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Infrastructure for community-oriented ubiquitous computing

WIISARD - Wireless Internet Information System for Response in Disasters. Check out Reality Flythrough!

Ubiquitous Presenter - Classroom Technology for Participatory Learning.

 The Software Evolution Lab

• Publications
• Software tools for download
  
  • Aspect Browser for Eclipse
  • Daikon Invariant Detector
    (with MIT/UW)
• My students, past and present
• Favorite readings in software

 Programming Systems Group

 Class and Project Links

• Projects available to students
• CSE 131b Compiler Construction: semantic checking and code generation (Winter)
• CSE 210 Principles of Software Engineering (Spring)
• CSE 118 Applications in Ubiquitous Computing (Fall)
• CSE 218: Special Co-Offering in Ubiquitous Computing and Academic Preparation (Fall)
• ENG100L - St. Paul's Digital Nursing Project (Year Round)

 Stuff about me

• My CV (Curriculum Vitae)
• Atticus Joseph Edward Griswold
• Hannah Cíoná Feeley Griswold
• My father was a pioneering computer scientist, a designer of the Snobol and Icon programming languages. Here is an online discussion of his life's work.
• The San Diego Wine Dilettante (that's me) [on hiatus]
• Aikido at UCSD and our associated Dojos, Aikido of Mission Valley and Sunset Cliffs Aikido

 Musings and Advice

• Considering Grad school?
• How to read an engineering research paper
• Ivan Sutherland on Technology and Courage.
• Paul Krugman on The Wonders of Technology.

I'm fascinated by the challenges of constructing large, complex software systems – software engineering. I'm especially interested in the evolution (e.g., enhancement) of large software systems, which is driven by unpredictable market forces, including the creative spark of innovation and the user's appetite for leading-edge functionality.

My research in this area largely comprises two topics, infrastructure for ubiquitous computing and the invention of new programming tools, most recently in the area of aspect-oriented software development. The latter is often aided the application of leading-edge compiler technology. My ubicomp work can be found at activecampus.ucsd.edu. I also have an active educational technology program supported by my ubicomp and SE work. Check out the UCSD Software Evolution Lab's page for my projects on tool-assisted program restructuring, visualization of latent program structure, software architecture for evolving systems, and whole-program analysis techniques for program understanding and restructuring.

• I am the current Chair of ACM SIGSOFT. The flagship conferences in my research area are the SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) and IEEE/SIGSOFT International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).

• Upcoming events that I'm associated with (please submit and attend!)
  • 2nd Int'l Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2006), [PC member]
  • 6th Int'l Conf. on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'07), [PC member]
  • recently: ICSE 2005, St. Louis, Missouri (USA), May 15-21, 2005 [Program Co-Chair]

• I am a proponent of active learning. I work on technology to support active learning and am also a TIES advisor for the St. Pauls Digital Nursing project. Check out the NSF's 1998 Boyer Report.

• I favor interdisciplinary collaboration, and am a participant in Cal-(IT)², a UCSD/UCI institute supporting collaborative research in information and telelcommunications technology.

• My students, past and present, are the core of my community. Darren Atkinson is now at Santa Clara University. Here is a family tree of computer science. You'll find us under Djikstra.

• My PhD advisor was David Notkin at the University of Washington. Several of his former students, Kevin Sullivan, Gail Murphy, and Michael Ernst, are close colleagues of mine. There are a lot of UW folks at UCSD, too. Sorin Lerner and Steve Swanson are our newest additions.

• I spent my 1999-2000 sabbatical with the AspectJ Group and Gregor Kiczales at Xerox PARC. AspectJ is a cool language extension to Java that eases modularizing crosscutting aspects of software such as security, caching, and memory management.

"The will to succeed is nothing without the will to prepare."
-- Addidas sport shoe advertisement

"Life is an experiment, not a test."

"Chance favors the prepared mind." -- Louis Pasteur

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." -- George S. Patton

"Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand. -- Confucious, 450BC

"War is horrifyingly and depressingly archaic." -- Clint Eastwood

The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter -- Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido