My Year in Hackland (or the hidden order of open source chaos) Cristina V. Lopes Associate Professor, Department of Informatics Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine

Abstract

I spent a large part of my sabbatical year participating in a large, fully decentralized, very popular open source project called OpenSim. It has been an eye-opening experience, in all fronts. In this talk I will make an account of this experience.

 

Bio

Cristina Videira Lopes is an Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science (ICS) at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining the Faculty in ICS, she was member of the Research Staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). She was a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and AspectJ, and, for that reason, she is known as “the mother” of AOP. Her Ph.D. thesis, focusing in programming language support for distributed systems, was the first AOP-related thesis, and she co-wrote the seminal AOP paper published at ECOOP '97. For a number of years, she acted as one of the main evangelists for AOP technology, giving invited talks and organizing workshops in academic and industry conferences. More recently, she has also been working in Ubiquitous Computing with a focus in communication mechanisms that are pervasive, secure and intuitive for humans to perceive and interact with. Though with diverse interests, her research is always related to languages and communication systems. Lopes holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, in Lisbon, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University, in Boston. She is a member of ACM and IEEE.