[PRL] Fwd: [Announce] Seminar: Benjamin Lerner in Lubrano on 4/12/11 at 1:30

[Matthias Felleisen]

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> The Department of Computer Science
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> Brown University
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> Benjamin Lerner
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> University of Washington, Seattle
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> Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 1:30pm
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> Lubrano, Room 477 (CIT 4th floor)
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> Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Web Applications
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> The web has grown from a content-delivery system into an
> application-delivery one, where the applications -- "web apps" -- are
> qualitatively different from traditional desktop applications. While
> the precise scope of what distinguishes a webapp is still unclear, I
> argue that they are more automatically up-to-date, developed
> differently, and are far more amenable to customization, mash-up and
> extension.  Moreover, these characteristics make webapps, and the HTML
> platform on which they run, a timely and profoundly interesting area
> of research attention.  In this talk I will present several projects
> that explore how we can better support the development of webapps on
> the HTML platform, and in particular how to support powerful, dynamic
> 3rd-party extensions to webapps.  I will first present C3, a
> clean-slate implementation of the HTML platform developed here at MSR,
> architected in particular to support web-facing research and
> experiments.  I will then present two research projects I built on top
> of C3, aimed at providing new language primitives to better express
> the needs of extensions.  The first extends JavaScript with dynamic
> aspect weaving to support code modification at runtime.  The second,
> ongoing project defines semantics for overlays on HTML documents, and
> a dependency analysis that identifies when such overlays succeed or
> fail.
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> BIO:
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> Benjamin Lerner is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington
> in Seattle, advised by Dan Grossman.  He completed his B.S from Yale
> University in 2004, and spent a year working as a program manager on
> Windows Vista before beginning his graduate studies.  He has been an
> intern at Microsoft Research, on and off, for the past year and a
> half.
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> Host:  Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi