Scalable Component Abstractions with Manohar

Manohar Jonnalagedda will talk about Scalable Component Abstractions
by Odersky and Zenger, published at OOPSLA 2005. He recently finished his PhD from Odersky's lab.

The paper that goes through 3 main features of the Scala language, and could arguably be considered as one of the base papers.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1094815