Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets

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AITO is the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets, a non-profit association registered in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The purpose of the Association is promote the advancement of research in object-oriented technology, primarily in Europe, in particular through the organisation of the annual European Conference for Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP).

AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize 2009

AITO is proud to announce the Dahl-Nygaard Prize for 2009. It will be given during ECOOP 2009 in Genova. The Senior Prize will be given to David Ungar, IBM Research, for his contributions to both theory and practice of object-oriented languages. (read more).

AITO is looking for nominations for the forthcoming Dahl-Nygaard Prizes for 2010. Should you have any candidate that you'd like to nominate, please contact the President of AITO or any member of the executive board.

ECOOP 2009 in Italy

The 2009 edition of ECOOP will be held in Genova, Italy.

Future editions of ECOOP

The 2010 edition of ECOOP will be held in Maribor, Slovenia.

The 2011 edition of ECOOP will be held in Lancaster, England.

Interested in hosting an ECOOP?

AITO is soliciting proposals for hosting future ECOOP conferences. If you are interested in hosting ECOOP, contact the President of AITO, any member of the executive board, or any other AITO member for further information. See also the section Resources for past bids.

• Organisation of European Conference for Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP).
• Support International Network for PhD Students in Object Oriented Systems (PhDOOS).
• Co-Sponsor Agile Development, The Conference.
• Backed 1st International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development.

• Statutes for the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize.
• The AITO Handbook (pdf, 209 kB) contains information about AITO and its bylaws, and about ECOOP and how to organize it.
• Bids and Final Statements from the last four ECOOP conferences (Darmstadt 2003 to Nantes 2006), and well as statistics from the period 1991-2005, all in a zip file (4.9 MB).
• AITO bylaws (in German, pdf, 85 kB). An English version can be found in the AITO Handbook (pdf, 209 kB).
• The AITO logo should be displayed on all AITO-sponsored events. Available in png (size 1015x778, 96 kB), png (size 1011x480, 35 kB), and pdf (9 kB).