William Cook's Fusings

I'm on the PDLI external reviewers committee this year. I've never published a paper at PLDI but I have attended. This is also my fi...

A student sent me a link to my academic genealogy page . Mine goes like this: Peter Wegner, Maurice Wilkes, John Ratcliffe, Edward Appleton,...

Some rants about conference names: PLDI: the only PL conference with "Design" in the title is also the least likely to accept pape...

I am really annoyed at Matlab. It keeps a record of all your old commands. At least, that's what it seems to do. Gives you a nice good f...

I finally found out how to sync all (ten) of my secondary Google calendars into iPhone and my Mac: iPhone: Just go to http://google.com/cale...

I just took at look at The future of programming by Tony Wasserman and Steven Gutz. I've never met him but his article made some fairly...

I just go back from a trip to India/Madrid/Delft. I was at the First Mysore Park Workshop on Building and Programming The Cloud . Then I wen...

Here are some other comments on my essay: A detailed discussion by Derrick Coetzee. A short comment at Forty Six and Two It is recommended ...

The ECOOP banquet talk was delivered during dessert on the lawn of a nice Italian villa on the hill overlooking Genova. When I started the t...

My recent essay seems to be causing a big stir. I am pleased because I love it when my work has impact. The only funny thing about it is tha...

I uploaded slides for several of my recent talks . I'll try to upload the rest before the end of the year :-)

I just got back from OOPSLA/Onward! where I presented an essay On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited . There is a discussion about ...

Today I want to talk about my experiences in industry and academia. When most of you think of industry, you think of an industrial research ...

I was on the review panel for 3 Day Startup , an entrepreneurial experience for students here at UT Austin. It is co-organized by one of my ...

Despite being jaded and feeling that you've seen it all before, its important to keep your sense of wonder at the possibility of seeing ...

I've been working with Jose Falcon, undergrad here at UT, for almost a year on this crazy idea for an approach to syntax that combines a...

I have participated in this thread about LINQ for Java . There are some very good comments. I don't think that LINQ is perfect, but it i...

I have been working with model-driven software development for many years, but I haven't published anything on it yet. At Allegis , we d...

I've been using Scheme recently, and have been complaining to everybody about the lack of any good visual debugger for the language. Dr...

I hunted around for a while and found out a good way to embed a news feed (RSS) in a web page. You use Google Reader to convert the feed int...