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Richard P Gabriel

Richard P. Gabriel received a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1998. He is chief scientist of a small laboratory at Sun Microsystems, President of the Hillside Group, and the CEO of Dream Songs, Inc.

 

Articles

A Vision for java.net
Richard Gabriel presents the original vision for java.net and welcomes you to a community-run site for Java developers.

Weblogs

OOPSLA 2005

"I think OOPSLA is the best d*mned programming conference in the world: there is nothing else like it. OOPSLA is where people learn what they need today—and learn what they will be doing...

The Three Bears - Lessig on Property Rights

On July 24, Larry Lessig gave a talk at the Sun CTO All-Hands meeting.

Are there other conferences worth attending?

JavaOne is over - thank God! It's a great conference for finding out who is doing what in Java, and there are lots of opportunities to learn Java-related things. But I prefer conferences not so...

Reputation and Sun

"How do we know that Sun won't censor or otherwise pollute java.net with heliocentric notions—after all, Sun owns and operates the site?"

Belly of the Beast

I’m Dick Gabriel, a computer scientist at Sun. I’ve been working in and around programming languages since 1975 and around objects since 1984 or so. These days I’m active in OO conferences and...