College of Computer Science, Northeastern University.
David Lorenz's
research interests center on concepts of object-oriented
programming languages, design patterns, and aspect-oriented and component-based
programming.
At Northeastern University, he has taught
essentials of programming languages,
object-oriented design,
and component-based programming.
His current research involves software components and
component-based software engineering.
David Lorenz's
coordinates are:
Northeastern
University
College of Computer Science
288 St Botolph Street
Room 111 CN (Cullinane Building)
Boston, MA 02115-5000
Tel.(work): +1-617-373-20.76
e-mail: lorenz@ccs.neu.edu.
Web site: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lorenz/
Arrangements
Participants
need to make their own arrangements for staying in Boston. See David's
proposal for a reasonable and good hotel.
Agenda
The agenda
is tentative and may be revised. The participants are asked to give
their own proposals and comments to Kristen Nygaard and other participants.
(Address list will appear soon.)
What is the
COOL project?
The COOL Project
(Comprehensive Object-Oriented Learning) is a 3-year research project
proposal launched by by a consortium of four Norwegian research institutions,
supported by research institutions in Aarhus in Denmark, and co-operating
with test sites around the world.
COOL will contribute
to a unifying process- and object-oriented platform for informatics,
and produce a "Learning Landscape" of pedagogical and organizational
components to be used in a modern and system-oriented education
in informatics and related fields. It will provide an alternative
to the current pedagogical approach used, commonly regarded as unsuccessful.
COOL will co-operate
with research institutions in Denmark and with test sites (universities
and colleges) around the world, representing a number of language/cultural
worlds (Spanish/South American, English/North American, Scandinavian,
and perhaps Chinese and others). COOL will produce an introductory
course, supported by a textbook and DVD records containing integrated
multimedia material. The COOL Learning Landscape shall allow for
alternative courses, adapted to local cultures and conditions.
The consortium
partners in Norway are: the new InterMedia center, the new Simula
Research Laboratory, the Department of Informatics, all at the University
of Oslo, and the Norwegian Computing Center. The consortium is headed
by InterMedia.
Latest news:
People now regard it as VERY probable that COOL will get funding
from the Norwegian Research Council soon - this spring. Funding for
the coming years will have to be applied for, but we feel that it
will be unlikely that NFR gives us money for this year if they do not
intend to continue the support for the coming (three, four or five)
years.
The COOL Web
Page:
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~kristen/FORSKNINGSDOK_MAPPE/F_COOL1.html
Information
for COM1204
students:
What is the
Turing Award?
The A.M.
Turing Award is ACM's most prestigious technical award. It is
given to an individual selected for contributions of a technical
nature made to the computing community. The contributions should
be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field.
Below you will find the ACM Press Release about the award that Kristen
Nygaard will receive in Toronto on 27 April 2002.
COMPUTING'S
HIGHEST HONOR AWARDED TO INVENTORS OF
DOMINANT PROGRAMMING STYLE
Norwegian Team Developed Concepts for Software Now in Home Entertainment
Devices
New
York, February 5, 2002...The Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) has presented the 2001 A.M. Turing Award, considered the "Nobel
Prize of Computing," to Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard
of Norway for their role in the invention of object-oriented programming,
the most widely used programming model today. Their work has led
to a fundamental change in how software systems are designed and
programmed, resulting in reusable, reliable, scalable applications
that have streamlined the process of writing software code and facilitated
software programming. Current object-oriented programming languages
include C++ and Java, both widely used in programming a wide range
of applications from large-scale distributed systems to small, personal
applications, including personal computers, home entertainment devices,
and standalone arcade applications. The A.M.Turing Award carries
a $25,000 prize.
The discrete event simulation language (Simula I) and general programming
language (Simula 67) developed by Dahl and Nygaard at the Norwegian
Computing Center in Oslo, Norway in the 1960's, led the way for
software programmers to build software systems in layers of abstraction.
With this approach, each layer of a system relies on a platform
implemented by the lower layers. Their approach has resulted in
programming that is both accessible and available to the entire
research community.
"The work of Drs. Dahl and Nygaard has been instrumental in
developing a remarkably responsive programming model that is both
flexible and agile when it is applied to complex software design
and implementation," said John R. White, executive director
and CEO of ACM. "It is the dominant style for implementing
programs with large numbers of interacting components." The
awards committee noted that the core concepts embodied in their
object-oriented methods were designed for both system description
and programming and provided not just a logical but a notational
basis for their ideas. The benefits of their work are not limited
to software but are applicable to business processes as well.
Drs. Dahl and Nygaard are professors (emeriti) of informatics at
the University of Oslo. They developed their object-oriented programming
concepts at the Norwegian Computing Center from 1961-67. Professor
Nygaard was involved in large-scale simulation studies at the Norwegian
Defense Research Establishment from 1949-60. He continued his work
on object-orientation, and did research on systems development,
participative system design, and societal consequences of information
technology. With Danish colleagues, he invented Beta, a general
object-oriented language.
Professor Dahl also worked at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment,
and joined the Simula project as an experienced designer and implementer
of basic software as well as high level programming language. In
1968, Dahl became the first professor of informatics at the University
of Oslo, responsible for establishing research and education programs
in this rapidly expanding field. His focus on computer program verification
led to the development of his theory of constructive types and subtypes
based on computer-aided concept formation and reasoning.
ACM will present the A.M. Turing Award, its most prestigious technical
honor, at the annual ACM Awards Banquet April 27, 2002, at the University
of Toronto. The award was named for A. M. Turing, a pioneer in the
computing field. Financial support for the award is provided by
InterTrust Technologies Corp.'s Strategic Technologies and Architectural
Research Laboratory.
About ACM
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a major force in
advancing the skills of information technology professionals and
students. ACM serves its global membership by delivering cutting
edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to
practice. ACM hosts the computing industry's leading Portal to Computing
Literature. With its world-class journals and magazines, dynamic
special interest groups, numerous conferences, workshops and electronic
forums, ACM is a primary resource to the information technology
field. For additional information about ACM and the ACM Portal,
see www.acm.org.
