William R. Cook

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, UT Austin
Quick Links: email, blog
Office: ACES 5.244

News

• Full program for the Dynamic Languages Symposum at OOPSLA.
• Richard Gabriel's Guide to OOPSLA
• I am putting news items on my Fusings blog.

Research

Programming languages, interfacing programming languages and databases, distributed computing and web services, software engineering, type theory, mixins, object-oriented programming, web-based information systems.

• Full list of publications
• Projects
  • DB+PL: Databases and Programming Languages
  • Orc: Wide-Area Computing
• Some links to research on programming languages

Databases and Programming Languages

• Extracting Queries by Static Analysis of Transparent Persistence
  Benjamin A. Wiedermann & William R. Cook
  Proc. of the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2007.
  (Slides from talk)
• Automatic Prefetching by Traversal Profiling in Object Persistence Architectures (2up for printing) (Springer)
  Ali Ibrahim & William R. Cook
  Proc. of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), 2006
  July 3-7, Nantes, France
  (Slides from talk)
• Safe Query Objects: Statically Typed Objects as Remotely Executable Queries
  William R. Cook and Siddhartha Rai
  Proc. of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2005, pp. 97-106.
  (Slides from talk)
• Native Queries for Persistent Objects, A Design White Paper
  William R. Cook, Carl Rosenberger
  Dr. Dobb's Journal (DDJ), February 2006
• Programming Languages & Databases: What’s the Problem?
  William R. Cook and Ali H. Ibrahim
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences. Technical Report TR-07-10. February 20, 2007. 18 pages.
  

Wide-Area Computing

• Orc project on SourceForge.net
• Explicit Batching for Distributed Objects
  Eli Tilevich and William R. Cook
  (submitted for publication)
• A Timed Semantics of Orc
  Ian Wehrman, David Kitchin, William R. Cook. Jayadev Misra
  (updated 11/2007)
• Properties of the Timed Operational and Denotational Semantics of Orc
  Ian Wehrman, David Kitchin, William R. Cook. Jayadev Misra
  Technical Report TR-07-65, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, 2007
• Orc-X: Combining Orchestrations and XQuery
  Kristi Morton, David Kitchin, William Cook
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, December 2007, Report# TR-07-63.
• Event Structure Semantics of Orc
  4th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods (WS-FM 2007)
  Sidney Rosario, David Kitchin, Albert Benveniste, William Cook, Stefan Haar, and Claude Jard
  Irisa and UT Austin
• Language for Task Orchestration and its Semantic Properties (2up for printing)
  David Kitchin, William R. Cook and Jayadev Misra
  Proc. of the International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR), 2006.
  August 27-30, Bonn, Germany.
  Extended version: UTCS Technical Rerport TR-06-32
• Web Services versus Distributed Objects: A Case Study of Performance and Interface Design
  William R. Cook, Janel Barfield
  Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services ( ICWS) 2006.
  September 18-22, Chicago, USA
  (slides from talk)
• Computation Orchestration: A Basis for Wide-Area Computing (bib) (DOI)
  Jayadev Misra and William Cook
  Journal of Software and Systems Modeling, May 2006.
• Workflow Patterns in Orc (2up for printing)
  William R. Cook, Sourabh Patwardhan, and Jayadev Misra
  Proc. of the International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION), 2006.
  (slides from talk)

Programming Languages

• Safe Composition of Product Lines
  Sahil Thaker, Don Batory, David Kitchin, and William Cook
  To appear, International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE), 2007.
• The Development of AppleScript
  William R. Cook
  The Third Conference on History of Programming Languages (HOPL III), 2007.
• Soundness of the Simply Typed Lambda Calculus in ACL2
  Sol Swords and William R. Cook
  ACL2 Workshop, 2006
• A Virtual Class Calculus
  Erik Ernst, Klaus Ostermann and William R. Cook
  Proc. of the ACM Conf. on Principles of Programming Languages  (POPL), 2006, pp 270-282.
• Monadic Memoization Mixins
  Daniel Brown and William R. Cook
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences. Technical Report TR-07-11. February 20, 2007. 11 pages.
  
