At Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:56:51 -0600, Hartmut Kaiser wrote:

Hey all,

This is to inform you, that Hans Boehm (HP, http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/) accepted to give this year's keynote. I believe this is excellent news for the conference and for all participants. He will have a lot to say, which directly concerns many C++ developers. He will give us a topic for his keynote asap at which point we should add a note to the website.

This is awesome news! Hans is a C++ Committee member, probably the primary driving force behind the new C++ memory model that allows concurrency, and is also famous as the developer of a widely-used C++ garbage collector, and a bit less famous for the "rope" data structure. I know he will give a great keynote and I'm eager to hear it. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com