Dave Shields on Free Software and Jikes at C++/Java... -
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Published on: 1/7/1999
Last Visited: 5/19/2009
Dave Shields
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All LXNY members, free software partisans, compiler aficionados, and students of history and economics are invited to attend Dave Shields' talk at the next C++ and Java SIG's regular monthly general meeting.
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Dave Shields of IBM's alphaworks
will speak on J I K E S !
Dave will provide an overview of Jikes, IBM's Open Source Java compiler.
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David Shields received his B.S. in Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University.
He was on the research staff at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he worked on programming languages and compilers, including the LITTLE, SETL and Ada/Ed projects.
He also wrote SPITBOL/6000 and (with Robert Dewar) PC SPITBOL.
Since joining IBM in 1987, Shields has worked on automatic parallelization, including the PTRAN project, and IBM's FORTRAN 90 compiler with High Performance FORTRAN support for SP2 machines.
Dave has worked for the last three years with Philippe Charles on the Jikes compiler.