by Juergen Allgayer, Conference Chair

We are thrilled to announce that Niklaus Wirth and Alberto di Meglio are this years keynote speakers at the 4th Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC).

Niklaus Wirth
Prof. Niklaus Wirth, is the designer of several programing languages and operating systems, including Pascal and Oberon. He received many awards including the Turing award, is author of many books and articles such as "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement" and "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs". Prof. Niklaus Wirth served as professor at Stanford, University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich.

Alberto di Meglio
In 2003, Dr. Alberto di Meglio was appointed by CERN as Software Integration Manager in the Middleware Reengineering Activity of the first Enabling Grids for E-science (EGEE) project. At the end of the EGEE project, thanks to the very successful results obtained with the integration and testing tools and procedures developed for the grid middleware developed by EGEE, Alberto set up Infrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software, an international infrastructure co-funded by EC FP7 (European Commission: CORDIS - Seventh Framework Programme) for building and testing software on the grid, of which he is currently Project Director.

Reminder: Call for proposals
If you would like to give a talk at GTAC please remember to submit your proposal until August 1 at the latest. Please visit http://www.gtac.biz/call-for-proposals for details.