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SPLASH 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada
Crista Lopes

Registered user since Wed 19 Aug 2015

Name:Crista Lopes
Bio:

Cristina (Crista) Lopes is a Professor of Informatics in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and Director of the Institute for Software Research at UC Irvine. Her research focuses on software engineering and programming languages for large-scale data and systems. Early in her career, she was a founding member of the team at Xerox PARC that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming. Along with her research program, she is also a prolific software developer. Her open source contributions include being one of the core developers of OpenSimulator, a virtual world server. She is also a founder and consultant of Encitra, a company specializing in online virtual reality for early-stage sustainable urban redevelopment projects. Her book “Exercises in Programming Style” has gained rave reviews, including being chosen as “Notable Book” by the ACM Best of Computing reviews. She has a PhD from Northeastern University, and MS and BS degrees from Instituto Superior Tecnico in Portugal. She is the recipient of several awards, including a prestigious CAREER Award and a Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest.

Affiliation:University of California, Irvine

Contributions

DLS 2017 Committee Member in Program Committee within the DLS 2017-track
NJR 2017 Committee Member in Organizing Committee within the NJR 2017-track
NJR discussion; Needs, Requirements, Wishes
Welcome and Overview of NJR
Session Chair of Session 2 (part of NJR 2017)
Onward! 2017 Panel: How can our publication models best serve our research?
Steering Committee Member in Steering Committee
SPLASH 2017 SPLASH 2017 Keynote: Objects in the Age of Data
Panel: 50 Years of Language Evolution: From Simula’67 to the Future
DéjàVu: A Map of Code Duplicates on GitHub
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