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ECOOP 2016
Sun 17 - Fri 22 July 2016 Rome, Italy
Jan Vitek

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Name:Jan Vitek
Bio:

Jan Vitek is a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. Dr. Vitek was born in Czechoslovakia and educated in Switzerland. Over the years, he worked on topics related to programming languages, their design, use, and implementation. With Noble and Potter, he proposed the notion of flexible alias control which became know as Ownership Types. He led the Ovm project which produced the first real-time Java virtual machine to be flight tested on a ScanEagle drone (he claims no one was harmed). Outcomes of this project include the Schism real-time garbage collector and the FijiVM – a production VM for embedded systems. More recently, he worked on dynamic languages, trying to make sense of JavaScript and to design a new language called, Thorn. Nowadays, he spends his time with statisticians and data scientists. Jan believes that his 2012 election as Chair of SIGPLAN was an accident; since has been busy trying to rock the boat to ensure this does not happen again. In his spare time, Jan enjoys organizing conferences and sitting on PCs (over 25 in the last decade). He founded the MOS (mobile objects), IWACO (alias control), STOP (gradual typing), and TRANSACT (transactional memory) workshop series. He was the first program chair of VEE and chaired ESOP, ECOOP, Coordination and TOOLS. He was the general chair of PLDI (in Beijing!), ISMM and LCTES. He may still be sitting on the steering committees of ECOOP, JTRES, ICFP, OOPLSA, POPL, PLDI, LCTES, ESOP.

Country:United States
Affiliation:Northeastern University
Personal website:http://janvitek.org
Research interests:Programming Languages

Contributions

ECOOP 2016 Session Chair of Welcome Session (part of Summer School)
Session Chair of Lecture 4b (part of Summer School)
Session Chair of Lecture 5a (part of Summer School)
Session Chair of Lecture 4a (part of Summer School)
Session Chair of Lecture 3 (part of Summer School)
Session Chair of Lecture 2a (part of Summer School)
Committee Member in Senior Mentors within the Summer School-track
Session Chair of Lecture 5b (part of Summer School)
Experimental Evaluation of Programming Systems
Session Chair of Lecture 1 (part of Summer School)
My twenty-five years of ECOOP
Comfy Chair in Organizing Committee
Session Chair of Lecture 2b (part of Summer School)
Comfy Chair in Organizing Committee within the Summer School-track
STOP 2016 Committee Member in Program Committee within the STOP-track
Gradual types for real-world objects
CurryOn 2016 Committee Member in Organizing Committee
Curry On opening remarks
GRACE 2016 Committee Member in Program Committee within the GRACE-track
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