Laurence Tratt

Introduction

I am a Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University. I am an Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Software.

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

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:

• UML & AADL
• Fundamental Aspects of DSL Interoperability
• Code Generation 2009
• ECOOP 2009
• International Conference on Model Transformation 2009
• Open Component Ecosystems (IWOCE) 2009
• MODELS 2009

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

Teaching

• Final year projects

Contact

E-mail: laurie@tratt.net