OOPSLA '95 Doctoral Symposium

For the second year, OOPSLA sponsored a Doctoral Symposium in which advanced Ph.D. students presented their dissertation projects to one another and a group of four mentors. This year 10 students were selected from a set of 21 applicants; selection was based on the mentors’ ratings of the relevance and soundness of the dissertation projects as well as judgments of the likely benefit of the presentation and critique to the student. The four mentors included Mary Loomis from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, John McGregor from Clemson University, Eliot Moss from the University of Massachusetts, and Satoshi Matsuoka from the University of Tokyo.