Tony Sloane

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing in the Division of Information and Communication Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. From 2005 I will be Head of Department.

My research interests are in programming language design and implementation, language processor generation, and programming environments and tools. Recently, I've worked mainly on the Eli language processor generation system, domain-specific languages (particularly using functional languages) and software for handheld computing devices.

Research

• I am the leader of the Macquarie Computing Programming Languages Research Group. See the Research Group pages or the links below for information on current and past projects. If you are an Honours or Masters coursework student and are looking for a project in my area, please see the PLRG Honours projects list. For research student projects, please contact me.


• Language processor generation projects:
  • Two page brochure
  • More information:
    • Why do it?
    • What's our approach?
    • What are we doing?
  • Eli language processor generation system


• Computer Science Education projects


• Web projects (old)


• Publications and Grants


• Mark Leone's page of Advice on Research and Writing at CMU

Events

• Macquarie Computing Programming Languages Reading Group (most Friday afternoons)
• PC member for Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA) 2004 and April 2005
• PC member for PL track of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2004 and March 2005
• Co-chair of Domain-specific languages minitrack at HICSS-36 (January 2003)
• Presenter of Overview of Programming Languages Workshop to High School Teachers (April 2002, October 2003)

Teaching

• In 2004 I received a Macquarie University Outstanding Teacher Award.
• From 2001-2004 I was the Director of Teaching in the Department of Computing.
• I teach a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate units:
  • COMP124: Computing and Information Systems (1998-2000, first semester)
  • COMP332: Programming Languages (1998-2004, second semester)
  • COMP461: Language Processing Tools (1999, second semester; 2003, first semester)
  • COMP463: Advanced Compilers (2000, first semester; 2001, second semester)
  • ITEC822: Advanced Programming for Software Engineering (2002-2003, first semester)
  • ITEC824: Software Development for Handheld and Mobile Devices (2004, second semester)

Software

• Eli language processor generation system
• swap: Drawing simple timelines for site-swap juggling tricks
• otl2html: Converting Emacs Outline files to HTML

Recreation

• My heroes
• Australian towns with five letter names
• Music: My Friend the Chocolate Cake, The Beautiful South
• Juggling: Juggling Information Service

Other Information

I received a B.Sc.(Hons)(1984) in Computer Science from the Australian National University and a M.S.(1991) and Ph.D.(1993) in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Prior to joining Macquarie University in February 1998, I worked as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at James Cook University in Townsville, QLD, Australia. I am a member of the ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society.