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 Spoon, if you read this, please contact me. Your family is worried about you. You are highly welcome at the family getaway this summer.

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.