Interesting People

A list of people that are working on things I find fascinating.
Things that I fail to follow completely due to lack of time, effort
and brain power.

( Note, this list should be very long eventually.  The reason it is
  short now is because of implementation issues. )


Entry: Tony Garnock-Jones
Date: Thu May  5 19:00:36 EDT 2011

Research Interests
Interpretation, reflection, metaprogramming 
Programming language and operating system design and implementation

[1] http://homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz/tonyg


Entry: Ian Piumarta
Date: Mon May  9 10:11:24 EDT 2011

My professional/academic interests and experience include
object-oriented and highly-reflective programming systems and
languages, programming language implementation, metalinguistic
abstraction and recursive implementation, platform-neutral code
distribution, interpreters and interpretive techniques, virtual
machines, runtime optimisation, highly-portable optimisation
techniques, and dynamic code generation.

[1] http://piumarta.com/cv/


Entry: Tom Hawkins
Date: Mon May  9 10:12:39 EDT 2011

Author of Atom[2].

[1] http://tomahawkins.org/
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/atom/


Entry: Jacques Carette
Date: Mon May  9 10:20:43 EDT 2011

Research interests:

Computer Algebra - semantics, implementation and applications
Mechanized Mathematics, especially in Analysis
Functional Programming, Program Transformation, Meta Programming
Expressive programming languages
Mathematical knowledge management

[1] http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/


Entry: Jonathan S. Shapiro
Date: Fri May 27 11:21:12 CEST 2011

Known from TinyScheme[2] and BitC[3].

[1] http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/
[2] http://tinyscheme.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://www.bitc-lang.org/