• Evaluating Support for Features in Advanced Modularization Technologies
  Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Don Batory, and William Cook
  Proc. of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), 2005 SpringerLink

Talks I was an invited speaker at the CRA-W/CDC-sponsored 2007 Programming Languages Summer School, held here at UT. I gave talks on writing and PL design research. Objects and Databases: State of the Union 2006 Panel at OOPSLA 2006 A transcript was published by Dr. Dobb's. Effective Writing. An advertisement for Style: Toward Clarity and Grace UT GRACS Seminar, November 4, 2006 The video is available here (UTCS only) Peak Objects (Springer) Summing up the Past and Trying to Outline the Future (slightly modified version of invited panel presentation) July 12, 2006 at ECOOP. A Meditation on AppleScript, Latency, Databases, Web Services, etc. Invited talk at Lang.NET 2006. You hear some audio too. July 31, 2006 Teaching Graduate Programming Languages (CS386L), Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2004. Undergraduate Programming Languages (CS345), Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2004. Honors Undergraduate Programming Languages (CS345H), Fall 2007. Integrating Programming Languages and Databases (CS395T), Fall 2003. Service Conference organization OOPSLA 2006, October 22-26, Portland OR Program Chair Dynamic Languages Symposium 2006, October 23, Portland OR Co-organizer Workshop on Best Practices for Model Driven Software Development (BPMDSD) Co-organizer Industrial Practice Track 13th WWW Conference, May 17-22, 2004 New York City Co-Chair Editorial Advisory Board Program committees ECOOP 2008, July 7th - 11th 2008, Paphos-Cyprus GPCE 2008, October 19-23, Nashville, Tennessee COORDINATION 2008, June 4-6, 2008, Oslo, Norway OOPSLA 2007 Research Papers, October 21-25, Montreal Canada OOPSLA 2007 Essays, October 21-25, Montreal Canada Dynamic Languages Symposium 2007 at OOPSLA Coordination 2007, June 5-8, 2007, Paphos, Cyprus Compiler Construction (CC) 2007, March 26-30, Braga, Portugal ECOOP 2006, July 3-7, Nantes, FR ECOOP 2005, July 25-29, Glasgow UK OOPSLA 2005 Research Papers, Oct 16-20, San Diego CA POPL 2005, January 12-14, Long Beach CA Onward! at OOPSLA 2004, October 24-28, Vancouver BC Demonstration committee for GPCE 2004, October 24-28, Vancouver BC Domain Driven Development at OOPSLA 2003, October 26-30, Anaheim, CA Onward! at OOPSLA 2003, October 26-30, Anaheim, CA Workshop in Software Model Engineering (WiSME) in conjunction with <<UML>> 2003 Workshop on Foundations of Aspect-Oriented Languages (FOAL) at AOSD 2003 in Boston on March 17, 2003 Awards NSF CAREER #CCF-0448128: Integrating Programming Languages and Databases. March 1, 2005 This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0448128. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Students

Doctoral Students

• Ali Ibrahim: Safe query objects & dynamic prefetching optimization
• Ben Wiedermann: Extracting relational queries via control/data flow analysis
• David Kitchin: Computation orchestration, agents, workflow semantics
• Srinivas Nedunuri: Synthesis for model-based software development
• Doctoral committees and other students
  • Benjamin Hardekopf
    • Supervised by Calvin lin
  • Hanbing Liu: Formal Specification and Verification of a JVM and its bytecode verifier
    • Supervised by J Moore
  • Mark Grechanik: Design, Analysis, and Verification of Large-Scale Polylingual Systems
    • Supervised by Don Batory and Dewayne E. Perry
  • Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon: Understanding Feature Modularity
    • Supervised by Don Batory
  • Rui Mao: A Metric-Space Database Storage Manager and Its Applications in Bioinformatics
    • Supervised by Daniel Miranker

Undergraduates

• Janel Barfield: Interface Design and Performance of Web Services
• Daniel Brown: Polymorphic type kinds
• Christina Wang: Software Development Studio course design

Outside work...

• Competing for Customers and Capital
• Music
• The Style furniture
• Robin Silberling
• Rokenbok

Background

I have experience in both pure research and industrial software development. My early reseach focused on the semantics of inheritance in object-oriented languages, formalization of mixins, and polymorphic type systems for object languages. I am currently working on interfacing programming langauges and databases, distributed computing and web services, type theory and data abstraction. Products I have been instrumental in creating include AppleScript at Apple Computer, the Writer's Solution for Prentice Hall, and the Allegis' Enterprise Partner Relationship Management product, eBusiness Suite.
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Contact Information

email:	wcook@cs.utexas.edu
calendar:	http://calendar.yahoo.com/w7cook
IM:	w7cook on Yahoo!
postal:	Department of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin Taylor Hall 2.124 1 University Station C0500 Austin, Texas 78712-1188
phone:	(512) 471-9555
fax:	(512) 471-8885
office:	ACES 5.244