[Colloq] FW: Demeter Seminar: An Introduction to Recombinant Computing

[Ravi Sundaram]

===================== announcement

Host: Karl Lieberherr

Renaud Pawlak, currently a postdoc at RPI but soon returning to France as
an INRIA researcher, has developed with his coauthors a new idea to write
programs that goes much beyond AOP. Renaud and Houman will give an informal
presentation of their ideas.


Date and Time: Thursday, Sep. 16, 2004, 10.30-11.30 am

Place: West Village H, Seminar Room 366

An Introduction to Recombinant Computing
Renaud Pawlak, Carlos E. Cuesta, Houman Younessi

Abstract:

In this paper, we provide a glimpse of a promising new approach to
computation called recombinant computing. The novelty of our approach is
that it separates the program into two layers of computation: the
recombination and the interpretation layer. The recombination layer allows
the programmer to recombine sequences through the definition of cohesive
code units called extensions. The output of such recombination is a mesh
that can be used by the interpretation layer in many different ways,
depending on the context. To further illustrate our model, we present a
language called GRPL that supports recombinant computing and show possible
applications of this language. We also briefly discuss the impacts this new
computing model could have on Computer Science in general.