[Pl-seminar] Feb. 22 Seminar: Satish Chandra, JavaScript in the Small

[William J. Bowman]

NUPRL Seminar presents

Satish Chandra
Samsung

11:00 -- 12:30
Monday Feb. 22 2016
Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)
Host: Amal Ahmed

JavaScript in the Small

Abstract:
Emerging consumer electronics products are running the same software platforms that power smartphones. This leads to the appealing idea that a uniform programming abstraction can be used for app development for a range of devices, from wearables to smartphones. In practice, however, devices wary in their hardware capabilities and this has an impact on app development. In this talk, I will focus on ways in which JavaScript may be used and/or run differently to accommodate the different hardware capabilities across devices. Specifically, I will present a subset of JavaScript that strikes a balance between retaining the flavor of JavaScript (e.g. use of prototype inheritance, no explicit type declarations) and the possibility of ahead-of-time compilation to efficient code.


Bio:
Satish Chandra obtained a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur in 1991, both in computer science. From 1997 to 2002, he was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories, where his research focused on program analysis, domain-specific languages, and data-communication protocols. From 2002 to 2013, he was a research staff member at IBM Research, where his research focused on bug finding and verification, software synthesis, and test automation. He joined Samsung Electronics in 2013, where he leads the advanced programming tools research team. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.


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William J. Bowman
Northeastern University
College of Computer and Information Science
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