William Cook's Fusings

POJQ: Plain Old Java Queries project approved by java.net. This is an open source implementation of Safe/Native queries, launched by Wes Bi...

Object Database Management Systems portal announced, which features Native Query paper.

I have had lots of problems clipping pictures. I am surprised that you have not been having problems with your pictures being inside a large...

Released Native Queries for Persistent Objects, A Design White Paper with Carl Rosenberger

When I defined Safe Queries for Java I thought that it might be an idea that could be applied relatively soon to solving real needs of indus...

ODBMS.ORG Launches Educational Portal on Object Databases High-Profile Experts Help Meet Growing Demand for Free Educational Resources on O...

We have released a preliminary interpreter for Orc, an Orchestration Language .

In trying to solve the problem mentioned in the previous post, I did a lot of Google searching. Some things are hard to find, because they c...

I want to distribute some Java software in a way that is easy to use. The software depends upon some libraries, so I need to set the class p...

I will be attending OOPSLA this fall (as always). Let me know if you want to meet there.

I'm working on an article on the history of AppleScript for HOPL III . I led the team that designed and implemented the language, but th...

I can't stand it any more. Why does is it so difficult to install experimental software???? Granted, a lot of the stuff I want to try ou...

I will not say anything too negative about Emacs here. I suspect my peers might think badly of me simply because I don't use Emacs. But ...

I'm learning ACL2: after spending a day understanding what most people feel when they try to program a computer (why the *#@* doesn'...

Last August I decided to sign up for Vonage, to try it out. I made a few calls and it seemed to work. So I requested that my home number be ...

I've noticed that all my posts so far have been tips, tricks and annoyances. There are several reasons for this: 1) I have a backlog of ...

I had a disk completely die, and my backups are not as good as they should have been. Fortunately, the data recovery people know their job. ...

Do you have trouble with your signature having the wrong format in Outlook? Mine had the "paragraph" style instead of "normal...

I recently wanted to get some data to select program committee members for a conference. I decided to estimate which authors had the most im...

Here is an older paper that is a real gem: Reducing cross domain call overhead using batched futures Phillip Bogle and Barbara Liskov OOPSLA...