Category Archives: Research

Research work.

BSD License for the Reflection-Based S-Expression Parser

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Mathias

About a year and a half ago, I wrote a class in Java that uses reflection to create a parser for S-expressions, based on a class hierarchy. Today, a reader had found the class and wanted to use it in … Continue reading →

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Java 7 for DrJava and Concutest

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Mathias

I worked on Java 7 support this weekend, and I’m almost done. I just discovered that Concutest is currently incompatible with Java 7, though, so I will need to disable the ConcJUnit option in DrJava when using Java 7. I … Continue reading →

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PPPJ 2011 Tool Paper Accepted

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Mathias

A while ago I worked on a paper together with Vivek, Corky, Vincent, Jared and Raghavan at Rice. We still have to make some final revisions, but I’m happy to report that our tool paper “DrHJ — a lightweight pedagogic … Continue reading →

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Automatic Generation of Optimized Domain-Specific Operations, by Jason Eckhardt

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Mathias

Jason Eckhardt, a student of Keith Cooper, had an interesting COMP 600 talk about StencilDSL and simplifying writing certain stencil-based array operations: Automatic Generation of Optimized Domain-Specific Operations In previous work, we introduced a compiler-based algorithm for eliminating inter-iteration redundancies … Continue reading →

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Paging Stuff Back Into My Brain

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Mathias

I gave the second lecture as Corky’s substitute in COMP 311 today. We talked about object-oriented languages in general, and Java in particular. I didn’t talk about the historical perspective on OO (slide 5), and I only mentioned multiple inheritance … Continue reading →

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New Mint Release: r15952

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Mathias

I made a new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint yesterday: October 19, 2010 (r15952). The latest release is, as always, available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15952.tar.gzJavaMint-r15952-binaries.zipdrjava-r5403-mint-r15952.jar There were several bug fixes regarding assignment to variables declared as … Continue reading →

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Back from GPCE 2010

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Mathias

After a rather long return journey and more than enough time at the Amsterdam-Schiphol airport, I’m back from my trip to GPCE 2010 in Eindhoven. It was fun. Eddy and I presented a tutorial on DSL implementation in Mint. Of … Continue reading →

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Benoît Mandelbrot Died at Age 85

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Mathias

Just after Eddy and I used the Mandelbrot set as benchmark in our DSL tutorial, Benoît Mandelbrot died. The Franco-American mathematician, who is most well-known for popularizing fractal geometry, died at the age of 85. Thank you for giving us … Continue reading →

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Another Image Processing Example in Our Staged DSL

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Mathias

Last night, we implemented a Mandelbrot example in the image processing DSL that we created for our GPCE tutorial. Here’s a screenshot.

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GPCE’10 Tutorial Slides

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Mathias

The slides for our GPCE 2010 tutorial presentation “Agile and Efficient Domain-Specific Languages using Multi-Stage Programming in Java Mint” are available now as PowerPoint and PDF file. The zip file with the source code for our GPCE 2010 tutorial is … Continue reading →

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GPCE’10 Tutorial Source

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Mathias

Here is a zip file with the source code for our GPCE 2010 tutorial. The simplest way to experiment with Mint is to download the latest version of DrJava with Mint. (Re-posted from The Java Mint Blog.)

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Rice Graduate-Undergraduate Research Mixer

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Mathias

I’m glad that I went to the Graduate-Undergraduate Research Mixer organized by the SA and GSA at Rice with my poster today: I was the only computer scientist there. The Central Quad started to fill up a little after 6 … Continue reading →

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Gaussian Blur Implemented in Our DSL

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Mathias

Sexy! A screenshot showing an original image of random grayscale values, and a blurred version of the image, with the source code in our example DSL for the GPCE tutorial in the background.

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Power_Let Was Wrong

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Mathias

I just did some experiments with Mint, because we ran into some problems with using HJ inside DrJava, and I wanted to make sure we didn’t have those problems. That’s when I noticed that our Power_Let example had been wrong. … Continue reading →

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Demo of DrJava/HJ

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Mathias

In today’s DrJava/Habanero meeting, Vincent, Jarred and I presented a demo of DrJava/HJ to Jack Dennis of MIT. Generally, we were quite pleased how we could just re-build Habanero Java and DrJava, and get a working version with the newest … Continue reading →

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New Mint Release: r15858

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Mathias

I made a new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint yesterday: September 29, 2010 (r15858). The latest release is, as always, available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15858.tar.gzJavaMint-r15858-binaries.zipdrjava-r5398-mint-r15858.jar We have added the edu.rice.cs.mint.runtime.CodeFree interface and the edu.rice.cs.mint.runtime.CheckedExceptionInCode exception class. … Continue reading →

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New Mint Release: r15772

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Mathias

We have just made a new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint: September 16, 2010 (r15772). The latest release is, as always, available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15772.tar.gzJavaMint-r15772-binaries.zipdrjava-r5385-mint-r15772.jar We have added the edu.rice.cs.mint.runtime.MintSerializer class to it that can … Continue reading →

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DrJava/HJ Born

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Mathias

I have been able to merge Vincent’s and Jarred’s changes into the DrJava trunk to create a version of DrJava/HJ that can compile and run Habanero Java (HJ) programs. Most importantly, there is a version where both HJ and DrJava … Continue reading →

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Mint on the Mac

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Mathias

I guess I’m a bit behind the technology curve. The MacBook that I’m using as one of my development machines is one of the original white Intel MacBooks with a Core Duo CPU (not Core 2 Duo). It’s a 32-bit … Continue reading →

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Reflection-Based S-Expression Parser

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Mathias

I’m really quite proud of this little reflection-based S-expression parser that I wrote for our GPCE Mint tutorial. We wanted to have a parser so we don’t have to construct our ASTs using Java code. The problem was that we’ll … Continue reading →

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