Andrew Black -

Registered user since Wed 26 Mar 2014

Name:Andrew Black

Bio:

My research interests are in the area of programming languages, operating systems, object-oriented systems and distributed computing, and more specifically in the region where they overlap (such as language design for distributed Object-oriented computing.) My favorite system for trying out ideas was for many years Squeak Smalltalk; I was an active worker on Traits, along with with the folks from SCG in Bern. I’m a co-author of two books on Smalltalk programming, Squeak by Example, and Pharo By Example. For the last five years I’ve been engaged in developing the Grace programming language, an object-oriented programing language designed for teaching novices. See gracelang.org for details.

Country:United States

Affiliation:Portland State University

Personal website:http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~black

Research interests:programming language design, object-oriented programming, distributed programming languages.

Contributions

EVCS	Author of The Importance of Being Eelco within the Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium-track
HOPL IV	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Papers-track Session Chair of Monday Evening (part of Papers)
GRACE 2018	Presenter of Static & Dynamic Typing in Grace within the GRACE 2018-track Presenter of Teaching programming with Grace at Portland State within the GRACE 2018-track Presenter of A Tour of Grace within the GRACE 2018-track Presenter of SmallGrace: Grace in Pharo Smalltalk within the GRACE 2018-track Author of Early Experience with Grace at Pomona College within the GRACE 2018-track Committee Member in Organizing Committee within the GRACE 2018-track Committee Member in Program Committee within the GRACE 2018-track
SLE 2018	Committee Member in Program Committee within the SLE 2018-track
Onward! 2017	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Onward! Essays-track
SPLASH 2017	Author of (CER) Early Experience with Grace within the SPLASH-E-track
‹Programming› 2017	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
Onward! 2016	Author of The Left Hand of Equals within the Onward! Essays-track Committee Member in Steering Committee
SPLASH 2016	Speaker of Why Programming Languages Matter within the PLMW-track SPLASH 2014 General Chair in Steering Committee
NOOL 2016	Author of The Essence of Inheritance within the NOOL-track
ICOOOLPS 2016	Author of The Performance of Object Encodings in JavaScript within the ICOOOLPS-track
STOP 2016	Author of Beyond Types: Extending the Gradual Guarantee within the STOP-track
GRACE 2016	Author of Recent changes and language design issues in Grace within the GRACE-track Co-chair in Program Committee within the GRACE-track Author of Experience teaching with Grace within the GRACE-track Author of Overview of the Grace project and language within the GRACE-track
SPLASH 2015	SPLASH 2014 General Chair in Steering Committee Author of Why Programming Languages Matter within the PLMW-track
Onward! 2015	Committee Member in Steering Committee
NOOL 2015	Author of Classes Considered Harmful within the NOOL-track
MASPEGHI 2015	General Chair in Committee within the MASPEGHI-track Author of The Expression Problem, Gracefully within the MASPEGHI-track
FOOL	Invited Guest of The Success, Failure, and Future of Distributed Objects within the FOOL-track
SPLASH 2014	Committee Member in Steering Committee General Chair in Organizing Committee Session Chair of Bret Victor Keynote (part of Keynotes) Session Chair of SPLASH Awards (part of Awards)
Onward! 2014	Committee Member in Steering Committee
PLATEAU	Committee Member in Program Committee within the PLATEAU-track
Summer School on Multicore Programming 2014	Co-chair in Organizing Committee within the Multicore Programming Summer School-track
Onward! 2013	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
SPLASH 2013	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Onward!-track Committee Member in External Review Committee within the OOPSLA-track
RACES 2012	Committee Member in Organizers within the RACES 2012-track Committee Member in Program Committee within the RACES 2012-track
DLS 2011	Committee Member in Program Committee within the DLS 2011-track
SPLASH 2011	Organizer of BOF: GRACE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE within the BOFs-track PDX.local Chair in Organizing Committee

Blog Posts

Grace at SPLASH Sun 30 Oct 2016