Hi everyone,

I have recently started to work at the Programming Technology Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel - see http://prog.vub.ac.be/ - as some of you probably already know. ;)

If you have recently finished your master's or diploma thesis, or will do so in the near future, and are looking for a Lisp-friendly environment to start working on a PhD, please feel free to contact me via email. There is a good chance that you can get a grant for working here.

We are mostly interested in programming language design, but also touch other subjects that are related (applications, software engineering, etc.). Among other things, we are interested in various kinds of metaprogramming, reflection, object models, metaobject protocols, software evolution, aspect-oriented programming, etc. I am especially interested in context-oriented programming, i.e. finding good abstractions for making software behave differently according to the context in which it is used.

Good knowledge of one or more Lisp dialects is a big plus, preferably Common Lisp, ISLISP or Scheme. Knowledge of other dynamic languages, like Smalltalk, Self, Prolog and other examples of those language families is also a plus.

When you contact me, please tell me a little bit about yourself (max. 4 pages): What you have worked on for your master degree, what your interests are, what you would like to work on in the future, and so on. Please add a paragraph or two about some wild ideas that you have about how programming should evolve in the future, or what computer science's biggest mistakes in the past have been.

Cheers, Pascal

-- If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. - Isaac Newton