A-1 <IPA International Standardization 1> Ikuo Nakata : Current Status of Standardization of Ruby

Date

September 5 (Mon.) 13:00-13:15

Room

Hall-A (International Conference Hall 3F)

Speaker

Ikuo Nakata
(The chairperson of Ruby standardization Working Group Professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba)

Speaker’s profile

Dr. Nakata graduated Tokyo Univ. with bachelor and master of mathematics in 1958. He joined Hitachi Ltd in the same year. In 1979, he became a professor of the Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, University of Tsukuba; a professor at University of Library and Information Science in 1997; a professor of Computer and Information Science at Hosei University in 2000; a professor emeritus of University of Tsukuba.

Presentation title

Current Status of Standardization of Ruby

Presentation outline

JIS X 3017 Programming languages Ruby was registered on March 22nd of this year and then submitted to ISO/IEC to be an international standard. And, English translation version was issued on this July. Now it’s time to think of the next version which to be a more complete specification. This talk will cover current progress and future plans for standardization.