DEW@SU-AI@sri-unix.UUCP (09/22/83)
From: David Wilkins <DEW@SU-AI>
[Reprinted from the SU-SCORE bboard.]
1127 TW Talkware seminar Weds. 2:15
I will be organizing a weekly seminar this fall on a new area I am
currently developing as a research topic: the theory of "talkware".
This area deals with the design and analysis of languages that are
used in computing, but are not programming languages. These include
specification languages, representation languages, command languages,
protocols, hardware description languages, data base query languages,
etc. There is currently a lot of ad hoc but sophisticated practice
for which a more coherent and general framework needs to be developed.
The situation is analogous to the development of principles of
programming languages from the diversity of "coding" languages and
methods that existed in the early fifties.
The seminar will include outside speakers and student presentations of
relevant literature, emphasizing how the technical issues dealt with
in current projects fit into the development talkware theory. It will
meet at 2:15 every Wednesday in Jacks 301. The first meeting will be
Wed. Sept. 28. For a more extensive description, see
{SCORE}<WINOGRAD>TALKWARE or {SAIL}TALKWA[1,TW].