Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the year

Please note that the ATeams project started in July 2009.

Start of ATEAMS

The official start of ATEAMS at CWI was in July 2009. The occasion was celebrated in Amsterdam, in the presence of M. François Delahousse (Premier conseiller de l'ambassade de France aux Pays-Bas), Michel Cosnard (President INRIA), Jean-Pierre Banâtre (Director of European Partnerships INRIA), Jan Karel Lenstra (Director CWI), and Jos Engelen (Chairman Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO).

GTTSE Summer School

Paul Klint, Tijs van der Storm and Jurgen Vinju presented a course in Source Code Analysis and Transformation using the newly developed Domain Specific Language “Rascal” at the International Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE) on 6Ð11 July, 2009, Braga, Portugal

Software Evolution Course

Paul Klint, Tijs van der Storm and Jurgen Vinju started teaching the Rascal DSL at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in October 2009. This represents a first evaluative step in validating the language design for usability by non-expert programmers.

Visitor

Emilie Balland visited us for two times two months with significant contributions to ATEAMS

New Phd

Jeroen van den Bos arrived in September to start on a domain specific language for digital forensics (co-funded by Dutch National Forensics Institute).

New post-doc

Mark Hills arrived in October 2009 to strengthen ATEAMS.

Keynote Paul Klint

P. Klint, Grammarware is everywhere and what to do about that? Keynote at GDR/GPL Toulouse, France.

Keynote Paul Klint

Language Design for Meta-programming in the Software Composition Domain, Keynote at Software Composition, Zurich, Switserland.

Keynote Paul Klint

Easy Meta-Programming with Rascal, Keynote at Opening of Bergen Language Design Center, Bergen Norway.

Keynote Jan van Eijck

The Language of Social Software, Workshop on Logic and Social Interaction, Chennai, India

Visit Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

Bas Basten visited Dennis Dams at Bell Labs for an internship on static analysis.

Visit Universität Koblenz-Landau

Tijs van der Storm visited Prof. Dr. Ralf Laëmmel twice to work on research concerning API migration (a kind of large scale refactoring).