Introduction and Goals Geoffrey Fox Syracuse Optimized Compilation of Java Zoran Budimlic Rice "Experiences at Sun Compiling Java" Wei Li, Rochester "Optimizing Byte Codes" The Java VM as a Compiler Intermediate Representation Includes Mapping C Fortran C++ to Java Panel Session (Xiaoming Li Syracuse) Java Plus Message Passing George Thiruvathu Argonne "Java in Nexus" Using Java in Science Paul Houle, Cornell "Java as a front end to Simulation" Simon Catterrall/Simeon Warner, Syracuse "Teaching Membrane Physics" Kivanc Dincer :"Java in the Virtual Programming Laboratory" Java as part of Web Technology based Computation Environments Klaus Erik Schauser UCSB "Super Web" Susan Hummel ? Wojtek Furmanski Syracuse "WebFlow and VDCE" (Data) Parallel Java (HPJava) Aart Bik Indiana "Parallelizing Java" Bryan Carpenter, Michael Chang Syracuse "Experiments with HPJava" Java Run Time, I/O and other issues Panel Session (Don Leskiw Syracuse) Industry Perspective To be Confirmed Awaiting Titles Joel Saltz, Alan Sussman Maryland Jim Cowie, Marina Chen Cooperating Systems/Boston