Programming Research Group

Professor Robert Hirschfeld visited our group

Professor Robert Hirschfeld from Hasso-Plattner Institut has visited our group from September 6th to 19th.  He gave lectures on Context-Oriented Programming and Design Thinking Research.

A paper on Code Recommendation Based on a Degree-of-Interest Model is presented at RSSE’14

A paper on “Code Recommendation Based on a Degree-of-Interest Model”, authored by Naoya Murakami, Hidehiko Masuhara and Tomoyuki Aotani is presented at Fourth International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering (RSSE 2014), co-located with ICSE 2014.

Department Orientation for Prospective Students

There is an orientation of the Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences for prospective graduate students on Saturday May 10, 2014 from 14:00.  Please contact Hidehiko Masuhara if you are interested in.

Postdoc and PhD positions are available

We are looking for one postdoc researcher and one PhD student to join the Programming Research Group, lead by Prof. Hidehiko Masuhara, at Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology. The posts are funded by a JST CREST research project on Modularity for Supercomputing. The postdoc position is available immediately. The PhD position is for the terms from April 2014, but requires application by Jaunary 22, 2014.

The Programming Research Group is tasked with engaging in research on modular software development techniques for supercomputing, especially on design and implementation of domain-specific languages for prototyping highly-parallel scientific applications and for experimenting optimization techniques. The project continues until March 2017. Candidates will be responsible for conducting research on advanced techniques for software modularity related to the above research topic.

• Postdoc position: Ideal candidates will posses a strong background on programming languages, software engineering, and/or high-performance computing. Candidates must posses a PhD in computer science or another close related discipline.
  The position is available immediately. The contract of appointment will be renewed for each academic year, and can be extended up to March 2017, subject to performance. Salary will be about 4,000,000 up to 5,000,000 Japanese Yen per year.
• PhD position: Ideal candidates will have some experience of conducting research on programming languages, software engineering, and/or high-performance computing. The position is provided as a Research Assistant for a PhD student at the Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences. Salary will be about 2,000,000 Japanese Yen per year.
  Candidates must have a master degree or an equivalent in computer science or a closely related subject. Candidates must take the entrance examination by the department for admission. The application deadline is January 21, 2014. Detailed information can be found here.

Interested candidates for both positions are invited to send a detailed CV via email to Hidehiko Masuhara (masuhara@acm.org). Please note that the deadline for the application to the PhD student is approaching soon.

A seminar talk on Extending a Statically Typed Language JIT Compiler for Dynamic Scripting Languages by Dr. Kazuaki Ishizaki

Dr. Kazuaki Ishizaki from IBM Rsearch Tokyo gives a talk on Extending a Statically Typed Language JIT Compiler for Dynamic Scripting Languages.  Visit the department’s page for details.

Poster presentation on “An Analysis of School Bullying Using Multi-Agent Simulation” at JAWS 2013

A poster on “An Analysis of School Bullying Using Multi-Agent Simulation” authored by Masahiro Inohana, Kazunori Seki, and Hidehiko Masuhara, is presented at Joint Agent Workshop and Symposium (JAWS) 2013. This presentation is based on a Bachelor’s Thesis II in 2012 at Department General Systems Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo.

A talk on refinements in COP at IPSJ PRO/SWoPP

A talk on “Layer and Object Refinement for Context-oriented Programming in L”, authored by Robert Hirschfeld, Hidehiko Masuhara, and Atsushi Igarashi, has been presented at 95th IPSJ PRO workshop co-located with SWoPP’13.

Papers on Context-Oriented Programming at COP’13 workshop

The following papers have been accepted and presented at 5th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming, Montpellier, France, co-located with ECOOP’13.

• Tetsuo Kamina, Tomoyuki Aotani and Hidehiko Masuhara: A Unified Context Activation Mechanism
• Robert Hirschfeld, Hidehiko Masuhara and Atsushi Igarashi: L – Context-oriented Programming With Only Layers