The registration now includes a free one-year ACM membership (or membership renewal).

TOOLS is one of the major international conferences and exhibitions devoted to the applications of object-oriented technology. TOOLS USA '97 returns to Santa Barbara and continues the commitment to excellence demonstrated by earlier conferences in Europe, the Pacific and the US.

Don't miss this opportunity to:

• Learn directly from the top industry experts, language and methods designers and best-selling book authors in small classroom settings.
  
  
• Exchange ideas and technologies with an international network of your peers; find out what's turning them on and what next year's buzz will be all about.
  
  
• Participate in interactive panel and workshop sessions to find out how to develop, deploy and maintain your company's most challenging software projects.
  
  
• See demos of new products and have your questions answered by vendors.

Registration fees and registration form

With special early-registration rates.

Six keynote talks (James Coplien, Joseph Gil, David Harel, Bertrand Meyer, John Potter and Richard Soley), submitted papers, workshops, panels...

The tutorials cover the principal areas of new software technologies, from CORBA to Java, O-O databases, analysis by contract, UML and OML, BON, Eiffel etc.

Social events, travel arrangements, lodging, ...

Session by session, the action-packed 4 days of TOOLS.