We describe how a small, successful, self-selected XP team approached a seemingly intractable problem with panache, flair and immodesty. We rewrote a legacy application by deliver...
We describe a technique for automatically proving compiler optimizations sound, meaning that their transformations are always semantics-preserving. We first present a domainspeci...
Programmers rely on the correctness of the tools in their programming environments. In the past, semanticists have studied the correctness of compilers and compiler analyses, which...
Stochastic context-free grammars (SCFGs) have long been recognized as useful for a large variety of tasks including natural language processing, morphological parsing, speech reco...
Industry vendors hesitate to disseminate proprietary applications to academia and third party vendors. By consequence, the benchmarking process is typically driven by standardized...