William Cook's Fusings

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...

I just got back from the Middle Earth Programming Language seminar (MEPLS) in Abilene TX. Where I gave a talk on Strategic Programming by m...

Java Object Persistence: State of the Union PART II Published ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software expe...

Influencing another researcher or company is about the best that can happen to a piece of academic research. The proposal in my paper on Saf...

The second Dynamic Languages Symposium at OOPSLA 2006 was a great success. There were 193 registered participants. To put this into context,...

The panel on Objects and Databases: State of the Union in 2006 went pretty well. There was a lot of talk about who owns the data. The O/R cr...

Well, OOPSLA was amazing this year! But I'm biased, since I was program chair. I had fun meeting everybody who came from around the worl...