Geoff sez, "Onward! is a computer science conference dedicated to far-out, paradigm-breaking thinking. The Call for Participation is out, and we're seeking submissions of papers describing new ideas or projects that represent innovative thinking. Last year, Larry Lessig keynoted."
OOPSLA 2004 welcomes papers describing new paradigms or metaphors in computing, new thinking about objects, new framings of computational problems or systems, and new technologies. Papers in the Onward! Track need not advance the state of the art, but should aim, instead, to alter or redefine the art by proposing a leap forward—or sideways—regarding computing. Papers in the following areas are welcome, as are any papers representing radical thinking of interest to theoreticians and practitioners at OOPSLA:
* programming language theory, practice, and design
* architectures
* software development and methodologies
* applications
* environments
* education
* ethics
* biological or other non-traditional models of computing
* paradigms, metaphors, philosophy, and problem framings
