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Ruby Central, Inc. is pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for 
the Fourth International Ruby Conference will be Brad Cox, inventor of 
the Objective-C[http://www.dekorte.com/Objective-C/] language.  Brad 
will speak on "The History and Design of Objective C".

Brad's interests are in digital rights management, reconceptualizing 
universities as interactive distributed learning communities, and 
software engineering. Most of his recent work is in XML, Java, Ruby, 
Python and Perl. Before those, he mainly used the language he invented 
early in his career, Objective-C[http://www.dekorte.com/Objective-C/].

We are thrilled to have such an expert in dynamic languages give us an 
important historical and theoretical perspective.

Chad Fowler
David Black
for Ruby Central, Inc. (http://rubycentral.org) and The International 
Ruby Conference (http://rubyconf.org)
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