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SPLASH 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada
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, USA
Personal website:http://janvitek.org
Research interests:Programming Languages

Contributions

DLS 2017 Committee Member in Program Committee within the DLS 2017-track
SPLASH 2017 DéjàVu: A Map of Code Duplicates on GitHub
Invited Talk: From PHD to PROF: blind luck or careful planning?
SPLASH 2018
Committee Member in Invited Talks within the Doctoral Symposium-track
Orca: GC and Type System Co-Design for Actor Languages

My 25 years in OO
Speaker in PLMW Speakers within the PL Mentoring Workshop (PLMW)-track
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