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It's a pleasure to welcome you to OOPSLA 2004, the 19th Annual Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. OOPSLA is the premier forum for practitioners, researchers, and students in diverse disciplines whose common thread is object technology. From its inception, OOPSLA has served as an incubator for advanced technologies and practices. Dynamic compilation and optimization, patterns, refactoring, aspect-oriented programming, and agile methods (to name a few) all have OOPSLA roots. OOPSLA 2004 continues that tradition. Researchers and practitioners from around the world have come to showcase their latest work. Presentations from invited speakers dovetail with technical papers, practitioner reports, expert panels, demonstrations, formal and informal educational symposia, workshops, and diverse tutorials from world-class lecturers. The popular Onward! track presents out-of-the-box thinking at the forefront of computing. You can discuss late-breaking results with the researchers themselves at poster sessions, which culminate in the Third Annual SIGPLAN Student Research Competition. DesignFest provides hands-on design experience in an expert-mentored environment. And again this year, we're privileged to host the ACM Turing Lecture. Alan Kay, Turing laureate for 2003, received the prestigious award "for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing." It's especially fitting that Dr. Kay deliver the Turing Lecture at OOPSLA.