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0. Calendar Manager Info:

        Date:   5 Jun 1996
        Start:  1300
        End:    1400
        What:   ANU DCS Seminar - William Waite
		Compiler Construction:
                   From Craftsmanship to Engineering
                
1. Speaker:  Professor William Waite
             Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	     University of Colorado, Boulder

2. Time:     1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 5 June 1996 (WEDNESDAY)

3. Place:    Seminar Room 101, in the Department of Computer Science
             Ground Floor, CSIT building, ANU

4. Title:    Compiler Construction: From Craftsmanship to Engineering

5. Target Audience: Those with an interest in the engineering of software

6. Abstract:

There is a perception that as we move from craftsmanship to engineering we can
deliver a product more cheaply, using less sophisticated personnel, and with a
more uniform level of quality.  The transition of software development from
craftsmanship to engineering is best characterized by the Capability Maturity
Model (CMM), which lays out a series of five levels describing the stages in
that transition.  Most compiler development efforts currently operate at level
1 or level 2; this talk will discuss the philosophy and implementation of Eli,
a domain-specific programming environment that enables development efforts at
level 3.

Eli is available via anonymous ftp from a number of sites around the world,
with supported implementations on a variety of platforms.  It has been used
extensively for the past six years by many people of all levels of sophis-
tication in both academic and commercial environments.  Eli has been installed
at ANU, and will be the subject of a short course to be given locally by
Professor Waite in July.

7. Biography:

William M. Waite is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.  He received the Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from Columbia University in 1965.  Dr. Waite has taught at
Universities in USA, Australia and Germany, and lectured at several of the
advanced courses given by the European Economic Community.  In 1973-74 he
was an ACM National Lecturer, and he has been Editor of "Operating Systems
Review" since 1972.

His major research interests are the design and translation of programming
languages; he was Chairman of IFIP Working Group 2.4 (Systems Implementation
Languages) from 1983 to 1990.  Dr. Waite has written numerous technical
articles and four books, the most recent of which is "An Introduction to
Compiler Construction", coauthored with Lynn Carter.

8. Contact:

Bill is visiting the ANU through July, sponsored by ACSys and the Department 
of Computer Science.  His office, while here, is CSIT room 332 and email 
address is waite[at]cs.anu.edu.au