computer science community
has been growing by leaps and
faculty who have been invited to give
major addresses at professional confer-
ences recently.
Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE) in Scotland in May 2004. Billed
as the premier conference for software
engineers, the meeting attracts more
than one thousand engineers.
of software component research. Respon-
sible for innovative early work in aspect-
oriented and adaptive programming."
oriented software development, an area
in which Northeastern has been a leader
since one of his PhD students, Cristina
Lopes, '97, wrote a seminal dissertation
on the topic. "Crista's work has been
cited by many as an innovative approach
to this field," Lieberherr says.
from a slightly different angle at
the Programming Language and
Implementation meeting in Sweden in
August, where he was the invited
keynote speaker. The event was a joint
session of two meetings for program-
mers, the International Conference on
Functional Programming (ICFP), and
Principles and Practices of Declarative
Programming. Wand also served as gen-
eral chair of the ICFP steering committee.
aspect-oriented programming," he says.
"This talk gave me a chance to connect
back to researchers."
oriented programming is heightening
interest in the topic. "Competing
demands on modern software systems
have stressed our existing methods for
organizing information to the limit," he
says. "Aspect-oriented programming is
a new set of techniques for organizing
such systems."
bringing advanced programming con-
cepts to the high school level in an
invited talk at the 2002 Principles of
Programming Languages (POPL) meet-
ing, the major conference in program-
ming languages.
wide audiences at top academic conferences.
development of a radically new curricu-
lum for high school," he says. During
that time, his visibility at POPL, where
he was once a major player, decreased
significantly. Last year, the organization
invited him back to talk about what he's
been doing.
cipline of programming. He has already
attracted some 250 teachers to his high
school programming curriculum, and
hopes it will eventually replace mathe-
matics as the primary subject through
which students learn systematic, logical
thought.
explains. "When you do a program, you
end up with something useful. When
you solve a math problem, all you have
is a piece of paper."