA.
- Tarek Abdelrahman from the University of Toronto, Hans Boehm from HP and a few others were just listening.
- Gil Tene and Ivan Posva from Azul Systems were asking questions about Pinvoke and interop with native code and wrote down the info I showed them about pinvoke.net and Adam Nathan's .NET and COM book.
