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 Prizes 2013

AITO is happy to announce the winners of the Dahl-Nygaard Prizes for 2013.
The Senior Prize winner is Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland, for his extensive and diverse contributions to research aimed at making systems more flexible with respect to changing requirements.
The Junior Prize winner is Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research Cambridge, for his work on specifying and reasoning about object-oriented programs, and the introduction of the notion of abstract predicates.
The Dahl-Nygaard Prizes for 2013 will be given during ECOOP 2013 in Montpellier, France in July 2013.
Read the full announcement.

Previous edition

The 2012 edition of ECOOP was held in Beijing, China.

Future editions of ECOOP

The 2013 edition of ECOOP will be held in Montpellier, France.
The Program Committee Chair for ECOOP 2013 is Giuseppe Castagna.

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).
• Co-Sponsor Agile Development, The Conference.
• Backed 1st International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development.

• Statutes for the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize.
• Handbook for [ECOOP] PC Chairs (pdf, 117 kB). Notes and suggestions by G. Castagna on how PC chairs should organize the selection process for ECOOP.
• The AITO Handbook (pdf, 209 kB) contains information about AITO and its bylaws, and about ECOOP and how to organize it. Note, that this content is being Wiki-ized, implying that the document is no longer being maintained. If interested ask the AITO secretary for access to the Wiki.
• 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 (pdf, 73 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).