Room F161
A representative group from Reuters Research, Standards and Policies group will give a presentation, followed by a discussion, consisting of an overview of their operation followed by more detailed accounts of their corporate views on the emerging technologies of Java and XML. This presentation is strongly recommended - these are serious technical people in an extremely interesting corporate role. Reuters, although best known as a news-gathering agency, is actually primarily a high-technology company dealing with rapid global information exchange, especially in financial markets.
Richard Willis (15 minutes)
What is Reuters
What the Reuters' Research and Standards Group do
Why the Research and Standards Group are in Scotland
Nic Fulton
XML
How Reuters are using XML
How Reuters expect to use XML
Miles Whitehead
What Reuters expect to gain from a Java based approach to development
Perils of early adoption
Productivity
Performance
Portability
What Reuters have learnt from a Java based approach to development
Java and XML
Future plans for Java within Reuters