LEX SPOON

PROFESSIONAL

Introduction

Job materials

• vita
• research statement
• teaching statement

Computing blog

Research

• package distribution
• scala bazaars
• type inference
• muswiki
• steiner trees

Publications

Hackery

Contact

PERSONAL

Introduction

Pictures

Personal blog

Recreation

• bridge
• chess
• computer games
• martial arts

Rants

Alexander Spoon

Introduction

Howdy, I'm Lex Spoon. I work at Google in Atlanta, primarily on the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). I also help with the Scala programming language in various ways, including coauthoring Programming in Scala.

My research is in programming language design, data-flow analysis, and package distribution. I am intrigued by dynamic environments such as Smalltalk and the Lisp Machine, and I wonder why primitive files-and-compilers environments are so much more popular.

Rachel, if you read this, please contact me. Your family is worried about you.

Research Projects

• Various unreleased projects for the X10 language
• Scala Bazaars: Package distribution for Scala
• Package distribution in general

In the past I have worked on:

• DDP: Demand-driven analysis with goal pruning, my Ph.D. work
• MuSwiki, a graphical collaboration system
• Steiner tree extraction

Publications

For full listings, see my Curriculum Vitae or my listing in BibTeX format.

Here is an HTML summary:

• Spoon, S. Alexander. Fine-Grained API Evolution for Method Deprecation and Anti-Deprecation. Workshop on Foundations and Developments of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL/WOOD) 2007.
• Spoon, S. Alexander. Anti-Deprecation: Towards Complete Static Checking for API Evolution. Workshop on Library-Centric Software Development (LCSD) 2006. (extended version with proofs)
• Spoon, Alexander. Package Universes: Which Components Are Real Candidates? (EPFL tech report) 2006.
• Spoon, S. Alexander, and Olin Shivers. "Semantic Navigation of Large Code Bases in Higher-Order, Dynamically Typed Languages". Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) 2005.
• Spoon, S. Alexander, and Olin Shivers. "Dynamic Data Polyvariance Using Source-Tagged Classes". Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) 2005.
• Spoon, S. Alexander, and Olin Shivers. "Demand-Driven Type Inference with Subgoal Pruning: Trading Precision for Scalability". European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) 2004. (pdf ps)
• Harrold, Mary Jean, et. al. "Regression Test Selection for Java Software". ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) 2001.
• Spoon, Lex, and Mark Guzdial. "MuSwikis: A Graphical Collaboration System". Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL) 1999.
• Pargas, Roy P., Jennifer Ludwick, and Steven A. Spoon. "Hybrid Search Algorithms". ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 1997.

Hackery

I don't only work on computers as a living, but love to mess around with them on less important things, whenever I find the time. Some things I have been involved with:

• I love playing with Squeak, a computer authoring system.
• I maintain Floater, an Internet bridge program.
• I have packaged a few programs for Debian, a Linux distribution.

A rare few may also be interested in reading various notes and hacks I have developed. Hopefully they save others some effort.

• my notes on running Debian on a Thinkpad T42p
• more general notes about using Debian, mostly generalizable to other Linuxes and to other Unices

Contact Information

I can be reached as follows:

• Email: lex@lexspoon.org.
• Snail mail:

  Google Atlanta Millennium
  Millennium at Midtown
  10 10th Street NE
  Atlanta, GA 30309
  

Personal Page

You are reading my professional web page. Fluffier material is on my personal page.