26 Sep
2006
26 Sep
'06
4:44 p.m.
Initiative in Innovative Computing
Seminar Series
Wednesday, September 27, 2006; 4pm
Guy L. Steele Jr., Sun Fellow
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://iic.harvard.edu/events/
The Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) is pleased to announce
the 2006-2007 Seminar Series. You are invited to join us for the
first seminar on September 27th with Guy Steele to kick-off our
series. Dr. Steele is a researcher with Sun Microsystems
Laboratories, working on the Programming Language Research project.
His research interests include Algorithms, Compilation, Distributed
Systems, High Performance Computing, Java, Lisp Scheme, Object
Oriented Programming, Operating Systems, Programming Languages,
Software, and Supercomputer design.
Seminar Title: The Fortress Programming Language
Seminar Abstract:
The Programming Language Research Group at Sun Microsystems
Laboratories is trying to apply lessons learned from the Java (TM)
Programming Language to the next generation of programming languages.
The Java language supports platform-independent parallel programming
with explicit multithreading and explicit locks. As part of the
DARPA program for High Productivity Computing Systems, we are
developing Fortress, a language intended to support large-scale
scientific computation. One of the design principles is that
parallelism be encouraged everywhere (for example, it is
intentionally just a little bit harder to write a sequential loop
than a parallel loop). Another design principle is to have rich
mechanisms for encapsulation and abstraction; the idea is to have a
fairly complicated language for library writers that enables them to
write libraries that present a relatively simple set of interfaces to
the application programmer. A third design principle is to try to
use standard mathematical notation as part of the programming
language wherever possible; this is an old idea that failed in the
1960s, but the modern widespread acceptance of Unicode makes it
easier to revisit the idea. We will discuss these design principles
and show some examples of Fortress code to illustrate them.
Seminar Series schedule is available on the IIC website – http://
iic.harvard.edu/events.php. The website will be updated often with
additional information and seminars.
All IIC seminars will be held at the 60 Oxford Street Building, Room
330 unless otherwise noted.
Day and Time: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 4:00pm
Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Parking: Parking is available in the 52
Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are
attending the IIC Seminar. A map is available on line at http://
iic.harvard.edu/contactphp.
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