WWDC provides a wealth of opportunities for scientists and medical software developers to learn about Mac OS X and iPhone OS. From sessions and labs to networking with peers and colleagues, you'll have the opportunity to enhance your applications, discuss your areas of expertise, and meet other developers in complementary disciplines.
iPhone Developers
iPhone is quickly becoming a preferred platform in the science and medical communities. Learn how you can leverage the new APIs to design your applications with exciting new capabilities including user notifications and communicating with third-party accessories. Bring your iPhone app to the hands-on labs and work with Apple engineers to ensure you are taking advantage of every possible feature iPhone has to offer. WWDC is the place to learn about building the best iPhone app.
Mac Developers
Go in-depth with OpenCL, Grand Central Dispatch, and 64-bit computing, three key performance technologies in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Learn how to build amazing user interfaces for highly technical scientific and medical applications such as genetic analysis or CT reconstruction. You’ll also see how the powerful technologies in Mac OS X allow you quickly render complex medical images and create stunning molecular models. Whatever your discipline, WWDC has content designed for you.
Special events for Science & Medicine
Lunchtime Session
Come hear Dennis Wingo of the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) discuss their use of Mac OS X technology to save our Space Race heritage. LOIRP is retrieving, digitizing and publishing high-resolution pictures of the Moon captured by five NASA space probes ahead of the Apollo 11 moon landings in 1969. These tapes - rescued from destruction by a determined NASA archivist - represent some of the highest-resolution pictures ever taken of the Moon's surface and are a priceless piece of history.
Science Coding Project
WWDC will feature a Science Coding Project for anyone interested in showing off what they’ve learned at the sessions with a fun, hands-on project. Come to the Coding Project area during session breaks to work with your peers on implementing the latest Mac OS X technologies to increase the performance and power of our open source project. You’ll get a chance to contribute your own coding expertise and implement your newly-found insights in a hands-on environment.
