Laurence Tratt

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Introduction

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Information Sciences at Middlesex University. I am an Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Software.

• A brief CV/resume.
• Technical articles / blog.
• Personal(ish) information about me.

News

• 2010/03/03: I've moved to Middlesex University
• 2010/02/07: 'Comparative study of DSL tools' paper added
• 2009/12/16: 'A Proposal for Error Handling' article added
• 2009/09/24: extsmail 1.2 released
• 2009/09/15: 'The Missing Level of Abstraction?' article added

Research

My overall research interests relate to practical aspects of software development, with the aim of facilitating the rapid and reliable development and maintenance of both large and small software systems. I am interested in domain specific languages, extensible programming languages, and software modelling.

• The Converge programming language.
• My publications.

Software

Over the years I have been responsible for a number of software packages on different platforms. Some of the publicly available software I still actively maintain can be found below:

• Converge: An advanced object orientated programming language.
• email_merger: A simple mail merge for e-mail program.
• extsmail: Robust sending of e-mail to external commands.
• Fetegeo: Free text geocoding.
• packagesbootstrap: download binary packages in bulk for OpenBSD.
• perfd: a laptop power / performance daemon for OpenBSD.

A more complete list of software I have created can be found here.

Upcoming events

I am associated with the following upcoming events e.g. as an organiser, programme committee member, session chair, or speaker:

• ECOOP 2010
• Code Generation 2010
• TOOLS 2010
• International Conference on Model Transformation 2010

You can see a list of some past events I have been associated with on my CV.

Teaching

I am not teaching any units in the current term.

Contact

E-mail: laurie@tratt.net