IP: Disruptive Programming Language Technologies * 4:15PM, Wed Apr 24, 2002 in Gates B03

[David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>]

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From: allison () stanford edu
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Subject: [CSL Colloq] Disruptive Programming Language Technologies * 4:15PM, Wed Apr 24, 2002 in Gates B03


        Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
         4:15PM, Wednesday, April 24, 2002
     NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
             http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]


Topic:          Disruptive Programming Language Technologies

Speaker:        Todd A. Proebsting
                Microsoft Research

About the talk:

For the past few decades, programming language design and
implementation research has concentrated heavily in a few notable
areas: type theory, functional programming, object-oriented
programming, and, of course, optimization techniques. Yet the
recent commercially successful languages (e.g., Perl, Python,
Visual Basic, Java) are not particularly interesting when judged
in these domains. What happened? Each represented a "disruptive
technology" that allowed it to capture programmer mindshare while
everybody else was looking. In this talk, I will present what I
think makes a programming language technology disruptive, and I
will propose possible future disruptive programming language
technologies.

About the speaker:

Todd Proebsting manages the Programming Language Systems research
group at Microsoft Research. His research focuses on programming
language design and implementation, and he is particularly
interested in languages and tools that increase programmer
productivity. Prior to joining Microsoft, he lead research
efforts at The University of Arizona that resulted in a very
early Java bytecode decompiler, a Java-to-C translator, and a
novel implementation of the Icon programming language 
(http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon[2]) that targeted the Java Virtual
Machine. Since joining Microsoft, he's kicked the Java habit.

Contact information:

Todd A. Proebsting
Microsoft Research
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
(425) 703-8049
(425) 936-7329

toddpro () microsoft com

[ 1 ]    http://ee380.stanford.edu
[ 2 ]    http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon


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