SALZMAN@pucc.princeton.edu (David Salzman) (11/10/88)
The John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center 665 College Road East, Princeton Forrestal Center, Plainsboro NJ "Strategies for Building Large Systems" Alan Perlis Yale University 4:00pm, Friday, November 11 Software systems become large by evolution, and building them is enormously labor-intensive, because of the need to integrate and refine at the same time new features are being added. Perlis will show how to automate much of the construction of operating systems and large programs, even on systems with chunky parallelism. Alan Perlis was educated at the Carnegie Institute and MIT, where he worked on project Whirlwind. He has helped form computer science departments at Purdue, Carnegie-Mellon, and Yale. Perlis played a key role in the development of Algol, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Open to the public. Refreshments will be served at 4:30 PM. For information about the seminar or directions to the Center, contact <SCIENCE@JVNCD.BITNET> or call 609/520-2000. -- Send compilers articles to ima!compilers or, in a pinch, to Levine@YALE.EDU Plausible paths are { decvax | harvard | yale | bbn}!ima Please send responses to the originator of the message -- I cannot forward mail accidentally sent back to compilers. Meta-mail to ima!compilers-request