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		Digital Equipment Corporation
		         Cambridge Research Lab 
			       Seminar

                        
		   	 Program Visualization:
			 Where We Go From Here

			   Steven P. Reiss

		    Department of Computer Science
			   Brown University
			 Providence, RI 02912


			Friday, November 13, 1992
			    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm,
	        Refreshments available starting at 2:30 pm



Abstract:

    Modern technology allows us to view our programs through the
    visual representation that we normally use to describe and
    understand them.  Our experience with program visualization
    started with multiple views in the program development system
    Pecan and with algorithm animation in Balsa and later Tango.  It
    continued with the programming system Garden and has culminated
    with the Field programming environment.  Building on these
    efforts, we are currently developing a new visualization system
    that will take advantage of today's technology to provide a
    flexible interface to a variety of program visualizations.  The
    system will allow the programmer to define visualizations as
    abstractions using queries over an object-oriented database of
    information about the program.  These abstractions can then be
    visualized and browsed using easily defined type-based mappings
    and a generic filtering mechanism.

    This talk will review our previous work, outline our current
    research plans, and illustrate the status of this research


Speakers Biography:

    Steve Reiss is interested in the effective use of workstations for
    programming.  His recent work includes two projects that provide
    experimental insight into this area.  GARDEN is a conceptual
    programming environment based on an object-oriented programming
    system.  It provides a framework whereby programmers can quickly
    develop and use new languages that match the way they
    conceptualize a program.  FIELD is an integrated approach to
    traditional programming.  It provides integration mechanisms for
    broadcast message-based communication between various UNIX tools
    and for consistent access to source files.  These, combined with
    tools for visually displaying data structures and for program
    animation, offer a powerful and unique programming environment
    that is used both for teaching and for research.


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