OpenSym 2015 will start tomorrow, Aug 19, at the Golden Gate Club at San Francisco’s Presidio. It is hard to find a more beautiful location and we still have space for online and on-site registrations. Participants are looking forward to a program chock-full of research and practitioner talks, a visit to the Wiki Education Foundation, and the following keynotes and invited talks, which are sure to inspire and ignite discussion and debate:

• Richard P. Gabriel of IBM Watson on Artificial Sentiment: Using Machines to Manage Public Sentiment on Social Media
• Anthony I. Wasserman of CMU (Silicon Valley) on Barriers and Pathways to Successful Collaboration
• Peter Norvig of Google on Applying Machine Learning to Programs
• Robert J. Glushko of UC Berkeley on Collaborative Authoring, Evolution, and Personalization for a “Transdisciplinary” Textbook