From: neighorn@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Steven C. Neighorn)
Subject: Willamette Valley ACM Meeting for November 1992
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
Distribution: pnw
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:56:03 GMT

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           ACM Oregon Chapter November "State-of-the-Art" Seminar
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			Pensioning-off Software?
		The WyPEN/WyScript Object-Oriented Package.
			Lecture and Demonstration

		      Raghu Raghavan, Wyatt Software

		    7:00 PM, Wednesday, November 18, 1992
		 Room 123, OCATE, NW Gibbs Drive, Beaverton

Pension administration presents a unique challenge to the software designer.
The myriad options and variations make it impossible to provide a 
shrink-wrapped solution. Is it possible to extract enough of a common structure
to devise a software system that can be economically customized for specific
clients?

The talk will cover the architecture and design of WyPEN, a field-configurable
pension administration system written entirely in C++ to run as a MS Windows
client-server application. WyScript is a proprietary macro language.

The package covers three levels of customization, all of which successfully
avoid the need to distribute the entire source code with the application.

   1. For novices, forms and tables to fill options,
   2. For domain experts who are not software gurus, the WyScript 
      macro language,
   3. For C/C++ programmers, an API to access WyPEN internals via dynamically
      linked libraries.

An additional challenge is that WyPEN's clients are giant companies, which
means WyPEN has to work with huge amounts of data, typically resident on 
many mainframe databases and systems. Furthermore, the system must support
unusual user interfaces, such as 1-800 numbers and touch-tone telephones.

The talk will be accompanied by a demonstration of the system.

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				The Speaker
Dr. Raghu Raghavan is Director of Technology at Wyatt Software. Wyatt Software
is the software arm of The Wyatt Company, an international consulting firm with
over 70 offices worldwide. Wyatt Software produces innovative human resource
benefits administration systems to complement Wyatt's consulting activities.

Raghu Raghavan was one of the principal architects of the Mentor
Graphics Falcon Framework and was an early adapter of the C++ language. He
has also worked at Sperry-Univac (now Unisys). He has published several papers
and has served as a columnist for "The C++ Report".

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		About ACM's State-of-the-Art Seminar Series

ACM Oregon Chapter holds a "State-of-the-Art" seminar each month (usually on the
third Wednesday of the month). Speakers are chosen for the leading-edge work
they have done in their topics. They are also chosen for their abilities to
present their knowledge and experience. Previous speakers include Dr. Ajay
Luthra and Dr. Philip Todd.
 
If you are interested in giving a seminar, or know of someone who would fit 
these qualifications, please contact the ACM officers (see below).
 
ACM seminars also feature Coffee and Cookies!!
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Directions:
Take Sunset Hwy (US 26 West) to 185th Ave.
Take 185th south to Cornell Rd.
Take Cornell Rd. west to OGI Science Park.
Take Compton Drive south to Gibbs Drive.
Take Gibbs Drive east to Building E-3
The meeting is in Room 123.
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ACM Contacts:

Niranjan Ramakrishnan, President (503) 646-6578. E-mail: niranjan@xzact.com
Pat Noziska, Secretary	(503) 228-1400. E-mail: pjn@atlastele.com
Steve Neighorn, Treasurer, (503) 524-7348. E-mail: neighorn@qiclab.scn.rain.com
Michael Witt, Membership Chair, (503) 650-9629.   E-mail: mwitt@arts.com
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